Amber Eyes

I've never been a fan of tan resin. Not much fan of tan at all, tbh.
Until I saw this little Soom MD Afi, owned by Ashers - I got completely, and I mean completely owned by those eyes!
Now I can't stop thinking about a Tan Teenie Gem for myself... Which means I already have 2 dolls on my wish list! This hobby is so dangerous T.T

Thank you for the dissapointment

For a few weeks now I've been dreading the release of Tonner's Lord of the Rings dolls. LotR has a special place in my heart, I met my worse half ( ;) ) through it. And I l.o.v.e Aragaorn and - even more - Viggo. So the perspective of Arwen and Aragorn dolls being released was pushing buttons inside my head... Will I be able to resist..?

Thankfully, I am totally able to resist. Strider looks like a bum, Arwen looks ok but I do not feel the urge to spend 150$ on each of them. My wallet sighs with relief.

Annoyences and Money Spending

First of all, Yrie is still at Customs...
I'm starting to lack vocabulary to express my annoyance... I received a request for proof of value last Friday, I've sent it in on Monday. And her status has not updated since 16th January. Haaf! Her little cute For My Doll wigs are waiting for her already, so are fabrics and shineys for at least two outfits and here awaits me yet another weekend without my girl, only with frustration..! 4th weekend, to be precise.
I growl on every TNT wagon I see...

I attempted to ease my frustration with shopping. Doll frustration calls for doll shopping, naturally. And Iple House has made me spend way more money on my upcoming Galena than I planned to in the next few months (at least on ready-made stuff), solving my where-to-buy-carrier-bag dilemma at the same time. They've released artificial leather extra-hot matrix/bdsm outfits I immediately fell in love with. All of them, no exception. It's the kind of fashion I adore both to look on and to wear, but in practice find it way to annoying to dress in myself. The outfits seem quite cheap as for decent quality bjd wear (don't confuse with normal cheap...). I hope they will fit Galena nicely. If not, than... I'll just have to buy myself an EID girl xD

And here are the outfits. I get sooo excited even thinking about them! xD

Chalco NS split

2 Jun 2010: Status on our Chalco split is still "Before Shipping / Preparing". I will update you as soon as I receive shipping notice.
2 Apr 2010: I received my Galena around 2 weeks ago, I was also following other Soom orders to NL and how much customs fees was paid: when Soom marks the package as 100$ (what they usually do) and customs doesn't ask for proof of value, the fees are around 35 EUR. Fingers crossed for our order!
1 Feb 2010: midnitestar7 posted pictures of Chalco on display of Tokyo Soom store.

Order will be made as soon as I get my salary and initial payments from you. Chalco will be put on 4 month layway.
As a personal agreement with Necoco, he will be paying me off in 6 months.
You will be provided with my PayPal account details, please take PP fees on you or use personal payments. Please pay me in US Dollars.

Upon arrival of the package, shipping costs from me to you will be calculated, including all cusoms-related fees. I will ship with your desired method.
As we all live in the EU, your packages will not be further taxed upon arrival to your countries.

History
16 Jun 2010 - Package recieved
04 Jun 2010 - Chalco has been shipped!
02 Jun 2010 - Fifth installment payed by Necoco
03 May 2010 - Installment 4/4 ($234) payed to Soom (confirmed)
02 May 2010 - Fourth installment payed by Necoco
02 Apr 2010 - Installment 3/4 ($234) payed to Soom (confirmed)
02 Apr 2010 - Third installment payed by Necoco
30 Mar 2010 - Remaining payments 3 and 4 (100$) payed by FoxFace
03 Mar 2010 - Installment 2/4 ($234) payed to Soom (confirmed)
02 Mar 2010 - Second installment payed by Necoco
27 Feb 2010 - Second installment payed by FoxFace
03 Feb 2010 - Installment 1/4 ($234,20) payed to Soom (confirmed)
03 Feb 2010 - Order made for NS Chalco with Face-up and wig
03 Feb 2010 - First installment payed by Necoco
29 Jan 2010 - First installment payed by FoxFace

FoxFace (4 month layway)
1st payment: 50$ (recieved 29 Jan 2010)
2nd payment: 50$ (recieved 27 Feb 2010)
3rd and 4th payment: 2x50$ (100$) (recieved 30 Mar 2010)

Necoco (6 month layway)
1st payment: 104$ (recieved 3 Feb 2010)
2nd payment: 100$ (recieved 2 Mar 2010)
3rd payment: 100$ (recieved 2 Apr 2010)
4th payment: 100$ (recieved 2 May 2010)
5th payment: 100$ (recieved 2 Jun 2010)
6th payment: 100$ (recieved 6 Jul 2010)

Chalco payment plan:
1st payment: 234,20$ (sent 3 Feb 2010)
2nd payment: 234$ (sent 3 Mar 2010)
3rd payment: 234$ (sent 2 Apr 2010)
4th payment: 234$ (sent 3 May 2010)

Order items and prices (including EMS)
Chalco Head + blushing - Fox Face (150$ + 50$)
Bull Head and Mask - Me (100$)
Rest of the body - Necoco (604$)
Wig - Me (32$)

Order price: 872$
Shipping to zone8: 64,20$
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Total order price: 936,20$

Proposed additional fees rates (Customs, which will hit the package), based on % of the total ammount
Necoco: 66%
Me: 14%
FoxFace: 20%

Yrie is in Amsterdam!

xD
I'm so excited! She should be home in about 2 weeks.
Downside is: she'll come with an exaggerated customs bill...

2th Jan 2010 Yrie is still in Amsterdam... Depressing... I hate TNT :(

The Wait and The Opportunities

The three-months wait for Soom shipping my girls (or rather, my girl and my thing) is killing me. I wish I could go into hibernation and wake up in spring, when they are here already!

Well at least I have some time to prepare and I can conveniently spread finances.
As Yrie (who shall be named Lilitu) will assume both male and female roles, as well as simply being a Super-Deformed version of Galena (named Lilith), I needed some wigs for it. As I was ordering it, I didn't really like the default wig Yrie was coming with, so I swapped it for annother soom 6-6.5 inch wig (which I believe to be the one added to Beyla):

This was the best I could come up from Sooms offer, but it had the bangs... and I hate bangs! (as for a side note, I am so happy Galena's default wig doesn't have 'em...) Also, it was nowhere near Galena's wig, as it came out later on, so I needed something else.

I ended up ordering 3 wigs from For My Doll.
Loneliness in 144 is supposed to be the SD Galena's wig's version. Not a perfect match but I don't think I'll ever find one... EVERYTHING seems to have bangs recently! So frustrating. I've seen some nice bangless wigs on Leeke but of course they are long sold out.

High Layard (wth does this mean?!) in 22 will be a boy-wig for Yrie. Sad part here is that it's almost the default Soom wig for the Birdies :/ Should have foreseen this earlier to be honest.

An I couldn't walk past The Innocent Girl - wigs of those type are imporrible to find. I took it in nice 110 (I'll call it Wine) for Galena because I love the color and she already has a blond wig. Blame FMD for the quality of the pictures!


Before My Sweets get here I also need to buy a 30inch (70cm) carriage bags. I found quite a few companies that make 'em (unfortunately, Soom seems to always be out >.>) and I decided to make my final decision based on other items I would buy along. And yesterday it (unfortunately) struck me...

There are two outfits in otherwise cheap Dollmore store that stand out with price; before yesterday I looked at them without approval as they seemed only those cheap, Asian imitations like the rest of Dollmore store... it's cheap, but the quality isn't outstanding: you get what you pay for, or at least never more!
But yesterday, I've seen them in a totally new light, shed upon them by the wonderful figure of Galena...

The outfits I have on mind are two (for Model Doll and for Super Dollfie size) dresses that seem to be based on ancient Korean court dresses, red for MD and black for SD. They - or at least the MD one - seem to be so etheric and giving the doll wearing them a divine look that when I pictured them on my Bird Girl, I got swooned away and I can't stop thinking about them.

And 'them' is the problem because each of them costs around $150 so together they would cost almost as much as a whole doll... So I am trying my best to kick one of them out of my head.

Oriental Onyx Dress Set for SD by Dollmore
When I was looking at it before, it seemed the more "decent" one of the too; probably because I don't like pink while I loooove lack and because black usually seems more stylish. I am not so sure anymore though...




Celestial Dress Set for MD
I used to regard this one as a more kitsch one of the two. The pinks and reds... I was totally unable to picture my future doll in this outfit, but now it's growing on me with every passing hour and becoming almost irresistible..! Maybe it's the posing of the doll and the dress (because those outfits defenetly need posing!), maybe the fact that this color set is more 'natural'...
The longer I think about it, the more I want this one and the less I need the Onyx one. I will wait and see 'till Soom releases their next MD to see if there's going to be something to my liking and probably go for it.

Oh My Goddess

I can't really describe how impatiently I was waiting for November MD: after all, I was having high hopes for Galena for months now, only fueled up with Yrie in whom I fell in love totally.


When the first teaser of Galena went up, I was mortified. She was grey..!
I bought Yrie only because I planned her to be a Super-Deformed version of my future Galena, so the difference in skin color would crush my plans.
But I nevertheless tried to cheer myself up with a thought that Soom did, after all, offer a skin color option with a previous MD (Sphaler), so maybe - just maybe - they would do so again.


After few days she went up for sale, with complete set of pictures.
As I was scrolling down (painfully slowly, because my traffic with the site was incredibly low), I got more and more disheartened with the grey version. But than... Cream White Galena looked at me from the first en-face photo and I got crushed. And the profile shot totally killed me.
I ordered her and payed her in full in a matter of minutes. Which was, truth be told, not the best thing I've ever done. If I waited for few days, I would have recieved my salary and would be able to order more extras with her. Silly me.