Recap of 2017, and thoughts for the future.

This year started out pretty well, with, my boyfriend buying me the made to move barbie in an orange top, during a january sale. But after this sale the store never stocked up on made to move Barbies, I was hoping they would get in the redhead, the skateboarder and the football player, but they never did, and none of the other toystores had the dolls to begin with. I did however find the skateboarder, whom I desperately wanted, on a danish online shop, and I bought her in june.
I was allso planning to get the redhead, but when I thought I might buy her, she was no longer available on any of the online toy stores.
I do hope to add more Barbie dolls to my collection next year, I still want the readhead, and one of the football players. But I don't know if that will happend, since I don't really feel like buying any new dolls lately. 

This year I got my second Tonner doll. I was lucky enought to find the exclusive Lady Arabella, from the deja vu line, for sale on ebay. I had allready decided that I woulkd pair my viking guy up with one of the lady Arabella dolls, since he could look like he was from midevel times, and I never liked the two viking gals outfits. But I never imagned that I would actually get a chance to buy the exclusive version, who is the one I wanted the most, since I love her red hair in an elegant hairstyle, and her beautiful elegant green dress - she is wonderfull. She was okay priced for a doll of her standard, but shipping from USA to Denmark is allways exspensive, and then there is customs. In the end I gave quite alot of money for her, I used both my christmas and birthday money to pay for her, and I am so happy I did.
I must admit that I would love to get another Tonner doll this year, since I love the once I have so much, they are the crowning jewel of my collection. But I need to be realistic, I do not have room for a third doll right now, and the discountinued Lady arabella dolls have only gotten more rare and exspensive on ebay.
But I have actually been thinking, that I might be interessted in collecting some of the dolls from a few of Tonners new doll lines. Not so long ago I watched the series Outlander, I enjoyed it, and think I would allso enjoy the dolls. I allso enjoy the harry potter world, and think I would like atleast some of the fantastic beast dolls. None of these dolls are out yet, but yesterday I saw pictures of a claire doll. While the dress is gorgeous, I am sad to realise that I do not like the face very much. Now I am not all that hopefull that Tonner will soon make some dolls I truly love, but maybe that is for the best, since I have nowhere to put them. 

This year I started collecting the small surprise plushies called Surprizamals. I was so exicted to see them in the stores, since I had seen videos of youtubers opening some, and I instaly wanted them. I was actually in doubht that they would ever be available in my country, but suddenlly both series one and two, were in varios toy stores. These plushies are colorful, cute, fun to open and the perfect size for my Paola Reina dolls to enjoy them. I don't know if I will be getting any more, since the girls have plenty of plushies now, and there are only a few of them I still want. 

I did buy a new Paola Reina this year, and I am very happy that I did. The Liu I bought looks
wonderfully cute with her pale complexion, dark eyes and dark wavy hair. I have enjoyed figuring out her personality, and I am very happy that I took some outdoor summer picture of her in my parents garden, with the other dolls.
I am unsure if I am going to buy a new Paola Reina doll next year. My plan is that the next doll I am going to get, will be one with brown eyes, and long straight brown hair, no bangs. But I can no longer find the dolls I had my eyes on annywhere, I was too slow to get her. I have kept my eyes open to see if any of the newer dolls fit my criteria, but none of them really do, so I will have to wait, undtil the right doll shows up. I quess I could get some of the other Paola Reina dolls on my wishlit while I wait, but then I think my shelfs would get crowded really fast, since these dolls takes up quite alot of space on the shelfs I have.  
I am thinking about buying thgese dolls some new clothes thought, so maybe that is where I should start.

I did not buy any new Liv dolls this year, I did look, and I did find atleast one on ebay that I wanted, for a decent price - but it didn't feel right. sometimes I am unsure if I should keep buying liv dolls, since I am very content with those I have, and I don't need a new doll to create a new chracter, atleast not when it comes to the girls. I would like to spend some of my time, energi and money on stuff for the dolls I allready have, and I want to improve their charcters. But I still have some dolls on my wishlist, and they either have some great stuff, I would like to add to my dolls wadrobe, or can help improve a charcater in one way or the other. Sometimes I think I should just buy these dolls, since Liv dolls, their clothes and accessories are only getting more exspensive and harder to find new in box. But I quess this is where I get exhausted, and want to drop it. Doll collecting should not be a franatic and exspensive hunt on ebay. I don't know what I want to do.
I did however buy my dolls, two original liv doll outfits, that I have been wanting for quite a long time, and is very happy with. But the outfit shown in the picture, I never got around to talk about on the blog. I have a few other things I got for my dolls this year, a bed and a couple of chairs, that I haven't gotten around to share either, and I am not satisfied with that. Maybe my priority should be to finally blog about some of these things, before I figure out what to buy next. 
While the first halft of the years was full of new dolls, I did not buy any dolls during the second half of the year. I have had a serious problem, with this whole issue about what I shoud buy next, so I allmost stopped buying new doll stuff. August and october I didn't buyy annything at all, september and november I only bought surprizamals and two small packs of Barbie accessories.
I think I lost interest in buying dolls and doll things, because I started thinking that I did not apreciate, my dolls enought, and I wanted to save some money for other things. I am sure that I should not spend money on something that I don't really apreciate. Unfornunately this idea that I don't apreciate my dolls, made me unsure how much my dolls really means to me. I do still get excited about them, and enjoy playing with them once in a while, but then the feeling goes away, and I feel like I don't care about them. I even get exited sometimes, when I start looking into buying a new doll, but then I am sure I only care about buying something new, not actually having the doll.
When I write about my dolls, or really look at them, I know I enjoy them. I am still interested in dolls, I still read dolls blogs, watch doll reviews on yutube and try to keep up with news. But these conflicting feelings makes me unsure if I should even continue collecting.