or How a Doll Family grows from 1 to 50+.
| Mie'aga got into dolls in Oct. of 2006. She had her first doll by Jan. 2007 and brought it with her to Anime LA. I really wasn't interested in the dolls, but because we are friends and cosplay together I went to the doll panel with her to keep her company. Most of the dolls at the panel were okay, nothing caught my eye. They were all pretty dolls. Then there was this doll sitting in a lady's lap nearby. He was just cute and sexy and I liked how he looked, I could appreciate that he was attractive. So I started asking a few questions. The costs of the dolls was crazy, so I wasn't going to get into the hobby. I didn't want to spend what extra money I had on them. My friend really wanted to get me into the hobby (so she wouldn't be alone).
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| We ended up with free tickets to the Lolita Tea (at Anime LA), and while at the Tea, Mie'aga doll-sat a lady's El. Now you read El and think, oh no...doesn't everyone start with an El? Well not in this case. I didn't like El's sculpt. Then Mie'aga started taking pictures of her doll Molly (KK Poppy) and the El. Set them up against fake red roses.
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| I liked the idea of being able to pose and photograph the dolls. Then Mie'aga mentioned how I could make a doll for my favorite Harry Potter Pairing. That I could have a Lucius Doll and then later get a Snape Doll. That's when I decided I HAD to have one. Feb. 11th 2007 I finally admitted to wanting one. I still love the post that Mie'aga responded with a list of dolls for me to look at:
http://mieaga.livejournal.com/136490.html
My response...
Ducan is nice, like the eyes.
Luts is also nice.
Iplehouse Soo Ri is nice.
Dollzone Wing - Nice expression, but frowning to much. Not sure about the ears.
Dollzone Ying - Close to what I want, lips are wrong. (I'm far to picky arn't I).
Volks Heath - -He's lovely, and I love the cocked eyebrow
Dolls Un Rich - Oh he's really pretty. I loke the lips on him, eyes are not bad either.
None of the dolls suggested were right. Then on 2/12/07 at about 8pm I found the doll I wanted as my Lucius. A Delf Moon. (Not an El but still a CP, LOL!). I spent the next few days trying to figure out where the money would come from to pay for him. I cashed in my coin jar for $38 bucks. I made some Doll clothes with ideas of selling them. on 2/17/08 I ordered my first BJD. BUT I didn't want to tell anyone that I had broken down and bought him. I heard it was a long wait and such, but then on 2/21/08 I finally posted that yes my doll had been ordered and was being shipped to me. (blush) I really didn't want to admit that Mie'aga had gotten me into these dolls, and I had ordered him in a rush of 'WANT'. But he was on his way. He arrived 1 week after I ordered him, on 2/24/07. This was a saturday morning, so I was able to take him over to Mie'aga's house where I spent the day. She worked on the face-up to my rather annoying/exacting standards. (See above's notes). Before the sun went down, he was ready to go (and I had clothes for him already). We took some pictures of my Lucius Moon and her newest doll Bastian (Dollshe Bernard).
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So I had my first doll, but Mie'aga was already urging me (as the above photo shows), to get me to get a second doll, so I could pose them together. I wanted my Snape doll for my Lucius. Lucius/Snape all the way!
By 3/15/08 I had located a list of dolls I was considering for Snape. DK Loon was on the list but he's sold out. Mie'aga urges me to get the Loon, I'm still thinking about the SA Saint as well. On 3/17/07 I got to attend my first BJD meetup with my Lucius. I had so much fun, posing him with everyone else. First time I got him to stand on his own as well. He was a hit in his Lucius outfit. Found I'm very 'my doll centric'. Everyone else's dolls are nice, but I LOVE my doll. (This hasn't changed). I also met some really nice people and made new friends. |
-My Favorite picture from the picnic. Lucius, with Henry (CP Chiwoo), and O (Volks Megu)-
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I managed to find someone selling a DK Loon (and she is local to)! We make arrangements to meet and less then a week after finding him, I have him in my arms. 3/24/07. We have another day at Mie'aga's house to get Snape's make-up done. I'm sooo happy, I have my two boys. Ofcourse Nancy (the lady I bought my Loon from) had to bring a tiny to the exchange, at this point the idea of a Tiny to be Lucius's house elf is a great idea. It's all about Lucius after all!
Snape had not even been home for a week before I decided to order my House elf. Now the thing is that I heard from Mie'aga that she was ordering a 80cm doll with plans to mod him into an elf. She had not done any modding before, and while her face-up skills were already good, I didn't want her to mess up on a 80cm and therefore expensive doll. So thus I urged myself to order the tiny that would become a House-elf. She would need ears and nose mod, and while were at it, we could try dying the doll (something Mie'aga and I were both interested in trying). So Bottle was ordered from Featherfall, but it would be awhile until she arrived. |
-Lucius & Snape at last!-
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-Bottle after her ear & nose mod, and dye job-
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| I was making doll clothes, and had considered getting a girl for the family (that was just going to be two dolls). The girl would be Hermione as I'm partial to Hermione/Snape as well as Lucius/Snape. And while looking for Bottle I run across two heads (both DZ) that would work out really well for Hermione. But I didn't want to get another doll yet. Then Mie'aga tells me of a deal Domuya is having. I could get an entire body for like $200. White resin is eaiser to match, so I go with the white skin from Domuya. But Hermione really isn't a white skin doll, but it could be Narcissa Malfoy. So on 4/3/07 I order the Domuya body, and then a DZ Lotus head to become Narcissa Malfoy. The head coming from the same company as my tiny bottle. |
-Narcissa Malfoy-
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| SO at this point I had '4' dolls, two of which being Malfoys, and a third that was a 'house-elf' for the Malfoys. It just made sense that my doll family was to be called 'Malfoy Manor'. I also Cosplay as Lucius so it worked well. I was now waiting for dolls, but daily looking at various doll sites. I wanted my dolls NOW. I decide I also can get myself another doll as a treat for my birthday, IF I can get it from the same company as my tiny and head, which would save on shipping. I contact Featherfall and I'm not sure which mold I want for Hermione, but they have only Yage in stock and I was leaning towards that mold more so Hermione was ordered. I also justified getting a girl doll, because Lucius was sick of being the model for all the doll clothes I was making (Specifically the girl clothes). 5/8/07 my box of Featherfall dolls arrived and my doll family more then doubled in size. |
-Hermione Granger-
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| The main reason I had bought Hermione is that I was also promised that she would arrive in time for the upcoming harry potter convention I was going to. I also bought a custom wig for my precious Lucius. I packed up all my dolls and went to New Orleans with them, where they were a big hit. I didn't imagine how much fun it would be to cosplay and carry around a doll at the same time would be. I was hooked at this point. |
-Lucius Moon and Myself as Lucius at Pheonix Rising-
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| I would return from Pheonix Rising and the morning I get back into work I'm fired. That's a long story in it's self, and I had already knew it was coming. I had just got my dolls and hear I was with the possiability that I would now have to sell them if worst came to worst. Luckily within hours of walking out the door of the old job I had a new job offer. I however had another job interview already scheduled and I wanted to atleast stop in and see what other options I had. Good thing I did as they made me an offer and it was more then the first (and the work environment 200% better then anything I had ever dreamed of). So with the new job, I decided I deserved a reward. I had been drooling over the Domouya Van Normal Skin doll for awhile, he was my DREAM DOLL. Problem was, they only made 1 of him! But there was a White skin Van, but he was only available as a Limited Edition as well. But I deservered my reward from all the stress of the job change and fear of having to sell them off. So on 6/1/07 I ordered my Marvolo, who arrived to the family on 6/13/07. (On the 13th ofcourse my Lord Voldemort would have to arrive). But being that I love the idea of a young sexy dark lord, and he was to pale to be Tom Riddle he goes by the middle name of 'Marvolo', sort of a middle version between Voldemort and Tom Riddle. |
-Marvolo looking sexy-
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Marvolo quickly became the 'head' of the doll family. It's Lucius's manor but Marvolo was in charge. Then he was my dream doll after all. Now while waiting for Marvolo to arrive, which I thought would be a long wait, CP had a special deal. They were offering a special head if you ordered $300 worth of stuff, and I wanted the head. It was so pretty and I do love vampires, and I didn't know how he would fit in my family, but I wanted him. There were a few other heads over at CP that I was looking at getting, so they were bought to get me to the amount I needed for the head. A CP Dreaming Shiwoo and a CP Dreaming Vampire Shiwoo. They were going to part of the black family, (since I had Narcissa), they were going to Andromeda and Bellatrix Black. I would figure out which got the body when they arrived. The CP Nanuri head would become Regulus Black (still related to the Malfoy family and thus in the manor). But he would remain as a floating head for a long time. Ordered 6/11/07 |
-Regulus Black (My gothic/emo boy)-
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| So 3 heads, 1 body on order with CP on 6/11/07, and 1 doll on order with Domouya. As I said Marvolo arrived on 6/13/07. I sold off his outfit which justified the CP dolls some. But really Regulus was a 'MUST HAVE' doll, like Marvolo, Lucius and Snape. So at this point I had a bunch of characters but not my FAVORITE Harry Potter character. While I cosplay as Lucius, and love Lucius/Snape, my favorite character is Luna Lovegood, because I most closely associate myself with her. So I went on search for Luna. I then found the DIM Eunbi, which would be perfect for her. It was a boy's head, but that could be fixed, I just needed to put her on a girl body. The only other problem was that Eunbi was sold out. (Like my Snape was). Now the DIM Persia was close in looks to Eunbi and I found the Junkyspot still had one for sale (Persia was also sold out everywhere). So I contact Junkyspot and ask about getting the Persia only to learn that the Persia they had, had sold out the weekend before. I was crushed, both Persia and Eunbi were sold out, I would never get/find my Luna. I mention to Junkyspot if he happens to have just a head of Persia or maybe Eunbi let me know. Turns out he DOES have a floating head, but not sure what it is. Turns out to be an Eunbi! I'm so happy and purchase her right away (or atleast her head). But I didn't just want a head, I wanted Luna so I ended up buying a Coredilia to put the head onto, sold off the head to DOA member. Turned out to my horror that the Eunbi resin was very yellow compaired to the pink coredillia resin despite being from the same company. The girl I sold the head to, had a body for her pink Coredillia head but that body was very yellow. So I asked about a trade, and that's what we did. On 7/23/07 my Luna would be complete and she would become my spoiled little girl of the family. |
-Luna with her Krumpled horn snorkaze-
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| Now while waiting/during the Luna body/head drama the CP dolls arrived. The Dreaming Shiwoo head took the body, and then refused to be Andromeda Black/Tonks. Instead she became Ginny Weasley. So now I had three girls from the 'good' side of the Harry Potter universe. I couldn't have Bellatrix look like Ginny Weasley so I ended up trading away my CP Dreaming Shiwoo vampire head. I traded the head for another Domouya Van White skin head. I was sick of being asked when/if I was going to shave off Marvolo's nose, so I figured I could make a noseless head and switch them out. It was lucky that Domouya had a deal for getting the limited edition heads by themselves, I had hopped for the Normal Skin Van, but was happy enough to have another White skin Van. I now had my Voldemort, or atleast a head (to switch out with Marvolo's body). But on the same day Dollzone released a new set of boy dolls, and I saw one I wanted in my family. The DZ Wilka, and I wanted his outfit to. He was going to be Barty Crouch Jr. with his soft flaxian yellow hair. So on 7/9/07 my Wilka was ordered. However a problem was thrown into the plan, when the Wilka was not sent with a blonde wig as in the picture but a red wig. I knew I wanted Weasley twins some day and Ginny taught me finding a good red haired wig to be a pain, so I asked for pictures of the wig. I got pictures of him/Wilka IN the wig, and instead being Barty Crouch, he demanded to be Ron Weasley. |
-Ron Weasley-
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So Luna's traded body arrived, and Ron was on order. Everything was good. I could take a break for a little while. BUT then dollmore came out with a limited edition vampire doll. I already mentioned my weakness for vampires didn't I. I have plans at this point to have an Interview with the Vampire family, after I finish/fill out my Harry Potter family. But this beautiful doll was for sale, and limited to only 3 in the world. I had about 3 seconds to decide if I wanted him. I loved him, and he was so pretty, so I ordered him (7/26/07). He would be in my 'vampire' family, but until then, he could be Sanguini the vampire from Slughorn's party in book 6. I knew my Harry Potter World, I could make it work. The funny thing is that when he arrived on 8/7/07, my Marvolo (head of the family) demanded I change out his wig. Marvolo was the only one allowed to be pale/white with long straight black hair. So I put the only available wig I had around on him (Lucius's old silver wig), and Sanguini has not taken it off since. |
-Sanguini the Vampire-
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| I was still waiting for Ron to arrive and then Unidoll released jointed fingers and an idea struck me. Instead of having my Voldemort head sharing Marvolo's body I could get him his own. I remembered the Dark Castle Zombie body, and it would be perfect for him, and with the jointed fingers, he would be a perfect reborn/graveyard scene Voldemort. So the Dark Castle body was ordered/payed for. I would eventually have to drive over and pick up the doll instead of having it shipped to me. That was 10/19/07. |
-Reborn Voldemort-
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Ron arrived, and I had a body ordered for Regulus (a cheap Fantasy body). I could stop for awhile with buying dolls, really I could... but see I now had Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna. Snape, Lucius, Voldemort, Narcissa, Sanguini and a house-elf. I was missing a very important character from the Harry Potter world, and that was Harry Potter himself. So on 9/1/07 I ordered an Elfdoll Red to become Harry. I was sick of being asked 'where is Harry' all the time (like I was bugged about Marvolo's nose). But soon after ordering Harry, CP came out with another rather limited head, another vampire. I luckily located some people to split the order with so on 9/7/07 I ordered a Lu-wen, the body went to one person the human head to another and I got the vampire head. He was going to be Igor Karkorff, or maybe Barty Crouch Jr. I would figure it out later, I just loved the mold. Now, while looking at the Elfdoll site I discovered Sibara, a white skin Ryuung and she would be perfect as Bellatrix (to replace the CP Dreaming Shiwoo vampire head I was originally going to make her). But Sibara was a limited and no one was selling her on DoA, so I didn't think I would ever get her. I wasn't to worried. Then Mie'aga spotted a Nabarae for sale. Nabare is also a limited edition white skin Ryuung (like Sibara), and her make up was very Bellatrix like as well. So I bought the doll 9/17/07, with plans of picking it up in San Francisco while there at Yaoi-con in Oct. While deciding what to do about Bellatrix my CP Lu-wen head arrived, but he refused to be Igor or Barty or anyone, and instead decided he was 'Lestat'. I wasn't planning on starting my vampire just yeat, but there we were.
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-CP Lu-wen as 'Lestat'-
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-Bellatrix Black-
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Then the owner I purchased the Nabrae threw instead of sending it out to me instead of waiting for Yaoi-con, so she arrived on 9/28/07, before some other dolls that had been ordered.
While waiting for Bellatrix my 'holy grail' doll showed up (at a reasonable price) on DOA. A Normal Skin Domouya van. I could have my Voldemort trio, now that I decided to give Voldie a body (vs sharing one). This one (the normal skin one) would be called Tom Riddle and the young version of the trio. But he would have to be a head for awhile, I had been buying to much, and needed to stop. Harry arrived and soon after the body for Regulus. Harry still hasn't gotten much attention, because I just adore my Regulus boy. To my giggles and surprises, Regulus wasn't just my little gothic emo boy, he is also my lolita boy, with his frilly skirt. In time he would totally become Marvolo's Uke. He is one of my lighter dolls and poses great, and so tends to get spoiled like Luna does. He would steal Ron's Wilka shirt and get a locket and go through more wigs then I knew what to do about to find the right one... |
-Regulus Black-
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| So from 10/23/07 when Regulus was complete until 11/19/07 I had no dolls on order or anything. I was on a 'break'. But then Dollzone had the deal where you could get a petdoll if you bought $400 worth of stuff, so DZ Saka was ordered along with a pet bunny for Mie'aga. The money from the bunny would pay for about half of the Saka so justifiable. (Saka would become Neville Longbottom). The LA Volks Dolpa was coming up, and I was going to need money for it. Not for myself but to buy dolls for others. I was going so that I could attend the make-up class and hopefully learn to do my own face-ups. Harry was still without a face-up as I really wanted to do it myself. So I went to the dolpa were I was made to feel like crap because I didn't own any Volks dolls. I had looked at the volks site, but the dolls did not appeal to me. I liked my dolls. (Remember above I mentioned being doll centric). I had already dealt with some Volks Elitism but this was bad. I did however learn how to do face-ups, and while not the best, I did come home and give Harry his face. |
-Harry my second face-up attempt-
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Other then the face-up class, another good thing came out of the volks dolpa...I learned about the SDC Kurt. I don't tend to look at MSD dolls, so didn't know about this little gem. He's a frog boy, and I adore frogs, so I found someone selling him on 11/30/07, and on 12/03/07 he arrived home. I adored him so much and figured out that he would be 'Trevor', Neville's pet frog in human form. This started a vary dangerous trend later on...
Now there was still the deal with Dollzone going on, and I had been considering some other DZ dolls. So I ordered a DZ Yuri girl, with plans on her being Claudia to my Lestat. So she was added to the list of dolls shipping from featherfall. |
-Trevor my first MSD sized doll.-
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So came Christmas and some time to relax and not buy any dolls. I didn't like the CP Juri head and I had enough dolls on order. But then Dollfactory came out with a cute little mouse. It would be perfect for Scabbers! Remember what I said about animals in human form, well this was a human in animal form. My friends want mice as well so we ordered them together. Three little mice. I would eventually paint Scabbers to have his grey color and tattered ear.
My order from Featherfall was almost ready, but DIM came out with a beautiful vampire boy. Oh he would make such a cute Louis for my Lestat and Claudia. AND featherfall had one in stock. (Sigh) So he was added to the order. He would arrive with a ton of dolls on 1/31/08. But to my annoyance he refused to be Louis. Eventually he became Albus, and Lestat was shifted over to Gellert, and Claudia became Ariana. One doll affected two others...
Meanwhile I also found a deal on a DD2 body. I had been wanting a light vynle doll with big boobs. What HP character could she end up being other then Fluer? I still have her barely dressed in the room. |
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He really didn't like being Louis: |
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Well my next doll had to be Draco. But Latidoll wasn't selling the Red line right now. I was going to get a Lati K for my Draco. I had been waiting and waiting...then Dollga came out with a new boy. He had such character in his face, that I had to have him. He would make a cute Draco, but I hated the body. I can't have a boy body without nipples, so I just bought the head. I would worry about the body later. From this I ended up with a lot of body swapping and Draco ended up on Lestat/Grindelwald's body and Gellert was once again a floating head.
Now comes the invasion of the animal army! Or as I call it, the Bunny Bunch! I had been making clothes for various DZ Pet dolls, and I really liked their size and the bunnies were so cute. I also decided I wanted a pet doll to have at work. Small enough to have on the desk as a toy, and not that expensive either. So I got a deal on a Pink Bunny, but it just wasn't right. Then I got another deal on a white bunny and a white fox. I could sell them off again, or give one to my best friend for christmas next year. It only cost $100 for each. But it still wasn't right, I still wanted a Tan bunny like the one I fell in love with (but had sold). So I spent a ton and got the last Tan bunny that Moogie had. I was finally happy, but at this point I now had 3 bunnies and a fox. The fox would move on I told myself, but it was so cute, and after switching it into a girl (and one of the bunnies into a boy), I couldn't part with it. So I ended up with: |
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Binky (pink), Xenopillius (blue), Loppy (tan) and Princess (fox) (with scabbers).
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Okay this was enough! I tell you this was enough! I had 27 dolls at this point. (Sigh)... But then I heard about the Alan Rickman Minimee. Now Alan Rickman is okay, but I'm more a Lucius person then a Snape. However if they ever made a Jason Issac head, I would totally need an Alan Rickman Snape to go with it, so I had to get in on the Alan Rickman Minimee order. But he would stay a floating head or a 'bust' until I got my Jason Issac head.
So nothing else could tempt me. I was going to save up for Dollectable. Then Soom came out with Beryl and I wanted her. Mie'aga was getting her, so I didn't have to, but she was so pretty and I still wanted her for myself. I bought her, and she would have to fit to the HP family. I learned with the attempt at a Vampire Trio that it wouldn't work to have a none HP doll in the family. Remember a beautiful feather wig, I came up with plans to make Gabrielle. Veelas are written as 'sucubus' like creatures already in the HP world, just with some bird features. Who says it can't be a Feathered goat like creature, deffently demoness like. She would also look great posing next to Mie'aga's girl, dark and light together. |
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An Entire Month would go by and I thought I was safe. I thought I could continue to save for Dollectable. Beryl had already eaten money away with her holves. But then I saw the Wong Kitty by Camellia Dynasty. It would be the perfect McGonigal kitty ever! But to get the kitty I had to order a full doll from them. I could resell the doll and keep the kitty. So the kitty was ordered along with an Abracadabra. The Abra would become a 'young' Draco to sit with Lucius and Narcissa, as my current Draco was to mature to be their 'son' as he looked the same age. |
McGonigal Kitty!
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So NOW we save for Dollectable...but I was good at Fanime. I didn't get tempted by the Junkyspot booth, and I had money set asside to spend at Fanime that I didn't spend, and Featherfall has an Elephant screaming my name. Once I figured out an odd way to fit the elephant into my HP family it was a done deal. The Elephant would be 'the elephant man's little brother'. Draco once called Hagrid 'the elephant man', so it makes since that Hagrid's LITTLE brother would be a 'Little Elephant'. Well it was justification enough for me, and so the Elephant was ordered.
It's a good thing I had outfits and conventions to keep me busy until Dollectable, my pocket book could not afford any more. But then there were the Puki Pukis...cute adoreable and one has a mermaid tail! And if I created a group order, there is a bunch of items I can resell to make up for buying the Pukis. So Sia Kapa came into the family. A cute little 'cat fish' arrived on 7/8/08.
Now I also ordered the Hawara Hafa girl so I could steal the clothes, but between her and the Mermaid puki puki, and all the free event stuff, I had so many bodies and face plates that with selling off the extra items and faceplates I could justify keeping another Puki Puki. That would later become a Gnome, or sometimes my 'littlest Death eater'. Twin to Sia, Seca is a Dreaming Loreley. |
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At Dollectable I managed to sell enough clothing, and won 2nd place at the costume contest, I could justify getting a new doll. I also had received the Abracadaba boy and he wasn't working out so I sold him at the convention as well...It was at Dollectable that I saw Bishonen House's new Vampire boy. I love the primal look of the Bishonen House bodys/boys, but they just don't fit into my doll family. I also enjoyed talking to Donn of Bishonen House who is a fellow HP lover. It then hits me, that he's vampire would make the perfect Werewolf, I would have a Fenrir Greyback! I wasn't wanting a Fenrir, but the primal body and the fangs and all, just scream for Fenrir and so I pre-ordered the vampire boy. I also bought a Bobobie body for $40, and another Domuya Van head (my favorite mold) at Dollectable, so more Voldemort plans. |
The littlest Death Eater
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Dollectable Costume Contest Entry. Left is Mie'aga's boy & outfit, Right is my girl, Bellatrix in a Steampunk outfit, with some accesories by my little sister.
With Dollectable over, I felt safe to give Mie'aga a gift I had been working on for awhile. I waited till after Dollectable so they wouldn't feel the need to bring it with them to the convention. I had repainted a MyTwinn horse black for Mie'aga. I had another one that I was repainting white for myself.
My Snapey-boy riding Mie'aga's black horse.
I head to a Harry Potter convention in Chicago where I host a HP and BJD meetup. I also created an LJ group for HP_And_BJDs. It was nice to meet other people with the same crazy HP love combined with dolls. So after the convention I return to the routine of going to Doll meetups. While at the Elfdoll meetup I see their limited edition Elfdoll red vampire. I have such a weakness for vampires, and in person he was so much prettier then on the web. I already had been drooling over him via the web but had told myself I already have an Elfdoll Red, I don't need another. But then he told me he was Yaxley and thus he had to come home with me. |
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Beryl had arrived, but she just wasn't working out. I couldn't get anyone to swap heads with me. The modding on the head did not work. I was really beginning to hate Beryl. But I had the Sard outfit on order/layaway with a friend, so what was I to do. I ended up selling the Beryl, I now had more money to play with/buy more dolls with. There was the Spirit dolls that I had been looking at for awhile, but how to get one when they don't have an English language website? Then Dollzone came out with new 70cm boys and I was doomed. I just adore DZ Sculpts. There was a perfect 70cm Snape (Chen), to go with a 70cm Spirit Thorn as Lucius. So the DZ Chen was ordered. The Spirit doll would be more diffecult. I had to go through a shopping service that greatly inflated their prices for the doll, but he was worth it. Lucius always being a spoiled doll. I was delighted that my Snape arrived just in time to bring him to Yaoi-con. |
Yaxley!  
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Now I had been looking at the Junkyspot exclusive Bobobie Ariel for awhile now. How to get her into my family when she is to big to be a house elf. I saw this darling in person at a doll meetup and I knew I had to have her. I finally decided to make her into 'Mary Sue Potter', and thus I would have a total Fluff doll. I would get her if Junkyspot had a Normal Skin girl available at Yaoi-con. And they did have such, so she was bought.
Lucius2 did not show up in time for Yaoi-con but he was waiting for me when I got home. To my surpise he came with three penises. A doll like that is meant to do doll porn, but to do doll porn properly he would need full body blushing. So I sent him and Snape off to Mie'aga to have such done. He would have clothes eventually.
So I finally had no dolls on order. Well the Bishonen House doll doesn't count, it wasn't for sale yet technically. So I had time to paint up my MyTwinn Horse, all nice and white for my Lucius. My doll family was almost complete. Or atleast as complete as a doll family ever gets. I also painted up my McGonigal kitty at this point as well. Now I could focus on clothing for the dolls. Or so I thought... Then I saw the Soom Euclase and was Soom'ed. He went onto Layaway with plans on becoming female and Nagini. |
Lucius Malfoy in the Nude, Fenrir Greyback & Thanatos (Death)
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I quickly sent Fenrir out again to get flocked and body blushed, and claws and whatever else he needed done. The year changed and I was into 2009 and still not into the hobby for 2 years, and over 40 dolls. I get a bonus at work that is so hard to not spend all on dolls. I do end up paying off my Eucluse/Nagini, and then I found someone selling a Puki Pipi. I've wanted a Pipi, and didn't know who the character would be, and it's so cute, but in user's pictures it's not as cute and will hopefully work as Lucius malfoy, or Little Lucius or Mini Malfoy as I think I'll call him. My Akando arrives as I hunt for a good wig for him, and figure out how to make him a leather jacket.
And for some reason I then decided I needed a second grey boy. How to fit Kalix into my doll family? Well I stretched the situation even further. He would be 'Death' from the tale of the three brothers from Beedle the Bard and Book 7 of HP. He would also make a lovely Enkil for Nagini if I got her turned into Akasha. Now I would need a second Euclase outfit somehow. Atleast my Bishonen House vampire arrived. |
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I also get word that Elfdoll is releasing their 'bunnies' that I've seen in the store display case forever. So I know I have to get one of those. But how do I fit a fourth bunny into my family? Well it will become 'Babbity Rabbity' from the Beedle the Bard books...which now I'll have 2 characters from that book. Things are looking bad for ever stopping this hobby.
You would think owning four Domuya Vans would be enough. Well then I was looking at sites and saw a beautiful boy vampire, another Van! But this time it's an Angel Studio Van. So he would look so pretty next to my Yaxley, Sanguini and Death. I wanted more 'DeathEaters' and so the Van was ordered with the goal of becoming Rebastian LeStrange. Meanwhile... work was abit crazy, and instead of waiting, I wanted a Puki Snape, and when I saw a friend selling one, I could make myself happy and help out a friend at the same time. So a Puki was ordered to become Chibi Snape, or Little Sev. So bringing my Snape count up to four. I so want a Jason Issac Minimee head.
Goga Doll came and went, and I revealed the 'secret' project I had been working on forever, or so it felt. I have been working on a snake/mermaid tail to fit onto a SuperGem Girl body, so I would have my Nagini in the future. People were rather impressed with my simple creation. It's hard to imagine two years into the hobby I would be sculpting my own BJD. |
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Finally, atlast I was slowing down with my doll purchases...Well if you count buying the Domuya Drui and Aria as slowing down... And we can't forget the cute Devil Drayton head that I had to have. I do adore vampires. But before all that, my Gellert was annoyed to be without a body for so long. At Fanime I finally caved and bought him a Bobobie body, which he was very happy to be on. However the resin match was horrific.
In the middle of the drama for the matching body for Gellert, at long last I found a White Skin Dollshe Saint! Cost me a fortune, but eventually I would have my proper Snape. The DZ Chen 'Snape' would be remade into Lupin. Saint was my first choice for Snape years ago, but he is a 70cm doll and wouldn't work with a 60cm CP Moon Lucius. Ofcourse I forgot about the Saint when I picked up my 70cm Spirit doll Lucius, or I told myself I didn't need the Dollshe. Either way, I decided I had to have the Dollshe Saint, and I was so happy when he arrived.
So not to long after that I bought Gellert a new body. I discovered someone selling a cheap B&G body that could match for the head, but I really wanted a Souldoll body. I've wanted a Souldoll forever, and she was selling a Souldoll body as well. So I picked up the Souldoll body for Gellert, returning the Bobobbie body to it's head (for Qurrell later on), and the B&G body found a home with the Devil Drayton head. |
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With the Domuya purchases, the Puki Snape & Lucius, and just finding the tinys weren't doing it for me, I decided to part with a few dolls. So I sold off Seca Kappa, Sia Kappa, and Princess. Waiting on selling Xenophillius and Binky.
So the Drui and Aria arrived, and I got onto the plan to be sure I get the rest of the 'Life Project' dolls from Domuya. I also failed to mention the split I ran, so I could get a body for Nagini. I finally had no dolls on order (except the split I was running). And the only dolls I wanted were the Life Project dolls, and a puki or tiny that would work as a Chibi-Voldemort. Instead my time, money and focus was on my up coming vacation to DisneyWorld where Regulus would get to have fun. I could also focus on making/finishing my Snake/Mermaid tail.
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| The Amber body arrived, and Nagini decided she didn't like it. Parker needed a female super gem body, and with Mie'aga and him heading out of the country I sold them the body, and started another split for the Cass body. Then a new company came out, AngelHeim, and a beautiful Medusa headed boy, called Zion. I don't know what I would do with him, but I wanted him. So ordered him, and later figured out I could make him into Salazar Slytherin. The third Domuya life project doll came out, a sort of Steampunk Eagle boy, but hopefully I'll find a buyer for him, until then he will just become a greek owl/Hermes.. Meanwhile, put in for the one-off Volks Williams, which I'm determined I will win, but ofcourse didn't. But while at the Dollheart Halloween party I'm gifted a doll head. An Elfdoll Normal Skin Ryung, which I figure I could sell off because I already have a white skin Ryung (AKA Nabae, AKA Bellatrix). I have a pretty brown wig in my wig box that I've been wanting somewhere to wear, and so put it onto the head and now I have a floating head of Andromeda Black, and have hit the 50 doll mark. When will the madness end?!
To make matters worse, I put up a WTB thread for a Tan Lion. I had seen one in person at Jenny Nemises's place, and decided I wanted one. Despite that there are only 10 in the world, less then 20 days later one of them was for sale. It was even for sale at the original cost and had the default outfit, wig, everything. So happy! So I bought it, and thus my collection continued to grow with Dean Thomas added.
Salazar Slytherine showed up, and with new eyes and a different wig, he has turned into one sexy House Founder. Which makes me sort of want the other founders some day. (sigh). Then I kept drooling over Domuya's vampire boy Julian, and I'm such a sucker for Domuya and Vampires, and I want the BAT! So Antonin Dolohovi was ordered. More vampire sexy death eater goodness. Oh and then Soom came out with a grey bird girl, and I don't want the bird, but it will be so much easier to use that body for Nagini then to dye a body, so soon Nagini will be complete.
Then for some reason I decided I wanted a Bygg, a cute little grey hooved creature that could be a secondary house-elf for the Manor, a little boy house elf to keep Bottle company (I'm just liking grey resin dolls). But I didn't want the horn, and so I decided to get a Beyla, so I could mod away the horn, and dye it to the proper mottle grey (like Bottle's mottle green).
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