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On the road again…various updates

Posted on June 4, 2010 | 3 Comments

I have safely arrived in Georgia. I am feeling a bit shagged, fagged and fashed at the moment. I ensured the cooperation of the little one through a portable dvd player and a big ol’ box of Spongebob coincidentally if after this trip I never have to watch Spongebob again I will die happy.
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I had hoped to take lots of pictures while on the road but due to the nature of this little road trip that didn’t really happen. I didn’t bring that much stuff with me for photography purposes just two pullips and a pinky street. There used to be a shop that sold anime stuff around where the hotel is, I need to go see if they still exist.

Pullip Shan-ria was supposed to arrive in time for my trip, unfortunately my mailman got a bit mixed up on the mail hold days and started it a day early for packages but still delivered me various junk mail. I had intended to take her with me on the trip but since she didn’t I decided to bust out my emergency Papin, Glenda had actually been here for a few weeks, since my last meet with Requiemart but I was kind of waiting for the right moment to open her. Not counting the dal Papin, I now have a dirty dozen members of the rainbow mafia. Glenda is kind of an odd name considering how abstractly named most of the other Papins are named (Clementine, Tangent, Eureka, etc.)  but there has been some talk of an eventual male Papin (Papang?) and if such a being was ever to exist  he would be named Glen. I would have a delicious Ed Wood in-joke that well frankly very few people would get but would be hilarious to me. If you have not seen it already I highly recommend watching the  actual film Ed Wood it has Johnny Depp doing a belly dance in drag….
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I ended up ordering her two wigs because well I was a bit indecisive and couldn’t decide which one I wanted for her. I knew I want her to be somewhat of a punk tomboy so I decided she would need a fur wig but I couldn’t decide between this purple or yellow/orange.

Shan-ria isn’t the only doll that will be waiting for me on my return, one of my grail customs unexpectedly popped up for sale. I love pullips and I love horror movies/scary stuff so as soon as I first seen pictures of this girl Agony I fell head over heels in love. She was customized by the Dutch pullip collector/customizer Yukittie. I never expected to see her for sale so I pounced the second I seen the sales post as I did not want to risk losing her. I know she will not be everyone’s taste but well that is why I love her, I have lots of pretty dolls and very few that creep that bejesus out of people.

Of course, as soon as I am on the road Fairyland has to pull out the big stops and announce my next bjd. Littlefee Ante is one of my favorite bjds, I just adore her completely and well they announced a mini pukipuki sized Ante recently and well I kind of caved on the no more pukipuki rule ^^;
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Dollfie Dream Shoot (Illya, Rin + Yui)

Posted on May 26, 2010 | Leave a comment

I decided to take a few of my dollfie dreams out for a photoshoot yesterday. I took Illya, Suzumiya, Rin and Yui with me although somehow none of the pics of Suzumiya really turned out, I also took my SD Nono as well I had like no pictures of her.
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Rin & Illya
Illya’s a little brat she is apparently trying to make Rin her servant!.
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Oddly this picture reminds me of myself lol, I used to play guitar normally I use a 2/3 scale guitar for myself otherwise if I use a full sized guitar well then I look Illya with a massive guitar ^^;
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Illya is one of my favorite characters in DD form, I can’t help but feel disappointed that she refuses to stand for me though. I ordered KIPS from dollfieworld twice to assist with this problem but it apparently got lost in the mail both times. Perhaps I am not meant to give her KIPS, I should just order it off Volks’ site but somehow I can’t justify $13 in shipping for something so tiny especially since it like costs as much to ship as the cost of the item.
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I like shooting the dollfies a lot but it is very time consuming to pack them up and unpack them as I am super paranoid about damaging them so I try to make their photoshoots somewhat sparing.

Yui
Yui is still a real favorite around here, I wish I liked Mio’s dd face more as I really love her character plus that bass is out of this world it’s like I want her but I am torn about it. She does look a lot better in owner photos than in the promo shots.
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In other Volks news.. Sakura and her transformation set are officially paid for, I was going to order two blank dd heads for a project next month but Volks is now out of stock and I am slightly annoyed >_<

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181/365- Self Portrait

Posted on May 24, 2010 | Leave a comment

These next few entries are going to be in no conceivable order, sorry about that.

So there was a meme going around on flickr where in you were to post a picture of yourself and post ten random facts about yourself. At first I tried to ignore this phenomenon as I was not terribly enthralled with the idea of posting a picture of myself online but eventually I gave in once I found a loophole that is..
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1. I love playing video games (Halo, Oblivion, Arkham Asylum, etc.) and reading comics, plus I essentially live in a toy store what with all the toys everywhere. Sometimes I really feel like I am living the dream of a twelve year old boy X_X

2. My music taste is fairly eclectic. I love Green Day, Eminem, Everclear, My Chemical Romance, System of a Down etc…. but I also listen to everything from classical music to Alice Cooper the only thing I won’t listen to is country music.

3. My favorite colors are green and orange. My current car is orange and nicknamed Pumpkin, I jokingly nicknamed it but now virtually all my friends/family refer to my car as the Pumpkin.

4. I originally had no interest in the reboot of the Batman franchise, I had loved the Batman animated series with a passion when I was younger but I hadn’t really given it much thought since then…Unfortunately being dragged to go see Dark Knight in theaters had the unintended consequence of opening up the floodgates. I ended up going to see Dark Knight in theaters like twelve times (in my defense, I was also heavily pregnant at the time and had taken some time off of work so it wasn’t like I had much else to do at the time). I never really cared for Batman per say but I always loved the villains especially Joker and Harley Quinn.

5.I have never seen any of the Star Wars movies and have no interest in remedying that anytime soon, even though people have attempted to bribe me to do so in the past. I also have no interest in Star Trek, hell Sci-fi stuff in general doesn’t really interest me although I love Futurama and Invader Zim- go figure .

6. I am rather petite, I am only 4’10.

7. I just recently started watching lost like a week and a half ago… I’m about halfway through season 4. The finale was last night, I tried to watch it with my limited frame of reference I am now a bit perplexed.

8. I love BAD horror movies, I like horror films in general but I love the horribly made ones even better for the sheer hilarity. Stuff where people just randomly disappear and no one seems to notice/care and even the dog even has a flashback. The more incoherant the better, bonus points if it is horrendous dub of a film that was already terrible in it’s original language. Zombie Strippers is a real favorite of mine.

9. I don’t watch as much anime as I used to, I just don’t care for a lot of the newer shows. When I do watch anime these days I tend to go for slightly older stuff.

10. I have one child, a daughter nicknamed zilla she is almost two years old now. She is my little ball of sunshine, she is always happy and bubbly but she is also fearless and can be very cunning at times (if you put her in front of the computer the results are shocking!).

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176/365- Littlefee Leah (Natasha)

Posted on May 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

Well, first in semi-important news comcast got off their asses and rewired my building so I have the internet! It’s no longer in random frustrating intervals, it like works all the time now. I don’t think I can properly express how awesome this is because the last almost two months have been filled with intermittant internet fail X_X

I am not sure what it is about the Littlefees/Yo-SD sized bjds that really fascinated me so much, they consistantly are the bjds I enjoy playing with/photographing the most. They just seem to be the perfect size for me. The Littlefees especially for whatever reason seem to love getting in front of the camera. My Littlefee Leah, whom I have named Natasha fullset is my newest Yo-SD sized bjd and well I love her…
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I chose Leah for a couple of reasons.. I really adore Littlefee Ante and they have released a few different sets of her now but while I love her I wanted something different and Leah is similiar to Ante but also different so she gave me a little variety. I also used to be a ballet dancer in my youth so I think that probably attracted me to her as well.
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I was kind of stuck on a name, I was watching Dark Knight so I ended up naming her after the prima ballerina that Bruce Wayne dates briefly before running off with the whole damn ballet troup. It really does seem to fit her though, although now I secretly want the Nutcracker Piki so I can name him Boris X_X
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I love how beautifully Littlefees pose, they are very graceful.
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I know I eventually want more Littlefees but I am kind of torn as to who I would actually want as my next….

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175/365- VolksUSA Lottery Results..

Posted on May 17, 2010 | 3 Comments

About two weeks ago VolksUSA had an entry period for a lottery for Dolls Party 23 limited items. The results were supposed to be out on the 14th, but were delayed a few days causing much angst in the Volks dolls collecting community as well people were getting extremely anxious waiting for the results….especially for some of us who had felt the urge to cull some of their blythes in order to be ready to fund such an expedenture especially considering I had just got Yui in the beginning of the month.
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This afternoon I unexpectedly got an email from VolksUSA, after no email on Friday I started to get a bit worried but since no one else had really posted that “I won a doll” I figured there was still a chance I would get the doll I was after. When Saturday rolled around and still no email I figured, perhaps Volks was not open on the weekend and that I would find out either way on Monday if the anticipation did not kill me in the meantime. There was one further complication, I ordered two things and I ordered them seperately. I was really unsure if I was going to be able to raise the neccesary funds for Sakura (I just paid for DD Yui and car repairs) so I kind of had some help which meant that the doll’s confirmation email wasn’t even going directly to me so I was kind of waiting around to hear from them to see if they got an email ^^;. Turns out I was kind of worried for nothing as funding seems to be coming together without any issue now…This afternoon, I got an email letting me know that I had at least won the outfit set within about two minutes I got a second email. The second email was a forwarded email from Volks letting me know that I had won the doll as well.

Now comes the really, really hard part waiting until August for my stuff to actually arrive X_X So who/what is coming in August?…..
Coming in August 2010..
Sakura Dollfie Dream- While Illya has always been my favorite character from Fate/Stay Night, Sakura has never really been that far behind her. I had at one point been considering making a custom Sakura DD as I had kind of given up hope on Volks making one themselves (Volks if you are listening please make my other dream Fate/Stay Night DD Rider as well kay?pleasethanxbye). I am extremely pleased with Sakura in dollfie form, I was really excited to see some owner pictures of her from people who were actually lucky enough to get her at the dollpa she just looks really lovely. She will join my Illya and my Rin DD, I don’t have a Saber yet but I am thinking eventually I will probably have to get one now ^^; Maybe Volks will release a Saber Lily DD for me ^_-
Coming in August 2010..
Sakura Transformation Set- I have always loved Dark Sakura, I was thrilled when I seen that Volks was releasing a set (clothes/wigs/eyes) so Sakura could be transformed into Dark Sakura. I was kind of torn because I love Sakura and I love Dark Sakura and well two sets of DD twins might be excessive (plus VolksUSA only lets you enter once per doll). Additional considerations while rewigging a DD is easy, changing the eyes out can be somewhat troublesome.. I asked resident doll god Requiemart for advice and she assured me that one of the blank DD heads I have laying around could very well have an identical face up as Sakura, or could be made into an even more badass version of Dark Sakura..

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172/365- Returning travelers

Posted on May 16, 2010 | 2 Comments

I sent a few of my dolls off for a vacation to exotic Texas with a friend, namely Skada . The dolls had a fairly long extended vacation, with Skada.

Now, first let me say the loaning dolls out is not something I normally do it is a privilege for very close friends only. Dolls only get loaned out to people that I know and trust. I feel it necessary to mention this as otherwise I feel I will get a flood of emails from people I don’t know requesting I loan them Leprotto or some such yeah it’s not going to happen.
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Skada had requested my Dita, Johanna come for a visit and then my Kaela, Mackenzie decided she too wanted to visit Texas. Of course once my Mitzi, Meryl found out one of the other dolls was going on vacation she insisted on tagging along and stowed away.

Since the girls returned after a long-ish absence I decided they each needed a little bit of time in front of the camera.
Meryl
Mitzi was actually one of my grail dolls for a long time. It seemed like every time I had the money for her saved up none would be available for sale, then one would pop up for sale after I had already spent my hobby allowance for the month X_X I finally got her a while ago,I love her to death so much so I actually ended up trading for a second Mitzi (who subsequently became my Poison Ivy pullip) around a year later. I named my first Mitzi, Meryl after the Escaflowne character (Mitzi’s stock is a leopard print catsuit).
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Skada gave Meryl a really adorable braided hairstyle during her visit there, I am really rather fond of it so I think I will keep it.

Mackenzie
My Kaela, Mackenzie never got a whole of attention here but after seeing Skada’s adorable pictures of her redressed I was drawn to her more and more. As soon as I got her back I had a whole new appreciation for her and loved her that much more.
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Johanna
and finally my Dita, Johanna..Skada also gave Johanna a cute braided hairstyle which I adore.
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171/365- Jouet Family & some thoughts on pullip..

Posted on May 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

I had a meet with Requiemart at my place a few days ago. It had been a while since out last meet and well it had been quite a while since she had been here. It was nice to see her again and have a chat. We chat about different dolls and upcoming projects she is planning to work on, somehow I always manage to come up with an ideas for more customs….
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She left Joel here on leave until our next meet. Joel is a taeyang version of the doll carnival limited Jouet, I just recently got a mini Jouet dal in the mail and I already had a custom pullip Joyette (also by requiemart) so I decided it was time for some family photos.
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I love doing family shots of dolls like this.
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Almost all dals are bratty and attention-hogs especially when there is a pullip involved.
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I know there has been some talk that has effectively been some talk about me no longer collecting pullip but I am by no means done collecting pullip, I am on somewhat of a break right now. Even saying I am on a break is somewhat of a misnomer as well another member of the rainbow mafia joined the crew yesterday and  another custom doll is now in the works. … well two dolls but one is a doll I have she is just being tweaked a bit (one of my Alas is being matted) but the other one necessitated me getting another doll to have customized. I am also seriously considering buying a custom doll next month, so I guess I am just kind of pausing. I have kind of withdrawn from the pullip community but it’s more out of frustration than anything as all the people I used to know who did collect have moved on with the exception of Requiemart (she is kind of in her separate category though) so I don’t have as much as an urge to engage with the community as I did previously.

I am behind on my collect all the released pullips/dals scheme I currently need three pullips (Sabrina, Shan-ria, Saras) and two dals (Pinocchio and Setti). I do have next month’s pullip Eos preordered, but catching up is still going to be slightly painful. It’s probably going to cost me somewhere between $500-$600 to catch up >_<. I still love the pullips but with so much stuff going on in real life I have had a hard time really focusing on them lately. On a practical level right now, I have been so busy with real life stuff I haven’t had much time to devote to the dolls and they are in chaos right now I am trying to build the doll room of my dreams right now unfortunately I haven’t had the time to really work on it the way I need to. Progress is slow but it is slowly coming together, once it is completed I will debox my NRFB Rei and the new member of the rainbow mafia as a reward to myself. I am hoping to have it all done by next Monday but it depends on if I get any free time between now and then ^^;

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170/365- Fairyland BJD arrivals

Posted on May 12, 2010 | 2 Comments

After a long wait, my two and a half new Fairyland bjds from Denverdoll arrived in the mail today. I ordered during Fairyland’s last event, I was enticed by the event exclusive Minifee scar head. I had eventual plans of ordering the two dolls I did get but I decided to make those plans much more short term so I could get the exclusive.
Package from Denver Doll
What came?
Littlefee Leah Sugar Plum Fullset (with face up on sleeping head)
Pukipuki Cupid Basic
Minifee Scar head and arm event exclusive
and a pukipuki wig, a spare set of hands and a pair of puki boots.
minifee event exclusive
Not exactly the most photogenic as this one is just a disembodied arm and a floating head but I have big plans for this one eventually.
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Originally my plan had been to only have three pukipukis and that they would all be named after the Powerpuff Girls (Bubbles, Blossom & Buttercup). One more can’t hurt? The pukipukis are so tiny they don’t take up much space after all. I named her after Princess, a villain from the same show.
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And finally the little camera whore, my littlefee Leah Natasha. Littlefees in general seem to enjoy being in front of the camera but I really loved shooting Natasha once I started taking pictures of her it was almost impossible to stop ^^;
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Her lavender eyes are so beautifully haunting.
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This is the first time I splurged on getting the face up done on the sleeping head that comes with the full sets. I am glad I did as I really love her sleeping face.
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I hadn’t really thought about numbers in terms of bjds before today, I have been collecting for slightly over a year and now own 14 1/2 (not counting dollfie dreams). I now own 1 SD-13 (Volks:Nana-unnamed), 3 SD (Volks: Custom Mimi-Yuzuki, Nono-Alice, ), 1 1/2 msd (Volks: Tsubaki- Klein & Minifee event head) 5 yo-sd (Volks- Hinaichigo, Lillie & Fairyland: Ante-Marie, Bisou-Honeychild and Leah-Natasha) and 4 tinies (Pukipukis: Piki-Blossom, Lily-Buttercup, Pong-Bubbles and Cupid-Princess). I think the Yo-SD are my favorite size bjd, they are a pure joy to shoot so I decided to round all of mine up today for a group photo.
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163/365- New Arrival K-on Yui Dollfie

Posted on May 5, 2010 | 2 Comments

I received my tenth dollfie dream in the mail yesterday. I decided rather than getting caught up in trying to get all of the K-on merchandise (well with the exception of the nendoroids) especially with the way figure prices have been skyrocketing lately that it would be better in the long run if I just went ahead and got the dollfie dream. When figures are almost $100 a pop now I would rather just hold off on getting another 1/2 a dozen and get the DD instead.
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Yui is my absolute favorite character of K-on, I love how the dollfie version of her turned out. Her face sculpt kind of reminds me of Yoko’s which is so totally not an issue as Yoko is one of my favorite DD. I like Mio’s character too but something just seems lost in translation in her dollfie form although I, not so secretly lust after her bass guitar.
New arrival: Yui
She has such a cute face.
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Back in the day, I used to play guitar which means I have various guitars/guitar stuff such as amps floating around the apartment.
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I <3 Yui

Just a kind of aside but I'm kind against the idea of calling my DDs daughters, I understand the history behind the term but this is my daughter, note the actually being a person not a doll. As much as the dollfies are awesome and I love them, I could never bear to think of them as my daughters.

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162/365- Byebye Blythe! (Blythes for sale)

Posted on May 4, 2010 | 2 Comments

I am kind of fickle about blythes, I have a definite self-imposed limit of 26 and have an ideal of what my perfect family will look like. I periodically look at them together on the shelf and I realize that not all of them are quite fitting in and they are not what I want so they need to be rehomed. The blythe numbers had been swelling a bit recently and I have started to feel the pangs of maybe having too many around, I tried to stave off the feeling by selling Violetina last month but alas more girls are going up on the chopping block.
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It’s a continual cycle, some stay some go. After deciding to go through with the purge, I did decide to buy an Enchanted Petal she has been on my wish list for a long time and I hope she stays on to become a permanent resident here.

Info for those interested-
- I live in the US, prices include priority shipping with delivery confirmation in the US. International contact me for pricing.
- I don’t smoke but I do have a kitty cat so if you are highly allergic please be advised.
- Not interested in trades/holds/layaways sorry!
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Lounging Lovely- Most of her accessories are still attached to the box, like new no customizations – $145

The following dolls will not come with their stock although they will be dressed for their journey as no one wants arrive at their new home bare-ass nude!
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Frosty Frock- I have her a RIT dye because I wanted a green haired blythe I inadvertently dunked her pullstring as well so it has been dyed to match ^^; – $120
Fruit Punch has been sold and Friendly Freckles has been withdrawn from the market.

Please contact me at atashi. saikano (@) gmail.com with any questions, offers etc.

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