Celebrity and Sports Dolls

I've been updating my Instagram account more often than this blog, but I never forget about this place. I still think of things to write about or do, but lately I've been feeling demotivated again. I have to work on that!

Anyway...

I found a Raven Symone doll! It's from The Cheetah Girls and Raven played the character Galleria. I know nothing about the show, haha. I'm just glad that I finally have Raven. I got her cheap online and made a friend in the process. 

This is Aqua from The Cheetah Girls, but I really don't know the actress who played her. I got her with her original top, but not the pants because her pants were too expensive for me. And I figured that her top was long enough to look like a dress so I just bought her top.

Here are Galleria and Aqua together. My collection of AA dolls is growing! Sweet!!!

This is Edeline from 12 Dancing Princesses, which I know nothing about either, hahah. I only found her head so I had to look for a replacement body. Luckily I found an MTM. It was broken: neck peg is missing, so were the hands, and the feet are mismatched, but I winged it and was able to give the MTM body to Edeline. I love her Goddess sculpt face. 

I found this Britney Spears doll and rescued it, but I sold it afterwards. Even though I was tempted to keep it, it didn't feel right.

Turns out that my instincts were right. I found another Britney Spears doll and they actually had stains on their face. I was glad that the stains came off so she looks presentable. Her hair was cut off, so I had to trim it a little. Her hair at the back is shorter but I can manage.

Here she is with Baby Spice. They look cute. My caption for this photo over at Instagram is "Hit Me Baby Spice One More Time", lol!!!

Just as the World Cup was about to end, I found this 1998 Women's World Cup Barbie! She had her jersey uniform, long socks, soccer cleats and even her shin guard! And she could really kick a ball, if you pull her right leg back and push a button on her back! Pretty cool!

I decided to bring out my fake grass and it worked perfectly as a background!

World Cup Barbie finally met my Soccer MTM doll. They look badass, don't they?

Crafting, Jacqueline and Letting Go

I haven't been making a lot of crafts lately; just a few things I could do here and there with the amount of time and motivation I had at the moment...

I finally made a miniature laptop! But this laptop is pretty funny because the screen is obviously Windows and the keyboard is a Mac! The things you can do with crafting, haha! It's just made of advertising pages that I cut out and stuck on card stock and black foam sheet.

For reference, here's Lottie with the laptop!

This kid is spoiled, I swear. She has iPads, cellular phones... now a laptop. LOL.

And I finally got around to working on this Takara kitchen counter that I bought at a thrift store like 2 or 3 years ago. It was so cheap because the chrome paint job on the counter has chipped, and it has missing drawers and doors. I don't mind though. Anyway I painted a first coat of silver paint on it. I didn't finish painting it in one sitting because I didn't use a primer so the paint don't really adhere to the plastic unless I wait for the coat to dry first. It could have used some sanding, definitely, but at the time I began working on it, I couldn't find my sandpaper, haha.

It's a good size for Lottie. I'll think of something for a photo shoot. Besides, I do have a lot of miniature food and dining items that I can use for this counter.

And oh my gosh, I found a Fresh Doll while thrifting! She's Jacqueline from The Fresh Dolls, and she's missing a hair plug on her hairline, which is entirely my fault because I'm such an intense doll hair brusher, lol. And it's not noticeable because have you seen her hair? Look it's huge!

I love finding black dolls that I like for my collection. Maybe next time I can make a post about all the black dolls I have. It's not a huge collection, but it's growing and I find these dolls more interesting than blonde/white Barbie dolls, sorry.

Oh and I'm thinking of pronouncing her name "Jay-Quell-in" like in that Substitute Teacher video from Key and Peele. If you haven't seen it, you should!

Lately I've been trimming down my collection and sold a few of them on Facebook. I guess you can say that I'm using the KonMari method, somewhat. I mean, there was a time in the past that I really enjoyed these dolls, but I don't feel the same way now anymore. It's rather time to appreciate the good times and let another person enjoy the dolls I'm letting go. An example is this set of Spice Girls figures I've had for so long. 

OK, they're not dolls, but this is actually a good example because I've had these figures for a decade, I think. And I've asked myself so many times why I've held on to these figures.

Well first of all, it took me a while to complete them. I didn't even know I would be able to, so this set reminds me of how luck was on my side in finding all of them for a very good price. I know they're collectibles, but I'm not really a big Spice Girls fan, to begin with, so collecting Spice Girls memorabilia isn't really in my agenda. Sure, I like Victoria Beckham (nee Adams) and enjoyed Spice Girls songs back in the day, but I don't feel the same amount of adoration for them as I would feel for, say, the Backstreet Boys, which I really really loved when I was younger. So if the memory of me finding them all is the only thing that's sparking joy (Haha, very KonMari), then would a photograph of this figure set be enough? And I told myself, yes it would be enough. At the moment, someone I know has reserved this set and I'm waiting to be paid. I'm so ready to move on.

I hope to be able to blog more. I want to even talk about those dolls I've sold but those would be for a different blog post. Cheers!

An Old Toy Collection

Here are my old photos of toys I've collected:

From left to right: My (unofficial) Spice Girls figurines, my Edith (Despicable Me) figure which I gave to my niece, my old Angry Birds spring figures which I gave to my old co-worker's son.

My first Daruma doll which I thrifted. It doesn't look like it's in good condition, but I cleaned it up and looks a bit more decent now.

Two other Daruma dolls I've thrifted.

Next time I will talk about all my Daruma dolls in another post.

My old cat with my Daruma dolls and matryoshka dolls.

I am so lucky finding these matryoshka dolls (nesting dolls). They're vintage from Russia and I bought them for P30, I think. The seller at the thrift store probably had no idea it's not just some wooden toy.

Some of my toys.

From left to right: my Bandai retro TV figure, Posh and Ginger Spice figures, my matryoshka dolls, my four Daruma dolls, my White Totoro plush, a Neon Genesis Evangelion gashapon figure, vintage style Goofy and Mickey gashapon figures which I already gave to my nephew, Scary, Baby and Sporty Spice figures, and my Sailor Pluto plush.

I took this photo way before I even collected fashion dolls.

Oh my goodness, this photo makes me feel nostalgic. This was just last year when I started rescuing Monster High and Ever After High dolls. There's even that custom Frozen Anna doll I haven't finished yet.

I'll take more care of my dolls. Customise them. Complete them. To 2016! Cheers!