I've always wanted a ball jointed doll. I knew that someday, even if it was when I was an adult, I would get one. I've always loved minifee chloe from fairyland, but she was like $400 (at least... the full pack in the pic below is like $600). They were just so expensive! I definately can't afford that at the age I'm at. I'd also feel like I'm too young and wouldn't take proper care of a bjd since I've never had one a and don't know a super ton about them/haven't had one before.
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| Minifee chloe. (pics from dollfairyland.com) |
One day I found out about recast dolls (do your own research on these, if you don't like them please keep your opinion to yourself it was my doll and my decision.) They were very affordable, not bad quality, and I was okay with them! Unfortunately many of the shops needed you to have a Chinese credit card or other stuff I couldn't read because its in Chinese. D: I finally found a way to get one, through an agent (they order it for you, then send it to you)
I finally ordered my first bjd! I was really worried at first, what if she wasn't strung (it looked really complicated to string them) or was a weird color? or the faceup was really ugly? what if they didn't even do the faceup and didn't see my request to ask about it?
The people e-mailed me, and asked me about face-up though, and after working it out and a couple of days, I got a picture of her with her face-up. She looked beautiful! ugh why torture me with pictures D:
After a few more days, the agent said the doll had arrived and they had even sent me pictures. Pictures!!! omg more pictures!!!
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| aaaaaaaah whyyyyyyyy |
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| her pretty face <3 |
while I was waiting, I ordered her a white wig, and light blue eyes. (from e-bay) She's going to be one of my own characters that I've drawn before and made up a backstory about. basically, her name is Athanasia (a-thana-sia, I'll have to come up with a nickname) and she's kinda like a... star goddess? (I swear, I came up with the idea before I saw chloe's promo pics. Its kinda a coincidence they're both spacey-goddess looking) I'll have a post about that later.
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| The character she's going to be. This drawing is so badly scanned, that's why I haven't posted it anywhere else. It looks really nice in real life! |
I also made her a bunch of clothes from the patterns I could find and the online measurements. I hope they fit... A lot of them were oddly scaled. I will make her signature outfit (the one in the drawing) when she comes, because it includes a corset and a lot of details.
her eyes came first, since I got them from the US. they were really pretty, but I need a doll to put them in D:
now... uh I'd recommend to only read this if you really care about my personal life and want to hear rants about to post office!
I basically stalked the tracking all week. I even did that thing where usps texts you if the package reaches a new place. So every time I got a text a freaked out because I thought she finally got somewhere new.
last night, I was yet again looking at pictures of other people's chloe-s and updating the tracking when it said she finally got to the main sorting place around me! the eyes came the day after they got there, that meant she could come tomorrow! I was so excited.
The next morning, I got texts that said she came to the post office in my town, and was actually out for delivery! she was coming!!! And, so was her wig! All morning I was painfully waiting for the mailman to come, watching youtube videos to try to get it off my mind. Then, I hear my mom open the door. She comes upstairs... only to tell me the mailman came and left WITHOUT MY PACKAGES!!!! like what? And the best part... my tracking updated to delivered! ...What?
The post office literally said it would be delivered today- and it said it WAS!!? uhm it was not whatttttt is going on? but mailman you can't just add those two small packages to your truck and deliver them???? My hopes and dreams are in there!!!! I've waited many weeks upon weeks and now another whole dayyyyyy! Or at least use logic and not mark them as delivered?????? *cries*
more super late updates...
My mom and I stopped at the post office while she was dropping off some packages and asked about it. They said they would talk to our mailman.
The next day, I checked the mail, and the wig came! ...yay? We flagged down the mail(woman) and asked about the other package. She said that she just thought that the wig was the package that we were talking about, and I don't even remember the rest but I showed her the tracking info and tried to work stuff out. Finally, she left and returned a couple minutes later with my package... opened and ripped up... well, that's comforting to know someone else already opened it... It turned out she "didn't know" where the package went to and dropped it off at some other guy's house who got a lot of packages. -____- Awkward. At least everything was in there. So I guess I can't review how well the people package their things...
But I'm glad I finally got my doll and everything is okay, she's very pretty! But that's for a different post!
~Hope
