Being Coraline

Thank you everyone for the kind words of support over my last post. I appreciate every one of them. It has been a hard week with my boy gone but we are taking it one day at a time.

In an effort to get back to routine, hubby and I decided to do our regular Thursday night shopping just to get out of the house and try and be normal for a little while. While we were out, he found the Coraline figure I had been wanting to get for a while now. This figure is incredibly hard to get your hands on as it's sold out at most places and has been for a while. So it was a surprise to find that our local Zing store had her. Hubby bought this for me to cheer me up a little.

For those who aren't aware of who Coraline is, here is a trailer to the official movie, released in 2009.

"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?"

~ Neil Gaiman, Coraline

The figure is made by a company called NECA. It feels rather fragile, the limbs are quite delicate and I found the legs actually have no feet. They end in pegs which go straight into the boots. Sadly, her left boot continually falls off so I have to be careful about that! Her face is supposed to be able to come off so you can adjust her eyes and swap out face plates between figures. However, I still haven't been able to actually pry the face plate off yet (not for a lack of trying).

She was priced at $58 AUD but personally, a figure like this, I think she should be more around the $24-30 AUD mark. Her clothes are very well made for the size and the articulation is wonderful but her left boot falling off all the time is a bit of a problem.

Overall though, I really wanted this figure and now I have her. I do like her and she does stand on her own believe it or not when you can get the balance right. But she doesn't stand alone for long so you have to be quick to take photos! Her face is painted nicely though and looks like the character. I'm pretty happy with her when all is said and done.

Not Coraline related but recently, I've been getting back into scrapbooking, specifically, scrapbook journalling. I wanted to show a page from my current journal I am working on. This one has a theme about love.

I also decided I wanted to make a custom photo album. I'm not sure if I'll turn into one for my dolls or my cats yet. I've only so far completed the front and back covers. I've yet to add the pages inside the album.

That's it for me. I've just been keeping myself busy and listening to a lot of Imagine Dragons and Daughtry.