History of DD-Anne's hand-made dolls

I started to sculpt dolls since 2005. I have none experience on sculpting before that. I even didn't know which materials or tools I can use. Therefore, I tried plaster...

My first attempt on sculpting...Feb. 2005

Later, I tried polymer clay. It didn't work either.
However, soon, I learned there is something called La Doll.

This is My first clay head, WU. April 2005

Fei, the second head.

In May 2005, I started my adventure on sculpting a whole BJD. She was Oruha. I finished her in late August. She was a clay doll and crack easily. I planned to repaire her and to give her rebirth, but at last in the summer of 2008, she died, retruning to be a block of clay.

Then, in Oct. 2005, I started my second adventure.

to be continued...

meaning of fairygarden

Why I call here 'garden'?

My friend and I were interested in flowers when we were in middle school. We bought many seeds from markets, but I got only mimosa at last...- - Because I hadn't a good place for flowers. I lived on 4th floor and there was only a public balcony, which was face to the north...

One day, when we passed by a small garden full with blooming flowers in the nearby college, I said to my friend, I hope I could own a small piece of land like that so that I can plant as many flowers as I can and they will certainly grow well.

It's a beautiful dream and an improssible dream. As I grow up, I know we can't own lands. Lands are 'pubilc'.

Thank God! I finally own a tiny space on Internet. When considering a name for my space, it reminded me the dream of a garden. >w<><

The meaning of names

1.Lii, 離
In chinese, it means 'leave'. Lii is a doll I made for my best friend in college. Lii is the first doll leaves me.

2.Mero, 梅蘿 & 3. Near, 逆
When I was thinging of names for Mero and Near, 'Death Note', one of my favourite comics, ended. Since the first letter of Lii is 'L'(a character in DN) , I decided to name the other two as 'Mero' and 'Near'(names of characters in DN).

4.Oruha, 織葉
She is my first handmade BJD. Oruha is a character in 'Clover' by Clamp. I just love this name, but not the character...

5.Pei Yi, 沛宜
This name is from a real girl called Yang Pei Yi, the girl who was hidden behind the curtain of the 29th Olympic Games opening ceremony. I just want to remember that not only Miao Ke, the girl in red dress on the stage, but also there is a girl called Pei Yi sang the song.

6.Qiiro, 千尋
It's a Japanese name, but I use Chinese Pinyin 'Qi' instead of 'chi' . It's not easy to find a name start with 'Q'...In Chinese, it means 'looking for thousands of times'.^^

7.Riko, 栗子
I combined Chinese'Li Zi' and Japanese 'kuri' to 'Riko'. They mean 'chestnut'. I saw many peddlers sold chestnut when I was thinking of Riko's name...

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9.Tenten, 天天
Tenten is Japanese pronounce, in Chinese, it's 'tiantian', means everyday. I think 'ten' is easy to memorize.

10.Urami, 裏美
It's a name of a character from a game（Gyakuten Saiban 3）. In fact, in Japanese, 'Urami' has another meaning, 'hate'. But I think it just sounds well...

to be continued