Lyon - LDoll 6 PART 3

And the final part of LDoll 6 posts is soon up! :D Still few more photos.


Kimono Ladies from the booth infront of us.

Lyon - LDoll 6 PART 2

I only managed to make one LDoll post yesterday, but the photos are in my Flickr so you've maybe seen them already. :D Anyway, continuing the posts!


Veraker's booth.

Lyon - LDoll 6 PART 1

We had so much fun with SweetNeat in Paris, on Friday it was time to leave and travel to Lyon by train. The train went straight to Lyon with only few stops, the final stop was Perrache I think.
We went to a little cruise around the Lyon city after dumped our stuff to our hotel, and before we could go to Double Mixte to arrange our booths. We went straight to the fabric store from which I don't remember what's it's name. LOL of course. Anyway we bumped into Jesmo and Unisieppari and decided to find some food. Sadly we didn't becouse I guess other parts of Europe don't eat dinner as early as we do and we would've wanted to have pizza, noodles, basicly what ever would've been OK before 6 PM! So sad, we settled into a sad waffle place which wasn't really good. At least we got something to eat. We were SUPER hungry after assembling our booths and gladly I found nice place to eat with SweetNeat. It was a chinese restaurant near Charpennes metro station. Food = super good!


My booth before opening the venue for the visitors. I must warn you, I will post a lot of photos and I don't always remember/know who was in the booth. I might add that information later on. I also want to thank everyone who came to my booth and had a chat and bought something. Even more happy I was to hear some of you follow me in Instagram or Flickr, I didn't expect that somehow. ^^;


SweetNeat is so happy at her booth! :D

2016 Plans - or not?!

LDoll 6 dates has been announced! 29-30 October 2016 and I'm super exited already! I'm definitely going. LDoll 5 I was helping my friends with their booths but this time I'm wanting to have my own booth or split it with someone. :D Now I need to wait about the table prices and other information. And begin sewing! This is so cool! I'm having some changes with my work times ahead, so that might give me a little bit trouble getting holidays for there and I'm worried about how I can cope with the new shifts. *sigh* We are turning into non-stopping three shift work time at the beginning of April, which basicly means that I have two days of morning shift, two days of evening shift and TWO night shifts after that. And after all that, only 3,5 days off. So instead of five days a week I've got to work for 6 days from which two is night shift which I absolutely hate already. It will be 10 day cycles instead of seven and that's going to be rough with all the night shifts. Nights are for sleeping, in my books. I understand that some people like to work at nights becouse it pays more, and for various other reasons which I really don't care about becouse I do not like the idea of working on nights. I know I work in a factory which is running 24/7 and it will continue to do that, we just had different people for weekday two shift (morning and evening shift), night shift and weekend shifts. It worked well like that, and I'm so bummed it's going to change. I've been working there for three years and it is OK. Not a dream job but I don't think factory jobs are a big dreamjob for anyone. It pays enough for me to pay my bills and buy a doll sometimes. I haven't missed the money I would get from weekend work or nightshifts. Also, my SO doesn't have a steady job yet so I can't think of changing mine before he has something more permanent. We'll see... But I'm sure I WILL go to LDoll despite the work times changing.

I don't actually have other doll related plans for 2016 besides participating in LDoll and getting bodies for the last remaining floating heads. I'm trying to save again for those and certainly I'll begin my saving for LDoll shopping again. I also try to do the challenge Doll / BJD Blog tags - 25 Tags~ I copied while back. I think that's going to give me some inspiration for new blog entries for sure. So, interesting time ahead with dolls.

Fairyland had accepted my payment and now the order is in item processing stage. I'm sure it will take them 2-3 months to prepare the items and that's ok, more time to save for custom fees. I will need to do some plans for their clothes, I think they'll be casual dressing like usual but I might want to do some more fantasy inspired pieces too. I would love to make more boy clothes sets but I still find it difficult to mix and match different styles. I do think that the Tinyfairy Dandy size set of ochre yellow pants, grey shirt and black cardigan was good set. I'll need to think more of that kind of stuff.

Snow has finally fallen to Helsinki as well it is colder now. I'm wanting to go to Roihuvuori Japanese style garden to photograph dolls when I have time to do that. :D Hopefully I'll get a friend to come with me. We've been there many times before.



Here's an old photo of Sylvia on the stairs at one part of the garden. This is one of my favourite spots there. :)

Anyway, I'm trying to begin the challenge as soon as I can! Meanwhile I'll also try to photograph my dolls and sew them more clothes. I want to show off Lacey (Soony elf) but she doesn't have a skirt or trousers so I need to sew something for her first. I also have to order a maintenance for all of my sewing machines - and being without it will be difficult even if I don't sew anything. It's just great if I have one around when I want to. ^^;

Doll events

So, LDoll has been postponed to next year, 2016 and that feels like forever waiting for it. I'm definitely wanting to participate in LDoll 6 with my stuff and I've planned to sew much things there. BUT, there's going to be a doll event closer to Finland on September. There's going to be a doll event at Gothenburg, Sweden. Jointed Hearts event will be at Gothenburg September 5th and 6th. The thing is, lack of LDoll this year would be fantastic chance to participate in the event in Sweden, being so close (gosh, straight flights from Helsinki!!!) would make it even easier to participate. I don't speak swedish, I understand a little when I read but I'm sure I could get along with english. I haven't yet translated all things to myself yet, lazying around about it. Iplehouse, Little Monica and seems like Luts has joined in also to this event. Need to think about it, if I'd really want to go and buy something I would've needed to save quite a bit. From last LDoll I know for sure that I'd need around 1000€ for shopping only. XD I'm sure I couldn't get enough stuff sewn to participate as a seller, but I don't know if they even want to have people from other countries to sell stuff. I also have my summer holiday planned to that time, and I should go and visit my parents for few weeks at that time. And I don't have money for shopping either. A lots of thinking to do!

Other things: Took few doll photos today from my Tinyfairy girls (some of them) and last weekend I photographed my Minifee girls. ^^

I'm going to spend next weekend sewing doll clothes, I've gotten so much stuff to and people to meet these days I haven't really had time for ME. And that's going to be corrected next weekend.