My hobbies

As most of you I have gotten into hobbies that to "normal" people either seem weird or strange, or is something they look down on. I get a lot of weird looks, and questions about what something is by those people. Mainly because they it is something they have never heard of and its something they don't really understand. For those reasons I decided to write a little about each hobby to give those not familiar with it a better idea of it.


I will start with the common hobby, video games. As most people know its a electronic game. Most people think that its for kids and that they are turning kids violent. Both things are untrue. People of both genders of all ages play video games, and there are many different kinds of video games. If your worried about the level of violence in a game just do your research, and most games should came with a rating.

I often use comics and cartoons as a way of describing anime and manga, just because its easier to explain what some thing is when you have something that the other person knows to liken it too. One thing a lot of people don't realize is that there is more to anime and manga than super heroes and kids shows. Well ok there is super heroes and anime for kids, but a lot of the super heroes and kids shows can be rather different to what your use to. There are anime and manga covering anything and everything, and targeted at all ages and both genders.

Cosplay is one word made up of two. The cos from costume and the play from role-playing. It means to dress up as a character and acting like them, but a lot of people just use it as a term to mean dressing up as a character. You can either buy or make your costume, or a combo of both.

Lolita is a street fashion that became really popular in Japan and has since spread from there. It is based on Victorian-era fashion. It features knee length dresses and skirts, with a cupcake like shape, its very modest and very girl, and can be very cute as well. There are many different styles of lolita but they all keep to the same outline.
I would also like to point out that lolita fashion has nothing to do with the book or movie of the same name.
Here's a photo of one of my dresses to give you a bit of an idea.

Finely Ball Jointed Dolls or BJDs for short. Like the name suggests they are dolls that are ball jointed. You can do a lot with those dolls and they come in a lot of different sizes. The smaller ones can be around 20cm and they can get up to 70cm or more. You can customize those dolls, by making clothes and props, changing their eyes and wigs, swapping heads and wiping off their faces and redoing it. A lot of people also like to take photos of their dolles.

Unboxing of Super Dollfie Graffiti Shizu Darling - Kimono Version

Recently I brought a new Super Dollife and I thought I would share some photos of her unboxing. She is a Super Dollfie Graffiti, which means she is one of the larger dolls, and she is the Kimono Version of Shizu Darling. I have decided to call her Rose.

So she was shipped in a big boring brown box. I didn't noticed at the time, but the photo doesn't actually show how big the box was.

Inside the big boring brown box was her actual. I keep all of those box, and I really like this one. Its really cute. It also came wrapped in one layer of bubble wrap.

This is what it looks like inside when you take off the lid. On the top you can see her Kimono, feet, shoes, wig and her booklet. Hidden in the box at the end are some legs, which I didn't realized at the time. 

 Once I got everything out, I found her really well wrapped in bubble wrap, inside the two pillows. Talk about good packing.

 I used a pillow to hide her nudity, but as you can see, she came with a face guard to protect her face, and her feet and part of her legs and her hands wrapped in bubble wrap. What you can't see due to the pillow is that her neck and arms were also wrapped in bubble wrap. I must admit, as well as my other dolls were packed, Rose would have to be the best wrapped doll I have got so far.

 Close up of her face up with out the face guard.

 When I got the bubble wrap off the legs, and had a closer look, I was a little confused. I noticed that there wasn't a joint at the ankle. I knew that every doll I had got so far had a joint here. I also received a pair of feet with a joint. I would also like to point out that the feet with a joint are flat, and the feet without a joint are heeled.

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It was at this point, I looked a bit harder, and found those leg parts in bubble wrap hidden in the little box at the end. Now I will be able to change to jointed flat feet.

Included was the standard Super Dollfie guide book that you get with every doll, and a booklet for just the doll I got. Inside this book was a picture guide to how to put on the Kimono as pictured below

 The jointed flat feet with the heeled shoes

The wig in its bag and netting

The Kimono was nicely packaged all together.

Every thing put on! She is so much prettier in person, and I can't wait to get more photos of her!

AVcon haul 2015

With AVcon over I thought I would share the things I brought while at AVcon. Be warned I brought a bit.

This year I brought I brought quite a few Pokemon related things.

 Before AVcon I saw those Pikachus pop up on Facebook when a friend posted them. She was selling them at her stall and I knew I had to have them. So my first stop was at her stall to pick them up.

 Snorlax!!!!!

 I first this was cute.

 Those were super cute, I love how they even put tails on the back of them.

 I collect Pokemon cards and wanted to pick up more

 Those were at Culture Craft, a stall in Artist Ally.

I have been thinking about getting a new wallet and really liked this one.

I brought a few lolita things as well.

 This a Baby the Shines Bright letter writing kit.

 I really want to try my hand at a Hime coord and thought I would start with this.

 This is one of two bags I got.

 The other being this one.

I also won a raffle, and those were the things I won.

 Close of the rings.

 Close up of the earrings.

 I also brought two parasols.

 This is the other one.

 The black jumper I got for being gold pass, and the [ink one I brought

I also got this shirt for being gold pass

 I saw this faint Hello Kitty at a shop and had to get it, along with the smaller one

 I know a girl who has this beanie and wanted to get one for myself.

 I also got those four paints of Yaya Han

I got this one signed. 

 I also got those Doctor Who mugs, the two single ones change when there is something hot in it.

 I thought it suited geting a Weeping Angel.

And the Tadis was pretty cool too.

I also got this Tetrs mug which changes when something hot is in it.

My friend was also selling a few BJD things which I had to have.