(04-21-2019, 04:22 AM)neon_jellyfish Wrote: Thank all the gods ever for this forum! At least here we can talk without setting the whole damn thing on fire.

(04-21-2019, 10:49 AM)Alliecat Wrote:

(04-21-2019, 04:22 AM)neon_jellyfish Wrote: Thank all the gods ever for this forum! At least here we can talk without setting the whole damn thing on fire.

I'm not on enough forums to see drama, I guess.
How frustrating to have dolls you love and want to keep 'nice' deteriorating  I'm not surprised to see you say it's the newer ones.  Quality control in so many things has gone down the toilet... that saying "they don't make 'em like they used to" is too often true.  The Barbies (actually Barbie knockoffs or random Barbie-ish dolls) I had when I was a kid are all still fine.  You never saw parts of them melting.  A little surprised you have that much trouble with the Pullips, but we all know Groove has some QC issues...  
Can you kind of shave off or pare down the MH bubbles...?  I don't know what it looks like, just a thought.
Hope you find some more enjoyable dolly moments.
Sunsette's been known to say that just about anything can be cured with chocolate.  And cat therapy... WELL.

(04-21-2019, 03:32 PM)davidd Wrote: Misery loves company, is that the saying? For what little it's worth, I can commiserate with almost every point of your misery.

I did the hot cocoa therapy thing a couple of nights ago. Prolly woulda done it again tonight, but I'm too tired and lazy to bother making hot cocoa, so I went with a cup of milk and polished off the last of a package of chocolate fudge cookies.

I wonder if people from earlier generations felt like the hobby was leaving them when porcelain and bisque dolls fell out of favor, or when the faces of their composition dolls began to crack and flake, or when the cloth bodies of their dolls began to disintegrate and the sawdust stuffing fell out? The beautiful frilly white dresses on the antique baby dolls discolor over time, the faux leather shoes harden and crack, and hardly anybody seems to care much about those old dolls from the first half of the 1900s anymore, unless it is a near mint example from a high-end European manufacturer. Perhaps seeing our treasures crumble to dust before our very eyes is inherent in this hobby. That's a rather sad thought. I may need to make a mug of cocoa despite my weariness.

Is that a Dal in your photo today? Is she dressed as a knight? And is that hairstyle still referred to as a "Prince Valiant," or is that reference so old that nobody uses it anymore?

(04-21-2019, 04:36 PM)Lejays17 Wrote: Ghost Mermaid - not something that you would have thught of combining, but it works so well.  She's just waiting for something to pass her by so she can pounce.

That Draculaura is the Best Draculaura.  She's so elegant and gothic and you can just see her gliding through the corridors of a gothic mansion scaring the servants

(04-21-2019, 04:43 PM)Lejays17 Wrote: Sometimes we just need to moan and complain and get things off our chests.  I know I (generally) feel much better when I whine to Elfy about various work-dramas that happen in my day.

I'm sorry to hear that there are issues with teh quality (or lack thereof) of the MH dolls.  I had issue with staining on one of myEAH Duchess dolls, that I have no idea where she got it from.  I never did fix her up - she was a shelf-sitter here, and elfy bought me a replacement.  She still sitting on the pile of boxes in the kitchen.

(04-21-2019, 04:47 PM)Elfy Wrote: That’s a very chilled out Lala there.

(04-22-2019, 06:41 AM)neon_jellyfish Wrote: model of human form is something that has been with us from the very beginning of our history - whenever people discovered a new material, the first thing they made of it was a human figure (and then weapons). So in a way, this hobby is both ephemeral and eternal. I feel like I'm going to reach enlightenment any second now!