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Jennie

Autumn is here. But still sunny and warm.

For some days ago we went for a road trip, on a sunny day. On our way home we stopped at a shopping centre. Wanted just to look around and so did my daughters. Bentley and husband waited in the car. Took a look at the toy store to see what they had and saw LOL Surprise OMG Music Festival Featuring Jennie. I did not buy her and regretted it almost directly.

Jennie.

I said to the family that it was sad that Jennie did not get into the car - referring to the song "Dracula" by Tame Impala ft Jennie where the lyrics go "Jennie, just get in the car". My youngest daughter had heard the song and got it and laughed, saying that we will fix it on another trip soon.

Her red hair really takes over, in a good way.

And yes, we did that just some days later.

Jennie is a South Korean singer, rapper, songwriter and actress. She was one of the members of the South Korean girl group called Blackpink, which debuted in late Summer 2016. She has even been a part of the Cheongdam Woori Animal Hospital's "Protect Our Family" campaign since 2018. The campaign helps to protect pets and rescue abandoned dogs. In person she is a shy, girlish and has a baby-like charm compared to her persona on stage. She works with fashion, collaborates with many different companies and has a full life. This doll shows her red hair era.

Close ups.

Her shoes and Jennie in the box. There is even a poster included. But no stand, sadly.

Details of the box. And her signature/autograph.

LOL dolls have had those specific eye shapes, more to the round ball like. Lashes painted on and a bit of flat face style. The flat face is still there but the eyes have a new shape with lashes that stick out. The hands have been the same, small fingers, delicate and with long nails. Lips are more pouty in this new version. I have read some reviews about her and it is divided. The collectors and parents think the doll is overpriced being 26,99 USD and kids just love her because of the details and cuteness.

Jennie in the sun, with a bug.

She is a typical LOL doll and it is fun to have her in my collection of dolls. That the real person Jennie had done a lot in her life and was so famous was something I did not know. I have heard some songs by Blackpink and Jennie herself, and that was it. I learned something new!

Thank you to Anita for her help during the photo shoot.
Here she is on her way home. Pay check will be delivered to her.

And by the way - no bugs were hurt during this photo shoot.

On the cover of a magazine...

Greta Garbo and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine.

Have been singing this song lately, Vogue by Madonna, while thinking about the magazine meme that some of us doll collectors did for several years ago. I did this twice - first with Zipporah and then with Genevieve. And here is my newest one!

And if you want to join you just follow some simple steps.

1. You need to think of a name for your magazine.

2. Choose a theme (it can be Halloween or something completely different).

3. Take an appropriate photo using your own BJD or other doll.

4. Use your own editing program (let us know which one you used).

5. Most of all . . . have fun!

This time I changed the name from Jolly Dolly to Candy. I really do not know why, but it just happened. The theme is more late Summer and early Fall, with some thoughts for the upcoming Halloween. On the cover you can see two of my L.O.L dolls, My Melody and Buttercup. My Melody is an character from Sanrio and a friend to Hello Kitty. Buttercup is one of the Powerpuff Girls. I used Moldiv as my editing program on my smart phone.

And it was really fun. Thank you to My Doll Haven and Fantasywoods for cheering and sharing their covers too.

Happy weekend!

It’s happening…

Claire de Luna, with her bottle of magic.

…a post from me, myself and I. Hope that you all are doing well and enjoying the season you have, wherever you are. Over here it’s slowly turning to Autumn and some cooler days. Summer has been rather hot and dry, and not so fun for the local farmers around our cottage. There’s been an encouragement from the county to not use so much water because the levels have been low.

A Calendula Officinalis and a mini Sunflower.

This has been an interesting plant, a Physalis. Cape Gooseberry, I think it is called.

Here we have a Summer Squash in full bloom.
The photo to the right is a small yellow tomato in a pear shape.

A Bell Pepper. Took some seeds from a bought pepper and wished for the best.

So it has been a bit challenging to keep my plants alive. But in some way the plant made it this far. I have had luck, but had to wait until now to harvest some seeds. The seeds usually arrive earlier. And the tomatoes are just now turning yellow. This is something I have enjoyed during Spring and Summer. After the last post I have just been hibernating. We came rather early in Spring to the cottage.

On a walk and after the walk.

Bentley had his 7th birthday here and had a play date with his best friend since both dogs were tiny puppies. Can not imagine them both being 7 years old.

The day she came home, still in her package.
And some props she owns.

And dolls. I have bought some new ones, but no BJD’s. Have my eyes on some and hopefully I can do something about that soon. One of the dolls I bought is a Monster High Moonspell Magic Claire de Luna doll. She’s a Generation 3 doll, and the cutest of them all. She was released on July 1st this year.

Out of the box.

Into the woods we went to take some photos.

She has a cane and a prosthetic eye.

On the Monster High Wiki it says that ”she is a clairvoyant witch, meaning she can see into the future and read constellations as easily as her fingers read braille”. She’s blind and has some perception in her left you and a prosthetic eye. Then she has a cane too with some other props. You can see all the dolls in this series at Monster High Wiki, here. I have been looking at Carina Song as another doll to have in my collection.

Then I have found my way to Bluesky. Not as Dollsdolour. Made at first an account as myself - sharing everything from weather, dolls, Bentley and so on - under my own name. Forgot to close DM’s and it took off fast with strange people letting me know what they thought. Closed that account and made a new one and I’m still there.

Until next time. Enjoy your day! Will visit you soon!

Some L.O.L Dolls

It is November and I am so surprised how fast time has been flying. It was not long ago when we packed our car and drove the 6 hours to our cottage and looked forward to a wonderful Summer. And now we are back at home. Where did the Spring, Summer and Autumn go?

I hope that you have had a wonderful time and I am sorry for not being around so much lately. But here I am now and I want to show you my latest little collection.

A shelf with some trinkets and L.O.L Dolls.

I took a visit to the local toy store near our cottage and I saw some surprise balls with L.O.L Dolls based on Hello Kitty and Friends called Lol Surprise x Hello Kitty and Friends. Could not resist, so I bought one. Later on I went and bought some more and found three on sale from other collectors who had doubles.

L.O.L Doll My Melody in the sun.

The first one I got was my childhood favourite, My Melody. I remember being in the stores in Finland with my parents or with with grandparents, showing them pens, cute coloring books and note books with My Melody and often having the luck to coming home with new things.

Pompompurin, a rare one, in the collection Hello Kitty and Friends.

Even Haribo have a collection.
This is the candy version of those bottles that taste like Coca-Cola.

A Crayola L.O.L Doll. One of nine dolls!

Boo! A mummy L.O.L doll, one of two.
And Bentley taking a nap.
Then you see my husband's leg and shoe.

Pumpkin spice, candy corn and everything nice.

In total this collection has eight dolls. Then there are other collections, too, with several amount of dolls - so you can collect these tiny cuties for a long time. During Halloween there was a collection of two L.O.L Dolls and of course I got those.

Kuromi.

Kuromi on the shelf.

The last L.O.L doll for this post is Kuromi, from the Hello Kitty and Friends series. I ordered it from a private seller and it felt nice to find her to my collection. I squeezed her in between the two Halloween L.O.L Dolls.

These dolls are cute and rather easy to come by. Here you can buy them and the toy store, at the grocery stores that have a section for toys and online. The down side is that you do not know which one you get and there is a risk for getting a doll you already have. Three of the dolls I bought from Tradera (similar to eBay) because the collectors had gotten the dolls twice. At the moment I am looking for the rest of the dolls in the Hello Kitty and Friends series, especially Keroppi, a frog. Have seen her on eBay, but would like to buy her from someone closer to home because of the shipping costs.

Enjoy November!

Cleo DeNile, Summer memories

It is in the middle of the winter over here at the moment and you really need the thick socks, scarfs and shoes that can make it through the snow. Even Bentley, our dog, has a jacket on during the later evening walks so that he does not freeze and can be seen in the darkness.

In the coldest of winter days you really long for the warmth of the summer. Went through some photos I took of Cleo DeNile, my Monster High doll from the Generation 3. I had thoughts about a little story line for these photos - she was on her way to a party, got lost and ended up home, because “What's a forest party? After all, I suppose it would be frightfully dull, and boring, and completely ... completely wonderful.” Inspired from Cinderella.

I never came to posting this during summer 2024. So why not post it now. Better late than never.

Enjoy and Happy Valentines!

Ready for a summer party in the forest.

It will be so fun to dance!

I will dance like the wind is carrying me.

Is it this way? I feel lost!

Help, a bug!

Everything is up-side-down!

Better find my way back home.

Good to be home again. I can party another day!

Comic Con in Stockholm

The last days of December. 2024 is soon to be just a memory and sometimes I feel that the most parts have been just nothing to cherish. But there is some moments that have made my year a better one. Last year I and my youngest daughter won some tickets to the Comic Con and this year we bought our own tickets for the same event. We booked a long weekend at a family house outside the big city. We stayed at them last year too and felt safe and slept well. It is a family father that has made his two floor house to a living place for his family on the upper floor and the first floor he rents out to travelers. This year we had luck to get the master bed room. There is a bath room and a kitchen that is for every one. It worked very well. All the rooms were taken, but it did not feel crowded.

Stockholm and Comic Con. The Q&A, some cosplayers and artists at work.

We had three days at the Comic Con fair hall. So many people in cosplay, selling stuff and so much food in every corner. We did a lot of walking during these three days. This time we focused on the Questions and Answers with three well known actors. It was nice to relax and listen to the interviews and get to know them a bit better. It was Paul Wesley, well known from The Vampire Diaries. I watched that serie with my kids when it was aired here in Sweden. And then he was in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for a couple of years ago. Husband and I saw that movie. Sadly the Q&A's focused more on his time in The Vampire Diaries, and some young girls in the audience still dream about him as their future husband.

Mark Williams, from the Harry Potter movies, visited Comic Con too. He is even a comedian, so it was a up lifting and fun time to listen to him. He told a lot of the pros and cons with filming the Harry Potter movies and shared some anecdotes from behind the scenes. He is even well known from the series Father Brown.

From my 'younger' days, Tom Welling from Smallville had a Q&A too. I watched the whole serie while nursing two kids, in the beginning. It was nice to hear that he is still active. While listening to him, my daughter had an awakening and showed me a picture of Tom Welling in a serie she had seen recently, asking "Is this him?". Said 'Yes, but much older than in Smallville'. We had a good giggle.

Cosplayers.

He looks so sad. Poor thing.

Some cosplays were really amazing. We went to a short lecture, last year, on how people build up these cosplays and it can take many years to the finished product. This year we listened to other lecture about acting and how you can build your own Falcon (the ship) from Star Wars in real size - if even just a part of it.

Kasia Nie's amazing work on the the magazine.

We had some lovely days. Bought some stuff, especially a Fantomen-magazine to my husband and talked to the artist who had made the front of the magazine. She was really nice and gave us a poster for free and autographed both the poster and the magazine.