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Kaisu (Bluefairy Tiny Fairy Xiao, 1st on classic girl body)

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Jasper and the Wandering Eyes

Well, the Volks SDC Arashi on the MSD boy body was delivered the day after Xmas. He was in better shape than I thought, although he definitely needs some TLC. I'll take him apart, take out the glue sueding (hate that, drives me crazy), sand the seams, and restring him. He needs some cleaning up. There's a few marks on the face-up, but if I'm careful, I think I can preserve it? We'll see how it goes.

I was going to name him Rory, but he's definitely not a Rory. I named him Jasper instead, after my 2nd favorite character from Twilight. (Bella's dad Charlie is my hands-down favorite, but I don't like the name Charles.)

Jasper came without eyes, but I have two sets that might do for him. A Luts blue glass 16mm and an Enchanted Eyes urethane (Milky #6) 16mm. I got the brown eyes for another doll (Kaj, my Luts Kid Delf Almond) and I need to pull him out and check to see if I changed the eyes out already.

The story with Kaj was one of those learning experiences. Several years ago, when Luts introduced their Yuz Kid Delf sculpt, I wanted to get a pair of Kid Delfs to be brothers. At the time, they were offering cat ears/tails, so these two were going to be the Malachy brothers, a pair of mischievous cat boys. However, when they came in, it didn't work at all. Kieran (Yuz KDF) had a much smaller head that Kaj (Almond KDF). So Kieran kept the Malachy surname and I gave Kaj a Swedish surname, Utne. No particular reason, I just thought Kaj Utne sounded cool.

Kaj and Kieran. The vampirish red eyes are Enchanted Doll urethane Milky #19). As you can see, the Almond sculpt (Kaj) has a much larger head than the Yuz sculpt (Kieran). So much for my cat brothers plan!

Kieran did still do the Cat Boy thing, though.

Kaj had brown eyes for awhile, but they ended up going to Bryony (Bluefairy Kate) because I wanted a brown-eyed blonde girl. These are Enchanted Doll Milky #31 and Milky #4 (half-graduation) with Milky #6 rim (variations of brown) urethane, 16mm, low dome.

So Kaj got Blue eyes (these are Droprop Cobalt Blue urethane). But I think I switched him back to his original Enchanted Eyes Milky #19 (red) and gave the blue to Jillian (Dream of Doll DOC Tender Too girl). But she may have to give them back.

So this eye thing can get complicated, but this kind of customization is what makes BJDs so fun.

But back to Jasper. His eye choice will really depend on what wig I chose for him and his style of dress, which I won't know until after I clean him up a bit and try things out.

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Noelle (MSD Ko-tenshi Yuri)

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Sibylla (Volks SDMidi F-18)

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Phoebe (Volks SDMidi Standard Hina)

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Sleeping Beauties, Caroline and Jane (Volks MSD F-28 Mire Sweet Dreams and Volks SDMidi Nana Sweet Dreams)

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Jane (Volks SDMidi Nana Sweet Dreams)

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Caroline (Volks MSD F-28 Mire Sweet Dreams)

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Clemency (Volks SDMidi Tenshi Mamu)

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Sylvia (Bluefairy Tiny Fairy Xiao)

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Vivian (Bluefairy Tiny Fairy Kyle girl)

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Hotaru (Volks SD Saki)

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Kasumi (Volks SD Chiyo)

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Miyu (Volks SD10 Standard Coco)

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Honor (Volks Dollfie Dream DDH-07 WS)

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It's sad to me that I have to even mention this, but please, DON'T BUY RECASTS! I've been in the hobby for several years now, and I've seen the damage that recasts have done to the market and to the hobby. These dolls that bring us so much joy are the hard work of artists who deserve to be paid fairly for their work.

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