Hey guys and gals, how are we all doing today? I hope today reached you with happy thoughts and good things happening, even if it was a cloudy and humid day like it currently is for me right now. No worries, cloudy days are awesome too. I always tell myself something good is going to happen to me on a cloudy day. You just wait, it will, and you all will be the first to know. :-)
So, as I mentioned in my last post, I have been buying things to share with you all on the blog for the past couple of months. A lot of them items were to use in my...shop. Yesssss, I still have plans to open that darn thing. Ugh, I hate still talking about it now because it's been years. However, I knew I needed some models for the clothes I wanted to make, and I wanted to customize some dolls as well and see how well they sell. So yeah, I have some of those to show you, and some other random stuff I've bought. However, I still need to take pictures of things, and some things I was going to try to make a video of. So until then, I figured I'd share with you guys what's on my want or wishlist.
So from the title, I'm sure you've figured out this post's item. The 17-inch Monster High dolls and the 17-inch
Ever After High doll. I love big fashion dolls. I've always thought to myself, if I make a ball-joint doll I would make her a tall fashion doll. I just love the proportions of fashion dolls, they are much like fashion illustrations and even models that walk the catwalk. The figures are elegant and unique, and that really shows in bigger fashion dolls. So when I first heard about the 17-inch Monster High dolls, I flipped. I knew I had to have them all. I was only first aware of Draculaura, Frankie, and Clawdeen, but then I learned of Gooliope and that she'd recently been released, I had to bring that girl home, and I did. I have yet to take her out of the box, but I plan on doing that this week and then I will share her with you. I've seen some box openings of her and I can already see the hair is going to be iffy, but she's a beautiful girl. Seeing how much I loved her, I had to find out when the other girls were coming out. Seems September or October, from what I've read. Basically, Fall. So I have time. Or so I thought. After watching a video by Anne Pecaro the other day, I learned of 17-inch Maddie Hatter. What?!?
Ok, so I LOVE anything to do with Alice in Wonderland, and I really LOVE anything to do with the Mad Hatter. He was one of my favorite characters in the story, and I knew I would want a Maddie doll when I heard about her. However, I never got one because I was worried I'd want to start collecting Ever After High dolls. That was the main reason I avoided Monster High dolls, there are practically no clothing packs or shoe packs for the dolls, so if you want to make them look different you'd have to buy the dolls themselves and that can get pricey unless you find a good sale. So I avoided it for a long time, but things changed, and now I have several Monster High dolls, and now I have 3 Ever After High dolls, and I still want more. *sigh* However, Maddie is one girl I really want. Only problem is, most of her dolls have gloved hands, so when I first heard about the 17-inch doll, I went looking for her hands first. *sigh again* Gloved. I think it's awesome they found a way to make gloved hands in small scale on the cheap, it makes for more interesting outfits, but I hate not having a "normal" option for them as well. So I was going to pass on 17-inch Maddie, but as I've said, I love tall fashion dolls. So she was put on the list. When I found out she'd be released in either August or September, I freaked out even more. I feel so silly for wanting to bring this girl home, but I simply must. I think I will like the 17-inch size more than they 11.5-inch(ish) size dolls. So, fingers crossed, Gooliope will be getting a new friend in about a month.
Well, after deciding on getting a big girl, Anne Pecaro did a hybrid doll with her Azone doll, Barbie doll, and Maddie Hatter doll. Say what??? Yes, I know, it sounds crazy, but oddly it worked. I'll post the video down below.
*sigh again again* I miss making hybrids. I used to do it all the time back in the day. Time to try them out again. Anyway, from this video I learned that Maddie was shorter than the other dolls in the series? Say what, again????? That sealed the deal for me. I must have this doll. I went searching for her, and though I fell in love with this one with lighter purple streaks in her hair, I just hated the hands so much, so I finally found one in the series without gloved hands. Score!!! So I'm planning to bring this cutie home either this week or next. I want to wait and see what kind of sales will be offered on Amazon Prime Day first. If they offer a Maddie on discount, then I will get her for the hands, and then get the cutie above and just switch the hands out. I may still do that even without a good sale during Amazon Prime Day.
What's Amazon Prime Day you ask? It's an Amazon celebration for Prime Members only, and it's suppose to have better sales than Black Friday. I thought, wow, awesome, a cool Black Friday sale in July. Amazon is so smart...until I got an email from Target boasting about a better than Black Friday sale in July. Then Best Buy chimed in with the same thing, and well, I was like nevermind. LOL! However, that doesn't mean the sale won't be good. I got a big hunk of my Monster High collection during Black Friday sales last year on the Zon, so I am hopeful to get some good deals this week. After the sale, if I didn't manage to get anything overly good, I'll get Maddie. And oh goodness, if they put Gooliope on sale, I am so bringing another one home. I want one to try to customize. *sigh one more time*
So yes, I blame the awesome Anne Pecaro for my wallet being a little more empty. LOL! Honestly, I am so happy to be inspired about dolls again. I was on the fence of giving up on them after the rough couple of years I went through, but then I recently reconnected with an awesome person who told me to just be me and enjoy what I love. And so I am. :-)
So that is what is on the want/wishlist right now. I need my big girls, and my little Maddie. After that, I think I will take a break and enjoy what I have. I have some purchases coming up this year for my gaming hobby, so I need to cut back on dolls for a while...at least until Black Friday rolls around again. What? It's only 4 months away. I can handle that. I hope. ;-)
And on that note my lovely readers, I will end this long post here. The sun is starting to peek through the clouds, the birds are singing, and I've just been asked to go play some Guild Wars 2. It's a good day indeed. ;-) I hope all of you have a great day today and get plenty of play time in. I will talk to you all again very soon. Take care until. Bye for now.
So I of course want to have more planned/scheduled days so I don't waste my days doing nothing. Today, however, I knew would be a wasted day. For those of you who don't know, on occasion I will play a game called Guild Wars 2. My sister is addicted to the game, but I am more of a casual player. There was a Winter event going on and I thought it ended on the 13th, when it actually ended on the 3rd. Yikes! There were things I wanted to do before it ended. So I spent all evening working on it, then in the end I didn't do what I wanted to do and ended up wasted a lot of the items I was grinding for. Ugh! Oh well, I got something I thought I had to choose between and missed out on something I wouldn't have really used that much anyway. So I guess it wasn't a totally wasted evening.
But I didn't get anything done like cleaning or sorting or anything. I guess that's how things go sometimes. Oh, but I did have my first fully gluten-free day today. I'm still a little winded at times, but no stomach pain. No feeling horrible no sooner I started eating or afterwards. *whimper* Do I really have issues with gluten??? While I was glad I didn't feel horrible, I felt horrible because I didn't feel horrible. Need to reread that line again? Go ahead, I'll wait.
Got it now? Cool. So basically it hit me that I am facing, yet again, another permanent change in my life. First it was the thyroid pills, and now going gluten-free? I mean I wanted to change my lifestyle, but this is still a bit hard to swallow. I'm also ticked I didn't stick with it when I started last time. But I've grown some and realize this time that going gluten-free doesn't have to be a horrible experience. It can't be, it's for life. So yeah, time to pull out and dust off all those gluten-free living books. I believe I have 5 of them. That should be enough to get me started.
What else did I do today? Oh yeah, I just found the coolest shop. Since it's an Etsy shop, I count it as crafty and so I shall share it here.
I am trying to clean out my email again, and one of my more recent emails was from Etsy. The first image that caught my eye was this amazing and pretty bracelet from SpottedDogAsheville. This stunning clear resin bracelet is made by Sumner Smith, and crafty gal from Asheville, NC. I love finding crafty people in NC, and I can't wait to buy from her shop one day when I have the funds to do so. She makes all kinds of jewelry. Bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and rings that can be bought as is or made to order. I had a real hard time picking an image to post in the blog, so I decided for the one that brought me to her awesome shop. She is also on Facebook. Check her out, if anything, to see her amazing pieces.
And that's about all I did today. Nothing exciting, and sadly nothing doll related. But perhaps I will get to tackle something doll related tomorrow. We'll just have to wait and see. And on that note I am calling it a night. I think I may catch up on a Korean drama some and then head to bed. I hope you are all doing well and having a great start to your year. I will talk to you lovelies soon. Bye for now. :-)
Ok guys, I'm back with 2 codes to play Guild Wars 2. If you are interested please leave a comment with your email address below so I can send you an invite. Feel free to put spaces in the email address to keep it from being picked up by crawlers. They say that codes are limited so I am also going to post this on Facebook with the few peeps I know on there and give them a chance at the codes too. This is open to everyone and it's first come first serve. If I end up giving the codes out I'll update here about it. Ok, I'm off to post this on Facebook now, talk to you lovelies later.
Telling her hungry tummy to hold on a minute more, Michelle
Ok, don't hold me to this right now, but I may be getting three friend invites to give away to play Guild Wars 2 from November 15-18. They are adding a new land on November 15th and it will be a great time for you to join in the fun. One friend invite is already gone so I have two left to consider when I get them. I thought I'd offer them here on my blog to you dolly peeps. I don't mind if you want to give the invite to someone you know who will play the game or if you want to keep it to try the game out yourself, I just really want someone who will play the game to have the codes. I personally love the game and love how it allows me to play when I have time, and even if your friends are level 80, like my sister is, their levels will be lowered to come play with you if you aren't their level, like my sister does with me. You may even decide you want to play the game after the trial and get a copy for yourself.
Now like I said I am offering this to my doll peeps, but if you are a gamer who has a blog and comes across my blog looking for codes go ahead and leave a comment that you'd like it as well. I will pick dolly peeps first but if no one says they are interested in the codes then I will pass it on to a gamer. You must have a blog or something to show me you are a gamer and not someone just collecting codes. If I can't find proof of you being an actual gamer then I won't give you the code. Oh, also leave me a way to reach you, this goes for everyone, so I can send the codes when or if I get them. I will update you all on that in a few days. I'm super excited about the new event and the new land. Oh, and before you leave a comment for the code, please check to make sure your system meets the game requirements.
Ok, so I will know more about the codes in a few days and will make a post about if I have them or not. Just thought I'd mention it here now since it may take a while for people to see I am blogging again and for those interested in gaming to see it. Ok, I'm off to work on articles again. Bye for now my lovely peeps.
