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This is the final week before I close my etsy store!

All items are now in lucky packs. My lucky packs are sold at a discount, and I try to include at least one outfit in each. There is also items I make just for the packs that were never sold in the store!

Store closes October 31st.

#reblogs

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I made a long text post the other week, but for those that missed it, I'm closing my Etsy store on Oct 31st. I'll being going on hiatus indefinitely while I take a break and look for a new venue to sell my clothes.

I'm clearing out all my stock, so all orders over $100 AUD ship for free!

#reblogs

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The card reader in my laptop has died Time to get a USB card reader friend

#personal #three heads make a lot of noise

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@sbslink replied to your post “Also I’d love to know what it is about me that I...”:

because you need the distraction? Good luck with all of it ^_^

​I could buy that explanation!

Thank you! I’m having a real struggle of imposter syndrome but from everyone I’ve talked to, that’s super normal in phd land

#sbslink #replies #three heads make a lot of noise

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@kawaiimon replied to your post “Also I’d love to know what it is about me that I...”:

It's your brain reminding yourself you need something for you that's not work/study based!

​That sounds legit, especially this last week I’ve been too busy to do just about anything other than work

#kawaiimon #replies #three heads make a lot of noise #let's not even touch on the chronic illness flare up lately either #that's probably a contributor tbh

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Aiko is a Dearmine Dearpet Lily Peacock Blue

The camera isn’t finished charging and I have to go to sleep but I couldn’t resist snapping a picture of two cuties in one (the second being the cat Aiko is lying against)

Also what tags are we using these days?

#legitbjd #ball jointed doll #dearmine #dearpet #dearmine lily #lily peacock blue #my pictures #my bjd #aiko

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Also I’d love to know what it is about me that I get the urge to get back into my dolls whenever I’m incredibly busy with work and study

Three jobs and a full time phd but the camera battery is charging

If there’s anyone floating around who wants to see a particular doll, let me know

#personal #three heads make a lot of noise

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I was looking through old photos and found one of Eos that had been flagged as inappropriate content

A fully dressed doll from the bust up

Tumblr why

#three heads make a lot of noise #eos

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I’ve been meaning to write up a shareable post for some time now regarding the fiasco with Layla Szczepaniec and her company JpopDolls. I’ve been putting it off for months now because the whole situation just makes me so unbelievably angry that it is hard to calmly and succinctly explain all the bullshit Layla has put not only myself through, but also dozens of other customers and doll artists through.

I’m writing up this post because I do not want anyone else to be in the same position as I am now where they’re out of luck getting back their money and have nothing to show for it other than a few Facebook messages and emails full of nothing but excuses and lies. If this post prevents even one person from doing business with JpopDolls, I’ll consider that a win. If it causes Layla to shut down the business for good, I certainly wouldn’t shed any tears over it.

The short of it is that I preordered an Asella Raspberry doll in coffee skin back in October 2020. I never received the doll nor have I received a refund. Layla has not posted to the JpopDolls Facebook page (the only active source of information) since June 2022. Comments are also limited on the FB page (or at least I know that I am personally blocked from making comments on it). I am not the only one in this position either. There are people that preordered dolls from early 2020 that never received them, and there’s people that purchased in stock goods that either never received them, or it took months to receive them.

The long story is that back in February of 2022, Asella herself posted on her Facebook page that she had recently been in contact with Fdoll and Island Doll (2 companies that JpopDolls had used in the past for casting Asella’s dolls) since she was planning to run some preorders herself, and found out that neither of them had received orders from JpopDolls in the last 1-2 years, despite the fact that Layla had been regularly running preorders since 2020. Prior to this news, I’d spent a little over a year emailing and messaging Layla asking for when dolls would be arriving, and always given something along the lines of “soon”, and once given an actual month for when the dolls should get delivered to her.

When contacted about this news, Layla stated that Asella was misinformed and that the dolls were delayed due to the 2020 COVID shutdown and casting problems. She then stated that the dolls would be delivered by spring, and if they weren’t, customers would be refunded. Spring came and went and no dolls materialized and no refunds were sent.

In summer of 2022, a public Facebook group was created called People and Businesses who lost money to JPOP dolls. It currently has 79 members. It was a group that aimed to try and organize all of the JpopDolls customers that had been having issues with the company. Together, dozens of us filed formal complaints to the Washington state Attorney General’s Consumer Resource Center, as well as the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. Unfortunately, nothing came of these complaints. I believe some individuals also filed police reports and knew of at least one person that was thinking of trying to go to small claims court since they lived in the same state as Layla. I haven’t heard any updates regarding that though.

From what I read in the group, JpopDolls has been ripping off artists that worked with them for years, at least since 2017 (when Grace was still alive, so this isn’t a new problem with a new owner). This has led those artists to stop working with them in the past. A post from October 2022 also stated that they received an email from JpopDolls about a sale on doll clothing and accessories as well as in-stock dolls, so Layla is clearly still actively trying to do business and the website is still up and running. I have not personally heard anything from her since emailing her in March.

I have personally come to accept that I will not be getting my money back, and even if I did receive the doll by some act of God, I wouldn’t want it anyway. The entire situation soured me on a doll that was my grail for a majority of my time involved with this hobby. At this point all I want is to make sure that nobody else does business with JpopDolls (or Layla Szczepaniec) ever again.

Do not buy anything that’s in stock or on preorder. Do not give your hard-earned money to someone that is more than happy to take it and then never send you what you paid for. If you have an order with JpopDolls that is still within the timeframe your bank or PayPal give to file a claim, get your money back now.

Please do share this information with your fellow doll collectors, new and old alike. I don’t want anyone else put through this nonsense.

You can find my old posts about this issue on my Instagram story highlights under “jpopdolls” as well as my feed here and here.

#reblogs #that's so sad to hear #I'd bought wigs from them before and had always wanted a raspberry #even though I'm not buying dolls anymore I'm still sad about that

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I am thinking about selling my Doll Chateau Elizabeth, I don’t have time for major projects at the moment and she takes up so much space

The only thing is that I don’t have her certificate and that stresses me out. I bought her from a local community member who had lost it after moving (totally fair, I’d struggle to find mine with all the moving I’ve done). Her faceup looks right and she’s got a doll chataeu plate in her head but the body blushing is completely different

Any thoughts/advice?

#personal #three heads make a lot of noise #slowly dipping my toes back into the doll water #I'm in another new place and I love it here #and am excited to set up my dolls properly for the first time in four years

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Doll Collector Call to Action (please RB/boost)

The US National Black Doll Museum closed their doors due to Covid-19, and they lost their physical location.

During the month of February 2022, which is Black History Month in the US, they are trying to raise $100,000 for a new physical location in Attleboro, MA (USA). Please consider donating. You do not need to choose any of the default amounts. Click "Just helping" at top right (after clicking the support button) and type in the amount you would like to give. If 8,500 people gave $10 USD each, they would meet their fundraising goal. Donations are tax-deductible charitable donations in the US.

Also - please consider reblogging/boosting.

#reblogs

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I’m moving!! So much has happened in the last little while, but I’m hoping that with a new location that doesn’t drain my will to live, I might be able to spend some times on my dolls (no guarantees tho, full time work takes a lot out of me tbh)

#personal #three heads make a lot of noise

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The Right Doll this time!

Rewatching this made me laugh, I’d forgotten the editing I did in this video. I love how Peregrine ended up looking, but wow was the process a massive pain

#bjd #legitbjd #balljointeddoll #bjd video #bjd youtube #my videos #my bjd #peregrine

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The Wrong Doll - Reposted now to my doll channel

Watching old videos is a rollercoaster of emotions, but here’s another one of my videos, previously posted to my regular youtube channel, now posted to my doll channel

#bjd #bjd video #balljointeddoll #legitbjd #my videos #bjd box opening

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I looked at the myoudoll website to check what colour Vivienne was originally in and I have regrets, so many regrets. I do not have the money for more dolls, myoudoll! Stop doing this to me

#personal #whinge whinge whinge #their sculpts are so pretty #and dye so perfectly

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do you ever look at a picture and just feel happy?

#bjd #legitbjd #ball jointed doll #dearmine #dearlover #dearmine lavender priscilla #my pictures #my bjd #neve

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glitter demon

#bjd #legitbjd #ball jointed doll #fairyland #minifee #Minifee Nanuri 16 #my pictures #my bjd #lilith