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Season’s Greetings

Happy holidays everyone!
I hope everyone is having a warm happy holiday season. I’m almost done with Christmas shopping. I keep getting things for my living dollies even though I tell myself only a few things this year. Oh well, I’ll just have to mark some from the Grandma’s and Grandpa’s since they’ve sent money. Then it won’t seem so out of hand.

On my Christmas wishlist I pointed hubby to the latidoll.com site. All the lati pictures on flickr has finally beaten me down to where I can’t resist anymore! I have my eye on the basic yellow Lea. She has the qualities of both my living dollies. The pouty lips on one. The dark hair on the other. The big eyes on both. The porcelain like skin. Me and my husband made the observation how they both have qualities of a lot of popular ABJD’s. So that’s probably part of the draw. And yes, I know I keep mentioning their likeness to every doll I decide to collect. I prefer the kawaii innocent type dolls over the more sultry ones. Like the Fashion Royalty line just doesn’t do it for me. Although the Misaki’s have the kawaii factor so I was drawn to them for a time. But regular line, the dolls look too b*tchy and snobby. They’re high fashion but I guess that’s not so much what draws me to certain dolls. The clothes do matter but the doll has to have certain qualities for me to like them. Momokos, Blythes, many abjd’s and now the tiny dolls like Lati have the wide-eyed sweet qualities I like.

Here’s my latest re-root that I put up on my sale page. I drew upon 04anlw for inspiration so I could make a sort of poorman’s 04anlw. Not quite a copy but she’s very similar. Formally a Good Night Cherry, she’s been re-root and had minor repainting done.
FS- custom good night cherry

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Last Doll of the Year

Last doll of the year
Follow My Back Momoko arrived yesterday and she’s very pretty and unique. She has the cutest little beauty mark below her eye. In the promo pics people complained saying it looked like a spec of paint. But when you see it in person, it looks like a freckle and fits well adding that extra touch.

She’s the last doll I expect to get this year and a good one to end my ever growing collection for the year. I’m going to have to consider letting some other dolls go if I’m really going to continue collecting different dolls. Most of my Sekiguchi Momokos are in the wait pile for a new look and then probably offered for sale. I’m probably not going to keep adding Blythes with a few exceptions here and there and only after I let some others go. I just don’t have the space or attention span to have hundreds of dolls. I only have 2 shelves that I can devote to my dolls. So all this is going on my New Years resolutions. Maybe I’ll have to watch some Clean Sweep episodes to inspire me not to hoard.

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Compare and Contrast

2nd for Jackie

The weather outside is… RAINY. So I’ve been getting some re-roots done. Always seems to be some that I need to do. Here’s one of them for a customer. She was previously Baby Blue Labyrinth. I got this curly hair from dollyhair.com and it sure saves me time in curling hair. She’s wearing last year’s Odd Girl Out dress.

Here’s another set of my favorite doll, (well blythe is also a favorite,) and it’s sort of a technical comparison of a real BT06 next to my fake BT06. The red head is the fake. Her hair is saran and from what I understand, is a little brighter than the original. I heard that the real one has the same color hair as Victorian Nature red which I have. I’ll have to take side by side pictures of the red heads. The black haired girl who’s the real deal has different kind of hair. I’ve heard it’s called toyokalon and it’s bouncier and springier than saran. Saran has a more natural way that it falls whereas toyokalon stays stick straight. I suppose if I got really obsessed with getting the hair just right I could get some toyokalon but I love Ruby the way she is and the thought of starting over does not thrill me.
Technical comparo