So, this has been something I've been wanting to do for awhile now.
I used to be a doll collector. I'm not sure how "known" I was in the community, but I made a fair amount of friends there, including my best friend of almost two decades.
I left the hobby some time around 2018. I was going through major life changes, and didn't have the time or money to devote to it anymore. As time went on, I became more and more immersed in Halloween collecting and photography. Halloween has always been the ultimate basis of my existence, and finding that community has truly changed my life in the best ways possible. It will always be my main home.
As time has gone on, though, I've started to realize how much I've been neglecting my inner child. I tend to have thoughts, usually around holidays, about the way things used to be, and I've become bitter in some ways about those things not coming back. I am hoping for this new blog, as well as the second Instagram page I created, to help heal some past traumas, and allow me to find some enjoyment in other things that I've lost along the way.
I'm not entirely sure yet exactly what this blog will be. Plushie pictures, stories, nostalgia...I have many ideas, and I suppose I'll just take it one step at a time and see how things go. I can't say for sure this blog will be as active as my main one, but I'm just really happy to know that this space exists for me right now.
I really don't collect dolls much anymore, but I've gotten very into Jellycat plushies, particularly the Bashful Bunny range, and I always find my way back to Build-A-Bear. My favorite plushies at the moment are my three Jellycat Bashful Orlando Luxe Puppies (one of them is the huge one, and the other two are mediums), and my Build-A-Bear Prancer reindeer, who was a Christmas gift several years ago.
In addition to plushie pictures and things like that, I do also think it would be fun to share some childhood nostalgia here, such as talking about some favorite childhood movies and tv shows and the like, and sharing stories of my childhood that don't necessarily relate to Halloween, the way most of what I post in my main blog does. I actually have a ton of memories attached to Easter, so I feel the timing is good for that, this year!
Being an adult is hard...I think it's time to get back in touch with her:
Welcome to my little world, where growing up is optional.
