Miki's arrival!

Today I happened to have a day off school. Good thing that I also woke up early, the doorbell rang around 8AM and tadaaaaa I got a box!
My Mandarake "I'm only testing" order arrived.
Apparently it worked!

Tadaaa!
Haruka, bring the weapons!

H: Haiii! here comes!

H: Please be careful!

H:We could start studying Japanese with these newspapers.
M: Maybe, maybe not...

H: No pictures, this might be dangerous!
Looks like someone is suffocating there...

H: Hellooo! No worries, we will get you out of there soon!

?: Ummm.... Hi!

?: What a trip! Has anyone seen my shoes?

H: These were in the box with some other packages!

?: Yay, my shoes!
H: What should we do with the other stuff...
?: I don't need them all right now. Just hair bows!

?: Thadaaaam, hair bow magic!

?: Miki is ready to explore!
H: Yay, welcome to Finland Miki!

H: This concludes the very short arrival of Miki! Thank you for joining us!

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These super cute booklets came with the doll. x) The doll maintenance book doesn't have anything too important explained in it, they show stuff like how to comb the dolls hair... :D But that's cute!

I think I'm in love with Miki. u__u

I might have a thing for red hair. And maids! And oooh red haired maids!
Still need to figure out a background story for Miki. She came from Akihabara, so I thought that maybe she used to work in maid cafe. x) Or she might also be an anime otaku, who loves to dress up as maid! Both would work as a reason for her to wear that uni. But she will get some other clothes too, someday.
Aaand I'm not too good at making stories anyway, so probably her background story won't even matter. x)

I saw Strawberry short cake Sahra in display shelf of Azone shop when visiting Japan, and I liked it right away. x)  I'm super happy that I bought her now!
Otherwise I'm sure it would have happened like with my first BJD "crush" Unoa Lusis. I didn't get to buy one in the beginning of my doll hobby, but ended up buying Lusis many years later. Now I saved myself from all those years of waiting and drooling this Sahra from time to time. xD

Now I try to contain myself from buying more dolls in some time. (Even thought I do want an army of Azone dolls!)
I should concentrate on doing things with my current dolls, and start knitting for them more actively again. My secret wish would be to attend LDoll again this year. Let's hope I can make it!

I'll try to keep updating this blog more frequently, maybe that could be my new years resolution?
Weekly would be awesome, but we'll see... :D

Bonus blooper! These fellows aren't too good at standing! D8

Second Azone! Himeno~

I bought my second Azone Pureneemo second hand -  and from Finland!
Earlier I kinda thought that there isn't too many people in Finland who are into Azone dolls, but oh how wrong I was. x) Luckily!
Thanks to one person in Finnish BJD community, I was directed to Finnish Azone group in Facebook! :D Azone Finland, if someone is interested. There is about ~30 people in the community. Not a huge amount, but still!
These dolls are so cute that they need more love.

I saw the For Sale-post for this doll earlier when I joined there, but i didn't have money untill I got my tax refunds came in December. x) Lucky for me the seller still had this! :D
So this was a Xmas gift for myself? Something like that.
She did arrive to me already in December, but I'm slow like that.

Box opening successful!

I probably won't be using this black outfit for her at all. I like my dolls in more casual clothing. 

The most important part for me in choosing a doll is the face, eye color and hair color/style. x) I tend to just storage all full set outfits lol.

My first Azone Pureneemo was S size, this one is M. I'm not sure yet do i like the M size better or not, but we'll see. So far I like it, but it might be just because it's new and interesting. x)
And OMG I got a package of replace hands in different poses with the doll! 8D Those are great. 

Thank you so much previous-owner-san. <3

I haven't yet thought any name for her. I kind of would like to call her just Himeno, but would it be boring? And I can't do that with my first Azone doll who I bought in parts, she doesn't have any character name to begin with. I have to think about this. But probably Himeno will be a big sister for my first Azone.
Yes, she doesn't have a name either... I'm so bad at names! @__@

Maybe I'll go with J-pop idol names, like I decided to do with my Unoa girls.
Could Himeno be Haruka? :D Maybe. I kinda like that. (Kudou Haruka, from Morning Musume'15)

Hi! I'm Haruka!

Ps. I might or might not be getting my third Azone Pureneemo in near future... 

It might or might not be someone red haired, whose pic was in my Japan post... 

Err, I'm just testing out ordering from Mandarake!! Right??

Dollies in Japan~

If you know me at all you might have noticed that I'm very slow at updating my blog. Buut anyways!
I was visiting Japan at spring. It was my first time in Japan and so far the only time I have been there.
But it was fun and awesome and everything! Still so exited! I want to go back!

I'm not going to make a full-length post about the whole Japan trip since it was some time ago already, but I wanted to share some doll related stuff.

At Akihabara we visited Volks Tenshi no Sumika. It was dedicated to Super Dollfie (BJD) I think, but there was lots of Dollfie Dream things too. People weren't allowed to take pictures in there, so no pictures. I didn't buy any doll from there, but I got some spare hands for my DDH-06 doll Chinami. Also I bought one outfit for her, and a small bust chest piece. x) Chinami used to have medium bust, but that felt a bit too big for my taste.

Chinami is happy with her new outfit and smaller bust!

In addition to Volks store we visited Mandarake. There was also some different types of dolls for sale. Managed to be without buying anything (doll related!) from there.

We also found Azone label shop from Akihabara! It wasn't in our list, but since the dolls are cute we wen't there too. x) That was a big mistake! xD
I hadn't seen Azone Pureneemo dolls irl before that. Only some pictures online, but I hadn't been too interested about them before. So I could say that visiting the store was my first touch to Azone dolls. And they were super cute! Also the price was more affordable than a BJD of big DD. 

They also had no pictures-signs in the store, but there was few display shelf that were for taking pictures! 

Picture from display shelf at Azone shop in Akihabara.

Picture from display shelf at Azone shop in Akihabara.

Picture from display shelf at Azone shop in Akihabara.
These would be very cute, but I'm not a fan of those huge hands. x)

Picture from display shelf at Azone shop in Akihabara.
That red hair on the right. ;___;

Picture from display shelf at Azone shop in Akihabara.

Picture from display shelf at Azone shop in Akihabara.

And my loot! Woot!

So yes, I bought myself a Pureneemo. It was an impulse buy, but they were so cute!

I bought it in parts, so it was pretty cheap...

I also bought some of those face decal stickers. But they were harder to use than it seemed. x) You have to wet them in water in order to get them to attach. After that they were were slippery! It was hard to get them aligned on the dolls face. x)

But I'll keep trying! Someday my doll will have a pretty face, like others do!

I like the Pureneemo bodies, they are very cute. The joints looked a bit funny at first, but after you get a hang of it they pose well. There is also lots of option hands, those are super cute! I'll have to buy some later. (And more of these dolls too...)

My fist custom Pureneemo on the left. Together with my Bluefairy sugar Taro.
They are about the same size, so they can share clothes!