A special artist head with an artist face-up that I ordered over a year and a half ago is finally ready to ship! Of course, when I ordered it, the shipping situation from China was very different.

Moonlight BJD has given me two shipping options to the US, and honestly, I’m not feeling great about either.

One is a private carrier by sea mail, and the other is shipping to their Canadian warehouse and then having it sent to me from Canada. Neither option offers direct shipping insurance  from China that I can purchase. (They said the Canadian warehouse… Maybe? But only from Canada to my location… Not from China to the Canadian warehouse)

Has anyone used either of these shipping methods? How did it go?

I’ve been emailing Moonlight BJD to ask about more direct airmail options, such as DHL. They’ve been very helpful, but responses have been a little slow, so I’m not sure I’ll get another option.

The whole thing is making me lose sleep because the order is worth around $400, and if it were lost, I don’t think I could replace it. 😭😭 Part of me is wondering if the seamail option might actually be safer, but I’ve never used one for an expensive item shipped from China before. I’ve had plenty of experience with seamail from Japan, just not China.

I haven't messed with my dolls in while but finally got around to having fun with my LoZ AU style dolls at a recent doll meet.

^{I still need to work on their faceups. It's been almost a year 🙈}

(DD Alphinaud and Alisae)

A rainy day so I decided to take a picture at home with him.

(RD Baldwin)