Almost a year ago, Konata and Yuki helped out with decorating the house with Christmas ornaments. This year, Miku wanted to help! Although, she seemed to enjoy posing with the decorations more than helping out.

I finally took her out of the DETOLF and changed some of her parts! I got really scared with taking her apart because 1. She’s my first Nendoroid and 2. The parts didn’t want to come off initially ;_; In the end, all went well and she’s more happy than ever.

This is our bare pre-lit artificial Christmas tree. To my knowledge, all we’ve had were artificial Christmas trees. They’re fairly easy to reinstall every year since you just have to stack the parts on top of one another, plug in, and let the magic happen. I do wish that one day, I’d have a Christmas with a fresh pine tree, but I’ll save that for another year. We never really had the lingering smell of pine in the house, although I’d prefer the smell of Mom’s cooking over pine any day Do you prefer a real tree or an artificial tree?

Tons of random ornaments in the boxes. They range from intricate Hallmark ornaments to McDonald’s Happy Meal ornaments to our very own ornaments made back in elementary school. My sisters’ ornaments seemed to have outlived mine, though. I used to have this clay Santa that I made in the 1st or 2nd grade, but his beard fell off and, eventually, the ornament broke

After decorating the Christmas tree, Miku finally decided to jump in and, erhm, “help.” Peek-a-boo!

After “helping” out with the finishing touches on the Christmas tree, she decided to befriend some of the other inhabitants that have taken over our living room. It never hurts to make more friends, right?

Miku also has a thing for the Coca-Cola bear. Whether she sides with Coke or Pepsi, I don’t know. Heck, she might even be an RC Cola kind of girl

And now, Miku bids you all a good night! Hope everyone’s staying warm and cozy for the holidays. We’ve yet to put up Christmas lights and decorate some more, but for now, our decorated Christmas tree will do.

As for me, finals are coming up Here’s to the next couple weeks of non-stop homework and studying!

Long time no blog! Apologies for the sudden hiatus: again, school has taken over my life. That, and I also had no idea what to blog about since school started. I’ve had a repeating pattern of school, work, rest, randomly go out, then repeat, but now I have things to share!

For the longest time, I’ve been meaning to get a shelving cabinet to house my figures. To be honest, I didn’t even know where to start! I’ve been eyeing on other people’s blogs about different kinds of shelving cabinets and ran across IKEA’s DETOLF. There’s an IKEA within 20 minutes from where I live, so I decided to check it out at their showroom and see how it looked. Once I saw it, I instantly fell in love.

I went to IKEA on my own to go pick it up, only to find it out that it’s a hefty 88 lbs. so I had to ask Lester to see if he could help me out. We took another trip and finally picked it up! How we got it into the van and into the house, I don’t know, but that’s okay

The thing is, before putting the cabinet into my room, I had to do some rearranging. Lots and lots of rearranging.

This was my initial set up: a wooden bookcase sitting in the corner of my room, totally cluttered with tons of stuff. I initially liked the set up because I was able to display everything. However, it was a pain in the rear to dust in between and to get access to my DVDs and manga! I didn’t really have the willpower to actually get around and clear this out until I finally got my new cabinet.

I ended up putting all of my figures into a laundry basket for the meantime. My PVCs and expensive figures were put in another room.

Everything’s all gone! Now where do I put it?

All by my wee self, I moved the old bookcase to the other side of the room next to my dresser. You can see how dusty my dresser and other bookcase got This was a pain in the rear to clean too especially since that bookcase was on top. It wasn’t easy getting my books from the top. Also, if there was any kind of sudden movement, the CDs on the CD rack on top would topple over and fall over, knocking over everything. I used to have my PVCs be on top of my dresser until my Asuka broke due to my Remy figure falling off its stand and knocking it over Never again.

Again, by myself, I took away the bookcase that was sitting on top of my dresser and moved it elsewhere. I decided to have all of my anime DVDs line the top of my dresser! I haven’t even opened some of the boxsets yet Eech. I also started filling up the other bookcase with my books and other media.

I decided to have the bookcase that sat on top my dresser relocate to the other side of the room. Excuse the massive mess on the floor

Started to move around some stuff and see what everything would look like if I were to put stuff in the shelves! I’ve yet to complete my Nodame collection I actually had to move this out of the way again to make room for the shelving cabinet.

With help from my dad, the detolf was lugged upstairs, all 88 lbs. of it. The glass panels are what make this really heavy ;_; Time to assemble!

After putting the cabinet in the empty space, it looked like my room suddenly got wider. Yay! My room’s always been notorious for being extremely cluttered and messy. Hopefully this’ll help my room breathe.

We got the cabinet set up and I started to rearrange my figures last night. I ended up finishing this afternoon. Here’s the final result:

Top shelf would be all of my pretty PVCs. I finally got to unbox my Kaiyodo Parfait and Cammy and SEGA Aphrodite v. 2 Rei and Asuka. Nendoroid Miku finally came out of her box, too! Wave Yoko came from HLJ. Max Factory Mikuru is actually my first PVC ever ;_; I love her too much.

Second shelf is full of blind box figures, gashapon, and other trading figures. How many series do you see in this picture? What’s scary is that I still have more on top of my TV

Third shelf is designated for designer toys. Recent acquisitions would be the orange Dunny, the Spongebob Bearbrick, and the stacked doppelgangers from Kid Robot. As you can see, Uglydoll Babo = my most favorite ever! Oh, and my drooling Labbit, too

I’ve decided to leave the last shelf for my Gundams and other mechs. I still have the following to build: 1/100 Exia and Dynames, 1/144 00 Gundam, 1/35 Lancelot, and the non-painted Kinokuniya King Kittan and Gurren Lagann. I’m lagging so bad ^^;

My Pinky St. dolls are now in front of my manga. Some of them have really bad leaning issues, though Any suggestions on straightening them out would be highly appreciated. My poor Pinkies T_T

My Pinky St. babies from left to right: Hoshi, Beezy, and Ramune. I had names for Hoshi and Ramune before, but I realized I never named the middle one since I got her later than the others so I just named her right now, lol.

My lone Figmas just chillin’ by themselves. I haven’t bought any Figmas since Konata, but I really want that Reimu figma… homg. She looks so beautiful.

I’ve moved all of my plushes that were on top of my old bookcase to another area. And yes, I’m still a huge Digimon fan

How the other end of my room looks. You can kind of see my box tower on the side ^^; I also finally get to display my Silver Surfer Mighty Mugg! My first Mighty Mugg ever courtesy of Melvin

Some more little figures that I decided to keep on my drawer. My most favorite one of them all is the Oryzae, hahaha.

And there you have it! My figures now have a beautiful space to be displayed in and my room benefited from all the rearrangements. I’m tired from moving everything around, but I think it’s all worth it. I still have some things to move around in my room but for now, I’m content with it

Touhou. Nendoroids. TOUHOU Nendoroids! Just announced on the official site that there will be a Nendoroid based on the Touhou series available for purchase at C76. So far, the silhouette they’ve shown us is of Reimu, but wouldn’t it be cool if they had even more of the characters?

If they come out with a Hong Meiling or Flandre, I’M ALL OVER IT. Then again, I’d want them all. ;x

If anybody’s going to C76…c-could you please check this out? ;___; Speaking of Nendoroids, I’ve yet to actually pick one up myself. I only own the Nendoroid Petits from Lucky Star and Haruhi. I was really tempted on getting the Kagamiku, but I really, really want the regular Miku for myself ;_; Oh, and maybe a Tsukasa. If I could get my hands on Exelica, though…that’s a whole different story right there.

Source from the official Nendoroid site.

Original post is here from Dannychoo.com. Two of my favorite series combined into amazing (and hopefully legit) figures: Klan!Kagami, Alto!Konata, Sheryl!Miyuki, and Ranka!Tsukasa.

Regardless if this’ll ever happen or not, this is absolutely amazing ;_;

I was checking out Good Smile Company’s site about the new figma lineup for the next couple of months and saw the above picture: a Billy Herrington figma. I…I’m seriously at a loss for words Immortalized six-pack! Muscles galore! Most definitely a spitting image of him. Check out GSC’s page for the figma. The poses they put him in are really amusing

It didn’t help that I went to Boing Boing and read up on Danny Choo‘s latest post about the former gay porn star and watched one of the many internet memes that have spawned because of him. I’ll never think of Cirno the same way again ;_;

Are there any figures or toys that have left you at a loss for words? Surprised you? Made you go “WTF?”

Went to a Secret Santa exchange at Thien’s house to celebrate the holidays with good friends, good eats, and good times. This was probably the biggest celebration I’ve been to in a while, considering we barely fit into a decent group photo

Konata decided to join in the fun and celebrate with us as well! Hit the jump for more photos.

Konata with Alex’s “Apple” pie!

I think she ate too many buffalo wings They’re the size of her!

Chocolate Crackle ice cream. Konata seal of approval.

Chillin’ with the pedobear

About to fall off the chessboard. Unintentional pantsu…or is it?

Under the butcher knife and over the…cookies?

DELICIOUS PIE

Apparently, she’s learned how to breakdance

Sexy pose? Breakdancing finish? You decide.

Konata’s secretly a McDonald’s monster!

Reenacting Ryu’s defeated pose from Street Fighter II. If I hadn’t said anything, this picture would be wrong on so many levels

Since it’s post-finals and I really needed some retail therapy, I treated myself to a nice 1/35 Lancelot from Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. I was really close to getting the Vocaloid Miku 1/8 PVC, but I actually want the figma more than the PVC. I dropped by Trendy in Mitsuwa to check out their stash and found Vocaloid Nendoroids (namely Rin and Len), tons of MG Gundam kits, and…ah, so much more! I love going to Trendy. If I can’t find what I need at Rising Sun Creations, I go to Trendy.

Also ended up treating myself to an SD Exia! The 1/100 Overflag was there too but the fact that I actually saw an SD Exia in stock made me get it right away. Konata is ecstatic about both purchases

Before I left Mitsuwa, I went to the vendor in the front selling taiyaki and sweet potatoes. I treated my mom to some custard taiyaki and a sweet potato and she was as happy as can be.

I love Clairemont Mesa.

Have you ever treated yourself to anything because you’ve accomplished something really big (i.e. finishing up finals, getting a job, beating the hardest boss in a video game)?