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Theophilus Carter, my tiny Mad hatter doll, got a cute little Steampunk outfit today. It's super cute.

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I went to one of those doll meetups yesterday, and, as always, had a great time.  It's nice to get out and talk with people, and it's really nice to get together with other collectors and be able to have conversations about whatever while taking pictures of our dolls.

The meetup was at a nice, large park, so my husband and daughter came along.  Evie got to run all over and play while I got some much needed social time in.  She id come up and look at the dolls, and even cuddled little Theophilus (he's her favourite).  She really likes dolls.  I'm pretty sure she should have her own little doll, but I'm worried about the resin.  I was told about dolls that could work that still had the customizeability of the BJDs, but were made out of less brittle materials, but I don't remember what they were. :(

I do think it would be nice to have a dolly Stitch 'n Bitch, but I'm pretty sure that if I hosted one it would have to be small.  It would be a nice mini-meetup thing during the rainy season.

Back in February I said that I was done with buying dolls for the time being and that I would instead work on getting things for the dolls I have. That didn't last long.

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I am a doll collector. My dresser in my room is absolutely covered with 12" fashion dolls, mostly by the Bleeding Edge doll company. I have a few Barbies, almost all of them Silver Label. But my favourite dolls, my pride and joy, are displayed in the living room. They are a pair of those Asian ball-jointed dolls, 60cm height, sometimes people (erroneously) refer to the type of dolls they are as Dollfies. They aren't, although they are currently wearing clothes by the company that makes the Dollfie and Super Dollfie ball-jointed dolls. Mine are actually by a Korean company called Soom. They are a cute couple, and I like dressing them and posing them. I've been resisting the temptation to start photographing them, but I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to hold out.

I just got my boy doll recently; fewer than two weeks ago. The interesting thing is that once he arrived I began to lose interest in my smaller fashion dolls. I don't really play with my fashion dolls like I can with my couple, and they get kind of repetitive after a while. Granted, I can only play with my larger dolls when Evelyn is sleeping. She's developing quite the fascination with my dolls in general, and I just don't want her poking at my expensive dolls.

I'm starting to realise that not only do I have an urge to collect tings, what I always wanted for myself as a girl was something similar to my mother's dolls I played with while visiting my grandparents. She had only a few dolls, but they had so many clothes and had a storage trunk. You could still kind of do that with Barbies while I was growing up, but it was already beginning to turn into the crazy collecting frenzy and one doll/one outfit thing you see now with all the various fashion dolls out there. Yes, you can still buy clothes for them, but there just doesn't seem to be the variety that there was when my mother had them. I'm not even sure if the trunks even exist anymore. I will honestly admit that, given the choice, I would probably have been happy buying just one Bleeding Edge Goth doll, the first one I purchased, and then just bought the outfits all my other dolls are wearing. It's probably one of the things I found so compelling about the American Girl's collection when I was younger. You buy one doll, and then deck her out with ridiculous amounts of accessories, outfits, furniture: the works.

I may not actually be done collecting dolls, but I think I'm going to be putting more effort towards the ones I have now. I think that will make me happier, and will take up less space.