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Going forward I wanted to let you know of a change to reviews on the site, there is now an extra section on each one called Parental Advisory, being a parent now, I understand the concerns about what our kids see and hear, and even if its the parents/adults buying for themselves they need to be aware of the content that comes into their home. In addition there are a lot of folks who find certain content objectionable and I am concious of that fact so I decided to make this slight change.

Have a good one folks!

New Limited Items From Volks 2/18/2012

For all of the Dollfie Dream fans out there, here are the latest limited edition items being made available by Volks later this month

http://www.volksusa.com/november-2011-collection.html

Of special interest to the Dollfie Dream fans would be the following dresses:

Dollfie Dream Care

Dollfie Dream care is a pretty big issue, when you are spening $500+ on a "Doll" you definately want to take care of it, I was recently asked by a friend if there were any good resources for DD care, so I took a look around the net and found this really good article. 

http://aquilla429.co.uk/all-about-bjd/all-about-dollfie-dreams/dollfie-dream-maintenancecare/

One For All

I don't think that I will personally ever forget waking up and finding out a good portion of Japan had been wiped out by a Tsunami, let alone the images of the devastation, seeing all those people covered in dirt and ash, in a place that I have personally visited, brought tears to my eyes.

As we near the one year anniversary of the disaster, Japan is still rebuilding, and the process will still continue for many years to come yet, this is why I am encouraging all of my readers [especially the Dollfie Fans!] to go to Volks and get one of their buttons, all the proceeds got to the Japanese Red Cross.

You can find all the details on the Sumika Times blog.

Happy New Year: 2011 in Review

First off I want to wish each and every one of you a happy and healthy New Year, hopefully whatever your entertainment last night you made it home safe and sound. 

Now onto the year that was for the blog...

2011 was an interesting year here for me at the blog, I tried to be a bit better about keeping to a schedule and content creation, and that well, failed abysmally, it wasn't through lack of desire or trying, but after doing a lot of research and soul searching on my part I found that I got more stressed and frustrated trying to stick to a schedule and it made it much harder for me to develop content for the site, so consider that a lesson learned.

This past year also marked a milestone for the blog, monthly traffic is now averaging over 200 hits per month, I want to thank my readers out there who are making that possible, I know that this thing has tended to stay barren for long stretches of time and I want to be better about that, Dollfie posts still lead the way on traffic and I am still working out a way to provide more of that content for my readers so we will see what happens there. 

2012 is going to be a blast, I am going to try to get to the point of smaller posts with fun content more often, little snippets here and there rather than great walls of text, hopefully that will keep my juices flowing and at the same time not burn me out trying to write a 3500 word article each week. 

In short, thanks for sticking with me, I am looking forward to a lot of fun yet to come and getting to know you all better, thanks for the traffic and the time out of your lives!