BJD 30-Day Challenge: Day 29

Q: Post a picture of your dolls exploring the outside world!

A: I looooove to take pictures of the dolls in the garden! I was surprised I didn't do it more often :) Here's one, for instance:



This is one of my finest roses she's sleeping on :)

BJD 30-day Challenge: Day 22

Q: What’s your favourite doll scale prop?

A: I really like chairs. Yes, simple (or not) chairs. They are versatile and can be used as a stand (back) or as a seat, and they look natural with just about any doll. Plus, it's rather easy to find a chair in correct scale. Some examples of a chair coming handy:











A chair is often invisible, but invaluable helper!

BJD 30-day Challenge: Day 18

So, exactly a month after having a baby, I am happily making my way back to this blog - kind of easing into it with this meme as my time is still very limited...
Q: what is your favorite BJD company?
A: Taking 'company' in a strict definition of a business with several employees, palace that mass-produces their dolls from start to finish (including casting and so on all the way to face-up), my favorite has to be, hands down, Fairyland. Their dolls are really easy on the eye (although more cute than beautiful, frankly), they pose wonderfully - practically the best in every size range, from RealPuki to an SD. By the way, they are making those amazing RealPuki!! And if that's not enough, their prices are very very reasonable, for the industry, that is.
Now if we stretch the definition of a company to lone artists who may not cast their own dolls, but sculpt and face-up them and who have their own brands and stores... The winner is, of course, French artist I am honored to call a friend - Nefer Kane (CircusKane is her company's name). She is amazing! As a person, as an artist... Her dolls are special and all unique. Right now, for example, Iracebeth the Red Queen is on pre-order:




There has not been a doll by Nefer that I didn't want! :)

BJD 30-day Challenge: Day 8

Q: What is your favorite size?

A: I would say RealPuki (the smallest out there) - they are 9.5 cm, but I am actually equally happy with slightly bigger dolls as well - anything up to, let's say, 16 cm still falls into my favorite category. So this includes a wide variety of artist and company dolls. Not that I won't buy a gorgeous MSD once in a while ;)

BJD 30-day Challenge: Day 7

Q: Smallest size you own? (Have held/seen/like)

A: this record, hands down, belongs to the RealPuki clan: all four of them are, of course, the same size, and it is the gorgeous / glorious 9.5 cm. Now that's the way - a-ha, a-ha - I like it ;)

BJD 30-day Challenge: Day 5

Q: What/who was the very first BJD you saw?

A: I am not 100% sure, but I think I started this hobby from discovering, in my random Internet pursuits of ... something? ... Discovering the site of Fairyland (Korean doll-making company). So one can say I have seen all that Fairyland makes, at about the same time - although I was clearly focused on RealPukis. RealPuki Tyni was the first BJD I ever wanted, and many years later - the first one I bought via pre-order (I got my first BJD off a secondary market).

Real Puki Arrivals

Agnes here!

Maria has been hogging the blog lately, so I need to quickly reign in some sense here or we will necver get over talking about future plans and get back to you, know, my job, - chronicles of the currect 'collection', or as I prefer to call it, a community.

I thought I will start by posting here what a typical arrival - box opening - looks like. I wanted to do mine but then I decided that since I plan to follow shortly with a story of the Real Puki clan... I should just start by showing off one of their arrivals:

- Fairyland signature box wrapping often referred to as 'candy':



- Their box and a manual:



- As you can see, poor guy was too tiny to stay in place and got bumped around in the box:



(many more pictures after the break)