More Jianidi Dolls

I found these variants from local online sellers, and asked permission from them so I could share these photos on my blog!

This is the Jianidi In The Mood For Love doll. Her face is lovely, don't you think. She also has a nice dress with a frilly skirt, and shoes! 

Here is another Jianidi doll but with a different face mold and red hair! Her pink dress is three-tiered, and very bright just like her hair!

Thank you to Shan Marius and Tanya Rodas for allowing me to post their photos!

Christmas and Stuff

I bought a Jianidi Girl Feelings doll with my card points so I didn't spend cash out of my pocket!

She was on sale at P200 and it's quite difficult to find her at stores because she was put on clearance.

My sister actually played with her when I pulled her out of the box because she likes her short hair so much.

I was a bit surprised that Jianidi's feet are not that movable even though they're articulated. But overall, Jianidi Girl Feelings is a very cute doll!

Also the other day I met with my friend and collected my dolls that she had kept for a long while.

Sorry for the mess but I was so tired when I took this photo and my bed is just disorganized. I mean, look at that yellow bath towel! Haha.

Aside from Jianidi, I got a Mattel Nakoma, and Jane (Tarzan), five broken Monster High dolls including one Frankie that needed a repaint, two Liv bodies that I already used for Nakoma and Jane, an Ever After Lizzie Hearts doll, a vintage Jasmine which I could not identify further, a veterinarian Breyer doll, a bunch of doll clothes and accessories, and a small play set that Lottie might like.

Sadly two of those Monster High dolls (Frankie from the Classroom Playset, and Spectra from Dot Dead Gorgeous) are actually duplicates in my collection, but I thought of just styling their hair differently for variety.

My stepmom also came from the States and brought home these magnets she and my brother bought in the Bahamas. I love the ship magnet!

Oh and let me talk about Lottie's outfit. The top and boots are from the Breyer doll mentioned earlier. The skirt is something I've sewn before. And the socks are from a pack of doll shoes I bought one time. Her bracelet is from a gift ribbon. I'm not sure how to call it but those things were tied to a ribbon I removed from a gift, and I thought they'd be nice as a bracelet for her. The Santa hat was thrifted and it doesn't even stay on her head, so I had to use a loom band to secure it.

Anyway, I made a diorama. Hope it's not too late!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Planning To Sew

I'm trying to make a doll costume but I do not have the motivation to sew yet. Anyway, I just cut some fabric and taped everything down with masking tape onto a doll body to see how it would look like. Here's Rhian:

Hahaha, poor girl. I'm so sorry, my dear Curvy Barbie!!

Before this, I made a rough sketch so I can figure out the different parts of the outfit:

I really want to recreate this:

It's Kyary Pamyu Pamyu in her Furisodeshon music video. She's so cute here, and I love the song! Check it out!

I love this song because the lyrics are simple, but it makes me think about life. It's basically about someone celebrating their twentieth birthday (hatachi in English means 20 years old) and contemplating about it. Are they still a child? Or an adult? Is it happy being an adult? Is it sad? Is it something to be grateful? Stuff like that. I'm way past this age though, but I still think about adulthood like it's so foreign at times. Like, am I really ageing? Hahaha. This song is actually my favourite from Kyary, so I want a doll that is wearing her costume in the video. But I'm not a master of sewing. I just do what I can do with what knowledge I have from my grade school sewing classes, lol. 

Those red fabric pieces I cut up are not going to waste (I hope, hah!). They are measured circular cutouts with seam allowance that I can already start working on, except the ribbon on her head. That's just scrap fabric. Of course I can make a better bow than that, lol.

I'm still thinking about how I'm going to construct the top, if I want to dive into quilting, which is a daunting task but seems to be very fulfilling in the end. I also have the option to just glue down triangle cutouts onto white fabric with fabric glue, but I feel that I would be taking the easy road when I can do better. So quilting it shall be, I guess.

I'm not in a hurry to finish this. I mean, it took me a while to make Hit Girl.

This video will definitely help me out. I made this request to someone I follow on YouTube and they granted it! They made a Furisodation dress out of coloured paper!

I think it's cute, plus the doll they used is a Jianidi doll, which I have been ogling at the toy store for months already but couldn't bring myself to buy.

Good luck to myself! Hahahaha!

Jianidi Doll on Sale

So I went to the toy section at my local SM department store and saw this display of Jianidi dolls: Girl Feelings... dun dun dun... with the orange tag.

Man, why would you do this to me, SM??? You know I've been looking at these dolls for so long but resisted, and now you put it on sale...

Jianidi's articulation is pretty sweet. They even have ankle joints. And their dress is pretty. I particularly like... hmm, I actually never thought about that. Perhaps the yellow or orange skirt, but I do not mind getting the other two...

What am I saying?? I already vowed to stay off of buying dolls these days, particularly Barbie. And I think I'm done buying Monster High dolls, too. Not because I hate them now; it's just that I have to focus on fixing them, styling them, photographing them, and displaying them. I don't have to get more because I have lot of work cut out for me.

But yeah, if you're looking for a very pale Barbie-like doll with sweet articulation, this is it!

Meanwhile, I found new dolls at the toy aisle.

These Barbie clone dolls are called Glamorous Sariel. Their face sculpt really looks good. If you inspect their legs in this type of box, you could see that they have decent legs, not chopsticks-thin at all.

I like the purple dress on the doll on the left. Not sure if they have decent legs as well because I couldn't see past their skirt.

Had to crop this because I just realised that my face is shown on the packaging, LOL!!

This doll has very thin limbs, so the quality of the doll does vary, I guess. Anyway, I recognise the design of that dress. I have one and it's from Barbie Endless Curls.

Here is a comparison I made.

The copy is so bad, it hurts.

I end this post with these odd-looking pens...

Bootlegs, bootlegs, bootlegs! [Part 3]

I think this isn't really the third part at all because I have posted separate bootleg entries earlier (Check out my bootleg tag to view them), but for the sake of following what I started, let's just pretend in the mean time that it's just the third post, haha.

Some Ever After High fakes:

Who is this supposed to be? But I like that there are many shoes included in this box.

Bootleg of Madeline Hatter and Briar Beauty, I think.

Another bootleg of Briar Beauty... in animal print!

This seems like a fusion of Raven Queen and Draculaura from Monster High, doesn't it?

I kinda like the faceup because her lip color makes her mouth fuller.

And not an Ever After High bootleg, but a Winx Club bootleg! This is actually taller than 12 inches! It's probably like 17 inches. That tall! But she has no shoes.

Her eye shape looks freaky and her limbs are so thin. I just don't like Winx Club that much. I mean, the dolls have good clothes sometimes but no, the dolls just are not my cup of tea...

A shelf full of cheap dolls!

This cheap bootleg of Moxie Girlz caught my eye because of the outfit! It's pretty cute!

Two doll playsets that remind me of Licca-chan.

Imitation Barbie fashion packs and Disney princesses (Snow White and Rapunzel).

More bootlegs of Barbie and Disney Princess (The Little Mermaid).

Pretty sure that Sparkle Girlz are bootlegs of something. Moxie Girlz? Barbie? Disney? They know no boundaries. Haha. I took this photo when the Sparkle Girlz just arrived in Manila.

Another fashion pack similar to Barbie, and a bonus Licca-chan bootleg on the right.

This Barbie bootleg called Haidee, and a three-pack, whoa! I noticed the one in the middle because I think her pink outfit looks good for a bootleg doll.

Jianidi Girl Feelings doll. It's sold much cheaper at Landmark department store than in Toy Kingdom.

Anlily school girl dolls. Anlily is the Barbie of Taiwan!

Samantha Teen Lifestyle. Because of the big doll heads, I am reminded of Liv dolls though the articulation and the quality are nowhere close.

Bootleg of the Shopkins blind bag.

Green Lantern action figure and Funko Pop figure bootlegs in one set!

Thor action figure and Funko pop figure bootlegs! There were other characters but I got shy taking more pictures of stuff I'm not going to buy anyway, haha.

More blog entries and photos to come!