My New Tall Barbie #TheDollEvolves

Last Barbie review post before my comparison pictures! Today we look at the Tall Barbie.

29: Terrific Teal

The last of my four new Barbies! She was one I settled for because the Tall one I want isn't available yet. But I did like this doll's curly hair and that teal skirt!

Out of the package

Hair straight out of the box

I'm really glad I liked her curly hair in general rather than how her hair is styled, because the images that show her do not accurately represent how her hairstyle looks in real life. And the back of her hair looked so sad. lol

barefoot / shoes / front view

I'm not a fan of her shoes, but that might be because I like the higher heels on my Barbies. Maybe if they had an open toe I'd like these shoes more though.

bracelet

She has a small bracelet, which is secured by rubber band because it is way too open and small to stay on its own like my original's bracelet.

Brushed out her hair

I tried brushing out her hair a little, to fill it in a bit I think. It made the curls seem a bit softer.

compared to her image on the pamphlet

Behind her is the image they put out of her. I wish her curls started a little higher on her head. I also kind of wish her hair was a bit brighter of a red. It looks more like an auburn brownish color in person.

Front view / side / back view

Her bracelet and her skirt are my favorite parts of her outfit. Not too keen on the shoes. I dislike her shirt.


Here's my Tall doll without clothes:

front / side / back

So she has slightly longer legs than original. And she probably has bigger feet. It looks like her torso is a bit longer too. She has a slender figure, pretty much goes straight from her chest to her hips without dipping in at her waist.

clothes

Her skirt is lovely. It's a thin fabric and it has an elastic waist. Her top... I really don't like her top. The print is cute. But it's too boxy. I pulled the back so that the velcro crosses over and only barely touches and it's still too loose. If it was tighter, or shorter, or if the collar wasn't so high to make it look boxy... any of these things would have greatly improved this top. What kills me is that there's darting, but it still feels boxy.

tucked in shirt

So I tucked her shirt in. It's improved her top so much. Much better!


Overall, I like this doll a lot. I do love her curls, and her skirt. And I like the tall dolls. I gotta admit though, seeing this doll in person versus it's promo pictures makes me scared to get the tall doll that I want. I feel like her hair might look more like a clown... we'll see. ♥


OMG, so I took all of these pictures on a comforter that's on an inflatable mattress. I managed to get this lady to stand on her own on the bed. Bah hahahahahaa

Standing on her own! She stood for about 10 seconds before she toppled over.

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View my reviews for Curvy, Original, and Petite.

My New Petite Barbie #TheDollEvolves

I've already covered Curvy and Original, now it's time for Petite!

23: Love That Lace

This was my other first choice doll out of the four. I love her outfit and her hair style. So cute!

My New Original Barbie #TheDollEvolves

Hello! Finally had the time to take some pictures and share some thoughts about one of my new Barbies! I decided to open the Original Barbie model first, just because it's an original Barbie. There will be less photos for this one I thinks.

Number 19: Ruby Red Floral

I chose this Barbie because of her Asian eyes and long straight hair. When I originally decided to pick one of each up, she was in the final cut. (unlike my Curvy and Tall dolls, which I settled for because the ones I wanted were not for sale yet)

Happy Valentine's Day! - my first custom Funko Pop

Happy Valentine's Day!!



A few weeks ago, in a Facebook group I lurk in, a guy named Eric posted a group of Funko Pop Groots that he had customized for Vday.

This is Eric's Groot

I loved the idea of a Groot Rose! But the price he was charging for these customs were too much for me. However, I did have an extra Dancing Groot. I began to wonder if I could make my own Groot Rose. So I gave it a try! This isn't a tutorial or anything, just showing ya what I did.

More New Barbies!!

Got an unexpected package in the mail Friday!

I got the shipping notification on Thursday to let me know these dolls were coming, but that was unexpected too, as I could have sworn I saw a release date of March for all of them!

Here are my three new Barbies! I have a Petite, an Original, and a Tall. Soo now I have all four body types!! *jigs*

This box also included a checklist for the new Barbie line! Super cute!!




So expect some more posts from me this upcoming week! I'll be doing an individual review of each of these three Barbies, then a compare post of all four! ♥

Funko Pop Update

It has been six months since I last shared any funko pops I picked up. I have not stopped picking up Funko Pops. In fact, I've almost doubled my collection. Heh.

Instead of sharing individual pics, I'll just share the two funko pops I got this past Saturday, and then I'll share a pic of my whole collection, and just list the new ones.


My new ones:



I wandered in to the Hot Topic hoping to pick up the Ninth Doctor and pink Harley, but I wasn't holding my breath for Harley. I figured she sold out pretty quick.

They have shelves that are stacked two high and three back with Pops, so I started from the bottom, and slowly started shifting Pops this way and that in search of Harley. The Ninth Doctor was super easy, they had a dozen of him. On the fourth shelf I check, in fact - that last shelf I can reach without asking for a ladder - at the very end, I find her. I find four of her. All hiding behind other pops, but there she was! So I happily grab my two new Pops and go to the register.

I place them on the counter. Both of the employees stare blankly at Harley.

"Where did you find that?! I've been telling people we sold out! I even tried looking for them!" The guy exclaims.

To which I reply, "They're kind of hidden, but there were four of them in a group on that shelf there. So there's three more..."

He then gets all scared that the people he turned away will notice this and get mad at him.

The moral of the story is you might not want to just ask to see if they have a pop, it might be safer to look for yourself. Because seriously this Hot Topic had four and the employees were telling people they were sold out. I don't blame the employees, obviously someone tried hiding them. But I wasn't going to give up until I couldn't reach the shelves, so I win. *shrug*



Moving on, here's an updated picture of my collection:

New Pops:
Zoe Washburne
Iron Throne
Petyr Baelish
Gus Gus in Slipper
Quidditch Harry Potter
April O'Neil
Buffy
  
Already mentioned:
Ninth Doctor with Banana
Pink Harley Quinn
    
Star Wars:
Rey
First Order Stormtrooper
Yoda (Spirit)
Wampa
BB-8
Poe Dameron
Captain Phasma
Boba Fett (Prototype)
Snowtrooper

Pocket Pops:
Rainbow Dash
Adipose
Captain America


There we go! All of my Pops so far. They were either purchased by me or my guy, a couple were bought on clearance, and a couple were gifts. I still have quite a few I want, and Funko is apparently going to be at C2E2 this year, plus I'm looking forward to the vendor Pops, so I'm wondering what other pops I'm going to end up with this year! ♥

My New Curvy Barbie #TheDollEvolves

Greetings! It has been months since I've last posted here. My apologies. I'll give an excuse, but really, it's not all that surprising. I battle depression and anxiety and it's sometimes hard to keep up with things for me. But I haven't abandoned this blog. I'll still be here, posting when I'm up to it. 


Last week, Mattel announced a new line of Barbies featuring three different body types. So of course, the very next day, I placed an order. However, many of the Barbies in this new line are either not available to preorder yet, or aren't coming out until next month, so instead of ordering one of the ones I'd really like to own, (or patiently waiting for them to become preorder-able) I settled for one I'd get sooner rather than later.

On the third, I got an email that she was shipped. And at 7am on Friday, I saw through tracking that she was on a truck ready to get delivered!

She arrived at 4pm (ish)

More Funkos!

Like I mentioned, I have four more Funko Pops in addition to the two I shared the other day! I'll post them here in the order I got them.



1) Harry Potter:

This Harry has the Gryffindor sword. I ordered him while I was visiting family in Michigan, and he was available to pick up shortly after I returned. He's so cute. I need to get the other Harry Potter characters that I'm missing! GAH. So much money...






2) TARDIS:

I originally ordered this TARDIS online along with the next Funko Pop, but they told me the warehouse was sold out and issued a refund. So I went to the Hot Topic at the mall and they had like 8 of them. I bought one there instead.






3) Hagrid:

I had ordered Hagrid and TARDIS together because there was a 20% off sale online. So it was sad when I had to go and buy TARDIS for full price. But I did get Hagrid when he arrived!







4) C3PO:

I hadn't planned on purchasing this guy. He was a spur of the moment, OMG I want this one, decision. I had walked in to the Hot Topic to pick up Hagrid. (I selected free site to store shipping.) And then ended up buying this guy too. The normal C3PO isn't gold chrome and I wasn't interested in it, but this guy IS and he's beautiful. ♥

See my whole collection here.

Mug Swap - What I Got!

A super quick post today! It's the mug I got from the mug swap, ages ago! HAHA! I already shared what I sent, so here's a piccy of what I received!

Tada! Isn't it beautiful? Such lovely red and pink flowers and the little dots on the bottom! And then there's a stem of cute pink flowers right on the inside of the mug too! So very cute! It's so perfect for me, there's no way I explained my likes that well to my swap partner - she must have psychic abilities!


Boyfriend and some friends and I might be going camping next week, and I might bring this mug with me for tea. Hee. ♥

Long time no see! Funko Pops too

I dropped the ball again. I don't know why, I think in my mind I thought I didn't have anything else to write about, but alas... I wandered back here, meaning to catch you up on my Funko Pop collection, and - lo and behold - I find two drafts that I never finished.

One was what I got from the mug swap (I already posted what I sent) and the other was what I sent as  Fictional Crush Swap Angel! I'll write those two up and post them soon.

For now, I'm showing you two funko pops that I got back in June... then I have another post with the rest of the pops I've gotten since. I think there's only three or four more from these.


First up, the Tenth Doctor!

I ordered him from the Hot Topic website because I assumed he'd be sold out by the time I got to the store. My dad thought he was so cute I ended up ordering two - one for him. lol.



Next: Discord!

I've wanted Discord for a while, but he's a larger 6" figure, and I could only find him at Hot Topic... and I wasn't willing to spend $20 there to get him... and then I found him at Walmart. His box was a little beaten up, but I was like, "whatever! I bet he's cheaper than he'd be at Hot Topic!" So - even though I'd already checked out when I saw him - I dragged my cart back through checkout and found a scanner machine to find out his price. He wouldn't scan! So I took him to a register. The lady at the register couldn't scan him either! So she called over her manager, and I explained that I found him beat up, alone, and without a price tag. So they sold him to me for $5! FIVE DOLLARS! I was super excited! Ha! ♥

5 Fandom Friday - Characters With My Favorite Fictional Fashion

Favorite fictional fashion! I love the ones I chose this week, so let's just get on with it:



1: Effie Trinket 
    (The Hunger Games)

I think this is an obvious choice. I loooove Effie's outfits in the Hunger Games series. They're all so perfect! Well... I love almost all of them - the butterfly one she wears is utterly terrifying. (to someone terrified of almost all insects, butterflies included)  Otherwise, her outfits are fabulous! ♥




2: Daenerys Targaryan
    (Game of Thrones)

One of my favorite things about Dani is her wardrobe. It's all just so fantastic, it makes me wonder where she acquired all of it - does she have her own personal seamstress that's followed her from Illyrio's house to Meereen? Because I love it all. ♥




3: Luna Lovegood
    (Harry Potter)

I love love LOVE Luna. I love her attitude and I love her "loony"ness. I also love her outfits! She very obviously dresses in whatever fits her fancy at the time and I cherish that about her. ♥




4: Penelope Wilhelm
    (Penelope)

I feel like this movie gets so little love, and yet I absolutely adore it. It's an adorable fairy tale, and it firmly established my crush on James McAvoy. (although I first noticed his cuteness in Narnia) It's also the moment I fell in love with Peter Dinklage. And I've been a long time fan of Christina Ricci. She plays the title character and her outfits are soooo cute!! I love it! ♥




5: Willow Rosenberg
    (Buffy: the Vampire Slayer)

This was the first fictional character I thought of when I thought of favorite fashion, because she's one of the first fictional characters that I actually made a note of when I was little. I remember adoring her clothes, beginning with the quirky high school outfits and how they evolved through the years. I wanted to have Willow's wardrobe when I was little. I still wouldn't mind it today. ♥

Iggle Squiggle's 5 Fandom Friday

A shirt I finally got!

Here's a nice, quick story! So, back in December of 2013, I entered to win a shirt from a blog I frequent. I won! I gave the blogger my address to get forwarded to wocomo, and was also contacted by the owner of wocomo, (the name of the etsy shop... it has since changed) to let me know he'd be a little late sending the shirt, but it was coming.

I had to choose: Marvel or DC?? (I chose Batman)

It never came.


In March of 2014, I decided to contact wocomo to ask about it. He said he has sent me a shirt, but obviously I didn't get it, so he was sending another one.


It never came.


I hate bugging people for things I've won. I'll usually only ask once, and then it's up to them. Thinking about it, three things I've won in the past come to mind - things I never received, but won't pester them again about it. (One of them was just earlier this year, a necklace I was supposed to win, but never even heard from the lady who was supposed to give the prize. One was from last year's IGGPPCamp. The third is from a couple years ago, nail polish that she said she sent but I never got.)

If you read the parentheses, you'll see what's not listed on there. This shirt.


In March of this year, I was contacted by wocomo - now Liva Design - once more. He was checking up on me because I never let him know if I got the shirt. He assumed (correctly) that it was because I never got it, and wanted to send another one to me, but his Batman shirt had changed since then, so he asked if I'd be okay with getting the new design.

I was floored. I had not expected to hear from him ever again!

He got my info again, and this time, the shirt had a tracking number. So I was able to watch it get here - and two and a half weeks later - it made it to me!

Here's a couple pics:

My new shirt!

Closeup of the Batman symbol

I had planned on writing this post back in April when I got the shirt, but I didn't have time, and then I took that blog break. When I came back to my blog, I noticed an empty draft in my posts that was titled "A shirt I finally got!" so I figured it was about time to write about it!  :)

Here's another link to that shirt if you're interested!

5 Fandom Friday - Favorite Fictional Dads

There are a LOT of fantabulous fictional dads out there. I tried going with the first dads I could think of, and they all ended up being from TV. So here's a list of just a few of my favorite TV dads:



1: Phil Dunphy
    (Modern Family)

Last week I had Claire on my list for being able to reel in her crazy enthusiastic husband. Of course I have her husband on the list. He's one cool dad. He may be out there some times, but he cares and very obviously loves his family.





2: Marshall Eriksen
    (How I Met Your Mother)

As much as I loved HIMYM, Marshall is the one I didn't hate at one point in time or another. He's super nice and kind and has his own values and although we didn't see him be a dad too much on the show, I think he'd be a great dad.





3: Richard Castle
    (Castle)

OMG of course Castle is on my list. It's Nathan frickin' Fillion. But he's a great dad. He cares, he gets worried and he'd do absolutely anything for Alexis. And she knows she can count on him for anything. I love love love Alexis and Richard's relationship. It's adorable. ♥





4: Henry Spencer
    (Psych)

Henry was the type of dad who pushed his son. Maybe a bit too much. It caused some issues between them, but overall, he was just a father who was trying his best to get his son to reach his full potential. When Shawn found his calling as a psychic detective, Henry was always there to help him out, even if it was just to talk things through. He came out of retirement just to make sure Shawn was safe. And even though Shawn didn't always catch on, all Shawn needed to do was ask for Henry's help, and he'd get it.





5: Bobby Cobb
    (Cougartown)

I loved this show. And Bobby Cobb was hilarious. He may not have been a great... role model at times, but he was always there for his son and I loved their relationship. Plus he's hilarious. I saw the actor on Burn Notice recently (I'm finally watching that show) and it was pre-Cougartown and it just wasn't right. He'll always be Bobby Cobb. Did I mention Bobby's hilarious?




Oh man, now I'm just going to sit here and miss Cougartown. And Psych. And How I Met Your Mother.

Iggle Squiggle's 5 Fandom Friday

Mug Swap - What I Sent

Another Iggle swap! I had planned on staying away from iggle swaps for a while. The last one I'd done - the recipe book swap - took longer than I expected because I went overboard. It kind of burned me out. With that and the Best Birthday Ever Swap... I figured right then that I'd back off a bit. I avoided the swap section of the forums like the plague.

...And then I got a DM from the person running the Mug Swap. She had a bunch of people sign up, but she was at an odd number, and wondered if I might be interested in making it even. Of course I said yes... despite trying to stay away from the swaps, a swap sought me out, and I love swaps too much to say no. I couldn't resist!


So my swap buddy gave me a list of fandoms and other likes to go from, and I found myself on etsy searching "each fandom + mug". When I got to Batman, I found 5 million people and their mums were apparently selling vintage* glass Batman mugs. From 1995. From McDonald's. From Batman Forever.

*I don't know if I consider 1995 "vintage"

I laughed at this. "Who," I thought, "in their right mind, would want Batman Forever mugs?!"

And then a tiny voice in the back of my head spoke up.

"...Me."


All of a sudden I was looking at these mugs in search of the best deal to buy one for myself. Then I realized that maybe if *I* - a person who is only really more of a fan of the Batman movies and doesn't quite consider "Batman" one of her fandoms - would be interested in a Batman Forever mug... mayhaps my swap buddy would be interested?

I ended up finding a fairly good deal on three Batman Forever mugs - two Batmans and a Two Face.

One Batman mug is mine now. Bah hahaha.

Here are pics of Batman and Two Face:

Batman front

Batman back

Two Face front

Two Face back

 These mugs were super cute! I like the coins on the handle of the Two Face mug! Once I washed them, I happily started packing these two mugs in to a box when my anxiety crept up behind me and whispered in my ear,

"What if she's not like you...?"

Dang it. THANKS ANXIETY. So my excitement from "vintage" Batman Forever mugs imploded in on itself and all that was left was a lingering mushroom cloud of doubt.


I went back to her list of likes, and headed out to the store.


Cats are one of her favorite animals, so I picked up this cute mug:

It was between this and an owl mug, (another one of her favorite animals) but overall I thought this one was cuter, mostly because the tail is the handle. Hehe.

So, I wrapped the cat mug up, found a bigger box, and sent all three mugs to my swap buddy. Surely she's bound to like at least one of them!! ♥