another box opening sequence for cicero!

He's BEAUTIFUL. Almost tempted to leave the gray eyes in...I think I just need to give him back that wonderful sideways glance he came with.

There is a bit of a spot on his nose though...not sure what can be done about that.

私は興奮している♥

Just placed the order for a dollzone mo-b head in normal yellow and a wig from leekeworld! I FINALLY found some owner pics of him (and some with faceups, some without), and the A head really does look as bad as everyone says in action. The B head is fabulous though. Here's the regular picture of it from DDE (I don't want to repost anyone's personal pics!):

Here's a turn around of the wig:

Except it comes in a variety of colors (a pretty impressive selection, really!) so mine's going to be light blonde with pink streaks - using this color chart, the base (black) will be eve cream, and the streak will be pink cocktail♥

I have some beautiful vibrant brown eyes at home that I'll probably use with him, unless they turn out too big and I have to order new ones, but I'm not in a huge rush. AoD's forums reveal them to be somewhat of an untrustworthy selection it seems...I've heard they had really good customer service, but now people seem to be having a lot of problems with them, so I might try and get a body secondhand or wait it out for a DZ body (though I really don't relish paying $400 for a body, good god).

But eeeeeeee just waiting on the paypal invoice and the money to deposit! It shouldn't be a long wait for shipping since DDE is in, well...Denver, and hopefully since the head was a 2010 event item they'll just have it up there in stock somewhere. Hopefully!

ごめん!

Auuugh Alberta I'm sorry...I'm totally getting a DZ Mo event head from DDE. It's 1/3 size! It's Mo! I need it!

...And I love the normal yellow skin, but it's so dark. It looks like it's going to be hard to match it to anything and the DZ body would be almost four hundred dollars.

SIIIIIIGH.

Okay, well.

In other not-so-immature-and-impatient news, I have been looking at other RS/BBB dolls. They have one called Lu, who is a really pretty mermaid-type sculpt, but she's also pretty small...about 15 inches compared to Long's staggering 27. So idk how well they'd fit together, hrmmm.

There's also the previously thought of Dan's head on Ai's body, too. To be honest, I like both!

Not sure if I've given up on Alberta yet. I just don't feel that I'd be able to come up with $400.

Not Quite...

I got a failed delivery slip in the mail yesterday. Got my hopes way up, drove down there before even going home first, and got there six minutes after they closed, ugh. So of course I went there first thing. It was his shoes and iphone. Gahhhh. I'm happy that this probably means all of his clothing and stuff will be here when he arrives (the nice lady who got my MoC stuff sent it out yesterday)...but I was really hoping it was him.

EMS tracking barely ever moves, it turns out. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh impatience.

SHIPPED

Okay so I totally flaked about posting for this...but the wonderful Sun contacted me on Thursday to confirm my address and she said that they'd be shipping Mister Long in two days! But they actually shipped him out on FRIDAY! He's in Shenzhen now...wherever that is.

Also Mint on Card totally fudged up my clothing order and sent it to Minnesota. I know this because someone called me saying they got it, and offered to forward it to me...my phone number and address were in the package! Can you believe it? Of course I contacted MoC about it. And the woman I ordered shoes from on ebay still has not provided any shipping thing, grr.

Impatient waiting times, ahoy...

The Resin's Still Unwritten

It's been awhile since I've posted here, mostly because I am a lazy lump, but also because I had to spend my doll savings due to an emergency situation last month (but luckily everyone is fine now, it was just a situation where I had to pay for meds/a special diet due to a minor throat injury that my bf has since healed up from) and that kind of depressed me (I was like 1/3 of the way there!).

Buuuuut he more than paid me back during tax season (we got early forms), and I ordered my Resinsoul Long a couple of days ago! I had enough to get the wig and eyes as well and only ended up owing my bf $30, lol. The wig has shipped, the eyes will probably take a few weeks since I picked a slow slow shipping option (no hurry since the Long doll will probably take quite some time unfortunately /grumble)... I'm so excited! I can't wait for him to get here. I've sort of purposefully abstained from going to the local meetups because I want him to be the first bjd that I see up close and hold (though I've also been way too busy and broke to make it to one, hah). I haven't thought of a name yet, I figure everything will come to me once he gets here. Unfortunately he probably won't have any fancy clothes for awhile, but I figure I can practice making some and maybe by the time I actually have money for stuff I won't need it (AND THEN I CAN BUY ANOTHER DOLL ahahaha). This is me being optimistic - no, this is me not caring because I'M GOING TO HAVE A DOLL SOON. Or, well...maybe within a month, if I really am being optimistic.

Hurry home mister RS Long!

Dawn

So this is my first time dipping a toe into the waters of the realm of BJDs.

Of course I've heard of them before, and seen them - but it wasn't really good stuff. Like most odd fandoms portrayed online, I heard about the dregs of the community - the elitists and crazies, mostly. And while I'm sure there's a fair share of both (you can't put such a large investment into something without investing a little of yourself, too, and that's likely to make anyone a little nuts, as I've seen evidenced from my own actions when in relations to my more labor-intensive hobbies), upon joining the DoA forums I'm pleased with what I've seen. The people are kind and creative, the debates are actually thought-provoking (surprising for a doll forum, right?) and engaging, and the dolls are, of course, beautiful and obviously well-cared for.

Seeing this community makes me feel a lot less worried about my own newness to the fandom, and it also makes me glad to know that there are so many nice and intelligent people involved. I'm looking forward to meeting more of them, but what I'm most looking forward to is getting my first doll.

DoA is a resin-only forum, but I also find pullips very intriguing. They're cute and affordable, and their exaggerated features and cartoonish proportions are very appealing. The one I'm most interested in is the taeyang nosferatu which is a very pretty doll and comes with all of his clothes and some accessories, as well as eyes and a wig, which is a nice deal for under a hundred bucks.

Unfortunately, the resin dolls are much more expensive for an initial investment, and the ones I'm leaning towards are not fullsets, meaning I'd have to purchase the clothing and wigs separately. Which...honestly sounds like more fun (though it would obviously also be more expensive). I'm considering the Apollo or Weylin (Weylin would get lilac skin so he'd be like a dark elf!), the Feng or Elf Boy (the elf would get the same treatment as Weylin, but I'm not sure about his face, I'd have to look up more pics - Feng is the biggest I've found and I kind of want a huge doll), but the prettiest by far that I've found are the Xue, Gang, Mu, and Ai. Ai also has hooves and horns, which are beautiful and cool. Xue has the prettiest face of any of the resin dolls I've been considering (her nose is what draws me in, I love that kind of facial structure - she reminds me of the women from Japanese woodblock prints), so I'm leaning towards her (though I wanted my first doll to be a male, I'd make an exception for her!).

Here are some pictures of Xue from DDE:


I'm so excited, I can't wait for the twenty-five day waiting period until I can access DoA's marketplace to be up. I know I should be more patient and not so impulsive, but I figure waiting a month will be enough, right? The person who has been guiding me through learning about BJDs says they have a nice community for purchasing secondhand dolls, which I want to look into as well.