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. ♥

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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.

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