More updates . . .

I was intending to follow up my last post with a more doll centric update, but then both kids got sick. Tiny (who is actually completely average in size but seems tiny to us) was terrifying in that way babies get when they're snotty, and the Giant had so much fluid build up in his ear that it actually burst his ear drum! So this is going to be a fairly rushed update, with pretty bad photos, before anybody wakes up.

All the local shops cut back on their shelf space for the Shopkins Happy Places stuff. Which meant getting every set for any building would've meant travelling to various shopping centres trying to find them, instead of just going to two shops. Before the kids, I probably still would've collected them and made seeking out every set into an adventure but now it just seemed way too hard, so I stopped getting them. I was going to get the Disney ones when they came out, but when I finally saw them I just didn't like them that much.

I was also getting a lot of LOL surprise dolls for a while too but simply put, the recent releases have just been too expensive. As it was I would only buy them if they were on special for fifteen dollars or less. But the confetti dolls were over twenty dollars and the newest ones are nearly thirty dollars! Which is bloody ridiculous for what they are.

I did get a second Maru and Friends mini pal, Jamie, for my birthday. But I haven't really done anything with her yet. I really like her but I'm not a huge fan of her dress. The fabric it's made from is lovely but the actual cut of the dress is simplistic in the wrong way. It doesn't (to me) look classic or cute, it looks like it's been made from the pattern of a generic, two dollar shop, doll dress.

I've also somehow amassed a little collection of 18 inch dolls. About a year ago I got two Journey Girls. Then more recently I got an Our Generation Rafael and rewigged him as a girl. I'm not overly happy with her wig, it looked a lot darker on EBay, but that's what you get buying stuff on EBay. Still deciding whether to get a new wig or just put up with this one. 

There's another girl coming as well. I don't know much about this new girl's brand, but they're often on EBay and Aliexpress under titles like " Handmade American Girl Doll". They're not American Girls. They're not even really knock offs, since they look nearly nothing like them. To me they look much younger than most 18 inch dolls, they're just the same size, with adorable little chipmunk faces.

I'm also considering, maybe, getting one of these girls from Target.

 They're about the same price as the Our Generation dolls and have pretty generic faces but they're sweet looking.

I also got the Our Generation kitchen set. I want to customise it for my Kish dolls but when I bought it I'd forgotten that my supplier of Mr Super Clear has closed down, so the first step is going to be finding somewhere, preferably in Melbourne, that sells that.

I think that's about it. So here's a picture of a dapper little skeleton boy. (Who loves Halloween more than anything.)