All I Want for Christmas

 

*Ralph picks Ringo up and gives her a big brother hug*

 

Rainie: "Hey, it's my turn!"

 

 

Mommy: "Ok guys, are you ready to finally take a family photo?"

 

Rainie: "But mom, Ralph was going to be a dragon Pokemon for me to ride on!"

 

Ringo: *giggles*

 

 

Mommy: "Alright, everyone smile..."

 

*Ralph tickles Rainie*

 

Rainie: "Hahahaha! I've been sabotaged!"

 

*Ringo and Ralph giggle*

 

 

Mommy: "Ralph, no tickling this time or we'll be here all night trying to get some photos done."

 

Ralph: "Okay."

 

*Rainie gloms onto Ringo*

 

Rainie: "Ringo's going to stay next to me."

 

 

Mommy: "Let me get just one more shot like this..."

 

*one of the kids sniffles*

 

Mommy: "I hope one of you isn't getting sick."

 

 

Mommy: "Rainie, are you okay?"

 

Rainie: "My eyeballs... are just sweating..."

 

 

Rainie: "...really hard..."

 

 

Rainie: "... and they won't stop."

 

 

Rainie: *starts crying hard* "RINGO I MISSED YOU SO MUCH! I DON'T EVER WANT YOU TO GO AWAY AGAIN!" *cries more*

 

Ringo: "Don't worry big sis, I won't. Mama said that my adoption is all taken care of now so I'm home for good."

 

*Ralph pats Rainie gently on her head*

 

 

Ralph: "I couldn't let something like that happen to my two best girls. Not even a government conspiracy or a pack of wild Jackalopes could keep us apart for long."

 

Rainie: "I haven't even been able to train my troops properly without you!"

 

 

Rainie: "Who else would write the training manuals?"

 

*Ringo giggles*

 

*Ralph smacks his forehead*

 

~~~~~

 

It has taken nearly two years for Ringo to get finished, but her body finally came in today. I knew Rainie had missed her, but I never realized to what extent. I've never seen Rainie cry, partially because she doesn't like dealing with her girly or vulnerable side. It really makes me very happy to finally be able to take pics of these siblings without contemplating how to piece pics together in Photoshop.

 

For those who don't know, Rainie and Ringo are twins. Ringo will have a new wig soon (same color as Rainie's) now that Thanksgiving is out of the way I'll have time to work on it. Poor girl even outgrew her shirt! Her fairy costume should fit just fine, much to Ringo's delight. She has yet to make comment on how huge Ralph has gotten since she last saw him.

 

As I posted in one of the other threads, getting another member of the family finished is the biggest present for the family this Christmas. I have yet to figure out introductions because the family timeline is completely jumbled by this point. I think about half of our DD haven't even had formal introductions, so I wouldn't blame anyone for being confused over mine and Raven's family.

 

Raven had a pretty similar reaction to Rainie once he got to see his little Ringo home at last.

 

~Sister Kyoya

I have an obitsu 40 body coming too (should be here tomorrow or the day after), so finally the 3 little ones can be together

 

It's great to see the family coming together!

 

I also got a male bust (two, to be fair: I ordered both the 55 and 60cm ones) for a DDS, but the neck of your Ralph seems so looooooong

This was such a sweet little reunion story you put together SK It's so touching and you can really feel the emotions that Raine is going through at being able to be with Ringo again! Ralph is so tall now my goodness~ I can't believe these two haven't noticed haha I really love the pictures with the tears because it made Raine's sadness really show. Really nice photo taking Glad that the biggest gift for your DD family this Christmas has finally arrived and early at that

I have an obitsu 40 body coming too (should be here tomorrow or the day after), so finally the 3 little ones can be together

 

Oooh congrats!

 

It's great to see the family coming together!

 

It has been such a long road to get to this point and I originally had a different story in mind, but it wouldn't have made much sense after Ringo would occasionally pop in and out of my pics randomly the last couple of years.

 

I also got a male bust (two, to be fair: I ordered both the 55 and 60cm ones) for a DDS, but the neck of your Ralph seems so looooooong

 

His neck is pretty long but he hasn't shown any inclination to alter it since he is taller than the girl he's got a crush on (although if you ask how he feels about her, he just smirks. ) No spoilers on that story though because its one I'm intending to do sometime this year.

 

This was such a sweet little reunion story you put together SK It's so touching and you can really feel the emotions that Rainie is going through at being able to be with Ringo again!

 

Thank you! Rainie was trying so hard to be a tough little soldier, but when it comes to Ringo, she doesn't maintain her tomboy front too well. It was actually because of Rainie (and to a minor degree Raven) that Ringo was finished as soon as she was. I was intending to push through and get Lucas done before Christmas but Rainie got furious at me. She would very pointedly ignore me and when I would try to talk to her, she would nearly yell at me "Where's my sister?" After a few times of that, I got the point.

 

We did try a few times before to get Ringo's body, but whenever we had the funds, the body was out of stock.

 

Ralph is so tall now my goodness~ I can't believe these two haven't noticed haha

 

Now you can see why I've been starting to call him the magically growing boy! He started out shorter than Rainie & Ringo! HA! But I was working on another photo story where Rainie does notice (and it was a way of showing off his hybrid body) but then Thanksgiving got in the way, and I really didn't want to wait to do Ringo's first real intro. I think he has finally settled on this body (DDIII, he's actually borrowing Miss Lottie's) with an Obitsu bust & torso. There are a few minor imperfection with how the pieces fit together, but I was going to cover that in the other story. Frankly I think the bust & torso work much better on the DDS body, but he decided to use a DD one instead. I need to remember to get a set of the large hands for my boys (Lucas could use them too, but Kiyoteru might be a Smart Doll Boy body.)

 

I really love the fact that Ralph can hold his sisters without any extra support! Nothing is hidden behind him or anything, it is just purely by balance.

 

I really love the pictures with the tears because it made Rainie's sadness really show. Really nice photo taking Glad that the biggest gift for your DD family this Christmas has finally arrived and early at that

 

The first time I took some pics of Tamayuki crying, it nearly broke my heart. But with Rainie, it actually makes her more cute because she hates seeming vulnerable.

 

I've got a bit better lighting setup now but it has been ages since I've taken a set of photos and I feel super rusty. That backdrop is still driving me crazy too, but I have been working on some props I need for a photo story I was intending to do last Christmas... *coughsorryelliecough* So I'm fully intending to getting back into posting photo stories regularly, it's something I've sorely missed. Tama is elated to finally make Christmas cookies for the first time with me in the kitchen, a project I've been promising him for the last three years.

 

I think we were pretty lucky that the overall vote for Christmas this year was just to spend time together as a really big family. I can't believe we have 12 complete kids, with another 4 expected by the end of 2015! Knowing we started in the hobby at a rather inconvenient time for us and were barely able to get Yuriko, Tama, & half of Rainie, to think we would have this many now just blows me away.

 

~Sister Kyoya

They have a great family resemblance! Very cute siblings. Now get that boy some hair!!

 

It's so nice when a group of dolls or a family start coming together.

 

Linda S.

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Thank you.

 

As for Ralph's hair (or lack there of...) I have talked with him many times about growing it out and he either says that he just needs more hats or that if he had hair it would be way too easy for the aliens to find him because hair acts like antenna that are particularly receptive to the alien's radio waves.

 

(By the way, would anyone know where to find some long fake fur in a color similar to Rainie's new hair?)

 

~Sister Kyoya

Unless I missed it in the description, how did you get the tears from Rainie?

Was it photo edited or an actual effect? Of course, it really could have come from her

how did you get the tears from Rainie? Was it photo edited or an actual effect?

 

HAHAHA! This is exactly what my sister asked me today. I can't imagine how long it would have taken to do that in Photoshop if I had tried. Actually it's a pretty low-tech solution. Raven's diabetic so I just put water in an unused syringe and squirted the water on her face. I can actually get some super tiny drops out of it so I could control the size, and therefore make the tears only big enough to slowly roll down her face.

 

It was a much easier solution to when I did a teary-eyed pic of Tama a couple of years ago where I simply stuck my finger in a glass of water and let it drip onto his face. It took a few minutes to get the size tears to stay on his face long enough to take the photos.

 

I've learned that our DD choose their own stories and how they will go, I just help them express themselves in a way that can be remembered. I have never once thought of them as just dolls. In my mind's eye Rainie was crying, much to my own shock (I never thought she would cry), so I just did the photos to reflect her reactions correctly.

 

It makes me happy that these simple pics seem to make so many people happy.

 

~Sister Kyoya

This possibly the sweetest thing I've seen all day ;-; All three of them are adorable!