The Post-Christmas Post

First, I would like to thank everyone for their good wishes for Christmas in my previous post. I hope you all had a wonderful day with those you were able to spend it with. Mine was busy as always with lunch at the in-laws and dinner at my Dad's. I felt like all I was doing was eating all day!

I wanted to share some Christmas photos I took that I never got a chance to post about. The lead up to the big day was pretty crazy here.

I did get an early Christmas present from my husband in the form of Gigi Hadid. He kindly let me open it up before Christmas day so I was at least able to 'play' with her a bit.

Sidenote: I have no idea who this Barbie's inspiration is at all. I just really liked her face sculpt and the fact that she is the petite size so she's smaller than my other girls.

This is what she came in originally. Even though she was covered in plastic, when I did remove that sweater, the plastic had not reached far enough to cover her hands so unfortunately, there were some dark stains on her hands. I don't know why her hands weren't also covered as the sweater sleeves end well pass her hand length.

Her first redress. Something a bit casual and summery.

The weekend before Christmas, hubby and I decided to drive around and look at all the houses decorated with gorgeous Christmas lights. First stop was the in-laws who always go all out every year. I decided to take Gigi along for the ride. {I actually decided to rename her Gina}.  The following photos were taken with my phone camera as I didn't feel like hauling the big one around.

I really love how this one turned out. 

In-laws house, well at least the front of it. Gina is posing in the front yard.

 The sea-saw lights they have every year. Those who saw last year's photos will no doubt recognise them.

 This was all hubby. He decided to play around with her and pose her on the sea-saw. He can never resist doing this to my dolls every year. They all get to ride this thing.

This is a Doctor Who Adventure doll, pretty much a figure that can pose and wear real clothing. She's really neat and a huge surprise for me as I was not expecting her. This was from the in-laws. Apparently, they had put the Doctor Who Barbie on pre-order for me (without me knowing) and I told them I had pre-ordered her a few days later (because I was excited about it) so they had to go back and see if they could change the order to something else. Luckily the store let them choose something else instead. This figure is pretty darn cool. I will have to take a photo of her next to my Barbie Doctor Who.

I did a heap more but some didn't turn out. I was using my phone camera which isn't always the best device to use for photos but it's just easier than hauling my big camera around everywhere sometimes.

I'm working on another post at the moment, this one will introduce a few revamped characters since the BJD world got a bit of a makeover. I have updated the BJD Crew page already to reflect the changes. I was doing some test shots and "character voices" just to test how I want to set up the scene when I actually do it. But first, I need to make a very white, very clinical cell...with bars. I'm thinking of just making a corner room with some foam board and a ceiling and maybe paint some rounded wood columns with my metallic paints to get that steel bar look. Lots to plan.

In the meantime, see you all in a couple of days with a New Year's post, hopefully.

I'll end with a music video theme song for the upcoming BJD introduction story post ...