Dig yourself a hole...

So how do you know you're in trouble when it comes to a doll? That its now on the list to be bought - perhaps as soon as possible, if you're really lucky or have a really short list, or that it has been added to a rather long list.

Sometimes its because of the company photos - with dolls like SOOM MDs, this is the only way to pick one if you want it new. Sometimes you just have to look at the image that the company has spent hours slaving over and know that you have to have this doll. You don't have the luxury of waiting for owner pics, because it immediately becomes harder (and vastly more expensive 90% of the time) to get that doll.

With non-limited dolls, it can be someone else's doll that you see and think - Wow... that's a doll I would love. It can be the faceup, the outfit or the general conception of the doll that sells you. Sometimes you can be lucky enough to be able to buy that doll.

The final nail in my own coffin is always the name. There has been only one exception to this - my Soom Shoshon took longer to name than usual, which is most unlike most of my dolls. Frequently my dolls have picked their names and often their personalities before they arrive.

If I name a doll, 99% of the time it will at some point join my doll collection. It may take me a while, but it will join my collection. So I do my best not to name a doll until I know I'm going to buy it - it doesn't always work... but if I do name them, it puts me in a spot of trouble.

Take Hades. I was looking for him on the MP for a long time and since he was named and I couldn't find someone willing to sell a faceplate to me, I got in a lot of trouble from Hades (he is more than a little bit of a pain) and ended up having to buy a doll to get him.

Then there was a Pipos Alice Jr that I had my eye on, which would have completed my Alice set - along with Angelu and Violet. I was debating whether or not I could buy her, and she named herself Emmeline, but before I could say yes to the buyer, she was sold. That was disappointing, and now I have a character called Emmeline sitting loose in my mind waiting for a possible doll to take her.

So when the question of NS/WS symmetry in my Pukifee army came up, I tried my best not to name them. But I had a spot of free time yesterday and decided to try and find names for the unnamed members on my Fairyland list. This included a RealPuki Aki, a Chic-line Lishe, a Minifee Chloe and a Minifee Eliya. My RealPuki size are Celtic deities, while the Minifee & Chicline are Roman.

So I went and searched through my usual sites to find some possible names - I quickly stopped looking for a name for the Aki, as I wasn't sure whether or not it would be a boy or a girl, (I would think a boy, but I left it for now).

So I found a number of possible names for the girls and decided on three names - the Chicline Lishe will be Diana Ceres while the Chloe and Eliya will be Nox Luna and Pax Nerio - not that I know which will be which.

But instead of stopping there, I instead went onto a site with a list of Egyptian deities... for Pukifee. How silly am I? I was not intending to add another two to my list even for the sake of symmetry.

I fell into the naming trap. The WS Bonnie, most likely with a Sweet Bunny faceup, will be called Neith Sekhmet and the WS Zoe will be called Anhur Qebui. Damn. That means I have to get them now.... not sure if I'm sorry or not.

Symmetry...

My housemate can be a serious pain in the neck and an enabler.

She mentioned today that it was curious that the collection of Pukifee we shared had a number of NS/WS pairs:

• Lunas: Nephthys (NS) and Zula (WS)
• Antes: Seth (WS) and Elsie (NS)
• and the eventual Shiwoo pairing: McKinnon (NS) and a WS Pukifee Shiwoo.

This wasn't done on purpose. I got Seth because the WS Sweet Bunny Ante is the boy and people at the time were claiming that Antes couldn't be boys... enablers. LK prefered the WS Luna over the NS. And she wants a WS Shiwoo because she feels that rounds out her grouping better.

There are two Zoes and two Bonnies as well, but as she so kindly pointed out - only in NS.

Evil enabler that she is, she said this to make me want to complete the sets and add two more Pukifee to my already strong army of Six - a WS Bonnie and a WS Zoe. Of course I began to think of what I could name them.

I need to be talked out of it... after all, it could lead to a second Isis.




The current dual collection: Osiris, Seth, Anubis, Ma'at, Nephthys, Isis, Zula, Elsie & McKinnon

 

Excited!

There is a new incoming! - well, on layaway!

btw: still stuck between Augustus and Pallus, although I'm leaning towards Pallus.

Plans for 2011

So I suppose I need to make some kind of plan for 2011...

I don't want to collect the same number of dolls this year as I did last year - that is more than a little excessive! So I made up a mock design of what I want my dolly collection to look like...

So my outline for 2011 is as follows:

1. Pay off my still nameless SM Shoshon
2. At some point buy Sol Invictus, a MNF Luka - possibly during the mid-year event at Fairyland
3. Buy an F65 body for Arawn - after I see some user pics of Delf heads on F65s. If they don't look as good as I imagine they will, he will get a F70 body.
4. My LTF bodies for Hades, Poseidon and Zeus.
5. Buy a RealPuki body for Veja.

I am crossing my fingers that SOOM releases some MDs that I don't need to have... and that Fairyland's event items are reasonable, rather than lovable. I have decided not to take advantage of the current event to get the VE Chloe head. If one pops up on the marketplace then I will consider it.

However, as I write this, another doll has popped up on the horizon... already. So, pending descisions, the plan for 2011 could already alter...

And so it came to pass

And it came to pass... every doll I said I would have by the end of the year... did. And there they all are, including floating heads.

The Family as of the end of 2010.

What will 2011 bring?

Dolly Plans... revisited

So it's nearing the end of the year. I don't plan to buy any more dolls, but I thought I'd reflect on the complete lack of plans that I managed to adhere to and how many dolls have been bought/started to have been bought this year. Remembering that I only planned really to buy 2 dolls this year - Argus and Magnus. As you will read, that plan kind of fell apart rather fast...

BTW: when Fairyland releases its Minifee gift and if its a good one, I will participate in it, but not until after Christmas - just before the end of the event most likely. I'll try to space it out as much as I possibly can.

So to the count down...

I have given bodies to seven dolls (* at this point their body has not arrived):

1. Mati
2. Hyperion
3. Bellona Lua
4. Sirona
5. Caesair
6. Vulcan*
7. Theia*

I have picked up 12 new dolls: (*At this point has not arrived)

1. Nemain
2. Magnus
3. Angelu
4. Anubis
5. Argus
6. Janus
7. Cassius
8. Violet
9. Li Na
10. Seth*
11. Nephthys*
12. Corvinus*

And I have picked up a number of floating heads:

1. Arawn
2. Delf Juri 05
3. Hades
4. Poseidon
5. Zeus
6. Veja*

And I had to sadly, say goodbye to my reshelled Arum, and have placed one more doll on layaway to arrive in the next year... a SOOM Shoshon (still unnamed... 2 votes Augustus, 1 vote Pallus).

By the end of the year (anticipating that the shipping on Corvinus comes through and he, plus Seth, Nephthys, Vulcan's body and Theia's all arrive before Dec 31) I would imagine the list will look like this:

At home:

1. Morrigan
2. Magnus
3. Marcheline
4. Sirona
5. Nemain
6. Caesair
7. Argus
8. Corvinus
9. Bellona Lua
10. Vulcan
11. Janus
12. Violet
13. Cassius
14. Ianthe
15. Icarus
16. Ares
17. Li Na
18. Isis
19. Osiris
20. Ma'at
21. Anubis
22. Seth
23. Nephthys
24. Angelu
25. Hyperion
26. Theia
27. Persephone
28. Mati

Floating heads:

1. Arawn
2. Delf Juri 05
3. Hades
4. Poseidon
5. Zeus
6. Veja

With one on layaway:

1. Yet unnamed - SM Shoshon

So what is the plan next year going to look like? Who knows! I only really have 2 planned purchases for 2011 - the Shoshon, who technically I started to pay off this year and Sol Invictus, who will most likely be placed on layby within the Event time before Jan 31 2011.

Watch this space... who knows what's going to be released in dolly terms? I'm already planning a Feeple65 body for Arawn, and possibly another Feeple65 girl body for another Lishe head...

Need votes...

My newest boy needs a name...

1. Lucius
2. Pallus
3. Ignatius
4. Augustus...

Any votes anyone?

For the questions... yes, I mean the Shoshon.