I'm Still Alive....

Oh my gosh, guys...I am SO sorry!!  I haven't posted anything in almost a MONTH?!  I am so, so sorry!  I haven't been hearing of any extremely major Disney news or anything doll related happening, excluding the current mass hysteria going on over Frozen merchandise, causing everything to sell out in the Disney Stores, online, and causing prices to skyrocket on eBay for anything Frozen... xD
Soo...with lack of a better subject to talk about, how does everyone care for their dolls?  Do you do anything with them, such as scrubbing them, washing their hair once in awhile, etc.?  I know (and I need to do this soon, too) that for my American Girl dolls and a couple others, I lightly mist their hair with this fabric softener / water solution (just a teeennnnsy tiny amount of fabric softener in a squirt bottle, fill 'er up with water and there ya go) and then brush their hair out, and change their hairstyle so they don't get any weird kinks/waves from being in a certain hairstyle too long; then I sometimes give them a baking soda scrub (depending on how dusty they are from being on display), change their clothes (so the colors don't bleed onto their vinyl and stain them), and then set them back up on display.
Anyone else do this, or is it just me?  :P 

And as far as new posts, I'm gonna try to get some photoshoots done or something..anything..!  Maybe I'll try taking some pics of my American Girls, I don't take pictures of them much...hmm...afternoon project for this wintery day, perhaps?  =D 

Frozen photoshoot part 2

Hey everyone!  Here's the last part of the Frozen photoshoot I've been trying to get up since last Sunday... sorry for the wait xD

For this one, I played around a bit...blurred the background with GIMP.  The original is below. 

"Heh-hah!  Just like a pillow!"

"That's no blizzard..that's my sister!"

 

..'That was a bit more of a drop than what I expected...'

Snow angels.. =D

A tale of two sisters...I like how this turned out.

But this one is probably my all time favorite, out of all of them.  I just wish the swingset wasn't in there...oh well.  =D

 

Thanksgiving & Frozen Madness.. =P

Hey everyone!
Quick pop in to tell everyone happy Thanksgiving (:  I know I said it already but..happy Thanksgiving again. 

Today's the official release of Frozen!!!!!  Anyone going to see it in theaters?  I may or may not be able to go see it...I'm so excited! =D
There is a Rapunzel and Eugene cameo in the "For The First Time In Forever" clip, where the gates are opened and Anna comes running out.  They're there for just a couple of seconds, but they're in the bottom-left corner of the screen, so keep an eye out, everyone!!!  I repinned a pic of it on my Pinterest account; if you wanna go check it out...HERE'S the link.  :)

Also, the 2-Disc Soundtrack for Frozen came out on iTunes and Amazon this Monday!  I'm hoping to buy it off of Amazon this week. 
ANNNND, the Frozen DVD is officially out on Amazon for preorder!  The DVD supposedly isn't coming out until Easter 2014, though. 

Umm...what else...
Oh!  I'm hoping I'll get something new posted sometime maybe Friday?   Not sure.  But here's a pic from my newest Frozen photoshoot to tide you over... =D

 

Soo...guess that's all!  I'll talk to ya'll later!!! =]

Frozen photoshoot part 1

Hey everyone! 
To anyone who's got as much snow as we do (4+ inches thus far), stay safe!  We tried to go to church and ended up having to turn around and come home because the roads aren't plowed...Ugh.  So yeah, stay safe out there, everyone!

Since it's so snowy outside, I figured it'd be a good time to post my Frozen photoshoot from the  last time it snowed!

I'll also have a post up later...I got the J.C. Penney's version of Kristoff and Hans, so I'll give you a review of both of them, as well as whatever I can find about the JC Penney's Disney doll stuff.  =]  And I STILL have to do my custom doll posts..whew.  So without further ado, let's get started!  xD
I will likely have another photoshoot with them since I got Kristoff and Hans...and it's snowing...And I'm in a Frozen kind of mood...Frozen comes out on Wednesday!!!!  Who's going to see it in theaters??  The DVD comes out in either March or April, or so I've heard, so I'll be waiting till then...ugh!  Who's waiting for the DVD?   You can commiserate with me!  ;) 

So anyway...here's the photoshoot!  It was just a quick one.  Hopefully I'll have more pics later -- I'll put them up in a second post if I do. :)

I love how this picture turned out.  You can really see the freckles on her face!  ^_^

And I like this one as well!  =D

That BEAUTIFUL cape...

Looks cold...Brr.  :D 

 

So that's all for now...I'll go out and take some more pics here as soon as I can gather my stuff!  And get boots on.  Bleagh!  =D 

Custom LIV Elsa doll

Hey everyone!!
Finally got this post done (: 
I will also have another post up sometime with a photoshoot of the Disney Store Frozen gals -  Only two weeks to go 'til Frozen is released in theaters -  who else is SUPER EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE??!!!!! =D
*Ahem* Anyway...onto the post!
The LIV doll I used was Sophie, I believe.  She has pale blue eyes and seemed like a good candidate for Elsa.  It also helps that she came with a very light blond wig! =D 
I didn't remove any of her original face paint.  I tried the alcohol on a Q-Tip trick on a spare LIV head I had laying around, victim of a body-swap (I have a bunch of doll parts lying in my room and I have no idea what to do with it all...and it's just getting kind of awkward...) And so it messed up her eyes for some reason. 
So...
If you try doing a LIV remake, RESEARCH A LOT before you try removing anything.  And don't use alcohol anywhere near their eyes. 
Anyway, so I just used my Faber-Castell colored pencils to give her some more blush, purple eyeshadow, and a bit more emphasis on her eyelashes.  It's really easy, but it takes some patience! (:
That just left the dress.   
We had some leftover pieces of lycra from Western-style Pleasure shirts that my Mom made, and the lycra just happened to be glittery, turquoise, with some black and some white accents. 
Sooo, perfect right?? 

I just did it like this.  Very simple -- One seam. 
Lycra doesn't fray, so I didn't need to hem it.  The leftover piece had some not-clean-cut parts, and was uneven, and usually, that would get to me, but it worked, surprisingly!
In my mind, I wanted my custom Elsa to not be prim and proper, because in the movie, that's supposedly exactly opposite of what Elsa ends up being. 
Anyway, so I left the uneven parts, turned them into kind of a train thing - the part in the front is higher up than the back, too. 
Then, I used some thread and these littttle clear plastic beads, and just strung them on, attatched the string to the dress, and turned them into straps and basically just accents for the dress.  It gives a slight illusion to ice, kind of? 
Anyway, and then I crocheted a cape-kind-of-thing.  (When I think of the word 'cape', all I can think of is Edna from The Incredibles, saying "NO CAPES!" ....Am I the only one??)
Finally, I did some weird braid (quite frankly, I'm not even really sure how to explain how I got it braided.  It's like her braid, sort of, (except for the piece in front on her face, where it's braided on the side), and it's kinda messy. 

Close-up of her.  I also colored over her eyebrows and made them slant upward at the end just enough to make her look a little worried.  The original eyebrows made her seem indifferent and emotionless. 

So that's my custom Elsa! 
Since it snowed here, I just had to take her out for a photoshoot...
So here she is!

And I had a buddy for the photoshoot.  He really, really liked Elsa -- or maybe, just the attention he was getting from me.  =P

And I just had to take this one.  I tried to make it look like in the scene in the trailers where she's running over the fjord, and everything's freezing behind her....only this is just snow =P

From behind to show where the snow actually stops, which is why I tried these pics =D  Yeah, that's my hand in the side, there....trying to keep her from plummetting off of the railing onto the cement patio below. 

And these two I tried to make her look like in the one scene in the trailers as well, where she collapses to her knees (I would elaborate as to WHICH scene that's from, because I read the Junior Novelization *I need to do a review on it* and some other stuff...but I know not a lot of people appreciate spoilers :P) 

Snow in her hand...can't really see it, though. 

Snow in her hair and on her hand...
And then I picked her up and snow was caked on her legs and everything.....brr!  xD 

 

 

So, yeah...that's my custom LIV Elsa doll. 
Comments/suggestings/critique/anything??  (: