Arrival- Feena Fam Earthlight Dollfie Dream

I got an email on Friday, I didn’t get home until very late due to my various other activities at that point I was beyond exhausted so when I was reading it I didn’t even really notice “Feena should be there soon” at the very end of the email. If I had been more awake when I read the email I would have wondered what these puzzling and mysterious words meant but alas my sleep deprived mind just kind of glossed over it. The doorbell woke me the following morning (I use the term loosely it was just before noon) and much to my surprise the mailman had a package for me, a suspiciously dollfie-sized package.
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Feena Fam Earthlight, is my ninth dollfie dream. I have had Feena’s counterpart, Estel for quite some time now and I had wanted Feena as well but somehow the timing was always off (when I had money none would be listed or there would be a few listed when I didn’t have any money to work with). She actually has the same head mold as Estel but they have different face ups/eyes.  She was one of the dolls I put on my wish list earlier in the year, but I have to say her arrival was a bit of a surprise I was not expecting her to show up out of the blue like this.
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Feena is an utterly gorgeous doll.
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I’m excited that I will now finally have the chance to shoot Estel with her counterpart. I like having balanced dollfie pairs- Kanu/Ryomou, Illya/Rin, Yoko twins and now Feena/Estel which leaves Suzumiya as the last solo dollfie. In theory my next dollfie should be Mikuru so everything maintains balance but I am not sure when I will be able to get another dollfie unless another one falls out of the sky like this one did.
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I am pleased to report she does not have anywhere near the problems standing that my last dollfie dream had, my MDD Illya could barely stand. I bought Illya the KIPS system from dollfieworld but it never arrived :(.

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133/365- Easter Honey Bunnies

I decided to take a picture of my Melancholy of Suzumiya bunny girls for yesterday’s picture of the day. I also decided to not include the loli-bunny aka. Kyon’s sister she just seemed unnecessary for this particular picture.
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I hope everyone out there had a good Easter ❤

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132/365- Bleach custom mini pullip Nelliel

I mentioned previously that Requiemart was going to have some custom pullips on display/for sale at the Animadness booth this year at Anime Boston. The customs were all from the anime/manga Bleach, I am not a super huge fan of Bleach (the filler! it’s maddening) but I was quite taken by Nelliel and I was even more madly in love with little Nel. I always thought Nelliel when in her child form was very adorable.  Surprisingly, the little Nel custom made it through a whole day in the dealer room without getting sold and then somehow she ended up here. I had originally joked with Requeimart a bit that I did really love her but that I was going to be fair and let others have a chance to get her as well as I have a lot of Requiemart customs (^^;) but since she didn’t sell she was fair game.
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She is my first custom mini pullip, she is an old style mini pullip but I don’t know which one she was originally (I guess it doesn’t really matter?). She has a custom wig, an all new face up and custom clothes. I really love her little Espada skull helmet.

I have a sudden and maddening urge to photograph her with an actual bottle of bleach.

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131/365- Anime Boston Con Report.. kind of

So I had kind of been told earlier this year that I could not attend Anime Boston, I was not exactly happy about this decision but I did abide by it. Oh, how I wish I could have attended…
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The Tshirt design wasn’t as cool as previous year’s.
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One thing, I didn’t miss were the crowds. I am not so keen on large groups of people. There is only one thing I hate more than crowds and that is to be touched by people I don’t know- two years ago when I attended I was very heavily pregnant with the zilla and everyone thought that it was the absolute height of fun to touch my pregnant belly umm yeah. It was my own private hell.
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All I can think of when I think of conventions is how hard it is to move through a sea of people.
Yoko cosplay
While there are some downright adorable cosplayers like Yoko here, most of the people I have seen cosplay weren’t that impressive.
Yoko cosplay
Some people do go that extra mile and put a lot of work into their outfits but most of the ones I had seen in the past were poorly tailored/put together. This is probably one of the best cosplays I have seen in person anyway.
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This one wasn’t a bad Yoko, I just didn’t like her as much as the other who just seemed to embody the character better.
Harley Quinn and Joker
Some people don’t even cosplay as anime characters, that always kind of confused me why a person would cosplay as a video game or comic character at an anime convention. Of course I am not one to ever  complain about good Harley Quinn and Joker cosplayers especially when they come hand delivered.
Animadness' booth
One of the things I missed was combing the dealer’s room for cool and rare finds.
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Toyslogic's booth
I also missed getting a chance to see what unique ways fans found ways of expressing their love for anime.
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I especially like his Yoko tattoo.
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I love it when I find something unique that I haven’t seen done before or at least to this extreme.

Personal shoppers, have many uses whether they uses be cosplayer wrangeler or actual shopping. The deal was that I simply not attend Anime Boston, so I missed out on the dealer’s room, the cosplayers and the panels maybe I will be able to attend next year *sigh*

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131/365-Lucky Star x Macross Frontier

I am skipping a few days again in an effort to get caught a little faster ^^; It occurred to me that I finally had my full Lucky Star x Macross Frontier set and that I still hadn’t photographed them all. Since it had finally stopped raining (yay flooding!) I decided to take them out back for some photos.
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Unlike my usual modus operandi, I was extremely patient when it came to picking these up. I got them all from Yahoo Japan over the last few months, I tried to wait for the best possible deals on each girl. It took a lot of patience and endurance but I don’t regret it as I love them.
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I’ve had Tsukasa the longest of the set, I picked her up a few months back. I paid about 2500 yen for her which really wasn’t a bad price.
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I actually bought Miyuki and Konata a day apart from each other, I had also tried to get Kagami but I ended up losing her auction. I was kind of upset at the time because Kagami is my favorite Lucky Star character and Klan Klang is my favorite Macross Frontier character. Miyuki ended up costing me 3500 yen meaning she was one of the more costly ones but she is adorable and pretty nicely made for a prize figure. I love her little glasses.
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Konata was very cheap, I only paid 1500 yen for her. I was not initially as excited about her as the others but once I seen her in person I actually really loved her. Maybe it is just the simplicity of it or the effortless pose.
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Finally my favorite who coincidentally was also the last one I was able to get, like a cruel twist of fate the one I wanted the most also took the patience to get. Kagami/Klan is so adorable, I am a sucker for either character combine the two and watchout >_< I did eventually find her for 3,000 yen. Leaving my total Lucky Star X Macross Frontier costs at about 10,500 before conversion/shopping fees/shipping so out the door costs probably around $150 (I'm probably overestimating but it's complex as I purchased most of these with other figures at the same time so split fees/shipping are a pain to calculate) for the complete set not a bad deal, just took a lot of patience.

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128/365- Birthday Stuffs

My birthdays generally speaking are a bit of a mixed bag, sometimes they are really good but most of the time time they are really bad. Yesterday, was my 26th birthday and it was well let’s just say my birthday curse lives.  Harley Quinn was a gift to myself as already stated. Pullip Street and the Sailor Moon dvds were kind of gifts to myself, I joke that Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon dvds were a gift from USPS as it had shipped over two months ago and I had figured that it had actually been swallowed up by the post. The Sailor Moon dvds are the Japanese Region 2 dvd release and it is the 1st half of the 1st season (so the first episode 24 episodes of the series), it doesn’t have subtitles but well it’s Sailor Moon I have seen it so many times before it isn’t like I need the subtitles I just needed something better than the wretched video quality Pioneer release of the 1st season (seriously my fansub tapes had better picture quality than that train wreck).
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Much to my surprise, I also received a Volks Super Dollfie Nono for my birthday. She was very much unexpected but she had been very high on my wish list for a while now. I am really in love with her, I can’t wait to take her outside for pictures soon, there were actually flooding conditions here today.
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I have decided to name her Alice, this isn’t her permanent wig or even her stock wig (I had trouble getting it to stay on her) I need to go wig shopping for her soon. I also need to get her some clothes.

Although I did not get as much stuff as I did last year, as pictured below. I am very much happy with what I did get.
Happy Birthday to me

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127/365- Custom Pullip Harley Quinn

My birthday present to myself this year was the custom pullip Harley Quinn. Harley Quinn was customized by Requiemart for me. Harley Quinn was always one of my favorite DC characters, second only to the Joker. Eventually I will be getting a custom Joker as well but for now I am very pleased with my lovely Harley Quinn pullip and one of my two Mitzi pullips’ cosplaying Poison Ivy.
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Requiemart definitely managed to capture the true essence of Harley Quinn and her wicked grin.
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The outfit is a mix of the barbie Harley Quinn’s, some of the trim from my Tonner Harley Quinn and the hood was handmade by Requiemart.
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126/365 Rin DD Evangelion Cosplay

I bought the Evangelion school uniform for my dollfies recently. I don’t own any of the Evangelion dollfies but I eventually intend to get at the very least get Asuka dollfie dream. I found a really good deal on the uniform set so my intention was to stock it away for my eventual Asuka dollfie but I had the idea to try the outfit on one of my existing dollfies.. next thing I know my Rin DD is doing an Asuka cosplay.
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I decided to take my Asuka pullip along as well and snap a few pictures of the two of them together.
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I borrowed the wig from my 2nd Asuka pullip for Rin.
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I think Rin makes a really excellent Asuka.
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125/365- New arrivals

I finally got some long awaited packages in the mail.  Where to begin? I guess I will go chronologically a BBTS package arrived last week with a K-on nendorid. My eventual plan is to have a complete set of K-on nendoroids and I have been slowly picking them up recently, Tainaka Ritsu turned out to be a tricky little bugger to find. The rest all came together from Yahoo Japan.. My final Lucky Star x Macross Frontier arrived, she was my favorite of the entire set so I was very eagerly anticipating her arrival.  My lucky find which I am hoping will kick start my obsession with Pinky Street is the blue variant King of Fighters Mai Figure, she was probably the hardest one to find of the pinkies I still need to complete my collection. The blue variant was fairly limited and I have been looking for her off and on for a few years now. I ended up caving and getting an Evangelion dollfie in case I ever you know, get an Evangelion dollfie.
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124/365- NRFB Dolls

I have a few dolls that I have decided to keep NRFB either permanently or just temporarily. Normally I am not really a NRFB collector, the grand majority of my doll collection is deboxed but these have all managed to stay within their boxy prisions for various reasons. Detective Shinku has been NRFB the longest, I have had her for about two years now. The 1st version of Shinku was my first pullip, having a second out of the box even though it is not the same version would bother me so I made the decision to keep her in the box. Hello Kitty may or may not come out of the box eventually, I bought her to replace Emma who had been customized to become the pullip version of the dal Jouet remembering what a nightmare her wig had been I decided to keep her in the box temporarily and well it’s just been a while (I picked up a 3rd Hello Kitty nude/bald so I have one to play with).  I got Rei back in January, I am keeping her NRFB as a bribe to myself once all the other dolls are put away on their shelves then and only then will I debox her my dolls are in like a perpetual state of chaos and though progress has been made I have still not fulfilled the criteria. Street and Lala were unexpected acquisitions, I decided to keep them in the box for a little while but have yet to debox them. Nahh-ato is not mine, she is just staying NRFB with the rest of my collection until she starts her world travels.
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Since I have taken this picture I have deboxed the two minis, so at least some progress was made.

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