convention & cosplay lore (est 2000)
Doll(s) Present: Shirayuki (DDH 04, Dolpa exclusive face up) Hidden behind the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is a rose garden. One must dodge all the duck excrement on the pathway to the Kelleher Rose Garden, but it well…
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Doll(s) Present: Shirayuki (DDH 04, Dolpa exclusive face up) In Mid-May it’s always a Boston tradition for people to come out to the Arnold Arboretum to view the lilac grove. After surviving one of the worst winter’s in the…
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One of my favorite meetups when I was active in the Los Angeles doll scene was the ones done by Ms. Cholong. Ms.Cholong was a local dealer for DollHeart and Soom (?). Anytime she had an event, she would have…
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Sometime in January 2007, my friend, Mary, who had introduced me to the wonderful world of Asian ball joint dolls, took me to a private meet up in Simi Valley. Simi Valley is in Southern California, a little outside of…
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On March 7, 2015, the New England Resin Doll Society (NERDS) met up at the Onyx Room in Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA. Because of a busy schedule, I’ve held off doll meet ups for the time being. However,…
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Around late summer, the San Jose doll community hosted a doll meet up at the gardens just outside of downtown. I brought Marguerite (Kid Delf Nara) and Fujiko (R&D Karen). Marguerite (aka Maggie) is wearing a hand made dress in…
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These were taken around the time I started getting into ball joint dolls. I wasn’t quite feeling the Southern California community – the Anime Expo 2005 meet up felt too cliquey and no one was answering my questions and concerns…
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Alice in Wonderland themed meet up at a park up in Berkeley, CA sometime in June 2006. There was much lollygagging, salad, and resin kids (and the humans that love them). Photos are owned by Scarlet Rhapsody. If we…
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