Hello

I will be putting up the Chihuahua wrap dresses along with some basic tees for Latidoll yellow renewal size doll tomorrow. Here are the info:

Date: 02/18/2o1o
Time: 11am ~ 12pm PST (pacific standard time - USA)
Place: Etsy - http://www.etsy.com/shop/pei78

Hello~

Because a few of you like and want the Chihuahua wrap dresses so I will be making few more in the next two days and hopefully have them up around Thursday. Hopefully those who want them will be able to get one.

Each Chihuahua is hand cut and sewn so they may vary a little.

I will list the basic tees separate as some of you may not need the tees.

I probably won't have time to make too much as I need to spend most of the time on working on the current commission but I will try!

Hello everyone

It sure has been a pretty busy month of sewing! I am still working on current commission orders and trying to also update some Halloween outfit ideas at the same time.

Thank you so much again for those who are still waiting and for your patience.

I am updating the current commission status so far for September (I will be making another post for October soon):

Finished orders:
*AngelCake81
*Saretta tatina
*Benijoker

Working/Finishing orders:
*cute-bee
*twindals

Contacted:
*austrin

No reply:
*Brusymilongui
*Scargotine

On the wait:
*Sweet Collection
*Lasrina and a sweet kiss
*lorenhuitre
*marieee!

Hello everyone! I am finally back from my short vacation (to me it seemed super short..well, that is what happened when you are having fun). After battling a few days with jet lags, I am more or less back on track and has started sewing again, hehe.

During my trip to Taiwan, I have brought back few items that our dolls can use as cute props and thought some of you may like them as well. I don’t have much of each item so let me know by dropping me a comment here or on flickr if you are interested!


Baseball bat set (comes with a glove and a baseball bat):
colors - black, red (brown is sold)
size: Latidoll yellow renewal size hands
quantity: one each
price: USD$5
shipping: first class mail USD$2.50; registered mail USD$13


Motorcycle helmets: (BOTH SOLD, thank you)
colors - red with black bird design; white with red and black logo design (shown above)
size: Latidoll yellow
quantity: one each
price: USD$10
shipping: first class mail USD$4; registered mail USD$15

Yup...here are a few girls of mine looking for new places to go and travel. It has been hard for me to decide who to let go so I’ve debating for the past few weeks. The same information can also be found on Plastic Paradise.

Doll: Gentle River (nude) - SOLD (already arrived at her new home)

Condition: The doll is in good clean condition with no visible stains or marks that I can see. Her make up and eyes are completely stock as I did not change or alter in any way. I do not recall if I washed her hair or not but I do know I did not trim or cut her hair. Her fringe is longer in the center. Her new owner may choose to trim it if he or she desires. Her eyes change without any problem though to me the sound when you pull to change her eye colors sounds loud but I am not sure if this is common or not. I will packed her safely with bubble wraps inside a cardboard box. No trade this time for the doll as I am selling her to fund for a new doll.

Price: USD$295

Shipping: USD$15 priority mail with delivery confirmation within the US; USD$35 EMS worldwide



Doll: Misaki Anti-Social (nude) - SOLD

Condition: Overall the doll is in good clean condition with no visible marks or stains that I can see. The doll has been stored in my closet most of the time and was out only for few photo shoot. I have never washed her hair so her fringe is still stiff from the glue they used on the doll from the manufacturer. Her fingernails and toenails are painted by stock. The only one I see with a tiny wear/paint not as full is the second finger on her left hand. She has not customizations done whatsoever. I will packed her safely with bubble wraps inside a cardboard box.

Price: USD$150 shipped within US with delivery confirmation; USD$165 shipped outside of US with EMS.

Okay...it is never easy to clear out personal belongings because of certain attachments or memories you have with those items. But as hard as it is for me to do this, I need to clear out a few dolly and dolly related items since new residences have moved in. For now, I have a customized VM up for adoption along with some Blythe clothes. Detailed info can be found on Plastic Paradise: http://plasticparadise.forumotion.com/index.htm under my id name ‘pei78’.

Link for VM: http://plasticparadise.forumotion.com/castaways-f6/fs-nude-custom-vm-t1313.htm?sid=f0e8dc74b008900e737c719dd835de7d

Link for blythe clothes: http://plasticparadise.forumotion.com/sundries-f10/fs-tiny-closet-sale-hoody-skirt-and-dresses-t1312.htm?sid=f0e8dc74b008900e737c719dd835de7d

Hello everyone~

Thank you to those who have been patiently waiting for this new batch of motorcycle helmets. Like I have said and mentioned before on my previous post, I was waiting to have enough people for this second batch so that I can submit the order in one go.

I have submitted the order last week for 10 baby pink, 10 baby blue and 10 black helmets. My supplier has informed me of a few changes in these helmets so please do take notice.

The first being the star style is no longer available as it has been retired. The new helmets will have new design on them. I do not have picture of the new design yet so as soon as they arrive, I will take pictures to show. The helmets have been shipped today and will probably take a week or two before I have them on hand.

The second change is the price. The price for these new helmets will be slightly higher than the previous ones. This is due to the new design and the price inflation of the helmet making company so please do understand this. The price of the new helmet will be USD$15. Shipping fee is the same.

For those who have left me comment on the previous post asking for these certain colors of baby pink, baby blue and black, I will let you guys decide first if you still want them or not once they are here. Thank you for bearing with me on the waiting time.

Hello everyone~

Thank you to those who have purchased the Latidoll yellow helmets. Some colors such as baby pink and baby blue ran out super fast and few have asked me for these colors. I will need a head count to see how many pink helmets I need to reorder so if you missed out the last time, post a comment here to let me know. I will see if I can manage to get more.

Thank you n______n

UPDATE 5/5/09: I have submitted my requests for 10 pink helmets, 5 blacks and 5 baby blues as of today. My supplier will need to go and check to see if there are enough in stock. As soon as I hear back from her, I will post update here. Sorry for the long wait as I tried to gathered enough people first to submit the second order.

Recently, I’ve found myself redressing and playing with the dolls I have rather than kept on buying new ones in. A friend of hubby’s told us today that the desire of getting what you want and yet still yearning for more is human nature; it is a mean of survival instinct. If this is the case, then I guess I have found a good reason to back me up on all these years of mad dolly purchases (hooray!).

Of course, the redressing and replaying part falls more on my Blythe dolls than BJDs (ball jointed dolls). I still feel the need of wanting new tiny BJDs but at least not for Blythe. I do love my Blythe so not wanting to buy any more new ones doesn’t mean I don’t love them anymore. The ‘prettier’ or shall I say the more ‘rational’ way of explaining my behavior of redressing my old dolls is simply appreciation; to appreciate what I already have and own. The more ‘true’ way of looking at it is, well, I lack the funds. Yup...it is as simple as that.

After enjoying the dolls I have and playing with them again, the love I have for them in the first place came right back. I am happy and feel lucky to have these dolls with me even though at times I am so busy sewing that I don’t have any spare time to set aside for my dolls. I am trying to change that slowly. Right now, I divide my days into three parts. I would sew, exercise and set time aside to play with dolls. I use the daytime to sew until 11pm and then I will try to exercise at least 30 minutes. I know 30 minutes isn’t much but it is better than zero exercise I did in the past. The last hour or so of my day I will pick a doll up from my dolly shelf and just enjoy her. This arrangement is working for me so far and hopefully it will continue being so.

Ugh. What a week...I somehow managed to twist my lower back around Friday morning so have been resting in bed for the past few days. Today I am finally getting better so hopefully by tomorrow I can sit and move about.

For those who have left a comment here and on my flickr picture regarding Latidoll yellow helmets, they have arrived. Thank you for your patience. I will be going down the list to those who are interested. The ones I do not know the contact info but have left me comment on the blog please do let me know either your flickr id or email so I can get in touch. These are the ones I need contact info on, please check to see if you name is here:

-Atomic
-mei
-kathy
-Samantha Potter

The rest I know from flickr so you will be hearing from me soon. Thanks again for waiting guys!

UPDATE: Pink, Baby Blue and Black are all sold out (unless someone cancel their orders). I will need to see if I can order more for the next shipment.
CHANGES: There is a slight change in shipping price as the price for international first class. The price before of USD$3 for an estimate but it is actually around $4. I apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

This week the mail has been rather...boring. I would say 90% were junk or ads and 10% were bills (yet these 10% took 90% of the money that I make). But not today! Today there was a lovely package from a dolly friend. Hooray for mail day!

I did a partial swap last week with a dolly friend/customer of mine. I’ve mentioned before that I love to do swap with other talented dolly people. It is amazing to see what other people can make and to have that piece or pieces of work from them. To me, it is almost like collecting art.

Anyhow, I was just expecting one dress from this person and yet I received three! Talk about bonus! Holy cow...all three were beautifully made too! One of the dresses has an apron with hand stitched squirrel design. Both hubby and my sister (who happened to drop by today) thought it was made by a machine..that’s how perfect the piece is. I am just so happy to meet so many wonderful and amazing people through dolls.

Ok, I do apologize for the lack of update and post on my own blog. Most of the time I have silly little things going on with my daily life that I would want to share here but between commissions and etsy, I barely have time to sleep let alone update blog.

I have been super busy with ongoing commissions since last year and finally had some time now to do update. It wasn’t my intention to have the first post of this year related to sales but it ended up being one anyways.

I was fortunate enough to find pictures of Latidoll yellow wearing motorcycle helmets and even more fortunate to have family and relatives from oversea to help me get them. I had to ask my mom to help me get a few first to try out and see how well the helmets fit on my dolls before ordering for more.

I am expecting a shipment of these helmets to arrive in a week or so. I was told there will be 7 colors so once they arrive, I will have more detail pictures and info posted here. I will try to set up a shopping cart with colors and quantity of each colors here as well.

For those who are interested in getting one, I will post all info here once the helmets arrive so just leave me a comment on my blog.

Here are the basic info for now:

Size the helmets are for: Latidoll yellow with normal ears.
Number of helmets available: 70 helmets
Price of each helmet: USD$11
Shipping: first class mail for US buyer is USD$3; first class for international buyer is USD$4 for 1 helmet and USD$6 for more than one; registered mail outside of US is USD$15.
Colors: I was told there are 7 colors..right now I only have pictures for red orange, baby pink and baby blue.

LalaTroop and I would like to give thanks to those who have joined this group and to those who have been so supportive this year in our clothing line. It has been a very busy year but we are excited to meet new friends along the way.

The troopians and I will be taking a short break for the winter. Commissions are closed until January 8th, 2009.

All purchased orders made on Etsy after Dec. 27th, 2008 will be shipped out on Jan. 6th, 2009.

We will also start to carry Latidoll yellow SP size clothing items in 2009.

As for the status of the commissions that I am working on and are finishing:

Beth's group order - Everyone in this group their items are done except for Beth's friend. I will be working on that order during my short break. I am expecting to send out the package before January 6th.

Elissa's group order - I will be working on first part of this order but most of the items will be finished between Jan. 6th-10th, 2009.

Thank you all again for those who have posted their cute pictures with LalaTroop clothes. They do bring smiles on our faces each time we see them.

Have a safe and happy holidays everyone!

Love,
Peggy+Redbutt Monkey and LalaTroop

This week has just started and already I am packed with ideas for Christmas dolly clothes. Like I mentioned in the previous blog, this week I will start making reindeer related items. Most of them are for Latidoll yellow size but I am hoping once I have bit more time I can sew for bigger dolls during December. To me, these Latidoll yellows remind me of little baby girls and boys that just fit cute and adorable fabric prints more.

If I do not reply to messages as fast as I used to, I apologize as I am trying to finish as much as I can each day on my sewing. I am currently working on commissions and preparing for the Christmas items at the same time. If I tend to forget to reply to some of you, please do remind me again. The new flickr system is taking me some time to get used to. I am someone that does not like changes and find it a bit hard to adapt. I will always try and do my best in making the cutest clothes that my little brain and two hands can take.

Although Christmas is still a month or more away, LaLaTroop is getting ready for the holiday~

Starting this week, there will be Christmas outfits listing on my Etsy. I might not be able to make as much as I like, due to limited materials and few commissions on hands, but I will try my best. Each week there will be a different theme/character that is featured. As we get closer to Christmas, if I still have enough materials left, I will list a mixture of these characters.

This is more or less the guideline that I am trying to follow for now:

From Nov.3-9th: Reindeer is the main character. There will be reindeer rompers, hats and scarfs.

From Nov. 10th-16th: Snowman is the main character. There will be snowman rompers, hats and scarfs.

From Nov. 17th-22nd: Elves are the main characters. Hats and rompers will be featured.

From Nov. 23-30th: Santa is the main character. I haven’t had much ideas down for him yet so we will see how it goes.

On Oct. 31st, I know it was the day of Halloween but what I didn’t know was my two Latidoll rabbits were hopping their way over to knock on my door. How perfect can this be?! Latidoll dressed as rabbits arriving on Halloween’s day!

When I saw that Latidoll shipped my order around Oct. 29th, I wasn’t expecting the package at least until Nov. 1st as EMS usually takes about 3 days from Korea to reach to where I am. I have to say this time the shipping impressed me. When I checked online for the shipment status and saw it was already at my local post office for delivery, I was quite shocked and sad because I had to go out later that day and thought I would again missed the mail man. But luck has it that as hubby and I were sitting down in the car about to drive out, the delivery truck came pulling in. Of course when I saw that fabulous white truck, I yelled out ‘My rabbits are here!’ Hubby just let out a sigh and nodded his head .. so I quickly swung open the car door and jumped out to where the delivery truck was parked. The lady that was delivery the truck saw me running toward her so she pointed to the package and mouthed out the word ‘Yours?’. I nodded and she opened up her door to have me sign for them. Yay!!! Happy day indeed!

I couldn’t decide who I like better..rabbit miel or rabbit lami so I ordered both. My lami, however, came with a lumi certificate and although my miel is fine with hers, she came with wonky eyes...one pupil larger than the other. The doll themselves at least are well made and painted so that was good. With Lati, it is always the love-hate relationship.

Lately I’ve noticed the weather is getting bit colder and more windy outside. There are a lot of fallen leaves landing on top of the grass fields in our community. I guess it is a good sign that season is changing and we no longer have long hot sunny days.

It’s weird because I am not the type of person who likes rain but I also don’t like hot humid summer days when I constantly feel like I need to take showers. A perfect day would be a bit of warmth from the sun yet with clear fresh light breeze~

I know I mentioned this several times already but I love to do trade with other talented dolly people! I am really lucky to have met so many friendly dolly friends who asked me to do trade with them and happy to know they like my work enough to do so. Thank you lovely people!

It is shocking but I just realized chatting with dolly friends isn’t always beneficial. Why? Because dolly friends often can introduce you to new types of dolls or dolls you usually don’t have interest in but once you keep seeing pictures of, eventually the interest sinks in.

I was talking to a dolly friend of mine from Taiwan and she showed me links of some Susie sad eyes doll on auctions. I saw them before on flickr and other dolly forums but didn’t think much of them. To be honest, I find them a bit scary...I also found Blythe to be scary when I bought my first one and few years down the road, I gathered a troop of Blythe. So who am I to judge? I decided to give this new girl a try...I bided on one which ended in a rather low amount but of course I wasn’t there to bid in the last minute. The one I lost out on had a sandy blonde hair which I am ok with but was thinking already of having a black hair one. Sooo.....when I saw a black hair susie (at BIN price at almost 4x the amount of the one I lost out on), I clicked and won.

I am excited to meet her and see how I like her....hopefully this will be a beginning of a lovely relationship~

The picture below was not taken by me. It was from ebay auction.

Finally the weekend was over and we are starting a new week. I have been busing making dinner plans and whatnot over the weekend which left me little time to sew or to plan for new items.

Since Halloween is getting near, I will be making some trick or treat bags for Latidoll yellows. There will be few different designs but I am not sure how many I will put up this week as I will be mainly focus on commissions again. I plan to make these bags this week and maybe throughout the middle of next week and stop (as I do not want to make it too close to Halloween..this is to be sure I can ship before Halloween comes).

You can either purchase one of these bags from my etsy store or when you spend USD$37 (exclude shipping fee) or more on my etsy store (starting Oct. 6th-Oct.17th), a free one will be included.

because I get to meet and know many great people (in real life as well as internet). I don’t know how long my love and passion for dolls will last but I sure don’t see them ending anytime soon. Collecting and appreciating these dolls are just tiny part of this hobby. Learning to make dolly clothes, meeting new dolly friends, keeping in touch with old dolly friends, sharing pictures of each others dolls are all what this hobby has brought me.

I am really grateful to know about Blythe, about BJDs and also people who shared this same interest as me. Big hug and kiss to all.

Like the title said, it really was an unexpected purchase. If any, I am looking and needing a red hair kenner with fringe but the prices for them are beyond my price range.

I was browsing ebay and looking at custom blythes to admire and then decided to check out some kenners while I am at it. That was when I saw Alley (the kenner pictured below) being listed among other what appeared to be used and abused kenners. From the seller’s pictures (first picture below), she does not look like she has any fringe at all although someone posted a question asking the seller about fringe. The seller said the doll does have fringe but when I looked at the price, I was thinking in my head..maybe it if was $100 lower than I might go for her. I just left the page up while I continue to do my daily sewing and flickr browsing.

After 20-30 minutes, I remembered I left the auction page for Alley up so I went back just to take one last look when I noticed that the seller had lowered the price $100 less! Maybe the seller heard my thought through the cyber world?! Either way, I just could not resist any longer and click the BIN button on ebay.

That same day, I was supposed to go shopping with my sister because I was a new woman (new woman being my credit card cycle has refresh for the next month). I told her since I promised to go shopping with her I will still go but I can’t buy anything because of this new purchase. Of course she thought I was nuts for paying the price I paid for some old dirty plastics. She doesn’t understand why do I buy these old ugly looking dolls and then need to spend time to clean and brush them up, especially for the prices they are selling for. She said for those prices, they should come brand new in boxes. Ha! I wish.

Well, after battling about 3.5-4 hours with her hair and clean a bit of her face and body, I managed to bring out those hidden fringe and straightened out some locks on the back of her hair. I think I still need many more hours on those frizzy hair from the middle part to the end and little touch up on her face. Most of my kenner girls are in their ‘natural’ state..meaning I only wash their hair, combed and let dry. Some still have bit of frizz on their hair but I just let them be. I think Alley might just be the one that required the most amount of work.

I’ve found some new materials which I am not too certain about. I do love the look of it (kinda like for raincoats) but not sure if what I have in mind will translate well into sewing.

I will see if I can make a raincoat and a pair of matching pants with it first.

I find myself tending to like to take picture of each individual doll by himself or herself rather than group shot for several reasons. First of all, just the thought of taking all of them out, dressing them up, placing them for the photo shoot is enough to tired me out. The other reason is I am not good at all with group shots and I can’t capture each doll’s personality at all this way.

Well, today the weather was nice and cool and I decided to take a little break from sewing in the afternoon and have few quick pictures of my current Latidoll yellow 16cm dolls. You can see more of them on my flickr but I picked the one below because it’s my favorite shot from the batch.

Addiction truly has no end. That is all I can say.

I think it has become a habit of mine to buy a little something each time I travel for my dolls, especially the ones that couldn’t make it with me on the trip and had to stay home. I lost count of the number of times my sister or hubby would tell me to stop buying little toys for my dolls because our house is becoming like a toy/junk yard. I just couldn’t help it when I see something cute and something I think my doll or dolls will look so cute with it.

This time for the Las Vegas trip, I picked up a little donkey for Ru in one of the souvenir shops. I don’t know what donkey has to do with Vegas though. The poor donkey has a sticker price stuck on his under belly so when I peeled it off, he got a little bald spot. Its ok Mr. Donkey, we will take good care of you.

Sometimes I get messages from other talented dolly people asking if I am interested to trade some dolly clothes with them. I really do love to do trades with others around the world with different talents (for example, knitting or crocheting which I can’t do). Heck, even if they sew and not knit or crochet I still love to trade because I don’t think of myself as perfect in any way when it comes to sewing and I love my dolls wearing others creations.

My husband and sister asked me before why do I buy doll clothes if I can make the same thing or similar? I don’t know if it is the same with other dolly friends but for me I like things that aren’t made by me on my dolls. Is that weird?

The strawberry hat pictured below was from one of the trades. I find it so cute and sweet! I just wish I have more time so I can make more stuff when it comes to trading.

It has been awhile since I last made clothes for my doll crew. I found some apple fabrics which I love and decided to put some away for my dolls. I ended up making a hoody for Latidoll yellow and a long dress for my Domadoll dolls. Since I don’t have pattern for Domadoll, it was more of a guessing game. I am hoping to have more time later on to make more stuff for my dolly crew~~

I must agree with the old Chinese saying that money can even make the ghost work.

I won a custom blythe doll off ebay just last Saturday or so and I asked the seller if it’s possible for me to receive the doll before Sept 1st (due to some personal affairs I need to have the doll before that time). He said there are two ways and one was using FedEx. The price is higher than normal EMS shipping I am used to paying for dolls and doll related items but they said it can guarantee the doll’s arrival in 2-3 days. Yup, they sure weren’t kidding about the time frame. The seller shipped on Monday (Asia time) and I got the doll on Tuesday morning (US time).

I love the custom dolls created by this artist. I was bidding on the girl before Ice on ebay but the last few minutes my sister came to visit and I completely forgot to place my bids. It turned out to be good for me because now I am able to have Ice. I noticed she has some tiny scratch lines underneath her lower left eye area but since this doll the artist originally intended to keep for himself (said so in his blog..he also said he did not carve the lip and nose area this time around due to the same reason) I am ok with these. Because it was a doll that the artist wanted to keep for himself, it only made me love her more.

For the past few weeks, I have been sewing for my etsy shop and part of commissions. I like to keep my etsy shop updated with at least 1-2 items daily but I think this week I will have to put more focus on finishing the current commissions. I am hoping to have finish at least 1-2 commissions that I am currently working on.

Some of the packages from etsy shop and commissions are ready to be shipped. Few are just waiting for payments to clear. I must admit...I like to do the packaging as much as I like sewing for dolls~