chibaraki took this picture of Leon and a random Puki at the meetup on Saturday:

I didn't have to balance the Puki at all. I just set it down and let go and it sat there, perfectly content and stable on the wide shelf of the EID shoulder--ergo, now I must buy a Puki or two, because Leon needs a shoulder angel and a shoulder demon.

(And, of course, as one of the two largest dolls at the meetup, Leon slowly vanished under an ever-growing pile of tinies--chibaraki has photographic evidence over here on her Flickr.)

I went to the Oasis meet today! I managed to get the F17's temp wig semi-working at the eleventh hour, so I ended up taking him instead of Jack, as had been my initial plan. He's the sleek blond-headed blue-eyed fellow all flopped out on his back in the meet-up gallery thread--flopped out on his back because he would not sit up to save his damn life. I sense sueding in his future.

His wig is still too small for him, and got kind of raggedy after a while, but it sort of works. Ah, well. I have another wig for him coming in with my Sunny's World order.

I believe the F17's name is Fahrenheit. I don't actually know why. I was messing around with him right when he arrived and the word just got stuck in my brain. As that's how I come up with most everyone's names, I stuck it on him and called it good. He garnered a fair bit of attention at the meet--I stood him up at one point and zombies gravitated in his direction, moaning 'Voooooooolks'--and then, after the meet, I was carrying him to chibaraki's car and some poor fellow who wasn't mentally all there swiveled in place to watch Fahrenheit go by and then spent about two minutes yelling incoherently after us. I blame that good old F17 'smirking serial killer' face.

Actually, there seems to be some question as to whether he's an F17 or an old F29. The date on his headplate indicates he was made in November of 2006; the girl I bought him from sold him as an F17, but since she bought him off Y!J, I suppose it's anybody's guess if he was sold to her under the right number. The headplate says 06/11 FA. Since he's a white-skinned long-legged F17/F29, I'm guessing he's an FCS boy. Does anyone know what 'FA' means on a Volks headplate? nurp, never mind, got off my ass and looked it up on DoA, answer: yes, FCS

The meetup itself was fun! Nobody got too embarrassingly noisy, and I got to see lots of dolls, including a Senior Delf Cian with MANLY GODDAMNED HANDS and more Pukis than you could shake a very large stick at. Pukis: they're kind of awesome, if frighteningly small.

Went to the doll meetup/trunk show at Dolls and Friends--it was the first time I've met most of the Seattle-area doll collectors. All in all, not a bad gang. After some thought, I ended up only taking Thomas and JJ with me, leaving poor Jack and Beowulf at home. No way in hell was I going to try and lug around three full-sized guys!

Things I noticed:
1. Seattle residents own a lot of Juri '06s. (Technically, I even have one myself, although she still needs a damn faceup.) In Ohio, the big thing was DoTs, but I don't think I saw a single DoD doll at the Seattle meetup.
2. I had no idea Catsy was so goddamn tiny. Seriously. I thought Catsy was on a par with the Baha, size-wise, but she's tiny--her limbs were the size of toothpicks! Yes, okay, she's a tiny, ha ha, but technically so is the Baha, and the Baha could stomp Catsy like Godzilla.
3. Someone had bought that funky artist's doll off Y!J (that super-curvy floppy girl with the four-piece torso and the feet with moveable toes) and brought it with them. It was really cool, but kind of freaky at the same time, and I don't want to think about why it would have not only moveable toes, but a big toe that moved separately from the rest of the toes... and then plain, ordinary, one-piece hands that were on the small side. Foot fetishist?
4. JJ's soft, floofy tinybear wig is a finger magnet.
5. Dollzone boy bodies have really ugly-ass feet, man. Seriously, they have hammertoes. Eew.

I ended up buying a black Cheerydoll camp shirt for JJ and a pair of those white lace-up gothic ballerina shoes for the Juri (whom I should really paint some day, as she keeps accruing clothing). Hooray, I didn't go broke or walk out of there with another doll!