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Finally, an update I've been rediscovering my love of dolls this week! I don't know what came over me, but I picked up my BJDs and started playing around with them. At first, I had made what I had thought to be an adamant decision to sell my two MSD sized dolls Harry (Too) and Hilly (AR Ren). My SD sized doll Charlie (Kawainino Anna) is my favorite, so I was just going to focus on her. While I was pregnant, I had re-done both Harry's and Hilly's face-ups. I gave Harry a complete make-over, but since they caused me so much grief and pain the first time, I kept Hilly's lips the same. Both were also blushed properly. Husband took one for the team and sprayed them with Mr. Super Clear for me. :) I was quite satisfied with the results, but everytime I took a photos of them, they just didn't look quite right to me. At this point, I realized that I never truly bonded with Harry. To be truthful, the only Too that ever really knocked my socks off was the original Too as shown on DoD's website. But after seeing someone's really pretty Ren on DoA, I decided to take Hilly out and give her another chance. She was wearing a Poshdolls wig that I didn't really care for, and Tallina's blue eyes that no longer suited her. So I switched her back to my favorite wig and a pair of brown eyes.     A huge improvement! I think the reason this combination is so appealing to me is that she looks so similar to the Ren boy that AR used to have pictured on their website. That was the doll with which I originally fell in love. So for now, I'm going to keep Hilly afterall. Harry, however, I will still sell. I also have various SD and MSD stuff that I will be selling. I hope to post it here first next weekend, before I resort to DoA.
Car Hop! I finally received my copy of Dolly Dolly 5 today. Yes, I'm one of those cheap people who has her HLJ orders shipped SAL. I also received the new Obitsu Slim male body and a W-2 head with black/purple hair. ^^ pp. 4 - 9: First off, I have to get my hands on the Ayumi Uyama book. *drools* That Alice photo layout is too die for. When we went antiquing last weekend, I spotted a nice Bradley doll dressed in riding clothes for $7. I passed on her, thinking that I had no space to collect these rather large dolls. Today I mentioned to my husband that I'm kicking myself for not getting her. He said we could go back to the store next weekend. ^__^ I hope she's still there! p. 15: That does it. I'm getting an F-8 head. *_* p. 27: ADORABLE Licca chan dresses! They remind me of something that biscuitbear would sew. p. 72 - 73: Aw man, another masterful Who's that Girl? custom! And Pucchi outfits to boot. I'm gonna get a Kana one of these days so I can customize her, oh yes I will! p. 128: Mini freakin' gachapon machine. *dies* And a random thought: Why does Dolly Dolly compel me to buy a Betsy McCall doll? As always, flipping through Dolly Dolly sent me into a creative frenzy. So I grabbed one of my Artmark dolls that I bought about a month ago, took my scissors in hand, and started customizing. Here is the end result:   
Okay, so she's not as cute as the girls in Dolly Dolly, but she's got some charm. I would have taken pictures of how I cut her free from her dress, but it was really messy business. Not at all the easy task that was presented in Dolly Dolly 4's tutorial. There was a lot of glue, some of which I couldn't remove. :P Hopefully, some of the other brand dolls will be easier to work with.
Girl with green eyes.
  
I like to refer to this green as Big Trouble in Little China Green. I won't go into the plot of the movie, but suffice to say that the Chinese girl of legend in the movie had pretty green eyes just like this. These are Realistic Glass Paperweight eyes from Mini World. Personally, I think these eyes are awesome. I don't have any high end eyes to compare them to, but at around $6 a pair, they can't be beat. Seriously--don't let the cheap price fool you. The only draw back is that they only come in 7 different colors. :/ But hey, at least it's easy to collect them all. Oh, and the dress was made by Tea Time Club.
Lounging.
 
It was this photo opportunity that prompted me to use the pretty pink ticking pillow cases that I bought an antique fair a couple of weeks ago. Just another way dolls seem to drive my life. ^^ I know that I have mentioned this before, but I can't get over how thoughtful Hilly always looks. It amuses me to no end. :D Harry wants some screen time too, but the kid needs a new wig first. I do have some pics that I took for a photo story, so he may make an appearance sooner rather than later.
More Random Doll Thoughts In a concerted effort to be more participatory in the larger doll community, I tried to find a thread at DoA that I could respond to, but I didn't have any luck. ;_; I've been kicking around the idea of buying another large BJD head. Charlie could share her body or I could buy a Dollfie Dream body like JoAnn did. What's holding me back is not the expense, but the fact that even with only three BJDs, I feel crowded. This Monday, I re-organized my doll stuff in hopes that I could make more room for some books, and well, more dolls. ^^; I managed to get almost all my Takara dolls in a display case, which freed up some room on my customized doll shelf. This exercise didn't do me a whole lot of good because now I have room for maybe 3-5 more 1/6 sized dolls and maybe around 6 new books. This tells me that I should be selling stuff, not accumulating more. Another thought that's been plaguing me is that I'd like to re-do Hilly and Harry's face-ups. I want to do them right this time, with Mr. Super Clear, soft penciled eyebrows, smooth blushing, and all that good stuff. Now that I have Charlie, who is just perfect the way she is, I feel like I can take some risks with H & H. I'm even considering sanding down Hilly's pointy nose which, to this day, I still can't convince myself to like. I wonder if I could wipe them clean, spray their heads with Mr. Super Clear, but all the while leave their lip paint intact. I'm fairly satisfied with their lips and would hate to have to attempt to paint them again (Hilly's in particular). Hey, maybe that's something I could post to DoA!
Poor, poor Mira!
 
She's such a mess. She came to me from Real Missing Link in a state, and never really recovered. When I received her over a year ago, one of her eyelashes had come unattached during shipment and her nose was scuffed. When I tried to re-attach her eyelashes, I managed to rub off some of her lower painted eyelashes. >_< Then one day, I noticed some of her lip paint had chipped off. Now, I see that much of her blushing has scratches. XP Still, I play with her much more than her cousin Lana. Lana is princess perfect--I'm almost afraid to touch her! She just sits in her chair with her violin. Mira is my knock-around girl. She gets to wear all the cute clothes. XD
Random thoughts. Blogger's commenting system really sucks. For example, when someone comments on my blog, it sends me an automated message. This is good. However, the message doesn't indicate to which entry the comment relates, so I have to search around my blog to find it. I wonder if there is anyway to tweak the settings? I must investigate. To my horror, they added that annoying search bar at the top of the page. Actually, once I was able to re-align my layout so that the bar wasn't cutting off the top of Charlie's head, it wasn't so annoying anymore. I guess it's better than some lousy ads. :P I now understand why I hardly ever post to doll groups or communities. I always seem to mess up something and make an ass out of myself. Like at DoA, I responded to someone's post about a DD (Dollfie Dream) thinking that she meant a DoD (Dream of Doll). Dummy am I. Then again, at least I don't make asinine posts about how it's customary for Asian dealers to snub us well-meaning American consumers. XP
Revolutionarygirl Pink!
Last week, RestoreDoll had a awesome $2 sale on hair skiens that were "handled" at the National Barbie convention. Since I'm committed to learning to root properly, I thought that this was a good opportunity to stock up on hair. Well, I've unofficially changed of their Hot Pink hair to Revolutionarygirl Pink, cause I swear, they must have snuck up to Utena Tenjou while she was napping and snipped off her hair! So now I'm kicking around crazy ideas about making a long dreamed of Utena doll. I have the lame Sega CharaSelection version, so I wouldn't have to worry about sewing her a costume. I wonder if I could do it? I think that I could, if only I can figure out how to root a part properly. :P
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