It's 2025...

Happy 2025 dolly-friends! Long time, no see. 

I have been very quiet since my last post in October 2024. You might already know I've been busy with both my job and my German classes. But apart from that, I also haven't been very motivated to work on anything doll related. I haven't done a Christmas-related post for the first time since 2020. I had my German test right before Christmas, which took a lot of my time then. But even when they were done, I just didn't have the energy to come up with any photoshoot ideas. Well, hopefully this year I will find the right motivation for it when the time comes. 

Back in November I started working on a new wall for my dioramas, but it didn't work out as I planned. I tried twice, and both times I faced issues. I thought of trying a new material for this, but I searched high and low in my area and couldn't find it. I was on holiday that week and didn't want to order online for it to arrive at a later time, and then be sitting there in my house until I find the time to get around it. That really threw me off a little bit. I still want to give it another try, with the materials that I have; and then try to do it with a different material, to see which one works better. It will be fun to experiment with different materials than the ones I usually do.

For Christmas, I got a camera support that allows you to film in an overhead frame, which is going to be great to film YouTube videos. I have already filmed and uploaded the first one and started the second one. For now I want to start with miniature artwork until I get better at the whole filming thing and then move on to larger projects.

I want to give some love to my YouTube channel this year. Like I always say, I don't want it to take away from the blog, but rather add to it. I feel like craft tutorials are going to be easier to follow in a video format rather than in a blog post. Craft posts do actually take a lot of work and time to make, and I have to constantly remember to try to get photos while I'm working, which is not always easy.

I don't know when my next post is going to be, as there's a lot going on for me right now. But I will try to drop by as soon as possible, even if it's just with a quick life update. I do miss the blog, but right now I don't have the energy to give it the love that it deserves.

I hope you've all had an amazing holiday season and I wish you the greatest for 2025.

Big hugs


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