valentine's day

28 February 2023

 


hello dolls, dears, & teddy bears ♡

happy (belated) valentine's day ꒰ྀི เน‘ ´ ˘ ` ू ꒱ྀི
once again since i was recovering by a sudden case of 
feeling unwell again, this got unfortunately delayed as i focused on 
recovering again. but am starting to feel better so hopefully will 
be well enough to continue updating more frequently again ♡
i guess ill just have to see how things go..

before i began feeling ill again i made this cute valentine's scrapbook 
spread in my sketchbook using a couple of the vintage valentines 
i recieved from my grandma~
i think it turned out really cute..


"to you my beloved friend, with our hearts bound as one, 
even when were far apart, were still so near each other"

and on the topic of vintage valentines, here is all of the 
vintage cards i picked out that origianlly belonged to my grandma 
i am eager to use more of them in my scrapbooking and other crafts
ྀི꒰ใฃ´เผฅ`ฯ‚꒱




looking through my grandma's old valentines day box really 
makes me want to make me customise my own one sometime, 
just to store cute trinkets in~ 
but i don't think i have space for that..

︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶⠀เญจ♡เญง⠀︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶

continuing with the valentines day theme, 
although i already shared these on instragram wanted to 
finish showing off the precious candygrams i made on goatlings ♡

these were made for users fr0gpatr0l and Susie!



i realised that while working on these candygrams that they ended 
up way more like my traditional paint sketches compared to 
the current examples i was working on for commissions, 
so i actually will be redoing my sketch painting 
commissions examples sometime now that i 
improved my digital method.. ꒰ྀི ៸៸៸៸ เธ꒱ྀི
but i dont feel too motivated to draw right now feeling unwell..


︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶⠀เญจ♡เญง⠀︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶

finally, to end off this valentine's day post-
it's something not valentine's day related actually ꒰ྀིใ…‡ใ…ใ…‡꒱ྀི
but am too eager about it to wait until another post
as its rather it's an exciting little announcement~

the outline process for my passion project 
"schneekugel der rosen" has  finally started!

although for awhile now i've had bits of pieces of lore 
scattered into various places over the past few years, 
it is now finally all coming together into one journal for the 
first time in a very long time- manymany years...
꒰ ៸៸ ◞ ˕ ◟ ៸៸ ꒱

i think, the last time this project had reached this stage 
was back in 2017 based on script binders i found in my closet 
while doing the extensive cleaning
and its certainly changed a lot since then- since at that 
time i still wanted it to be a graphic novel
but now, "schneekugel der rosen" is going to be an 
illustrated book project ♡

are you familiar with 
it's a publication of Edith Holden's 1906 diary observing the countryside
and i decided, that is similar in how wish for this project to be..
something like an art book, but with personal written 
accounts from the characters within the setting that elaborates 
on the world and events around them as they occur,
Dracula (as i was rereading through Dracula Daily last year) made me realise 
how much i love that way of developing a plot.. 

while i work on this outline, 
i don't expect to get too much illustrations made during this time 
as i am deeply in a writing mood at the moment. 
but i am certainly working on a couple wips am eager to 
share once the motivation returns to continue them ꒰ྀི เน‘ ´ ˘ ` ू ꒱ྀི

until then, this is getting a little long and the time 
is now getting late, 
thank you for visiting~
goodnight my dears and take care,
♡๐’ท๐’ถ๐’ท๐“Ž๐’น๐“ธ๐“๐“๐“ฎ♡





a sleepy week

12 February 2023

 


hello dolls, dears, & teddy bears ♡

this week has been really uneventful for me,
my body still in pain and recovering from the intensive work of 
reorganising my bedroom the previous- 
the flare ups are finally beginning to subside..
꒰⸝⸝ ⑅ ◞  ◟⸝⸝꒱

since i didn't have much strength to leave my room, 
including my chores, i mostly was playing games these past few days!
i finally started up stardew valley again after many months of 
absense, beginning a new file as my character "Dan" from one 
of my other story projects.. 
although i usually play stardew valley for the farming aspect, 
i decided to use this new file to focus more on the monster 
battling mechanic- never have i so quickly made it to 
the bottom floor and leveled up my combat almost to it's 
entireity in the first year hehe
the reason for this is because Daniel is from a "horror journaling"
project, in his story he invesitgates ghosts amongst other horrors 
to better understand them, so to have a monster focused game only 
made sense i think
 ྀི꒰ใฃ´เผฅ`ฯ‚꒱

speaking of horror, i started listening to creepy story podcasts again! 
specifically "Creepy" on spotify, it's become my favourite.. 
i was actually listening to the latest episode but had to pause to 
finish up writing this,, it's too confusing writing while listening to 
something entirely different at once;;

︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶⠀เญจ♡เญง⠀︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶

ideally, i would've loved to have started up two other painting wips 
this week but, because of my physical condition could not- 

but i did manage to finally finish up the painting of 
maxine & toby for my dear dolly friend Rosie at least ♡
am not ready to share the final piece yet since i have to add 
the lace & all that, but... 

here's the last wip photo! this was after i added the white glaze of 
watercolour overtop everything to soften the colours 
and blur them together before the final details 

besides this wip however i did get to work on some 
digital paintings this week since the Sweethearts Celebration opened 
up on goatlings ꒰ྀི ˶ห†꒳ห†˵ ꒱ྀི

am still working on a couple more but these are the ones 
i completed so far ♡

left is for user Yumeko, and right is for user ShyDandelion

︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶⠀เญจ♡เญง⠀︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶

ive also finally completed the series of schneekugel der rosen 
dolle rosenheart sketches in my sketchbook 
the lighting is much better on this one thanks to the fact 
i was able to take this in my room and not the kitchen 
꒰ྀི เธ…́˘เธ…̀ ྀི꒱

dolle verwelken-rosenheart
(vier)
"even in my darkest days, my love for you blooms...."
"my heart is yours forever...."


"vier", life four, represents the me i am now, 
however long that "now" is i do not know, 
but i hope it lasts for awhile..
i anticpate sharing more in details in a later post now around 
each of these lives in schneekugel, and some fun history 
around my design choices between the four
 i just have to write everythign out first,,

 ︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶⠀เญจ♡เญง⠀︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶

i also did some coding!
after a stupidly extensive struggle understanding the coding for a 
basic "table" html, i managed to get my goatlings profile customised
꒰ྀི เน‘ ´ ˘ ` ू ꒱ྀི

i did everything except for the notification bar code & 
code for putting an image in the upper corner, those were resources 
provided by user PrinCSS ♡


 admittedly, i want to eventually move the table 
to the left side and get artwork on the right empty space, but, 
i spent a lot of today figuirng this out and knew my brain 
would be slushy mush if i tried anything else ꒰ ˶> ༝ <˶꒱

︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶⠀เญจ♡เญง⠀︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶

despite being a sleepy week this has been getting extensive;;
okayokay just one last thing, because i really want 
to showcase those who make things for me this year-

going back to the goatlings sweetheart celebration, 
i recieved my first candygram of my dear goat "allbisquedoll"
the appearance which is the Pink Beauty AD which is one of my top favourite 
designs on the entire site ꒰ྀི เน‘ ´ ˘ ` ू ꒱ྀི

i was quite suprised when i was suddenly tagged by BerryMilk in the 
official goatlings discord- as she is a mod! 
and someone i look up to on the site too- 
to learn she made me this absolutely darling 
piece of allbisquedoll ꒰/เธ…//เธ…//꒱


if you don't have a goatlings account but would like to see 
more of her precious art she does have a tumblr account here ♡

well, it's getting rather late once again 
and i can feel the sleepyness threatening me to slumber- 
so, as always, i hope you visit again ♡
have a goodnight my dears
♡๐’ท๐’ถ๐’ท๐“Ž๐’น๐“ธ๐“๐“๐“ฎ♡




farewell january

05 February 2023

 


hello dolls, dears, & teddy bears, 

so this post was actually supposed to have been posted before 
the end of january in celebration of officially using this blog 
for a month- however that didn't happen,,
so uh, yay for using this blog for an entire month, am 
so happy to be back here writing again
꒰ྀི เธ…́˘เธ…̀ ྀི꒱

the reason for the delay is because, if you watch my instagram 
stories you may have seen my semi-frequent updates that 
i was completely reorganising & deepcleaning my bedroom..
i really desired it to feel a little more like a "home" with 
better seperation between my very small space, 
that way i could have a proper work & play space instead of 
just, a rectangle in the center of the room which was 
incredibly claustraphobic after awhile;; 

i- didn't anticipate this to take pretty much an entire week 
to do, i thought maybe 3 or 4 days most but nope, 
8 am to 10-12 pm each night was cleaning 
꒰ྀི ใ…œใ…ใ…œ ꒱ྀ 
never again am i going to wait that long to do another 
deep cleaning....

i missed drawing & writing soso much.. 
am eager to return to normal schedule now ♡
especially since i hope to open sketch commissions soon..

i did have one nice break day though during this exhausting 
week, remember in the last post i mentioned how 
my grandma would let me look through her & my 
great-grandma's old cards that they've gathered over the years 
so that i may take some for my collection? 
well i got to, and selected a little over 50 cards- 
majority of which were valentine's cards from the 1940s-1950s?
ྀི꒰ใฃ´เผฅ`ฯ‚꒱

however i decided that ill wait to share the valentines in my 
collection until my post closer to that darling day, 
and just share the other greeting cards i also selected เญจเญง


the wedding cake card is my favourite and one i  had 
actually seen online before when researching old cards 
for art references! so to actually have it in person 
now, from a late family member, is especially exciting~

︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶⠀เญจ♡เญง⠀︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶

of course, unfortunately i didn't really have the chance to 
work on any art the past week so this is also from the end 
of january- a wip on the birthday piece for my dear friend ♡

admittedly am still a little concerned when working with reds 
in my paintings;; but it actually turned out a little more like how 
i anticipated for once ꒰ ៸៸ ◞ ˕ ◟ ៸៸ ꒱
i just need to finish the shading within yet, and hopefully itll be nearly 
done by the end of next week.. 


also a little update regarding the Goatlings design i shared, 
it unfortuntaely did not get accepted in any of the selections i 
put it into.. it was admittedly upsetting, but not unexpected..

there is always chances to try again in future selections throughout this 
year where the design fits, or i may just have to wait until next years 
sweetheart celebration/febuary entry oppurnties again!
despite not making it in, i recieved many compliments & support for the design 
by onsight members & those who seen the wips in the goatlings discord server
so i want to be hopeful one day the antique doll collection 
may become official ꒰ྀི ◌´ `◌ ྀི꒱

now its just a matter of waiting for the sweetheart celebration event to begin, 
as its my favourite event and am eager to add the design that did win to 
my collection of goats ♡

 ︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶⠀เญจ♡เญง⠀︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶

finally, more schneekugel der rosen dolle sketches!
this is the third out of four completed
next one will be the final part of the sketch series ꒰ྀི ៸៸៸៸ เธ꒱ྀི

dolle verwelken-rosenheart
(drei)
"im seeing things more clearly than before...."
"im not so afraid anymore...."

"drei", life three is the time when many of  you dears 
would've probably first encoutnered me or at least 
seen some of my reposted works later on
this is when i finally began going by "thebabydollsheart" 
before i added the "e" only recently.. 

well it's getting late and i must prepare for bed, 
see you again soon~
goodnight my dears
♡๐’ท๐’ถ๐’ท๐“Ž๐’น๐“ธ๐“๐“๐“ฎ♡