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My Hope - a Little Angel

4/18/2012

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Hope arrived this morning, and I had to take a few photos. For her first portrait I chose an angel outfit - one of the ones that had been commissioned specially for Hope. If she looks 'familiar' it's because Hope is a "modified Nyssa" (one of Kaye's first BJDs) and so is my Miki elf, so they have a 'family resemblance'. Hope is my first Kaye Wiggs girl in the new sun-kissed resin, and the factory did a very nice job on her faceup (there's no choice, all KW dolls come with a faceup)
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Hope came with very pale gray/blue glass eyes which looked a size too small, so I gave her some nice blue acrylic ones instead. Kaye Wiggs created Hope on September 11, 2011 in order to raise money for a special charity. Almost 500 were sold, making almost $100,000 for the charity. It's been quite some wait for Hope to arrive, and I'm glad she's finally here.
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Hope came with this red Jojo wig, a gift from Grace at JPop dolls. From all the photos being posted of Hope on the various forums, it's clear she looks great in almost any wig. 
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Charie Wilson
4/19/2012 02:40:06 am

Shes so lovely I love the sun kiss resin very pritty. The face up really is quitre nice to. The factory must be gettting better. She so looks like Mikis sister cannot wait to see them together in Elf outfits their going to be a nock out.
Hugs Charie

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skull shot glass link
9/11/2012 06:26:22 pm

Super cute! I love this!

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Warren link
10/12/2017 09:08:15 pm

Hope is my choice. Is she 18"? Does she have her own body or is she on MeiMei's body. I think all the bodies are the same. MeiMei is taller.

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Martha
10/13/2017 04:02:31 am

Hope is 45 cm, whatever that translates into. She has the original style MSD body, before Kaye started making different ones for her newer sculpts, like MeiMei.

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