#anneswd

My two sleeping beauties: Laurie, a Volks Yo-SD Anne Sweet Dream from 2006, and Seren, a kindergarten Kun-kun head circa 2020, on a temporary Pettimal body. His open-eyed face-plate, below, is a kindergarten Xing-xing, and his adorable outfit is by 暖暖暖薄荷 (official English name: Melting Mint).

Summary: 9/10 would recommend.

Pros: Shapely sculpting especially on the legs, elegant jointing, good poseability, colour-matching available, variety of option hands, easy to change hands, two available heights, solid quality resin, single-piece torso looks good unclothed or in swimwear. 

Cons: Longggg wait time, single-piece torso limits poses, creaks like crazy at the beginning, non-gendered (if you like having different male/ female bodies), arms slightly on the short side if you’re looking for child-like proportions, elastic in elbow joints is rather visible (I’m grasping at straws here...)

More detailed comments and posing photos:

With the recent arrival of Asai Mira’s Pettimal body, I can’t put off giving her a face-up any longer...!  I’ve set this Sunday aside to get her (maybe his?) face done, and maybe do a temp one for new-girl (SDM Hewitt) while I'm at it.  For Mira, I'll be aiming for delicate and fresh-faced - similar to the sculptor’s own Mira, who made me fall for the sculpt in the first place.  I still find face-ups so time- and focus-consuming, I can't get anything else done for hours...

If the face-upping goes well, I want to take another group picture of all my dolls, short and tall together.

Also, I joined the pre-order for Stars Are Falling's (SAF) new Rin-SP head! He's billed as a 1/4 scale head, but with a head circumference of 18.5cm and eye size of 14/6 (significantly smaller than all my MSD's and very close to Roo, my 35cm tall MiniFee/Chibi Unoa hybrid), I'm hoping he will fit well on the Chibi Unoa body (SAF’s resin is supposed to match well with Alchemic Labo “fresh” skin) and make a good friend who can put up with Roo's, um, idiosyncrasies, shall we say.  (Right now, I'm thinking a mild-mannered bookworm with glasses~~)

I've pre-ordered one of Be With You's (BWY) new 35cm bodies in “normal” skin, and I plan to put Roo on it and give his current Chibi Unoa body to Rin.  The shapeliness of the Chibi Unoa body fits Roo better, but there’s a definitely colour difference with his pinky Fairyland resin, and I’m hoping the BWY will be at least a slightly better match.  It’s so exciting to have a new child-like body in this size range on the market!  I’m looking forward to testing it out and seeing it beside the Chibi Unoa.  I believe BWY dolls have some kind of fancy silicone posing aid in their joints, which will be a nice change from the Chibi Unoa (certainly not the best poser :P).

Beside Rin-SP and the BWY body, my only other incoming doll is Mia’s Smile Soo in her new normal skin, plus an experimental PLA body for it.  (If the PLA body doesn’t work out, I will get one from 2D Doll.)  Soo will be a shy, dark-haired boy of 2 or 3 - I’ve already arranged his wig and eyes.  I’m also eyeing the Kindergarten 1/6-scale head sculpt I linked in a previous post - for a sleepy boy, maybe girl, to nap with Laurie, my Yo-SD Anne Sweet Dream. ... These tinies multiply like flies >_>

So I have two boxes of MSD girl clothes which I had collected between 2005 and 2008, long before I owned any girl doll who would wear them (in Small Wonder canon, at least).  I was generally more attracted to, and wanted to own, boy dolls, but I knew that I also really enjoyed how pretty the dresses for girl dolls were.  So I just kept collecting them, kind of on the side, as it were...

I dumped the contents of both boxes out this morning and was honestly surprised by how much there is for only 4 years or so of collecting, and no doll to actually wear them during that time. XD;;;  Separates are on the left, and sets on the right:

The MSD size was my “first love” and I fully expected to collect only MSD-sized dolls for the duration of my time in the hobby.  When I bought my first Yo-SD (Laurie - Volks Anne Sweet Dream), it was partly because her sculpt captivated me, and partly because I was sub-consciously trying to fulfil my thwarted desires for a doll to wear frills and ruffles...  

Well, the Yo-SD thing has gone leaps and bounds in its own direction since then. XD;;  Of course, that still left me with two boxes of MSD girl clothes and no one to wear them, until I finally purchased an MSD girl who could wear them in-character.  She arrived in September this year, and she still doesn’t have a name or a proper face-up, but I feel very contented just having her.  And she definitely does not need any clothes purchased for her, there’s enough here to last a dolly lifetime...  

All the sets are pictured below, barring the lovely kimono and yukata, which I will put into a separate photo.  I think the majority of these are Volks sets, which are usually very nice quality.  There is also some elaborate Japanese dealer stuff, and an adorable Ospirit casual set.