Whenever my friend Kei comes back home from Japan for a short vacation, we always get together and visiting her includes meeting her new dolls. Kei had started collecting ball-jointed dolls the past year and I have to admit, they scare me back then even though they all look absolutely beautiful. They look eerily perfect that sometimes I feel they’ll just move on their own. And I don’t like moving dolls that look like children who were cursed to be dolls. *imagination goes haywire*

His name is Rince after Rincewind the Wizzard, a character in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett. He is Kei’s first doll and the one she always keeps around. First time I met the little one, he was wearing cat ears and even had a tail! He was just standing on her bookcase, smiling, but I can’t event touch him. Rince is a unique, poseable doll that can even stand on one foot and in angles. He’s smaller than the usual dolls of his type and is of the LittleFee line from Doll Fairy Land.  Because of Kei frequently forwarding websites and pictures of the dolls she likes, I’ve come to appreciate them, and understand the dedication that this hobby requires - from the outfits to the eye lashes and makeup - each doll has a character. People who collect them and take care of them are passionate because it’s no simple collection. Well, Kei’s like that and I can see the happiness that these beautiful creatures bring to her that I actually want one now. =)

More pictures of sleeping Rince below:


Rince