More Liebster Award

Since I definitely can't resist temptation of answering even more questions I'll answer Spica's questions now. If you want to see more, link your Liebster post and I can add your questions in this post. :D

1. Fantasy or science fiction? Or both? Or neither? (if neither what genre do you like?)
Both! I got into fantasy when I was about 15 years old when my brother, who was then reading Weis & Hickman, David Eddings and Terry Pratchett, introduced me into fantasy books. I've read most of those books and even more since. I've never read Tolkien btw, I find that his books are quite difficult to read. And I've never read Harry Potter either, when they were coming as finnish translations I thought they were for kids. Anyway, scifi came in the form of Star Wars. That was instant hit. I'd say I've watched the 4-7 old parts at least 20 times each or more. I've watched some other series and movies but somehow I didn't like Star Trek. (GOSH!!). I think I'm more fantasy fan than scifi fan but I'm open to suggestions.

Liebster Award

I was awarded for this Liebster Award by Niina of DollsDolour. Thank you! :) It is nice way to continue this years blogging and as she also said: it is cold right now and blogging is just something you can do despite the weather. It is minus 24,6 degrees Celcius at the moment so waiting for the bus at night when I get out from work and especially waiting for the excange bus after that will be at least interesting. :D I've photographed dolls when it's been cold, but I prefer to do that when it's less cold since many times you have to put the doll and pose is easier without gloves and photographing doll at winter can be interesting! (Photo by my friend Lunaticz). Anyway, to the questions and rules from the tag!

Some rules:

1. Thank the person who presented you the award and link back to their blog.
2. Post the award image on your blog.
3. Answer 11 questions posted by the presenter.
4. Nominate 5-11 blogs with less than 200 followers.
5. Create 11 questions for the nominees to answer.
6. List these rules in your post.
7. Inform the people you chose of their nomination by leaving a comment on their blog and link them your post.

Here are the questions from Niina:

1. What is the last picture you took with your phone or camera?
In my phone is photo from Hortensia (Juri 13) from yesterday, I sewed her a skirt yesterday and she looks so adorable! And in my camera's last photo is from Lacey from few days ago, I still didn't finish her skirt so I need to wait until I photograph her. ^^; I might photograph Hortensia today at our balcony, if I have time to do that.

2. Best compliment you have received?
Gosh it must've been from Patricia at LDoll when she came to my booth and said how much she loved my work. T3T I was so moved by that!

3. What are your plans for your doll(s) this year? New wigs, clothes, new dolls?
Well I already ordered the bodies from Fairyland and I still have some bodies to get. I don't think I have much other plans than sew sew sew and then buy some more shoes. (LOL the shoe photo will come later with the other challenge!). Maybe few wigs, eyes and such too. I don't have any big plans concidering buying dolls besides the bodies I need. :) If something great comes in sight I might be tempted to get it. :D

4. What is your perfect pizza?
Well, one that you order from a pizzeria would be with chicken and blue cheese, basicly I go with chicken and what ever they serve with it, but when I make my own pizza at home I put there: chili tomato mash at the bottom (from can), chicken, blue cheese, caramelised onion and paprika, boiled egg (sliced), and some cheese on top. Mmmm pizza!

5. Which doll would you get if you could, not matter what? Why?
Bluefairy Tinyfairy Lin and Xiao in baked skin. Becouse I LOVE BOTH SO MUCH! They would be the perfect sisters and despite that I have three Lin's and two Xiao's already I would so much want to have them in baked skin also. :D And Bluefairy haven't made either in baked yet. I've heard they had some trouble with their tan resin for a while now, so I do hope they'll fix it and make more baked dolls. Also, some old Delf are something I would really love to get, but lets not go in that way. xD I know it's a swamp I can't get out from so lets keep the big dreams in MSD size.

6. What kind of music do you listen to?
I'd say I would listen anything that comes from radio except rap. There are so much channels around that I find it difficult to choose. I've listened a lot of 80's, 90's and such pop and rock. When I used to go on long walks back at 2001 I listened radio all the time. Today I don't know most of the singers or song writers. I like music, but I've not actually listened music for long. Maybe it is becouse at work there is all such of small noise, beeps and blinks and what ever that I have to pay attention to those so much I just can't listen to music that much anymore on my spare time. I would love to go back to the phase where nothing else mattered but walking and listening. If I'd listen to music right now, anything goes but rap. I'd even listen to heavy metal, but rap. No thanks.

7. What cheers you up?
Small things, chatting with people, exitement about the journey to Lyon again, this time via Paris which is even more exiting and having this journey with good friend is always great. Sewing, dolls, cat videos, seeing my parent's cat Iines' photos, talking to my sister at messenger and cute animals in photos and candy and and. :D SO many things cheer me up!

8. What is your favorite word and why?
Often used seems to be "Täh?" = "Huh?" since I don't seem to hear what people are saying. I should get my hearing checked (my sister said I should).

9. Have you ever felt that your hobby is too much and that you do not connect well with your dolls?
Some individual dolls have been really difficult to connect with. I had one time that I felt that I spend too much time in internet doll sites and too little time with real life but that has had a better balance since. It was years ago. I've never thought I should leave the hobby, I guess it is more like a way of living these days than just a hobby.

10. You are going for a trip, a week long, and you can only take ONE doll with you. Which one and why?
I try to pick different dolls each time even if I'm super tempted to pick the same ones than last time. Last time it was Tiffany becouse she had new clothes (or clothes I hadn't photographed properly yet). I think next one would be one of either Minifee girls or Tinyfairy girls. I usually see what clothes they have on and if I could change them so that the combination would be more interesting and nice to photograph. Also depends where I'm going, like for the next journey back to my parent's home it would be really weird to take a tiny doll with me since there's so much snow they'd be lost in it. Propably I'd pick one of my Tinyfairy girls. I'm wanting to make them more winter clothes (sorry boys ^^;;; ) or such so I can actually pick one or two with me. Some of them goes in duo's like Maya and Mimosa. :D

11. What's your earliest childhood memory?
Gosh, this is difficult one. I think one is from Tampere at the Särkänniemi Dolphinarium when a staff person came to ask me if I would like to go there to give a fish to the dolphins. I remember holding to my mom and not wanting to go, I was a shy kid. After we saw the show and what I would've have done I regretted not going becouse the girl who actually went there got a huge inflatable dolphin. :D LOL!

I want to nominate these people to Liebster Award (if you have been nominated before and already done it, link that back to me and I'll go to see your post! ^__^)

Musume
Elina
Spica
Wheatear
Ameebaporo and Jessykka (You can answer together or just one of you, if you wish :) )
SweetNeat

My question to you are:

1. What sort of book would you make from your dolls?
2. What size of doll would you prefer if you could only have one size?
3. Have you ever been in doll event? (Dolls Party, LDoll, etc)
4. Do you have nicknames for your dolls?
5. Is there anything that you'd like to learn to make yourself for your dolls that you currently don't? (Clothes, shoes, face up, furniture etc).
6. If you would bump into dolls NOW and find them interesting, which doll would you buy? And is it different than the one you did?
7. Have you been belittled by anyone becouse you have dolls?
8. Where do you photograph your dolls? Do you have favourite spot in/out?
9. Do you keep your dolls out of sight or somewhere where you can see them continuously?
10. Is there one doll that got away? Why?
11. Are you happy how your dolls look or do you want to change their looks all the time?