happy new year my dolly friends , plenty of health, luck, creativity and of course dolls!!!

the girls in this setting are my first ever fr girl (something sexy adele) and my three new model additions, rayna, adele and nadja. 
the four of them decided to form  "les juilettes" a rock -jazz-blues-funk band that is. you will be seeing them often performing , and wearing things they hired me to create for them, we have lots of plans , so stay tuned! ​

yeap, there is a sort of such a thing . a dollsalive workspace. i claimed the house basement (only 80cm below ground ) and a small ground level room next to it that i use as my doll room. i used mismatched old furniture that i had around, painted everything white , added a touch of purple and voila! an instant order to the visual chaos. 
there is enough storage space, and enough work space. not enough natural light but lots of clean air as it has windows , but they either face north or open to a covered porch. 
it is functional and i like working there! of course i dream about a huuuuuge room  with a great view and lots of diorama space but i strongly believe that i would fill all of that space immediately and then i would start dreaming about something even bigger...there is no end to that, and every collector knows it.
here we are then...

i had the empty canvases and played with a dollsalive logo. very professional,lol!!

my advanced technology radio , advanced for the previous century that is...

oh yes, there is a working fireplace. it works  exclusively as photo backdrop!

all clean and tidy, lots of space to work , isnt it???

well this is closer to the truth and of course it can get much  much worse! currently there is a small mountain of fabric on the left side of the cupboards top, waiting for me to decide which pieces to use. it lays there since october lol!!

just a quick post after a while .... i have been busy with new collections and new models! i got all the dark gals and i find them fascinating! a vanessa is also here, a classic hollywood beauty but i had no time for photos yet. then i got some new fr2-3 and ci bodies and i decapitated and swapped bodies to almost every model here. i feel like i have a new doll collection ! many girls were rarely used as they were on the old tall bodies that i profoundly dislike to say the least. 
so here she  is ,my second dark beauty, Nadja

a phone pic with absolutely no editing. totally photogenic gal! 

love her in the turban , i also ordered a wig for her 

uhere with her natural (!?) hair...



and the last dark beauty, one of my favorite molds, rayna. 
i repainted her lips in a nude shade , she looks more human and she will look good in more colors. here i was testing grey on her, also experimenting with her hairdo

and finally both girls at work , modelling my last creations

after a long time dollsalive creative studio has hired a new model...
this actually , was an accident. All i wanted was a body for poor old Jordan who was stuck with the huge boobies-bee waist one. timeless adele was supposed to be just a body donor and would then wait and wait and prectically just wait, on the shelf.
then she arrived.
then Omg. and wow.i couldn't believe my eyes.  i looked at her and she looked back. i mean, talk about dolls alive... she is alive, no doubt about it!
she totally confused me. i was convinced i did not like her. that haircut, the whatever lipstick were a no-no. But....from close she was impressive. and beautiful. and a no-nonsense kinda gal.. personality. i still am not sure that i like her but i am charmed. 
then we had the usual quick photoshoot that turned into a long one, and i think i am in love with a female doll .
the best part for me was that she is pure  inspiration. watching her, my mind  started working towards a different than my usual approach to design and photography. as most creative people know, it is really hard to escape your own sources of inspiration, your fixations and style and make something really new to you. so maybe she will help towards that. 
​so here she is...

the very first pic i took of her , on my desk. every new girl has a pic taken there, its a dollsalive ritual.

dressed in some stuff i i just had around for a first color test...

she looks perfect in black..

she looks good in beige

sexy in silver... 

 dusty pink is made for her

human..

i love how she changes expressions... here she looks almost scared..

no clue what she is thinking or doing here...

those eyes......

so poor jordan stays with the bee body for now....i need another donor!

the second room that is almost ready in the dollsalive models residence is the kitchen.
it is a playline kitchen quite in scale for them, only a bit short. i fixed that using a carton box covered with adhesive paper to raise it a bit.
then repainted the cupboard doors white and decided to use adhesive to cover those too
after some experiments....

i went with this scheme..

the floor in the cooking area is covered with "metal", and so is the bench i made for the girls to have enough space to work

then the walls were painted grey, marble floor was installed at the dining area, and ...voila