Funko Rock Candy: Game Of Thrones Daenerys

Normally I do not collect merchandise, but I am a huge fan of both the Game of thrones tv series, and teh book series + a few other books about that world. Therefore Game of thrones are one of the few franchises, I would collect merchandise for. So far there have not been any figure that I wanted, I do not like the style of the Funko pops and mystery minies, and the more realistic figures didn't really appeal to me since I wanted a figure of thge character, not the actor playing the character onm the show. 

But then Funko released these Rock Candy figures, and I instally wanted Daenerys. I like the Rock Candy figures because they are not as stylistic as the Pop figures, so the figure can better reflect the character, yet they have a lovely cartoonish style. 

There is only Daenerys and Brienne in this series so fart, but I really hope they will release more characters. While I love Brienne as a Character, I don't really like the figure of her, which is mainly because of the color of her armor. I don't like how dark the black armor make steh figure, and I would have preferred if she was made with her golden armor instead

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Daenerys was made with her Dothraki outfit, which I like, the details on the outfit is great. She allso has her dragton Drgon on her arm, I love that, and Drogon looks very cute. Her hair color is great, while Targaryans are often shown to have silver hair, Daenerys hair is describes as being silver gold, so this platinum blonde color is pretty accurate. One thing I am not too fond of, is her blue eyes, Daenerys is suppose to have violet eyes, the only reason she doesn't on the show is because the colored contact linses didn't work out for the actor. 

I really like her braids on the back of her head. Daenerys can't actually stand up on her own, which made me pretty dissapointed, shoulden't she come with a stand then? she even have holes in the buttom of her feet, which makes it looks like she could fit a stand. 

I acvtually ended up painting her eyes violet, and I am prettyy happy with the result. I am allmost tempted to paint her eyebrows as well, since that brown color seems a bit dartk for her lighjt hair, but I don't think I will bother with it. 

I found a place for her on one of my shelfs, I really hope they make more of these figures, so I can have a small collection. 

Snow pictures 2018

It was my intentiopns to share these pictures earlier, but this year I was lucky to wake up to a snow covered landscape severel mornings - some days it melted pretty quickly though. I decided to take one of my paola Reina dolls out in the snow to take a few pictures, the pictures was taken two differnt days in february. 

Day 1:

Day 2: 

Now I am really looking forward to spring, I hope nature will wake up soon, I need to see some green leaves on the trees and bushes. 

Doll news and wishlist update

The beginning of the year bring alot of toy news, and I have been looking for dolls to add to my wishlist. 

This guy is my first candidate, he is Barbie Jurassic world Owen.

I do not have any ken dolls in my collection, since I like very few ken dolls these days. But I would like to change that. I was considering waiting and see if ken would get a made to move body, but I am starting to think that it is better to give my gals some male company, than to wait for something that might not happend. This guy atleast has elbow, wrist, knee and probally allso ankel joints + synthetic hair rather than molded. His face is great, I love the stubbles, and his serious expression. I am not too fond of his hairstyle, but the color is great and two toned. I allso really like his outfit, it is simple and therefore very usable, but the vest and teh boots gives it its own adventure vibe. 

Barbie hunger games, Mockingjay Peeta.

This guy is not new at all, but if I get Owen, I would not want him to be totally alone with the ladies.

I have considered getting this Peeta doll before, it would have to be this version, because I lik his hair the best, but he is a bit difficult for me to find. 

Barbie Divergent four

I am allso considering him, since he is allso a pretty great looking guy. He has a very similiair coloring to peeta, but their expressions are quite different, so it might be okay for me to have both. He is easier to find than Peeta, so I might actually get him first. 

I was very exited to see another curvy made to move, and this girl is very beautiful with wavy honeyblonde hair and hazel eyes. But I am a bit dissapointed that she has a smile where she shows teeth, since I am not very fond of that. All the latest made to move dolls have had a tooth smile. 

Paola Reina Las amiga, Carol teacher.

This had me really excited! I have been wanting a Paola Reina doll with brown eyes and long straight brown hair with middle part. I had only found one doll that was excatly what I wanted, but she was an older doll, and only got harder to find with time. But this year they are going to realese a doll, who is what I have been looking for. Her hair is not excatly like the first one I found, but I actually think it might be better, I really lik the way her hair is pulled back. Her outfit is allso super cute, one of my currents dolls would love to wear it. 

Udating my wishlist I can see that there are a lot of dolls I would like to get this year, I hope I have the money to atleast get some of them. 

New liv doll - Its my nature Katie

A couple of weeks ago, I received a new doll I bought. Yes I actually bought a new doll! and I was so exited.

Katie was the last doll I was missing, from my favorite Liv doill series: Its my nature.

I was lucky to find her on Ebay, from an european seller, at an good enough price. 

The picture on the front flap of the box is beautiful, and it allmost looks like the doll, I think it is mostley the lips and the earings that look alot different than on the actual doll. 

I love the dolls from the Its my nature series, because they have some interresting outfits, with multiple layers and some nice accessories. Katie here has 5 pices of clothing + shoes, and 5 accessories (If some of them are counted as a pair)

Back of the flap

Back of the box

I really like how the box is full of picture showing the dolls doing all shorts of fun things together, accompanied of text telling about their adventures in nature. I used to cut out these pictures, but I never used them for annything, so I threw my cutouts away and stopped cutting up the boxes. 

Katies looks great wearing the full outfit, I like the yellow with the purple. The outfit consist of a bright yellow top, simple jean shorts, a dark grey hoodie with a purple and silver pattern, white and black striped tights, dark blue boots and a purple knit hat. It ias an outfit that work great for fall and spring, or maybe even mild winters. The different pieces of clothing is allso great to mix and match to make new outfits - which I intend to do.

Katie allso comes with a purple twist skateboard, knee and elbnow pads and a purple helmet. I think the twist board seems like a fun accesory, but I don't know which of my dolls will get it. I am actually more exited about the safety gear. 

I am a safety first kind of gal. I am sure that I will get some use for that helmet, since I would like to get my dolls a bike, and the pads can be used by both Liv and Barbie dolls.

The helmet can be tightened with the fabric that mnakes the strap. The pads tightneds with ridges in the plastic, where they are fastened - they each have 3 ridges.

When it comes to accessories, I am allso pretty fond of her purple earrings. It is not eawsy to see that they are shaped like safety pins, but they are, and I think that is pretty cute + I don't have any purple earrings for my dolls. 

While I would have loved it if the tights were yellow or purple, I do think it is nice taght they are neutral, so they can go with alot of different oputfits, I think my dolls will have to share them for now. I am sllso glad that they go past the knees, the tights that My nature Hayden wore, wn'ent above the knee, and I did not like that.

While I like the simple jean shorts, they don't actually fit properlly, I love Liv doll pants and shorts, and its a shame when they don't fit. Luckily they don't fall down, so a long top or shirt, will hide this issue. 

Finally a closer look at the dolls beautiful face. She has peachy pink lips, and simple brown eye makeup, which gives her a natural look that I really like. While I think the emerald green eyes are pretty, I don't think that they look very natural, therefore I try not to use dolls with these eyes. I don't have a plan for her currently, but I hope that she might get a charcater to play soem day, and then I might change her eyes. 

Leia got the yellow top and shorts, for a elegant and fresh summer look. 

The hat, hoodie and boots went to Emily, so she can be ready for the cold autumn winds. She may have to give som,e of it up, if someone else wants it, but for now I though it suited her. This picture shows the pattern on teh hoodie a bit better, and reminds me that I need to repaint Emilys lips again.

Shina got the earrings, since purple is totally her color, they m,atch her beautiful dress, and I think she would like the safety pin design.

While I was so exited to get this doll, I started to ahve my doubht about her, since I didn't seem interested in taking pictures of her or play with her - I yet again had teh thought that I don't really apreciate my dolls. But when I did start taking pictures, I started to feel inspired, and I began to dress and play with some fo my liv dolls, which made me quite happy. This month I am not going to buy annything new for my dolls, but I started looking into what to buy next month, it is my birthday that month so I might buy more than just one thing - if my bank accout is not suffering. 

A couple of chairs

September last year I found some metal miniature chairs in a store, that has all kinds of cheap nick knack. I immediately recognized that the chairs were Barbie size, and I was really happy about my find, and decided to give one of these chairs a try.
In Denmark it is close to impossible to find Barbie sized furniture, unless it is plastic furniture, which I don't really like. All the doll furniture I find in stores and online are either 1:12 scale or for 45 cm dolls. If I want decent wood furniture for Barbie sized dolls, I would have to buy from another country, and in that case i prefer to either make my dolls furniture myself, or have my boyfriend make it for me. But it is not that often we get around to make the wooden doll furniture I love, my liv dolls and Paola Reinas are those I focus on when making furniture, Therefore my Barbie dolls and cat dolls (Hujoo Freyas) are mostley without furniture. My Barbie dolls actually had nothing at all, they were just sitting on and dresser I had tried out fot my Liv dolls. 

The chairs were in 3 colors, light blue, pink and seafoam green, I bought the green one. 

This chair is not really my style, I don't like decorative metal things all that much, the color is a weird shade of green, and the shape of the chair looks a bit weird to me. But the chair is sturdy and well made, it is the right size, and it was very cheap, it only cost 20 dkr. 

While I was pretty sure that the chair was teh right size, I was happy to see that the chair is the PERFECT size for my Barbie dolls. I was starting to like the sesfoam green color a bit better, since it matches some of my dolls pastel colored outfits. And so I decided to get a second chair.

I bought a light blue chair, which I think looks nice besides the green one. Im a very happy to have thoose chairs for my Barbie dolls, and I did consider getting a third one, but at that timne they were out.

While I did not really lik the look of the chairs in the begging, I must admit that I now like their pastel coloring, and I am beginng to think metal doll furniture has a certain charm, even thought I still prefer wooden furniture. 

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. 

Outdoor autumn pictures

A couple of weeks ago, I took some outdoor pictures of two of my Barbie dolls in the forest. I had actually not thought about taking any outdoor pictures of my dolls during fall, but as I was dressing one of my Liv dolls for the colder weather, I remembered how I had taken some very lovely fall pictures of this specific doll a few years ago. I felt like taking her outside with me and do anotehr fall photoshoot with her, but I reminded myself that I have other dolls that needs to be phtographed before her. Then I realised that my two newest Barbie dolls, that I had been wanting to take outdoor pictures of this sumemer, would actually looks quite nice against the autumn landscape. 

I am pretty happy with this photo, I think Cassie looks very serene and her warm coloring looks great against the abckground with brown, orange and yellow leaves. 

I was happy that she looks so nice posed on this branch, and her shirt totally match the orange/brown leves. 

I don't think this photo is all that great, but I thought it would be a shame to leave it out. The idea of leaning her against a branch seemed nice, but the angle just didn't work out. 

Same pose, but this angle worked much better, I think this is a great photo that captures both the beauty of the forest qand Cassie in a dynamic way. 

I wanted to take some photos of Cassie with Lana, I like how they both shows some personality, with Cassie looking serene and Lana looking pretty cool and laid back. 

I thought that I had posed cassies legs in a nice way, it looks like she is swinging them back and forth. I think I could have posed Lanas arms a bit better though. 

Lana posing against a small trre, I think she looks like she is ready for some action, or atleast ready to climb some trees or go for a run. I think this picture shows off her beautiful face very well.

I wanted to take a pictures of Lana from behind, looking far ahead in the forest, so i could show how beautiful her hair looks from behind. But I think this photo ended up looking a bit awkward, with how Lana had to grab the small tree with her arm to not fall over. And I don't think this photo even capturet how beautiful her hair is, since it looks uneven and makes her head looks oversized. 

I am more happy with this pose, Lana looks pretty relaxed and her hair farmes ehr face nicely.

I found a white flower and I really wanted to pose cassie with it, and haviong Lana in the background. It was a bit diffucult to pose their arms and hands right so it didn't look awkward, but I think it turned out pretty nice in the end. 

I am very happy that I finally got some outdoor pictures of these two dolls, I think these pictures show off Lanas beauitiful face and hair very nicely, and Cassie looks great with the warm colors of Autumn.