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I'M BACK!!! ( with another me and my princess boutique review)

Thursday, August 09, 2018

Hello my darlings! I haven't posted on here in a long time! Honestly I have been focusing on other things ;) But I haven't forgotten about my dolls and have missed them dearly! Since I'm back, I thought I'd start off with a review of a lovely dress I received from Me and My Princess Boutique!


So here are some pictures I took OVER A YEAR AGO!! GoSh I have been away for a while! But at the time I took these photos I received a parcel from the wonderful; Me & My Princess Boutique I adore the clothes from this website and this dress is no exception! It is so lovely and looks absolutely darling on Maple if I do say so myself.



The bodice has a wide scoop neckline and 3/4 length sleeves. The skirt is knee length.


This dress is available from the ME & MY PRINCESS BOUTIQUE website for $17.75 US. This dress set is called; White Lace Dress, Belt and Brown Cowboy Boots.
NOW THE BOOTS PICTURED IN THESE PHOTOS ARE NOT THE ONES YOU'LL GET WITH THE DRESS!! I didn't receive the boots so I used my own. 

Happy Doll Loving!
Lydia 

Outfit & deets:
Dress: Me & My Princess Boutique
Belt: Me & My Princess Boutique
Headband: a $2 shop
Boots: American Girl
Basket: an op shop

ME & MY PRINCESS BOUTIQUE INFO;
website: https://www.meandmyprincess.com
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/meandmyprincessboutique/

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A gift from Me And My Princess Boutique

Friday, November 25, 2016

Hello all! Well for many of you, this past week you will have celebrated thanksgiving.  I hope you all had a fantastic day! Over here thanksgiving isn't celebrated but I asked my family if we could do it and try be American. We weren't able to buy a turkey coz they are flipping expensive but i think we had potatoes and all sat round the table and talked about what we were thankful for. Hopefully one day I can celebrate a traditional thanksgiving, but this year it was a mini kiwi thanksgiving. 
Anyway, this isn't what THIS particular post is about. Last week I received a package from the wonderful Me and My Princess Boutique and I wanted to share with you what I got! 
My package consisted of 2 outfits. 1. A pink stripped bubble dress and bow and the other was a 2 piece, top & leggings. Shoes did not come included in these outfits but man I love these too outfits so much! 
What I enjoy is that these outfits wouldn't be what I have normally have picked for my dolls. I love it when people open my eyes to new things!
I paired the pink dress with Samantha's boots from her flower picking set and the brown shoes from American Girl with the leggings outfit.

These outfits are both wonderfully made and the quality is gorgeous.
I want to thank the amazing Me and My Princess Boutique for sending me this care package. I haven't been feeling the best these past 2 weeks, I've alot of stressful stuff go on and this really brightened my day. Thank you so much :)
Please go check out their shop: http://www.meandmyprincessboutique.com
And their Instagram: Me & My Princess Doll Clothes
I hope you all have a lovely rest of your week and hope you enjoyed your thanksgiving and Black Friday sales! 
Happy Doll Loving!
Lydia 




Review

My first attempt at figure photography...

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Hello! Wow posting on a Friday, so risky! Haha no it's because I have a free day today and was going to take pics in my garden but then this gardener lady and her crew came (I have no idea why, the landlady organized it) And so there will be people in my pics. While I wait for them to LEAVE I thought I would share with you so pics of my new figure I got a few weeks ago.. K-2SO
If you don't know, I am a MASSIVE star wars fan, like you have no idea. I haven't attempted figure photography before and I'm not sure if I'll do more in the future but I follow a lot of people on Instagram who inspired me to try take some photos of K-2SO. I gave it a shot and I love how they turned out ;) 

K-2SO is a droid and is a character from the new upcoming Star Wars movie; "Rogue One" that is coming out in December and I'm so pumped!!! I'm hopefully going to see it with my brother who's a fan too, it's our little tradition :)
If you want to know, this movie on the star wars timeline, is set just before the 1st Star Wars movie (A New Hope) the one with Leia and the hair buns. Just for peeps who aren't knowledgeable about the wars. The plot of the movie is basically a group of rebels stealing the Death Star plans an a whole lot of other stuff goes on as well.
Well story-telling by Lydia (apologies if that just confused you even more!)
This figure is a black series (6 inch I think) and I bought it from a local toy store, but the detailing and quality is so good! I highly recommend this guy if you are into this sort of thing ;)


He can stand on his own and is just a dream! I'm so glad I managed to get him on sale! Well just a quick post today, have a lovely Friday and enjoy your weekend! :D
Happy Doll Loving
Lydia 

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Headband Review (succulent)

Saturday, November 12, 2016

*Apologies if the layout of this post is a bit wacky, my computer isn't cooperating.*



Hi guys! I've been meaning to get this review up FOREVER! I've just been feeling quite blah lately, I'm really stressed with exams and my family has been going through some stuff but I won't talk about that, you're here for the review! So a few weeks ago I got a package from the wonderful Allie from labellevie. As you know i have an obsession for flower crowns and I really liked the look of the succulent full crown. It was really different from what I've seen in the world of flower crowns and I fell in love. And Allie was so awesome about organizing international shipping. It was really professional and I am very impressed.







I love the minimalistic packaging and advertising. It was so pretty :) It made me feel like I was getting a gift from a friend and she wrote a note and everything! Love it!


Now let's talk about how it fits on a dolls head. This was designed to for American Girl dolls (or a similar size head) for any of you who were wondering. I had a moment of panic when I first put it on her head because it wouldn't sit right. Look really weird. 



But after some fiddling around I found how to make it sit right, you have to push it right down the back of the head.
As you can see here. Oh you see the missing flower, yeah thats a small problem that I'll talk about it a bit. The actual band that the flowers are glued on is made of this wood stuff. Its hard so that makes the actual size of the headband unadjustable  Hence why I couldn't just place it on the dolls head but really push in down so it didn't look big.













So yeah one of the flowers fell off. That made me sad but I think I can easily fix it with some hot glue. But definitely when I was holding this in my hands it felt very delicate and I was scared I was gonna break it, well my mum did I think. She moved the bag that this was in and when I found it the flower had come off.



But over all I really love this headband. As I said at the beginning I chose this one because I love how unique it looks, the succulents are just really minimal but adds a nice touch to any outfit.

Maple & Luke
I was able to make it casual but I think it could add a beautiful touch to any ensemble. So check out LaBelleVieCo on Instagram & etsy (click to words to go to the sites.)
I think there is some stuff for sale at the moment! :D
I hope you all have a great week, I certainly hope mines a bit brighter! 
Happy Doll Loving 
Lydia 

Etsy

Review of Lammily 'Liberty' dress from AllySews!

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

*I just want to say that I don't know like the proper/correct sewing terms very well so if there are some mistakes, I'm sorry*

Hey guys! If you read my last post you will know that yesterday I received my parcel fom AllySews yesterday and I'm super excited to do this review for you! So lets get started.

So for any of you that are not sure what a LAMMILY doll is heres a brief description from google;
"The Lammily doll is the first fashion doll made according to typical human body proportions to promote realistic beauty standards and help your child develop a positive body image! Eleven inches tall and ready for action with articulated elbows, hands, knees, and feet."

So these dolls can't fit any other fashion doll clothing (not that i know of) So my poor girl has been in her meet outfit ever since I got her. Beginning of 2015. 
I've tried sewing but i found it really difficult to make a dress look flattering on her figure due to broad shoulders and chest. Let me tell you, boob-tubes were not my friend in this situation 😂

So I resorted to etsy, where i stumbled across listing for a dress for a lammily doll! And it looked really good on her! So I immediately bought it! And thats where this review starts.



Ok so I forgot to take a picture of the packaging because i was so excited to open it! #sorrynotsorry

(Enjoy these lovely boring/blurry/taken really quick photos for this review 😂)


So the dress is reasonably simple in it shape; Spaghetti straps, heart neckline and the bodice goes to the waist. Which actually looks quite nice! 
And the skirt is my favourite bit. I didn't realize how much there would be! Looking at the pics online I thought it would just be a simple, straight down skirt but when I put it on the doll I found it came out like a full circle skirt! 
Its also a very modest length, not to short but also doesn't make her legs look stubby.

Next up, the fabric it's made out of is just so beautiful! Super soft and the pattern is perfect to scale and is so vibrant! Really suits the doll :)


Lol excuse her butt. But the back opens right down to hem which makes it really easy to put on.


Now to be honest when I first put the dress on I started to panic because to wouldn't come together at the back. It was too tight. But after wiggling it around at the front a pulling the straps up it fit. But very very snug. As you can see above around the lower waist the velcro is slightly struggling to close. But looking at the dress on the doll, it doesn't looked strained or anything so thats good .👍🏼 


The bodice is nicely lined with a contrasting fabric. And the velcro isn't bulky at all and is securely sewed on the dress.


And is has to darts in the front and a few pleats/gathers (lol don't know which) at the front of the skirt.


All the edges have been nicely overlocked. Nicely done and really professional.

Ok so there is one thing that sadly lets the dress down and that is the small amount of messy stitches  on the left (our right) strap. also where it connects to the bodice, it needs to me just stitched a few more times to make it secure. 




I can easily fix that but the creator just may wanna look out for things like that in the future ☺️


So final thoughts...
I absolutely love this dress! It was so much more than I imagined! Very well made and nice finish! (Except for that strap) But overall I give in a solid 8.5/10. If the strap was sorted out and maybe a little bit looser around the waist, just so it wasn't too tight it would've got a 10 😄
But you know she's a human being, not a machine so I totally don't mind the small mistake!


So please go check out ALLYSEWS (etsy) and her BLOG and INSTAGRAM !!
I absolutely love her clothing and will definitely be buying from her in the future. She sells for American Girl (and the 18" dolls), Barbie, Lammily and others! She chooses excellent bright contrasting fabrics and her designs are so cute and suit dolls ever so much! 

Thanks for reading my first ever review! Will try do more of these as I hunt the internet for more dolly things! 😈
Lots of Love 
Lydia 

Doll; Original Lammily Doll
Name: Natalie
Dress: Allysews
Shoes: Lammily.com 

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