Dolly Customizations?

So today I had the tiny chat and a lot of people were suggesting I start fixing up dolls for people. So I thought it might be fun to start a customization business. You send me your doll with a filled out form (I'd supply it) explaining your customization and perhaps a picture if you'd like o draw one, and then I can customize your doll for you! The price would range between what "procedures" would need to be done (Eye swap, wig swap, cleaning, creating an outfit, repainting and even maybe dying if I learn how) and it would be totally custom for you! I'm not sure how it would be set up yet but maybe a tab on this blog or something? You'd have to pay for the supplies, such as a new wig, as well. Anyway tell me what you think about the idea! Thanks!
Ali

Tees and Posters!

So even though I'm still deciding what else to sell in etsy, I finished the new tee designs and posters! That's right, the tees have all new, and improved designs! And they're MUCH better! I also have all new, cheaper and higher quality posters which is exciting! Shirt prices are likely to stay about them same but the tees are better now. Why? NEW AWESOME SHIRTS and NEW AWESOME DESIGNS! Here's the Posters to start off:

Music in Me

Ask Asha

The Ballerina Project

Search + Destroy

The Palace Wall

Peyton

1000 Ships

Group Shot

Dotty GOTYS

And here are the tee logos!

Sunglasses Tee

Circular Tee

Dotty GOTYS

And here is what the tee actually looks like! Muchos better, non?

Well tell me what you think of them :D

Etsy :/

So I'm intending on selling shirts again on etsy as well as posters, but I'd really love to do something that contributes to the doll market. Since we've started to look elsewhere for doll products after AG continues to raise their prices, I want to make something that people can usefully buy as an alternative to AG. There's people who make clothes (I'm horribly slow at seeing) polymer clay jewelry and food (everyone does that) jewelry (I'm also bad at making quality jewelry) and even furniture (my dad can, but I cant) so here's the thing: what can I sell on etsy and make easily? I don't know what to do! I thought of fixing up old dolls and customizing them but that would be expensive and I don't know how many people would pay for a custom doll. I kinda like the idea of clay but everyone does it do I'd hate to be just another clay sculptor. Anybody have any ideas as to what to make? I just can't think of anything but I really want to make something special for etsy again. Something that I'm known for. Perhaps I should really work on my sewing skills... Nonetheless tell me, what would you buy from me if I sold it?
-Ali

Series Decision and Etsy

So as it turns out, The Ballerina Project prevails! This I am happy and sad about. I'm sad only because I have a bit of a better set/costume option for Something Always Happens in Asia, but I'm REALLY happy because I couldn't think of ANY plot for Something Always Happens in Asia, yet I have a trillion ideas for The Ballerina Project! This will be much easier! I'll just have to reuse clothes sometimes... Also I made a video today and I'm trying to do as many as I can over this break including starting the series so I just thought I'd announce it! Likely start it on Monday or maybe sooner! Oh and about Etsy, I got a new order of tees in (THIS TIME THEY'RE LIBERTY JANE PATTERNS AND SEWN BY MONCHATDANSLALUNE SO THEY'RE 1000X BETTER!) And so I'll be able to continue with the custom ones, and in fact, I was kinda wondering if anyone's even still interested in the GOTYS ones, or if I should stick to selling custom ones. I'm also thinking of starting to sell posters again(FOR CHEAPER AND BETTER QUALITY :D) so I'm also wondering how people feel about that. Otherwise, I'm considering making customized dolls from TLC dolls, or maybe painting and re-selling doll beds or something... I dunno, big projects, but tell me what you think about shirts and posters again in the comments below! I'd have new posters like S+D, Ask Asha, The Ballerina Project, a new family one, maybe another group one and perhaps Peyton or Music in Me again! We shall see! You can suggest posters too! :)
PS, I'm thinking of renaming Cécile to Noëlle because I like the name better and I never got attached to the name... Thoughts? They're both French and I much prefer Noëlle, plus I've hardly had her long enough for it to be a big change so I'll see XD
Ali

SOPA and Break

So a lot of websites have been going black and whatnot against this ridiculous SOPA law. For those of you who don't know, it would basically allow one country to control what the internet does, and it's actually pretty fascist (Think Hitler and the current Chinese gouvernement) but that's a bad explanation so here's a good one, and also how to avoid SOPA:
HI, I AM A VIDEO LINK! CLICK ME!
But yeah, a lot of websites are "going dark" in protest to hope that this law isn't passed. Luckily, Obama seems to be against it so hopefully it won't, because despite the fact that my country did not elect the aged, confused, people into congress, we will still be affected, which sucks. Nonetheless, YouTube could be completely gone, like not existing anymore because of it (See video above) meaning we would lose everything because sometimes people use millionaires music in the background of their video to not make a profit, and often publicize the singer. I really don't understand that... When using music, you are only do the artist a favour... Anyway, this post is here to say that for January 18th (Today, Tomorrow, whenever you read this) My channel's "going dark" too. I'm not shutting it down but I'm putting a video on my now black channel with the rest of my videos hidden and everything else simply saying being against SOPA. It's only for a day so stay calm about it :P So yeah, be against SOPA, it screw with us all!
Also I'd like to say I have 10 days of freedom, so I'm making videos and doing awesome stuff! :D OKAY BYE! Also, go black for SOPA too! :D
-Ali

Sewing Intentions

So with the recent raise in American Girl prices (Sigh) I refuse to buy their clothes anymore. 1) I can't afford it and 2) I really don't like anything they come out with anymore. Now back before Christmas my mom was sewing a table skirt for our Christmas village (It's pretty epic BTW) I expressed interest in sewing a Christmas dress with the leftover fabric. Despite taking a sewing class back in grade 5 I have no memory whatsoever of sewing. All I know is that I'd get frustrated when I couldn't thread the machine properly, and give up. So here's the idea. Because I have the rest of January off after the 17th and the only other things I have to do is film and go to dance, I think I'm going to buy the LJC design academy book and learn to sew! I may or may not sell anything because I do have the LJC partnership as a little extra when I won their contest ages ago, (AND NOW I GET TO JUDGE :D) but I at least want to make my own clothes. I have a bit o a... unique... style and American Girl doesn't really fit the bill. LJC does a much better job XD Anyways, I'm going to try out the design academy if my mom is on board (She may have to lend a hand occasionally, like threading the machine...) and we'll go from there! After I actually get the hang of it then I'll consider selling simple things but right now I'm good with making my own XD Although I may have to sell some of my old stuff to make room... WE SHALL SEE! Thanks for reading XD
Ali

iMovie Quick Fix?

So after getting iMovie I quickly realized that iMovie seconds are much longer than WLMM seconds. Now this is the only major downside and I still prefer it over WLMM any day but I wanted to fix it. I tried using framebyframe but can't figure it out whatsoever, and then I thought of something, why not speed up the video as a whole? So I tried it on my intro because it didn't require any sound and it worked! All I did was save the movie like I would to upload it, then re-import it and sped up the entire video at once. But here's the problem: music becomes sped up too. Then I thought, why not slow the music down in the original to the same amount I'll speed it up later on and so when I do speed it up, the music's normal. So I tried it out, and miraculously it works, however it's a little bit of extra work, so if you have any advice to speed up a stop motion on a mac, by all means, let me know! Now to figure out overlays... XD
-Ali

More Organized System

Oh hey guys, vote for real here about which series you want! Click HERE to read a more in depth description of both series!



Oh and PS, click the PETITION tab to sign a petition against AG raising their prices to unreasonable amounts! Let's stand up against them and remind them who they're selling to!

A little perspective

So today I it a message from a girl new to YouTube. One question she asked me was if I could explain to her what a subscription is. Now I don't rally remember it but I have a feeling I didn't know what they where at first either. This kinda hit me, the fact that someone joined YouTube, completely unaware what a subscriber was was really cool. Everyone is so wrapped up in subscribers and addicted to them that subscribers are all they care about. However, in the end, you can be on YouTube without out even knowing what they are, much less caring about them. Subscribers are not the be-all-end-all of YouTube. Then I went to explain the concept to her. All I could come up with was that it was a little thing that gives you a notification when your favourite YouTubers post a video. An you wanna know why? That's all they are. Subscribers don't mean anythings and yet they are so glorified. It's not just AGTube either, even YouTube itself celebrates big number subscribers. I think that we all need to put our priorities into perspective. I've never cared an incredible amount about them, and I've never asked someone to subscribe in my time being here, but they've alway been important to me. We can still celebrate, but let's not put ourselves down because we have less subscribers, focus only on our subscriber count and glorify ourselves a if we have more than others. By definition, subscribers are no big deal.