Happy Valentine's Day!

Mio wishes you a Happy Valentine's! 

Regrets?

There are no really amazing Azone updates for this week,

so instead, let's talk about...

REGRETS

Have you ever sold a doll and then deeply regretted it?

I've sold a lot of dolls in my day,

and 99.9% of them, I'm ok with...

but there was one doll I sold that I regretted,

I regretted selling her before I did it, 

as I did it,

and after I did it.

That would be my Dollfie Dream Alna

I sold her to get what I thought was a "Grail" resin doll,

and I was very wrong.

Turns out Alna was my "Grail" doll all along,

and it took selling her, and constantly lamenting it,

to figure that out.

I lucked out *BIG* time,

and had a friend who was selling her Alna,

and sold it to me at retail... no crazy markup.

So the Alna you see now when I take pictures is actually

my second Alna.

What became of my first, I'll never truly know...

but I was incredibly fortunate to find another.

So how about you guys?

Have you ever sold a doll and deeply regretted it?

Were you able to get that doll back?

What happened?

Foreign Doll Magazines?

Do any of you ever buy foreign doll magazines?

You know... the kind you can't read because they're in another language.

Every now and then I buy one of the Japanese ones,

because they always have great pictures,

and they'll always have some great patterns in them too.

This time I bought this issue of Dolly*Dolly:

It's got such cute stuff inside,

and one of the things is a Pure Neemo outfit!

How cute is this?!

The patterns are all in the back,

I just have to figure out how to make them XD

There are lots of other cute patterns in there too.

 

Her reroot is done...

but I dunno, I'm just not feelin' it...

I'll have to see what I can do, restyling-wise.

 

Read about the Azone Akihabara Store on The Thompson Family Blog!

Danielle Thompson,

of The Thompson Family Blog,

has been sharing images from her trip to Japan,

and today she shared her trip to the Akihabara Azone Store!

(Can we just stop and dwell on how jealous I am, LOL!)

Anyways, she has taken some fantastic pictures,

and made a really great post about her experience...

and I thought you guys might like to check it out!

Here's a little teaser pic,

but to experience the whole article

(which includes a lot of great photos!)

go here:

http://thompsonfamily.typepad.com/thompson_familylife/2015/02/azone-doll-store-akihabara-tokyo.html

©DanielleThompson

Cousin It!

The rerooting is done,

but the styling has yet to begin!

Thus, the "Cousin It" stage! XD

Azone Update!

 Strike now while the iron is hot!

Most of these clothing items are up for preorder!

©Azone

©Azone

www.hlj.com

(and of course on amiami and hobbysearch too... lol, I just always buy from hlj, for the most part,

I've never ordered from hobbysearch, but I have ordered a few times from amiami (when the items were unavailable on HLJ, and I've had an awesome experience with amiami, so I recommend them too!)

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The next Lil' Fairy will be coming out soon for preorder,

(the blond in the blue)

 

February 19th, to be exact (Japanese time)

She'll be 8,300 yen, which at the current exchange rate is about $70 USD.