- Birthday: January 20th, 2004
- Sign: Aquarius
- Age: 19
- Type: Volks FCS
- Head: F-13 (Mimi Type)
- Body: SD13 B-06 (Megu Type)
- Skin: Old-skin Beauty White
- Eyes: Volks Neosium (GE-15)
- Wig: (default) W-4 Navy (C-23)
- Esthetics: by Kallisti
Profile: I came home one day and found Fifi in my bathroom knee deep in my cosmetics bag. She had the lash curler in one hand and nail polish brush in the other. We never could get her to leave.
She's definately the alpha female of the group, and gets very cranky with the other girls for borrowing her wardrobe and body all the time. She's very proud of her lithe, creamy white figure. She looks more and more like a drag queen the older she gets.
Fifi is an Aquarius with a Gemini rising. She is one psycho dollie. Venus in Pisces. Mars in Aries. Mercury in Capricorn. Basically, Fifi is detached, airy, and prone to crying jags and road rage when she doesn't get her way. A destructive drama/glamour queen!
Glad Fifi is inanimate -- aren't you?
Thank you to Bat for the astrological analysis. Mwah!
About: I waited sooo long for her to come home. Saved for many months
and then 6 weeks from the time I ordered the FCS from Rudi she arrived!
Please visit her namesake!
- Birthday: June 1, 2004
- Sign: Gemini
- Age: 14
- Type: Volks
- Edition "Lady Sylvie"
- Head: Limited Sylvie
- Body: SD10 FCS pure skin w/ medium breasts
- Eyes: Antique Rose Purple Red #11 20mm
- Wig: Acquire Sory in Wine, Styled by Kallisti
- Esthetics: by Kallisti
Profile: Demelza Grimwig is an impish girl. She got her hair slammed in an upper story window when she was creeping around in my attic. I trapped her by offering her snacks, which ensared her in our world forever.
About: Lady Sylvie was the first Volks doll I think I really fell head over heels for. I tried in vain to get her when she was released in October of 2003 (or thereabouts) but I was much less savvy in the ways of scoring these hard to find treasures. A couple deals fell through and I set my sights elsewhere and ordered my FCS F-13 in December.
The next year I noticed they were still popping up relatively cheaply on Yahoo Japan. Finally I snagged a girl sans costume for a very good price. I had already bought the costume some months earlier from someone else. My Sylvie was coming home!
- Birthday: February 13, 2005
- Sign: Aquarius
- Age: 19
- Type: Hypermaniac
- Edition: Limited Ksy
- Head: Ksy
- Body: HM Ksy
- Eyes: Volks Zoukiemura Sax Blue
- Wig: Volks Soft Wave in Copper
- Esthetics: by Kallisti
Profile: Another aquarius, Ondine is a bit on the mysterious side. She's not entirely trouble, but she has her mischevious moments.
Orphaned long ago, passed from home to home, we found her stealing peaches and selling them to strangers in our yard. We punished her by making her bake us pies forever. This makes her sad.
About: Ondine Alice is a hybrid. She's a Hypermaniac Ksy head on a Volks SD13 Jun body. The original hyperdolly Ksy is a bit taller and stronger build than Volks SD13's. So I think the general consensus was that her head would be giant in comparison to Volks. Which isn't the case at all! At 9" she's actually smaller than Volks' classic SD like Mimi (my Fifi). Fifi's wigs swim on Ondine's head! She looks much younger on the more petite sd13 (compared to the Ksy body), but not out of proportion at all. Hyperdolly's coloring is a bit pinker than Volks' pale peach. But the hue is similar so a little bit of blushing about the neck and fingers will render it more or less irrelevent.
- Birthday: January 23, 2005
- Sign: Aquarius
- Age: 11
- Type: U-Noa Quluts
- Edition: Lusis
- Head: Lusis + Winky + Orgasm
- Body: Unoa + booby plate
- Eyes: Masterpiece Antique Pink
- Wig: Unkown origin Mauve
- Esthetics: by Kallisti
Profile: We caught Saint Trinian barefoot and crawling in through the cat door to try and steal cigarettes. We'd been wondering where they had all been going!
The wee girl is an absolute treasure, and she knows it. She smokes too much and dresses wonderfully in vintage doll clothes (with a few pins and tucks), and idolizes her older siblings. She's the baby, but don't let her sweet face cajole you into giving in. She's more trouble than she lets on!
About: U-Noa Quluts by Gentaro Araki seem to be very sought after dolls. Produced in very limited numbers in twice yearly (so far) pre-orders, as soon as the pre-order period is over they double in price. I was lucky enough to be able to place my order in September of 2005, though I had to make some pretty stiff sacrifies to do so. I had to wait nearly five months for her to be manufactured, and sent to me as a kit from Japan through a third party shopping agent. O, but it was worth the wait. Although a bit more crudely produced than the other dolls, as they are produced solely by the artist, Lusis is definately the most beautifully sculpted of all my dolls. She is exquisite! And at 16" tall, so delicate!
- Birthday: April 9th, 2005
- Sign: Aries
- Age: 23
- Type: Volks Super Dollfie
- Head: Modified F-05 Old-skin beauty white
- Body: SD13 B-06 beauty white
- Eyes: HG Pale Blue 20mm
- Wig: White
- Esthetics: by Kallisti, eye modification by Mr. Kallisti<
Profile: Ginevra has led a hard life. Typical of young rural beauties, she fled to the big city to seek her fortune and instead found cruelty, poverty and abuse at the hands of impecunious strangers. We found her pale and exhausted, curled up on our porch swing and took her in to try to nurse her back to health and clean living. However, old habits die hard, and she's frequently found sneaking out to the honky tonks and art house cafés or sneaking strange substances stuffed into her coat pockets.
About: Ginevra is a modified F05 old skin beauty white volks optional head. The head originally looked like this. Mr. Kallisti executed considerable modifications to carve out the eyes, and create the inner eye wells that hold the glass eyes. I think she came out splendidly. She's currently inhabiting Fifi's original SD13 body. We don't have current plans to get her a body of her own. I think instead I will invest in the largest collection of blonde and white wigs known to man.
- Birthday: April 14, 2005
- Sign: Aries
- Age: 9
- Type: Volks Mini Super Dollfie
- Edition: LE Lilith Korean Dolpa
- Head: MSD F06 Pure-skin FCS white
- Body: MSD girl pure-skin FCS white
- Eyes: HG Pale Purple 14mm
- Wig: Black
- Esthetics: by Kallisti
Profile: Miette is a native of Paris' 18th arrondissement and being such has a bad habit of showing people her panties. Folks often mistake her inate frenchness for hautiness, but she's no more or less bratty than other children her age. Aside from the whole panty-thing, she enjoys stealing ducks, putting kittens in her pockets and taunting her bedmate Lulu with sugar treats until she cries. Her chief point of pride is her direct descendence from the Princesse de Lamballe, whose head was whacked off by an angry mob, thrust on stick and waved in front of the bars of her closest friend Marie Antoinette's prison cell. We don't know why she stays with us, but she won't go.
- Birthday: Aug 5, 2005
- Sign: Leo
- Age: 16
- Type: Volks Super Dollfie
- Edition: LE Liz Dolpa 13
- Head: LE Liz
- Body: SD10 girl normal pure-skin w/ cute kneeling body
- Eyes: HG Pale Purple 18mm
- Wig: Custom Blonde
- Esthetics: by Kallisti & Volks
Profile: Leopoldina, or Lulu, came to us wrapped in a german candy box. Or rather her picture did. Once we saw her rosey cheeks and long blonde locks we knew she'd have to come stay with us. We gave oodles of money to a bearded man in a long black coat, and a month later she arrived on our doorstep, cap in hand, and every bit as blushing and timid as we had imagined. Back in her hometown of Worms she was kept in a cupboard buy her uncle and fed nothing but beets (for her complexion) and only let out to pose for the a famous illustrator of chocolate boxes. She's growing braver day by day but still weeps silently when offered sweets of any kind.
- Birthday: September 6, 2005
- Sign: Virgo
- Age: 10
- Type: Angel Region / Notdoll Lab
- Edition: Angelica the First
- Head: Angelica
- Body: crystal rose white skin
- Esthetics: by NotDoll
Profile: Lizzie Lou and Imogen are sisters. Old time New Orleans creole, they grew up in the Bayou St. John and we invited them to stay with us after they lost their home and family to the floodwaters. The girls are distantly related to Miette, their snooty french cousin twice removed. Imogen is the devil of the two for sure. They give their governess no end of trouble. Once she stole Aschenputtel's dead mouse collection and left them in Miss Alice's linen press. To their delight you could hear the governess' screams echo throughout the house. On her own, Lizzie is a quiet girl, and more prone to dreaming than pranks. She looks after her sister who is prone to bad thoughts.
- Birthday: February 6, 2006
- Sign: Aquarious
- Age: 11
- Type: Angel Region / Notdoll Lab
- Edition: Only For You Cossette
- Head: Cossette
- Body: milky white skin
- Esthetics: by Angelregion
Profile: Imogen and Lizzie are sisters. Old time New Orleans creole, they grew up in the Bayou St. John and we invited them to stay with us after they lost their home and family to the floodwaters. The girls are distantly related to Miette, their snooty french cousin twice removed. Imogen is the devil of the two for sure. They give their governess no end of trouble. Once she stole Aschenputtel's dead mouse collection and left them in Miss Alice's linen press. To their delight you could hear the governess' screams echo throughout the house. While Imogen is always scraping knees and stealing figs, she relies on Lizzie to keep her spirits from drifting into morbidity. In the night you can often hear her whimpers from beneath the blankets and sometimes the maid-of-all-work will find the old steel knives that had gone missing from kitchen.
- Born: October 31st, 2005
- Died: January 19th, 1751
- Sign: Scorpio
- Age: 6 going on 254
- Type: Narsha
- Edition: Black Melody LE15
- Head: Narsha, white skin
- Body: narsha, white skin
- Eyes: HG Pale Blue 14mm
- Wig: Black
- Esthetics: Kallisti
Profile: Medora died in 1751 when dropped on her head by a mother who was dead drunk on gin. We don't see her much, but once in while I catch her naughty gaze out from the corner of my eye in a mirror, or when looking through the lens of the camera. I've managed to catch her once or twice, but it is difficult to hold on. She doesn't speak.
- Birthday: November 19th, 2005
- Sign: Scorpio
- Age: 17
- Type: SD10 Sweet Dream Nana in Pure-skin LE beauty white
- Edition: Special LA Edition
One-Off
- Head: Sweet Dream Nana
- Eyes: HG Cadet Blue 20mm
- Wig: One Off Special
- Esthetics: Ciera
Profile: Aschenputtel is the stepsister of Ginevra. We found her one morning sitting on the kitchen floor saying hail marys while pointing a vegetable knife at her chest. We're not sure where she came from, neither her nor Ginevra are very forthcoming about their origins, but clearly they had very unhappy beginnings. Strangely, they don't get on much and frequently can be found bickering at the bottom of the garden. Aschenputtel is of very sad countenance, and keeps mostly to herself. One peculariar thing though: she seems to like to preserve dead mice and sew little outfits for them. Hrm.
About: Aschenputtel is so named for a happy weekend we spent in Los Angeles attending the Volks reception and opening day festivities on November 19th & 20th respectively, in 2006. They issued 100 invites to the Reception at the Volks Mansion, and had twenty-one OOAK one-offs available by lottery. I entered for one, a Sweet Dream Nana, whom I have always coveted, and after a few false starts on ticket calling, won the opportunity to buy her. She's dreamy! You can see her original presentation and paperwork here.
- Birthday: December 28, 2005
- Sign: Capricorn
- Age: 11
- Type: Fancyboots Liebchen
- Edition: Premier #7
- Head: Liebchen
- Esthetics: by Fancyboots
Profile: Merry is an alpine snow pixie who likes Santa and pink suger sprinkles in her tea. Like all good things she comes but once a year and spends the weeks before Christmas nesting in our Christmas tree because it "smells like familiar things." She teases the cats into eating pine needles which makes them cough because they are allergic.
About: Merry Wink is a very, very special girl. She is a Fancyboots Liebchen, #7 of #75! Fancyboots is a long time member of the BJD community in the US. Her little Liebchen is a masterpiece in dolly engineering, and very dear!
- Birthday: January 21th, 2006
- Sign: Aquarius
- Age: 17
- Type: Volks FCS
- Head: SD-F-16
- Skin Color: Pure-skin White
- Wig: W-27 Mixed Wine
- Glass Eyes: Zoukeimura #04 Thin Green
- Body: SD-B-06 (SD13 SM Bust)
- Hand: SD-H-04
- Esthetics: by Zoukeimura
Profile: The Hon. Hermione Menace is a sullen, independent girl. She'd just as soon paint her toenails green and walk barefoot down Main Street as pen outlines for faux term papers on the phantasmagoric and carnivalesque in eighteenth century literature. She doesn't say much, but when she does, O! The stories she tells! None of them are true, of course. They are wild, hair raising tales of daring-do and blood curdling adventures of young abused heroines with crazed eyes and torn gowns of the palest lawn. But every so often, in the midst of telling her tale, she gets a glisteny wide-eyed look, and you wonder what could take her thoughts so far away. I asked her once and she answered simply, "Cookies."
Hermione & Lysander, orphaned twins born within five minutes of eachother, at one time stood to inherit grotesque amounts of money until it was revealed that Old Unkie Roderick had frittered away the family fortune on exotic cheeses and fur coats (he was a bit of a swissophile). Upon their birth, their mother, Lady Foppington, lingered briefly with glistening brow and promptly perished. Young Master inherited the title upon the death of his Father, the Old Lord Foppington, who died of ennui and whiskey. Still, until Young Master and Miss Menace reach maturity at twenty-one, they are in the foster care of Blastmilk Home for Wayward Girls (and one boy).
About: Hermione was ordered at the Los Angeles Sumika on opening day, November 21st 2006, and her headplate reads is #5! While Hermione is not a Sasha clone, or a Sasha stand-in, she believes Sasha could certainly be tolerated, as a distant cousin, or bastard half-sister, but she doesn't want anyone to be so gravely mistaken as to assume that she is in any way second choice to a Sasha.
- Arrival Day: July 28th, 2006
- Birthday: January 21st (twins w/ Hermione)
- Sign: Capricorn
- Age: 17
- Type: Volks Super Dollfie Pure-skin White
- Edition: LE White Cat Chris
- Head: Chris
- Body: SD13 Boy
- Eyes: HG Thin Pink 18mm
- Wig: W-101-613 One-Curl Bob Ivory
- Esthetics: by Kallisti
Profile: Lysander Menace, Lord Foppington is a bit on the delicate side with a weakness for Laudanum infused with crushed, dried beetles. He can frequently be seen hacking attractively into a monogramed hanky of delicate lawn while reading the latest bit of gothic trash from the lending library.
Hermione & Lysander, orphaned twins born within five minutes of eachother, at one time stood to inherit grotesque amounts of money until it was revealed that Old Unkie Roderick had frittered away the family fortune on exotic cheeses and fur coats (he was a bit of a swissophile). Upon their birth, their mother, Lady Foppington, lingered briefly with glistening brow and promptly perished. Young Master inherited the title upon the death of his Father, the Old Lord Foppington, who died of ennui and whiskey. Still, until Young Master and Miss Menace reach maturity at twenty-one, they are in the foster care of Blastmilk Home for Wayward Girls (and one boy).
- Birthday: July 26th, 2006
- Sign: Leo
- Age: 24
- Type: Volks Super Dollfie
- Edition: LE Anais II
- Head: Anais
- Body: SD10 FCS pure skin w/ medium breasts
- Eyes: HG Blue Green 16mm
- Wig: Custom Auburn Acquire Bob Wig
- Esthetics: by Kallisti
Profile: Miss Aphra, is a bit of a wild mare with a penchant for literature and a passion for the theater. She spent some time on the continent spying for her Majestie's government, gaining little by it, but picked up a smattering of French and other continental skills besides. At the end of her continental stay, about nine months, a baby girl, christened Miette, was left in the care of a convent, a typical L'Ecole des filles, to be brought up by the abbess herself as a foundling. Aphra came to us exhausted but with spirit intact and vowed to send for the little girl as soon as she was able.
- Birthday: August 5th, 2006
- Sign: Leo
- Age: 7
- Type: Hypermaniac So-som
- Eyes: Volks Acrylic Lt. Blue 8mm
- Wig: Global "Antoinette" Dark Brown
- Esthetics: by Kallisti
Profile:
Goblin child!
- Birthday: August 20th, 2006
- Sign: Leo
- Age: 19
- Type: Roxy Doll
- Head: Eun-U
- Body: Dollstown 13b White (eventually)
- Esthetics: by Kallisti
Profile: Cabaret Vixen!
- Birthday: December 27th, 2006
- Sign: Capricorn
- Age: 6
- Type: Hypermaniac Muse
- Body: Hypermaniac 5yr Old 44cm
- Esthetics: by Kallisti
Profile: Broken doll.
For more pictures of the girls you can view my posts on super dollfies and unoa from the diary.
