You know... you drift away from LJ for a few months and when you get back... there is a mountain of STUFF that you have not read, you are behind on everyone's lives and you have no idea where to start or what to say ( Read more... )

For those of you who are even vaguely interested, I have been planning to go to Dolpa 21 in Tokyo during Golden Week. Dolpa is the Volks Doll Party - basically a doll convention. It only allows Volks dolls though - so Miranda won't be able to join me there (*sniff sniff*), but it is something i DO want to experience before I leave Japan.

Anyway, ( Read more... )

Well, I guess I had to get around to this sometime.  Please forgive my lack of eloquence compared to the other post on this topic.

rethwellan left yesterday evening for home.  And, as per usual, it feels like I have lost a limb and have been stabbed through the heart.  But this time it also feels as though my whole world just got pulled out from under my feet ( Read more... )

Copied from musicboxgirl .

Ask me seven questions. Not just any seven questions though. No, to keep it interesting, use the seven questions as per below - just copy and paste the following, replace the blanks with something you want to know/ask (e.g. 3. Donkeys or sandcastles and why?), anything you want, personal, silly, surreal or deep, comment away and I'll ( Read more... )

Happy thing for the New Year! Last one of the meme.

7. Went looking for a Japanese shrine to see what the New Year celebrations are like. The "big" one I know about did not have anything happening. But we eventually found Uozu Jinja (with the help of a friendly Okinawan and her buddies). The crowds were not too bad, we got all the way to the ( Read more... )

Apologies for the multitude of spam in your friends pages, but as I said, I wanted people to be able to skip to just the photos that they want to see.  Gomen.

Anyway, if you had a look at Miranda in the last couple of posts, you would have seen that her face was still blank.  Well... it is no longer blank!  I used the stuff I had gotten in Nagoya ( Read more... )

It's late, and I don't feel like typing much, but gosh darn it!  I am going to get these pictures up!  Come hell or high water!

Day two involved going to I-Doll and lots of browsing and oggling at doll stalls, deciding the "display room" was too crowded and going outside to pose dolls there.  Afterwards, we went back to triplepunch 's apartment for some tea ( Read more... )

As you have no doubt been able to see from the photos, Miranda has been missing a certain something for quite a while now.  Namely, a faceup!  For those not in the know, a face-up refers to the "make up" on a doll, what makes them look like more than an eyebrowless albino.  Being in Japanese inaka puts me at a slight disadvantage when it comes to ( Read more... )

OK, so I have been away for a while, so here is a warning.  There are going to be a few posts.  Why?  Because there are a LOT of pictures and I want to split it up for people with slower connections so that they do not have to look at stuff they have no interest in.  That being said, almost all the posts are BJD related.  Sorry everyone else!

Anyway ( Read more... )

I have to be the first to admit that this post is a wee bit green.  ;)  You will see why shortly.

I did overreact the other day - the eyes were merely in outgoing customs in the U.S. (kinda weird, but OK) and they finally arrived tonight!  So I of course had to try the pairs of eyes in Miranda's head and I think i have settled on a pair, which was ( Read more... )