I wonder if anyone here at LJ remembers The Lonely Doll? Maybe it was the echo of Edith and the Bears that caught at my heart the first time I saw Volks dolls photographed so beautifully by Kallisti ( Read more... )

Somebody please tell me, why is David Bowie still so hot?! How old is that guy -- he has got to be over fifty by now. Forget that I'm fifty cos you just got paid.... Those lines from his Aladdin Sane album seem pretty ironic now ( Read more... )

Ever since that bittersweet day when I first saw a VOLKS doll pictured at the glorious journal called Blastmilk (a journal with all the intoxicating ambiance of a secret salon tucked away down some labyrinthine street in a mythical city) I have been musing and pondering upon the emotional impact of that first sight. It was love, unquestionably. ( Read more... )

A whole day spent going to doctors. Although Friwi was very kind and took me out for both breakfast and lunch -- including a marvellous hot cherry sundae -- I feel drained beyond belief ( Read more... )

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I have a feeling this journal will turn out to be more like a collection of memories than anything else. There are all these little details that keep flashing through my mind in odd moments. Today I remembered the morning a couple of years ago when my father and I were awake before the rest of the family, and he took me out to a wooded area up ( Read more... )