And now you want to know who Bijoux is...

Bijoux was a very random purchase. When SOOM released the Elemanders Sammi & Picro, I was in love with Picro. The blue looked lovely. In the company photos Sammi looked very 'peach'. Not pink at all. I didn't have the pennies at the time of thier release so they passed me by. It was only when I saw owner pics that I truly fell in love with the sculpt. The face was beautiful. And Sammi was PINK!

I wasn't looking for anything really when browsing the marketplace on Den Of Angels. Just window shopping. at this time I was quite bitter about Nero having not arrived at Mint on Card. And I saw Sammi. Just blank... but she looked beautiful. I slept on the idea but that just gave my imagination the time it needed to envision things! I knew how I wanted my friend and guru to paint her body and faceup her. I was going to open the eyes but decided against it. And I also thought of how she fit in to my many storylines for my BJDs. She was Nero's sister. Box opening, then explanation!

 I have so many of theses white boxes now lol

 So pink! Gorgeous. I still don't understand why SOOM concealed the pink by blushing her all peachy. The pink is so lovely.

 How I intend her to stay. Don't think I will ever use the human legs, feet or hands.

 I'd always wanted a Frezje dress. Felt like everyone had 1. And they are lovely. I'm already trying to justify the money to be spent on them! Really want to get Mischa and Kajsa one.

 I tried many of the wigs I have spare and used a spare pair of eyes that I still have and hate. I had no idea what eyes and wig she should have.

 So for that moment she was blind and bald until I could figure it out. Hopefully a faceup and body blushing would make stuff clearer but while she was gone a got 2 wigs and some eyes.

My guru worked closly to my photoshop efforts and I tweaked what she did with more photoshop to show her what I wanted. She did the faceup perfectly. I've actually lost the original photoshops I did at the start, but she did it exactly how I wanted :)

I tried the red wig from before. Still wasn't right.

 I had this wig made for her. It's so soft and lovely. Still wasn't sure though.

 I also bought this wig. Decided it wasn't her though.

I don't know what happened but I tried the glot default again. And for me, it fit. I don't know if it's because my friend faceuped the eyebrows a light brown to match, but I decided this wig was Bijoux. The eyes I ordered for her though didn't stick. Instead she got Kajsa's old pink ones.

How can a white tiger cub and a salamander be siblings I hear you ask? They are adopted brother and sister. Both turned to a human form of thier past selves by a fairy and her wand. Bijoux was actually the result of a silly kitten throwing his mother's wand into a river. But thier adopted mother loves them both dearly. This is another story which is open to new members. Nero and Bijoux may have other siblings one day.

The longest wait...

Before Moya, before Nysa, and finally before Delilice there was a doll. A doll that stayed concealed up to this point because even though I fell in love with him before the aforementioned, even though he was ordered and paid off before Moya he arrived after. I ordered him January 2013 (the very end of his order period) from a dealer. Mint on card this time round and it wasn't a horrible experience. As I believed the actual company the doll was coming from had fairly long waits I opted for a long layaway to make paying for him more comfortable as I was just recovering from Christmas and such. I'd never ordered from this company or dealer before so it was twice as exciting and terrifying.
The long layway passed. I had hoped the doll would have arrived at Mint on Card at this point. He had not. The doll company keeping me waiting was LoongSoul. He did not arrived until November. Over nine months wait. To make things worse there was a mistake on his paperwork so customs wanted to charge me £125. Thats over a third of what I paid for the doll including shipping. I argued with customs and with evidence provided by the very helpful and speedy Mint on Card, customs realised thier mistake. There was a very long and painful email silence before they admited this, but my little resin guy arrived at my mother's safe and sound and charge free!
I was so worried that I wouldn't bond with him by this point. But all worries and doubts dissipated when I opened the box.

I felt like they over did it on the tape just to spite me and make it harder to open!

A little bit battered, but the box is so beautiful. It's shiney soft feeling card. I love all the dainty little patterns. If you know me you'll know that I ofcorse approve of the colour scheme also.

ooo free stuff and bubble wrapped things, and awww he's so lovly even as a mummy!

 My little white tiger Ye. I loved all the default blushing and faceup so I wanted that. However to me the default outfit and wig didn't really suit so I didn't want those even though I got the wig for free anyway! I didn't want the default eyes either so I ordered some icey blue eyes for him. I asked Captured in Glass to make the pupil smaller also :) I wanted him to look more like an actual tiger cub.

Was a bit upset about the smudge mark on his arm, but didn't complain. First because apparently it's the more british thing to do! and secondly because I didn't want to send him back or anything. So I consider this a birthmark! I called this cute little thing Nero. Not really a reason why, just liked it. And Nero is very true to his instincts even though he was transformed from a real tiger and isn't one anymore. He'll only wear black and white. No colours as it ruins his camouflage!

 What'ya doing Nero... hiding?
"shhh woman! I'm hunting...."
O.o Take your hood off. I have something for you...

O.O "For me..? What, what, what...."

 *throws toy*
"Gah!NO! EVIL!" *hisses*

 *wrestles with toy*
"I have you nowww!!!".... "you are a very squishy enemy... and cuddley..." *purrs*

 So you like him?
"His nose is dry..."
its a toy silly ;P
"I love him!"

You can show Bijoux ...
"K... but she can't have him, he's mine! And she can't touch him and get her girl germs on him... she can ... look..."
>,> Maybe we need to have a chat about sharing...

Isn't it great when everything comes together ^.^

So, Tulie & Kajsa (SOOM Glot & Bygg) have been in a storyless place. Tulie since day 1 and Kajsa since I sold Beyla. They had personalities but thier backstory was a mystery. When SOOM released LG Turb & Roxan in May 2013, I knew I had to have one. Once I decided which I wanted my imagination sinked it's teeth in and a story emerged. This story included Tulie and Kajsa too and if I one day saw myself faced with another grey tiny I must have they could slip into the story too ^^ I'll explain after box opening...

 Kajsa and Tulie had been waiting for this ^^

Box and my dog...

 Either they make the box look huge or the box makes them look o so tiny!

 Bubblewrap pieces, outfit, wig and ooo free stuff (Skirts). I was intending to sell both but Aeryn wanted the 1 on the left!

 She has huge wings! But red is so pretty ^.^

 Pieces unwrapped? Check!

 I knew I'd only want 1 head but which was still unknown until I saw them in person, hence both having faceups. I picked the 1 with the fangs.

 Body ^^ Love the grey resin so much <3 Though must say the parts of the zippy case that hold the legs and body in place I find really annoying!

 I got the outfit just because it's so pretty. And the default wig. I haden't picked eyes for her yet so she had the pupiless spares that all the eyeless dolls wear!

 I did intend the default wig to be worn by her, but I just didn't like the way it looked on her in person. I tried all the spare wigs I had on her.

 I didn't really like any of them.

 So she was wigless, and not very happy about it. Then there was a brainwave! Delilice had a red and wig wig... and Roxan's default will maybe suit her better. The wig swap comenced!

 Delilice looked great and I was so very happy with how the red and white looked on Roxan. Now The wig was picked, I'd buy eyes for her in the very close future. All that was left was a name...

 There was a lot of possible name choices but in the end I chose Moya. Moya is the name of 1 of my favourite sci-fi series' characters; Moya is a living spaceship from Farscape.

 

I eventually decided to go with red eyes. Though sometimes I'm not sure if it's the right choice.

I love this girl so much, I think she's stunning, however I am biased ^.-

Moya is a living gargoyle. She was lost as a small child but was found by a witch. She didn't realise the witch was bad until it was too late. Magic kept her trapped in the witch's garden. This witch collected many living things to live in her garden. She called them her 'living statues.' When she found out Moya could turn things to stone she was thrilled. She forced Moya to turn all the creatures in her garden to stone. The last to be turned to stone was Kajsa, a unicorn. But Kajsa's magical properties enabled her to be turned to living stone just like Moya. After this the witch demanded the two of them turn everything she wanted into living stone. They continued this unhappily for a while. One day the witch kidnapped a child dream caller. The witch had bitten off more than she could chew though this time. The night before the dream caller was to be turned to stone, she controlled the witch's dream to a point that she was sleep walking with all her protective spells removed. The dream caller also invaded Moya's dream as a way to comunicate to her what she thought should be done. Moya agreed to her whims and that was the night the witch got turned to stone. All the 'living statues' were freed, most returning home. A select few only knew one home and that was with Moya.

So at the moment only 2 of the trapped creatures from the witch's garden have stayed with Moya, Kajsa the unicorn and Tulie the dream caller. Both for thier own reasons. There may be other creatures from the witch's garden that I just don't know about it ^^ I like having open stories as I don't want my doll collecting to be restricted or necessarily have an end. Slow down maybe, but not end. I decided I liked this way for doll collecting so the next group of dolls I also see as having an open story ^^