Giveaway

Hey Evereyone, it's been a while since I've done a giveaway, and I'd like to do one now to celebrate the arrival of my new doll!!

She will be here sometime next week, but I'd like to run this giveaway until Nov 20th :)

The prize will be your choice of the following:

                                          Daisy Chain Headband:

                               Sugar Sweet Floral Bow Ring (I can also make this as a hairclip if you'd prefer)

Leopard Print Bow Ring (or Hairclip if you'd prefer)

Cute Kitty Button Bow Ring

If you are a dolly lover, you can choose to have the bow made as a hairclip for your doll :)

And now for .... the RULES

Compulsory:

♥ Visit my shop and post your favourite item in the comments box here (please also post your email addy so that I can contact you)

♥ Follow this blog

Additional Entries:

♥ Become my fan on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/BlushingDoveBoutique (1 additional entry)

♥ Visit my other shops and post your favourite item here (1 additonal entry per shop visited)

http://www.amylilley.etsy.com/ (doll clothes)

http://www.teacupteddies.etsy.com/ (teddies)

♥ Add my Etsy shops to your favourites (1 additional entry)

♥ For doll lovers: guess who my new doll is (3 additonal entries and a 50% discount in any of my shops for the person who guesses correctly!)

PLEASE REMEMBER to include your email address with your entry so that I can contact you if you are the winner. Winner will be selected at RANDOM on Nov 20th

If you want to play 'guess the new doll' to win a 50% discount and 3 additional entries, rules are as follows:

♥ Game closes when I announce my new girl here next week

♥ You may ask questions (which I will answer here) but you are only allowed to guess the doll once. Please ask questions on the 'comments' box of the previous post titled 'New Girl'. It could get mighty crowded here otherwise!!

♥ Additional entries will be awarded once you make your one and only guess (not each time you ask a question)

♥ Prize will be awarded to the first person who guesses: company, doll, and type/ mould

♥ If noone guesses all three correctly, the prize will be awarded to the person who has the closest guess (company and doll at least)

♥ If I've already told you, sorry you can't play :( But good news because this means that I really love you ;)

♥ Don't expect this doll to be in my Flickr faves, that's dirty rotten cheating (yes, you shall be forgiven)

... Let's play! ;)

New Girl

oooh, I've don't it again! I've just bought another doll! I wasn't exactly an impulse buy, I've been watching her on eBay for a while and her price was good compared to other sellers' prices (also the seller was in the UK - take that customs!). Well, her auction was ending last night and I decided to place a bid whilst I was on the train (before it went underground and all hope was lost). I checked my emails when I got home and I'd 'won' her *booohyahh!!* *happy dances*. Of course this 'winning' still meant that I had to pay, so I am now officially skint again. But my doll family is expanding, along with my smile :P Any guesses as to who she is??



Other news :)
I found the cutest fabric ever!! I am usually NOT a huge fan of Disney's Marie, but give her a kawaii twist, lots of pink, and print her on fabric - and I am converted! Throw is a few (kitty shaped!!!!) macaroons to seal the deal and I'm sold!



The fabric came so quickly and I made this dress with it:



I also made this star dress, I think it looks so cute on Celeste ^_^



Both dresses are available in my shop: www.amylilley.etsy.com

And last, but by no means least, I made this critter for the most amazing swap with a very special friend:



I hope you like my recent makes >_<

Thank you for looking xx

Flirty Florals!

I have fallen for florals this Autumn!!
Here are my newest floral dolly-dresses:

Both are available here ^_^


And of course I want to introduce you to my newest girl, who I think is totally adorable! She is a Dollfie Dream, medium bust. I'd wanted one of these cuties since spying one on a fellow Dolly-Forum dweller's avatar. I saw those beautiful anime eyes and had to ask which ball-jointed beauty she was displaying. Of course when I heard that she was a Dollfie Dream I went straight to ebay. My jaw almost dropped to the floor when I saw just how expensive they were - goodbye dreams of owning a DD. No matter how much money I save, I doubt I will ever be able to justify paying 1.000 + GBP!!
As I was browsing Flickr oneday, I saw this beautiful DD head for sale at a very reasonable price. With a LOT of kind help from the seller, I learnt that the expensive DDs I had seen on ebay were priced so highly because they are limited edition dolls. She helped me to locate a body, and all in all my gorgeous girl cost less than my Minifee - not bad considering she is a gorgeous 60cm (when I opened my first BJD - a puki - I swore I would never go bigger than a Minifee *sigh*)

She is still nameless, but I think she will settle for Sayuri. I like a name to mean something, and 'Sayuri' means 'Little Lily' in Japanese. I am 4'11 tall and my last name is 'Lilley', so there is a little significance there >_<

Well, here she is:

Outfit, as ever, by me and available here
Thank you so much for your visit xx

Dolly Fashion

I hope you've all had a good week :)
I am starting my uni course this week (I'm training to be a counsellor), so I'm a bit apprehensive and excited. I've also been reading 'Great Expectation' by Charles Dickens for a student who I tutor. As someone who studied English at university, I am ashamed to say that I am not as familiar with the Classics as I should be, but I have really been enjoying this novel. Dickens has a wonderful way of creating characters and weaving together a story that is at once gripping and engrossing. I highly recommend it :)

On a dolly-note, I have been enjoying Celeste, my new Pullip Clara, and have been making Pullip dresses for my Etsy shop. I hope you like them :)

I was so excited this week as the lovely Pullip I adopted from a good friend on Flickr arrived! I wasn't sure what to expect as I'd never even seen a Pullip in 'the flesh' before, but she is lovely! So different from my BJDs, but I just adore her cute face and anime-look.
I have decided to name her Celeste. She is a partially customised Carnival Twin Clara. Here she is:




I love her so much that I have decided to adopt another one of my friend's Pullips! I will keep her identity a secret for now, but she should be home before December. So excited!!! ^_^

New Things :)

So I've been rather busy lately, sewing away for various projects, attempting to sew for my new doll shop, expanding my doll family, applying for a course, tutoring English, plus everyone we know seems to have cought wedding-fever and are deciding to get married (my husband and I have now been married for two years, so we're immune). I hope you've all been well, and will enjoy catching up with myself, my dolls, and my critters through these photos:

                                                                        
                          Here is a panda that I made for a custom order, I think he turned out super-cute :)

I also bought an adorable new doll from a new company called 'Elfindoll'. Her name is Sora, I hope you love her :)

I also feel I have been going a little mad as I decided that I wanted to make Minifee underwear. It's taken me ages, weeks in fact, but I'm finally happy with the patterns I have made, and will hopefully have these in my shop soon. Here they are:

I'm Back!!

If there was an award for the least consistent blogger, I would certainly qualify for entry (if such an award does exist, please don't enter me. It will only give me an excuse to neglect my poor blog further!). I'm hoping that when I share with you the projects I have been occupied with, those of you who read this blog will forgive my inconsistency :)

For my Blushing Dove Boutique Etsy shop I have been creating (and *cough* modelling) some hair bows:

For my Teacup Teddies Etsy shop I have created this lil' critter:

And I've also been busy setting up my third and final (honest) Etsy shop, Amy Lilley. This shop will hopefully soon be filled with lots of BJD clothes and accessories *crosses fingers*

I've also been doing a few swaps lately (I love swaps). I made this little puppy for a lovely friend in the USA:

She's sending me some Re Ment goodies, some BJD wigs, and some Tokidoki unicorns!! I'm so so excited!! I'm making her a bunny too. Hopefully I can show her off here when she is finally finished XD

I'm going to try to blog more now. I'd love to hear from you all and look forward to reading your comments.

Hugs,

Amy xxx