Happy Hallowe'en!

Trixie and Flame are taking Skelly and Bonehead Trick or Treating.



I hope you are saving some of the best treats for them.



They will be knocking on your door soon.

Trixie's Introduction

I've been selling off some of my dolls, my interest in them waning and my available time being dedicated to other hobbies. I'm working my way down to just two dolls, but a fun little newcomer arrived today.

This is Trixie. She is a bit of an impulse buy, and technically she was only a "faceplate", not a full doll.

When the new Fairyland Realfee face sculpt, "Sira",  was introduced a few months ago I instantly fell in love. The face reminded me so much of my eldest daughter, Lisa, when she was just an infant. For several months after she was born Lisa always had the tip of her tongue hanging out, even for portraits!

Trouble was the Sira faceplate is not all that easy to come by, especially if you are downsizing your collection and not wanting to buy additional dolls. Sira is a limited edition "event faceplate", a gift with purchase incentive. You can only get one by placing an order of a qualifying dollar amount, or by buying from the second hand Marketplace.

So when my friend and doll artist, "Ban Sidhe", mentioned that she had ordered during the promotional period I asked her if she had qualified for the limit edition special gift faceplate, the Sira.

She had indeed, but had no specific plans for the qualifying gift faceplate and agreed to not only sell it to me, but to modify the tongue to a shorter, rounded shape and to give the modified faceplate a faceup before mailing it to me. 

When Trixie arrived she immediately took over Tingle's body and pronounced it a perfect fit. Poor Tingle might be moving along to a new home shortly as I truly do intend to limit myself to only two dolls. I like that Trixie's large, upturned elfish ears and happy, mischievous expression are a better match for the happy, playful Flame.

A Body Swap

A small box arrived from Korea today.

Neelie, Flame and Peanut were eager to check it out. Especially Flame. He had an urgent reason for wanting to free the contents.

In fact he was rather impatient when Peanut paused in the unwrapping to look at the unfamiliar Korean writing on the newspaper used as packaging.

As Peanut and Neelie struggled to dig out the pretty Fairyland Littlefee box Flame was no help at all. He was too busy ---- ---- ---- ----

---- ---- ---- undressing?!!

Neelie was horrified! Just when they were trying to make a good impression on the new arrival Flame had to go and do something like this! 

Peanut, on the other hand, didn't notice. She was too busy reading the new comer's Certificate of Authenticity. I think she's a little jealous. She's old enough that she was born before Fairyland started providing these certificates.

Flame urged Peanut to just forget about it and get on with the box opening. He said he'd been waiting far too long to put up with further delays now ---- ---- ---- and he continued to shuck his clothes.

For you see Flame knew something about this new "girl" that the others didn't. He knew she would arrive sporting a brand new BOY body ---- ---- ---- for him! And he was all for making the trade as quickly as possible. 

Once he got settled into the body of his dreams he passed along the older, slightly used FEMALE model he'd been stuck with these past few months. He could hardly wait to run off to the bathroom to try peeing standing up.

On the way back he stopped by the clothing box and dug out the dress and leggings Auntie Ban sent. He knew for certain that they were comfy and would fit perfectly. He had tried them on that body already you see.

The new girl thanked him for the clothing but shyly asked about the lack of hair. Trust a boy to forget about something like that!

A wig was found and then, feeling a little more at ease, she announced that her name was TINGLE.

Flame took Tingle by that hand and gave her a guided tour of the Tulusson family shelf.

Flame hopes they will be great friends. 

Say Hello to Flame

After some rather lengthy and concerning delays, my little Soso faceplate has arrived home, safe, from the faceup artist's studio.

The postal tracking never did update after clearing Canada Customs. He arrived at my door today unannounced!

I was quick to let him in of course, and he's been entertaining me and making me smile ever since.

His name is FLAME.

He's quite the character.

I just know we're going to have a lot of fun!

He's well balanced and a wonderful poser.

At 19cm he's a wonderful size to knit and sew for. He's not so big that knitting becomes tedious and not so small that sewing is overly fiddly. Perfect!

Say hello to Flame in the comments. I'm pretty sure he'd like the attention!

A Flight To Sweden

 The little Mari girl was a delight to have around for a couple of days. She even helped out by doing some fittings for a commissioned piece.

But after awhile I had to face facts. She's not my doll (at least not the faceplate part) and I have to give her up. Stalling was not helping anything.

So bright and early this morning I packaged her up and sent her on her way to her new owner in Sweden.

Bye bye you funny little fishy face. Hopefully we'll see you (an exact look-a-like at least) again in a few months. Maybe by then I'll have a wardrobe ready?

Selling the Twins

The twins are for sale, together or individually. They are both Fairyland Littlefee Leahs.

I'm asking $250 US, plus shipping for the male. For this little fella I had the Leah sleeping faceplate modded to open eyes and then given a custom faceup by Ban Sidhe.

For the female I'm asking $265 US, plus shipping. She has a custom faceup by Ban Sidhe. Ban also blushed her hands, and I've included one extra and a set of "clasped hands" which are not blushed.

More photos are viewable in my Flickr account.

I'll be putting much of their clothing up for sale in the coming days too. Watch my Flickr account if you are interested.

Edited to add: SOLD! And yay! They were sold together to the same person and she intends to keep their characters as is, at least for now.