Dollieh Sanctuary

I got his head today! It was a while before I could open it and play with him, but I got him together and put his eyes in and wig on.
A few things, though...one, the 12mm eyes I got for him are a little too small. What I'm thinking of doing is just getting some white tac (I only have blue right now; my girl is wearing the little bit of white I had) and putting them in with that. I don't think it'll be noticeable unless someone looks really closely. Another thing- I'm having a bit of trouble with his stringing and the way the knot in his neck affects the way his head is attached. Right now he's pretty floppy with a wobbly head. I'm still going to hot glue suede him, but it looks like I'm gonna have to enlist some help to get him strung more tightly. He's not supposed to stretch when you pick him up, is he? Yeah, didn't think so...
Also, none of the pants I bought for him fit him. His butt's too big. So right now he's wearing some comfy pants with a very interesting skull pattern on them (it's hard to see in the pics- I thought it was flowers or a fleur de lis pattern at first. But he doesn't care. He's just glad he's not naked anymore. XD )
But, anyway, on with the images!


(With flash)


(Without flash...I love his nose!)







This faceup is gonna be so much fun...hurry up, Saturday!





With his new half-fur, half-hair wig.





They sent a free pair of eyes, which is cool. XD I didn't expect that. I also got a Morgan bookmark and a little birth certificate, with the creation date and the name of the person who cast the head (in Chinese, of course) There's also a place for his name, birth date, and...er, his mother and father...
I don't even know about that one...
His name is Howl, by the way. I knew that before he got here.
(in case you're wondering, this is a Miro Doll 1/3 NS male body with a Loong Soul Normal Pink Morgan head. Oh! And I forgot to mention, but the resin match is pretty good! I haven't seen him in the sunlight, yet, but indoors there isn't much difference in color. Yay!)

He's beautiful! He looks related to my LS Ivan, Andrew. X3

LoongSoul's certificate is indeed amusing. XD A lot of companies do the date and sculpt name and even put a space for the name you give them, but I think they're the first I've seen with the mother and father thing, haha. Did you get a little dog tag with him? Maybe it's only with full dolls, but I got this little metal dog tag with their logo on one side and his ID number on the other. It's cute.

The resin match looks great from what I can see! Congrats!

Yay for sucessful hybridization!! He looks great and the resin match looks spot on

It's Saturday! Any face-up? XD

I agree, that's a great resin match! That's loongsoul's normal? -makes a note of that- I have a friend who looooves the Mirodoll bodies, but she doesn't like the heads. I'll have to let her know.

And that's why I string dolls with the knot inside the chest rather than the neck. -nodnod-

@solitary agent: I think I saw an Ivan without a faceup...I kept having to double check, because he looked a lot like Morgan. Which I liked, because Ivan is gorgeous! Ha ha...that mother and father thing is weird! I might fill it in though...he hasn't much of a backstory yet, and I think knowing who his parents are would help...or maybe not knowing who his parents are would be better. Hmm...(a melodramatic melodrama slowly forms...XD) Nah, I didn't get one of the dog tags. Too bad, too, because I sorta hoped they'd send one along. But I'd probably end up losing it anyway. I tend to do that. The eyes came in a cute little bag with flowers attached to it, though! I don't think he'll be wanting to keep that. XP Thanks!

@arrowchild: It was really a pleasant surprise when I got him together and saw how well it matched. I wasn't expecting that...I would have loved him, anyway, but... XD

@OkamiKodomo: I'm actually working on that right now! And I'm adding a very slight mod, from an idea I got lurking around on DoA...I hope it works. X] Yep, it's normal pink. They also have normal yellow, which would have been my first choice, except that I read that Miro Doll bodies' normal skin is very pink, so I figured it might be a good idea to get that shade for his head...had no idea it would match that well, though! And he's a lot more proportionate than I though he would be, too. The LoongSoul heads are surprisingly compatible. (Yay! XD) I fixed him, so that the knot's in his chest and now his head's not wobbly...I still have a bit of trouble with him buckling when he stands (or sits, even) It'll help when I suede him, then I can figure out where the problem is. But he's much better than he was. XD

Maybe the string? I know BBB/RS dolls ship with really crappy elastic, and no matter how much you tighten it, the stuff stretches right back out. Makes for an awesomely cuddly doll, but baaaad for posing. You can get some replacement elastic at Jo-Ann's for about $o.79 a yard. It's what I restrung Vorel with in that video I made.