Bongo's Bumbles

  Daydream With Me?    A Shinigami Eye right out of Death Note , superimposed with a photo of two people in cosplay.     First, I would like to start this post by revealing the second pair of eye chips for my custom Blythe doll who is currently in the works over at BlytheDreams . This set is about shared fandom, shared memories and lost love. Each of my custom Blythe dolls that I am commissioning BlytheDreams for have a theme centered on memory, nostalgia, love, family, fandom or friendship and each will contain either a photo I took myself or a photo taken of me and someone I cared about. The first doll I got done, Mallymkun, was themed to memories with family. So one of his eye chip sets contains a photo that I captured during an evening where I had a lot of fun with my family together at Disneyland . He is also a doll made of a character that really piqued my interest that evening, as well. The Dormouse from Disneyland California Adventure 's Mad T Party nig...

Quick Life Update        I meant to post more in the last week but goodness, things have not gone quite to plan. I've been staying up too much, been extra tired, lost some creative motivation and regained it and now as I type this, I have a very persistent sinus headache from the changing weather here. Really hoping I can get back to this again soon. 

I Am Still A Fan Of Japanese Animation          Due to my newfound interest in having custom Blythe dolls made for myself, I have recently realized that I actually still enjoy anime. The tracks I am singing in the above video are both from anime that was new when I was a kid but are now considered older classics, though I have been watching a few newer series. What made me realize I still felt this love was that I was brainstorming ideas for a new Blythe doll when it suddenly hit me that the Blythe doll proportions worked fairly well to create an anime chibi-like look. At that point, it also dawned on me that I could take a look back at the animes I grew up loving, to see if I could find any characters in them that I would still want now as part of my doll collection. So far, I have been enjoying Hamtaro , Slayers , Chrono Crusade ,  S-Cry-Ed , Lucky Star and... Death Note . I ended up creating Blythe doll designs for Hamtaro from Hamtaro , Naraku from In...

  Hello There!        Goodness, my last post appears to have been last year... I am sorry it has been so long but so much has happened. I've gotten a new doll since then, for one thing. For another, I've gone through two hyperfixations since and... I also lost my father to cancer. I never made a post about it as far as I can recall, but I received the news that my father was battling Stage IV cancer back around December 15th of last year, maybe earlier. I tried my best not to focus on it though, especially since it still looked like he would make a recovery. He sounded and looked pretty good, all things considered. Admittedly, despite that, I did start to feel like time and people I loved were slipping away... and I had an idea to help myself cope with that feeling. I was browsing Tedsby when I saw this beautiful little doll . I bought her on sight and soon learned that she is a type of doll known as a Blythe.      Blythe dolls are dolls which fe...