Dolls – Clogs and Sneakers

May 11, 2025May 11, 2025

World of Blythe headgear \ ^0^ /

I must confess, I have a lot of hats and helmets for my Blythe. More than Blythes that could display them all. *sweatdrop* For me cute and funny headgear for Blythes is what makes the hobby fun, eventhough collecting them costed me an arm and a leg. But which hobby is without cost?

This blogpost is dedicated to all the hats/helmets that I currently own. The three models assisting me today are Spooky (a Pinkle Winkle customized by Fiona), Bridget (an Icy custom by RisRas) and Margarite (a stock Flowergirl of Happiness).

I found out that I cannot trace back whom I’ve bought some of these hats/helmets from in the past. If you recognise any, please let me know and I will amend the page.
Some of these were prizes and others just purchased. 🙂

White Duckie sailor hat by RisRas – Bridget

Brown Duckie sailor hat by RisRas – Spooky

Panda hat by Come on Baby Teddy Lu – Bridget

Bear hat by Come on Baby Teddy Lu – Bridget

Black Cat hat by Bunguhulu Dolls – Bridget

Fluor Bunny hat by Handmade by Jinte – Margarite

Monster hat by Eriko’s Emporium – Bridget

Multi-colour cap by NextBlytheFamily – Margarite

Red/pink and orange beret by unknown – Margarite

Not the OG sheep hats – Spooky & Bridget

May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

Doll wish list part 1 – Unoa Chibis and Sister

Can’t remember when I exactly joined the hobby but it’s been after my visit to Japan in 2006 so next year will be my 20th anniversary since I started collecting ball-jointed dolls, Blythes and several other dolls. Too many some may think haha.

I first saw the Unoa dolls from a friend in the hobby, and they struck me as a more delicate and mature MSD (43-45 cm) size dolls then the Volks standard out there. Less child-like and I liked them. But obtaining an Unoa was a bit difficult at the time, I hopped on a split-order and managed to get a Sist faceplate. My friend had casted the backplates so I was able to hybrid my own Lusis with a Angel of Dream body that was a decent colour match.
And Veerle was born.

I am still proud of the face up I did waaay back, but haven’t really tried doing more faceups afterwards *sweatdrop*.

But I still have three Unoa dolls on my wishlist for years and recently was looking in the second hand market. Lo and behold the original creators are still in the doll business but you will need either a friend in Japan to buy it for you or use a proxy service which makes things a bit easier. I hope *sweatdrop*.

So the dolls that I am looking for are Unoa Chibi Roron and Lilin with Roron the first to aquire and a Unoa Sister Ange. Can’t leave a sexy lady out of the team now can I.

The chibis are just plain adorable and I have a lot of fun and colourful ideas for them. Brightly coloured wigs, flashy and cheery clothing, sneakers. You name it. Both will have small busts.

The Ange sculpt will require a bit more planning as I do not have really any clothing that will fit her. I think they are even slimmer than a Fairyland Minifee. But this project will also be fun.

Unoa dolls can be purchased via their official website here.

February 6, 2025February 6, 2025

Sheep and cute clothes, a match made in dollyworld.

We are not talking about real sheep but about the cute little sheeplike dolls created by QLYwork. They really give you a retro feel, with their painted eyes and cute features.

a white sheep doll with red eyes, brown paws and wearing black mary janes together with a pink sheep doll with blue eyes and wearing red mary janes — These girls are ready to get dressed. 😀

I spoiled myself a bit when I found out that QLY made new outfits for 2025. They had previously been wearing the travel outfits and while these were extremly posh clothing the headdress would not stay on because the girls have smooth scalps lol. Besides they were both fully black and white outfits and my girls deserve a bit of colour.

I made my pick of the three below. 🙂

Three outfits still in their original packaging. On the left a red checkered dress, with a white frilly apron decorated with two apples, a frilly collar and a frilly headdres with an apple.

In the middle is a red riding hood outfit, with red trimmings, a red caplet and a red headscarf with images of apples printed on them.

On the right is a white sailor outfit with blue thread trimmings, a blue collar with a white bow and white pillbox hat. — Apple Candy Dress set, Little Red Riding Hood of Apple and a Sailor outfit.

Getting them dressed was way easier than with the travel outfits. Elastic headbands versus ribbons to tie them down, my preference goes to the elastic.

Once again amazed by the quality of these outfits. I can’t do it for such a small scale. These sheep are only 11,5 cm in height.

The White and black sheep is dressed up in the sailor outfit while the pink sheep is wearing the red candy apple outfit. — Aren’t they cute?

Close up of the red apple with stem attached to the frilly white headdress worn by a pink sheep doll — Look at the wee stem on the apple headband!

But I bought two more items, a print for my wall and a bear pin cushion. The pin cushion is my all time favourite now and I know some people will be very jealous of such a cute item on my sewing desk.

A lovely round taupe coloured box with a drawing of a sleeping bear wrapped in a duvet with a red apple print dreaming about peeling an apple. — Well protected in transport with cute bear apple art on the box.

A pin cushion shaped in the form of a white bear while on his tummy a red giant stuffed apple is placed. — This pin cushion is the bomb!

The bear shaped pin cushion holder is shown from the side while three pins are sticking out of the red apple pin cushion — Just perfect for my dressmaker’s pins.

A colourful print shown of a anthropomorphic sheep wearing a white dress with yellow and green flower trim and a red headdress with 2 yellow flowers attached to it. She is holding a blue watering can and is watering some pretty purple hydrangea while a little white dog with a pink bow is look at her activities.

She is running a flowershop with many pretty flowers like sun flowers, roses, tulips and calla lilies. — Now to find a perfect frame for this one. Maybe a coloured one would be nice?

I love it when the sellers add an extra gift with your purchase, I got the 2025 New Year gift containing some stickers and a 2025 calendar.

Two sticker sheets were gifted with multiple drawings and photos of the QLYworks sheep family. Together with a 2025 Year of the Snake calendar

A thank you note in several languages. The message is in Chinese, Japanese, English and Korean if I am not mistaken. A small gift for you. Best wishes.

I feared that some items were lost when I received the prcel from the postal service. It had two gaping holes and felt so light. But because it was all wrapped in bubble wrap together and the print was on the bottom nothing was lost thankfully.

I used to work for the postal services and I had parcel tape in my truck to fix holes in parcels. They must have changed the policy since I left as this parcel was an absolute mess.

All and all, I always love to shop with QLYworks and hope to see more outfits and maybe another sheep girl in the future.

January 23, 2025January 23, 2025

First order via the Doorzo app

I saw an add for the Doorzo app via Instagram and while I had ordered in the past via proxy services, this one looked easy to use. And easy to use it was and dangerous for my wallet. 😀

Doorzo is a proxy service that helps you shop on sites like Mercari, Rakuma, Surugaya and my newly discovered Minne.com (Japanese handmade goods). You browse via keywords and see if you can find your most wanted items. I did cry a little seeing the sold out Baby, The Stars Shine Bright collab outfits for Volks dolls going twice and triple the price. *shakes angry fist at scalpers*
After payment the goods will be shipped after the sellers confirmed that you won the purchase and ship it to a central warehouse, I found out it is in Saitama prefecture. After your items arrive, for a small fee you can have them checked and repacked for international shipment. It all went pretty fast and the longest time I had to wait was for the Dutch customs to release the package after I paid the ransom. Everything done by Doorzo was done swiftly and with great care.

I bought 2 kimono’s form I Doll House and when they arrived I was pleasantly surprised. The fabric quality has the most beautiful and deep colours. The gold looks like the work of a skillful painter.

Both kimono’s are Blythe, Licca-chan and obitsu 22 sized.

Up close inspection you see that the kimono’s have been hemmed with care by their creator.

And I feel the price was too low for them. The red/blue kimono costed me ¥ 2.500 (€ 15,36). It came with an obi, zori sandals and a hair ornament. I think this one is the prettiest of the two, the red, blue and gold go so well together.

The other kimono is fitted on my Blythe, Rhiann. She has auburn hair and this set really fits the autumn mood. Too bad it’s winter, all the leaves are gone and a photoshoot at the park will look pretty bleak. The details on the obi are really pretty and I love the handstitched flower on it. This set costed me ¥ 2.300 (€14,13).

The overall experience of using Doorzo and the items that I have received has been fantastic. I have listed this seller in my favourites and I will undoubtedly buy more form her in the future. I have already made a few purchases on Doorzo during the weekend and whoosh €75 gone. 😀

Another package with a set of clothing arrived via PostNL later on the day but it’s 1 AM now, I need to work tomorrow so I should leave the photo editing and posting of the blog for tomorrow or Friday. For now I will wait for my other Doorzo packages, two of them coming my way soon.