Rosette Interview by Musume

Anyone who has been following me on Flickr etc for a little while would know that Soom's Rosette lines are one of my favourites. I currently only have 2 Rosette dolls, but there was a stage that I had 10! I must say that waking up to see that Musume had interviewed the new Director of the line was a fantastic way to start the day!
Check out Musume's interview with the new Director of Rosette, Emma here. (and the rest of her blog while you're at it)

Here's a quickie instapic of my current girl, Minnie, a Summer Term Camellia. I also have her open eyed head in a drawer, but it's currently blank.

This also reminds me that I've had a Summer Term Marguerite up for sale for ages but I haven't been bumping the sales thread. I kind of think I want to have another go at keeping her, but to do that I think I might want to get her repainted. Her current face up is amazing, but not quite right for my collection. Thoughts?
Here she is (yet another instapic >_<)

Fairyland Event

It's that time of year again! Fairyland event time!
Ok, to be fair, it's been a long time since I have been excited for a Fairyland Event so I'm not sure the above exclamation points are really called for but meh.
I do like that Fairyland is consistent with their events. One always knows to expect them at least twice a year, and always the option of a gift item with money spent.
This time around we have:

PKF Faceplate

I find all Pukifees pretty darn freaky and this one is no exception. 

LTF Faceplate

It's just begging to have some puppet mouth lines drawn on it! I think I need it.

 MNF Faceplate

Great for the Chloe/Celine lovers out there. I guess.

 Moe Line One-Piece Torso

So cool!! It will not be a good seller, but I think it is rad. People who buy from FL buy from FL because of the superior posing, which this will cut down on. There is an option to add it to the girl bodies...is that a peen bump though? There doesn't seem to be a proper 'girl' version that I have seen yet.

And can I just throw out there a wow? I might need to make some space in the ol' collection for a basic version of this beauty. 

 New Fullset MNF

Um, hello there. Are you perfect? I think maybe you might be. 

I painted a thing

I did a face up! zomg, I hear you say! Not elsii, the face up snob! Yeah well I did it. It's not fabulous but I was having internet issues at the time and I was bored.

A beautiful head has been sitting in a drawer for a good six months on the promise of her own body and I finally decided to cast the body hogging Kujo head to the drawer and make with the MSC.

I've never found faceupping fun before. every other time I have done it was always as a temporary job just to see how the doll would look without blankface, but I gotta say, I actually enjoyed painting this beauty. And, eyebrows aside, I am rather happy with the result too. Score 1 for lack of internet.

And now I bombard you with pictures! No progress pics, sorry, I just assumed I would fail and wouldn't need any xD

Happy little head.
Never mind the brows, that's what wigs with bangs are for.

With her SD10 sister

My boyfriend could not believe they were the same sculpt.
I love that about this hobby.

BJD Purge

Elsii's gone crazy!

I've had a few messages from you lovely people out there asking me if everything is ok and why am I selling all my dolls. Well, my darlings, I am ok and I'm not selling all of them! I am, however, trying to halve my collection with a view to halve it again in the future. I have too many. Just too many.
If I bought a dress I liked, I had to buy a new doll to fill it. This is insane behaviour. There are too may cute dresses in the world!

Want a list of who is staying? Here ya go:
Volks SD16 Kira
Volks SD10 F-01
Volks SD13 Nana (yes, I am aware this is the same sculpt as above)
Volks Yo-SD Kira
Leekeworld Soda hybrid


Almost no one is safe >.> I'm not counting Alice here you'll notice cos she is a fixture. She has a shelf in the office with her teapot, knife and the art book so she doesn't count. Right? Also I'm not including the DDs in this list because we're a happy family right now.

Wait, who's going? Well, the current plan is:
Rosette Mia sold on layaway
Rosette Sakura sold
Rosette Delilah spoken for
Rosette Marguerite ST
Rosette Armeria sold
Rosette Fir x2 (1 ST, 1 reg) sold
Rosette Vela sold
Leekeworld Mint
Leekeworld Mingky
Yo-SD Kanon
Super Gem Beryl sold
Volks Kujo sold on layaway
Volks Victorique traded
Fairyland Minifee Marica


And I am on the fence about:
Volks Yo-SD Nono
Leekeworld Irene hybrid
Leekeworld Mong hybrid
Soom Teenie Gem Appini hybrid
Resinsoul Ju hybrid
Super Gem Vesuvia
KnK Amparita02
SQ Lab Tsubaki
Rosette Camellia x2 (1 reg head only, 1 ST full doll)

Many of these are not listed on DoA yet cos I am slow but I'll get there in the coming days/weeks/months.

I will update here as things progress.

Woo! I'm finally upgrading my Resinsoul Ju's body :D

She's getting a MNF body. It's a B-line but the price and level of yellowing was right so yay. Weirdest thing, her head has always been more yellow than her body even though I bought her as a full doll from a dealer. I'm guessing they had them as separate parts and just whacked them together when they got the order though *shrug*. Looking forward to matchy matchy!

Now my issue is what to do with a 3 year old WS Resinsoul body. Would anyone even buy it? What the hell sort of price would I even put on it? Shipping would probably cost more than the body lol.

Ken no Kokoro Amparita02

Here's an exciting thing: I found someone in Australia selling a Ken no Kokoro Amparita02 head.
This lovely lady has been on the ol' wishlist for quite some time but I never really pursued it because of reasons. But there she was! And mine she will be.
For anyone who is not sure who KnK is, she is a Spanish sculptor and her blog can be found HERE.

I am hoping that Amparita02, who is cast by Dollshe and in this particular case is their "oriental skin", will match Fairyland resin closely enough to not be horrible because FL have a most excellent price on Feeple60 bodies right now. Seriously, less than the price of a Minifee body! Coolness! Plus I just sold my Teenie Gem Hawa so I can just about almost afford that. Happy days.

Now to think about faceups and such... I'd really like for Amparita to be a little bit sexy cos since I sold Ava I've been missing someone like that in my crew. Sure, she might not be quite the level of sex kitten that Ava was, but I don't mean for her to be a replacement for Ava, merely someone who can lounge about in her undies as well as Ava did. Hmm... maybe I'll get her a Humming Dolly body in that case. Bah! Decisions! Derailment!