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snowazaleaThis morning, I spent time going through my old photos looking for photos that would correspond to the photo prompts for "snow" and "flowers" for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
allkindsofdolls . I have taken a lot of photos over the years that don't fit in anywhere, and I was excited about sharing them. However, I have way too many to post to the group, so I'm going to post about many of the old dolls and memories here first, and then create an edited edition for a group post.
These photos are from my BJD 2.0, (Forest Violets), of a doll I got out of nostalgia for my BJD 1.0 (Garden of Virtues). (Post explaining my BJD time periods here). The photos are from November 17, 2012.
Serendipity Sharmin was first manufactured around 2003, from what I could find online, and she was one of the first dolls I noticed becoming popular on Den of Angels. She was affordable and had general, rather than niche, appeal, being a young woman. At the time, I fell in love with Dream of Doll and never considered getting a Serendipity doll, but I followed what others did with their Serendipity Sharmins on Livejournal and admired them there.
I found this Serendipity Sharmin on eBay for $80 and took a road trip to Austin to pick her up in-person. She had a broken hand, but all of her ear pieces were included. She had interchangeable ears that included elf ears and, I think, vampire ears. I bought some used Camellia Dynasty hands to replace her hands.
She's wearing a dress I made for her out of an old apron. I was amazingly uninhibited about my doll sewing at this time. I just started cutting stuff up and sewing it together. I didn't use patterns and I didn't care for perfectionism.
She's wearing a human hair wig from my Dream of Doll Ophelia, a wig I may still actually have (I try to discard them now when they've just gotten too bad-looking though).
She's holding some velvet violets (I was so into violets during this time), and against the tree trunk, she really solidifies the "Forest Violets" storyline name, ha ha. That's not a forest, though, it's just a tree in our yard. At that time, we would have had like 5, and now we're down to 1 in the front yard. It's so sad. They've fallen in storms or gotten so tippy they had to be cut down (which felt horrible, but they would have soon fallen on our house, died anyway, and also destroyed our house). It's like this isn't even the same yard. It used to be so shady.
It sure isn't the same world, and you can say that again...
Glynnis is the only doll that I have deliberately sold and re-shelled. I was in a time when I didn't think too deeply about things. Looking back, I can't believe I sold her, actually in that dress I made, so easily and just bought a new doll without much thought, but I did.
In that sense, I never had the opportunity to miss my character Glynnis, but I do regret letting go of this doll, which is now incredibly hard to find. Would I get her again? I don't know.
My Doll Leaves Lilith is the shell for my character Glynnis, and I've had her for over 12 years now. She was sent along with another doll on around her 12th birthday to Dollmore to get a new face-up, and she is still waiting to get her body cleaned. I took some days off next week to get the bathroom remodeled, and I'm hoping to get to her then. I still don't have the heads back from Dollmore, but I don't mind that, because I already have been dragging my feet about getting bodies ready.
allkindsofdolls . I have taken a lot of photos over the years that don't fit in anywhere, and I was excited about sharing them. However, I have way too many to post to the group, so I'm going to post about many of the old dolls and memories here first, and then create an edited edition for a group post.These photos are from my BJD 2.0, (Forest Violets), of a doll I got out of nostalgia for my BJD 1.0 (Garden of Virtues). (Post explaining my BJD time periods here). The photos are from November 17, 2012.
Serendipity Sharmin was first manufactured around 2003, from what I could find online, and she was one of the first dolls I noticed becoming popular on Den of Angels. She was affordable and had general, rather than niche, appeal, being a young woman. At the time, I fell in love with Dream of Doll and never considered getting a Serendipity doll, but I followed what others did with their Serendipity Sharmins on Livejournal and admired them there.
I found this Serendipity Sharmin on eBay for $80 and took a road trip to Austin to pick her up in-person. She had a broken hand, but all of her ear pieces were included. She had interchangeable ears that included elf ears and, I think, vampire ears. I bought some used Camellia Dynasty hands to replace her hands.
She's wearing a dress I made for her out of an old apron. I was amazingly uninhibited about my doll sewing at this time. I just started cutting stuff up and sewing it together. I didn't use patterns and I didn't care for perfectionism.
She's wearing a human hair wig from my Dream of Doll Ophelia, a wig I may still actually have (I try to discard them now when they've just gotten too bad-looking though).
She's holding some velvet violets (I was so into violets during this time), and against the tree trunk, she really solidifies the "Forest Violets" storyline name, ha ha. That's not a forest, though, it's just a tree in our yard. At that time, we would have had like 5, and now we're down to 1 in the front yard. It's so sad. They've fallen in storms or gotten so tippy they had to be cut down (which felt horrible, but they would have soon fallen on our house, died anyway, and also destroyed our house). It's like this isn't even the same yard. It used to be so shady.
It sure isn't the same world, and you can say that again...
Glynnis is the only doll that I have deliberately sold and re-shelled. I was in a time when I didn't think too deeply about things. Looking back, I can't believe I sold her, actually in that dress I made, so easily and just bought a new doll without much thought, but I did.
In that sense, I never had the opportunity to miss my character Glynnis, but I do regret letting go of this doll, which is now incredibly hard to find. Would I get her again? I don't know.
My Doll Leaves Lilith is the shell for my character Glynnis, and I've had her for over 12 years now. She was sent along with another doll on around her 12th birthday to Dollmore to get a new face-up, and she is still waiting to get her body cleaned. I took some days off next week to get the bathroom remodeled, and I'm hoping to get to her then. I still don't have the heads back from Dollmore, but I don't mind that, because I already have been dragging my feet about getting bodies ready.
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