Angsty catsy

Oh darn!

During the weekend we found this peanut-sized, hard lump on our Maisa's belly. Today I took her to a vet and she told me it's a tumor of some sort :( Maisa will have a surgery on Friday at 12am to have it snipped off, and then the tumor is sent to a pathologist. Of course, cancer of some sort is the worst case scenario :/ But we have our hopes high, though, elderly animals do tend to have all sorts of non-lethal tumors. Our late dog had many when he aged, and he even had a surgery to remove one when he was 15 years old! After that, he still lived for more than two years of his senior days.

 

Maisa the grandma last summer <3

The flesh is weak.

Umm, heh. I guess I have to admit I'm a bit impulsive ;)

Cute girl with bangs and ladybug socks, now who can resist one? ;)

 

My, it's always a turmoil to open toy packages these days -___- And I found out that she has staining due to that black top of her dress.. And she had boobs! O___O Quite impossible to sew clothes on her, but one shall try..

Together with Reetta who has a new dress :) I think she'll be sort of doll of a doll -solution, she's too small to be her little sister or something. Oh yes, speaking of Blythes, I haven't shown the new eye chips I gave Reetta during the Christmas holidays:

 

Whoa, that stare IS intense! Light green glittery ones, anyway ^^

 

Lime green ones to the right.

 

And aqua blue ones to the front (the only stock pair I saved is the dark blue ones to the left). 

I know, the colors aren't too brave, but let's see if I'll get wilder with more

intense colors with the next doll. Reetta also has a new wig on its way,

she'll finally get rig of that fugly stock one.

New look :) New dolls?

I decided to renew the blog theme into a bit more colorful :) There are tons of ready, free templates on the net, and I just took one and adjusted it into my liking. And added some matryoshkas <3

Darn. I have a major Blythe fever again. My Reetta desperately needs a friend. And I already know what she'll be like. I want a black-haired lady with custom eyechips, and her name will be Kaisa. I was quite close to snatch one petite Blythe/LPS set with me when I was grocery shopping this morning... These guys I like the most:

 

 This one wasn't available in Prisma, though.

This lady has a funny-styled hair and she would come with two LPS's so my kids wouldn't have to fight over the one pet :D Maybe if I ask nicely, I'd let myself buy one ;) They were only 16,95 euros in Prisma..

Maybe.

Mohair and alpaca

Those are my two new favorite yarns :) Here are some more of the doll crafties I've made recently:

I made a bolero for Rhona and I also tried a hat pattern that I found in a vintage knits book, in dolly-size :) It came quite nice. Needs straps of satin bow, though.

An alpaca hood for Elenna :)

Together with over-knee socks :)

Ah...I'm taking a habit of adding contents that don't belong under the title, but here goes ;)

Found this cabinet in a flea market too :) It's going to turn into something extremely different ;)

A grandma inside a grandma inside a grandma...

Decided to take a little photo gallery of my current matryoshka collection ^^

These guys roam in our bathroom ;)

 

I recently hung this old suitcase on our bedroom wall and covered the bottom with Tilda paper :) And what would be better contents than a nine-piece set of grandmas in bright colors? <3 Got this set from Santa Claus :)

These guys my mom brought to me as a souvenir when I was a kid.

The smallest one is missing, though.

 

 

These two sets I've found from flea markets. They are standing on the kitchen windowboard.

 Three mixed sets on a livingroom windowboard ;) 

And then, a couple of other pics from my other collectibles:

 

Some curiosities on top of an old cupboard in the hallway :) That container is actually one used to store potatoes. The doll in the middle is from my childhood, and I guess it has belonged to my mom when she was a kid <3 The fabric matryoshka on top I found in a crafts fair before Christmas, the owl is made by me and the Dala horse is a souvenir from Stockholm ;) I'd love to have more of them but they're usually bloody expensive... That funny Russian-style mushroom I found in a flea market once :) I seem to collect all sorts of oddities...

My collection of old coffee and tea jars and retro coffee mugs ;) Today I even got two red dotted coffee mugs from a flea market <3 Should find a place for them.

Crafties.

Well, why not post another one now that I have time (the kids are ill) ;) Some recent crafties I've made lately:

A little colorful collagè of some of the retro fabrics I've saved.

 Heh, this was a "just for fun" pic :D This is what our kitchen table looks like when I get new dolls ;)

And finally, a new lamp shade made of little lace tablecloths :) Oh yeah, the Gunvald pics too:

 Alpaca <3

 

I'm quite proud of this helmet :D I'm having high hopes that Emèriel's armor will succeed too :)

 Clooooose-up.

 He would still need a pair of leather pants, said Ari.

Next, some commissions and definetely something for Emèriel!

Knighty knight.

Look who came back home <3

 

Emèriel, my beloved half-elven knight :) Sigh, finally she's back! The mold's been under construction for a couple of years! I bought the Migidoll Jina head ages ago, but now I got this great offer to buy her a body and she's whole again <3 This is the lady I'm going to make an armor to, but let us see where I'm going to find the time. It's going to be just a tad more ambitious project than Gunvald's helmet..which I've forgotten to publish here. Oh dear me >____<

 I kinda like the face-up, even though it's not too pro, not even close ;) It looks a bit smudgy in some pics, I see... Darn the bad lighting! But I guess my skills have developed a tiny bit?

Mother and daughter <3 Like the way they even look the same a bit ^^

Awws <3 If you're wondering why I changed back to English, well... It somehow felt stupid to write in Finnish 'cos all of you others are scribbling in the second native... ;)