u/chienneboi

After a year long hunt with several false starts, I finally have my babies home. They're both Dollfamily-H, Ji Nuo on the 1/4 slim boy body holding Qing Lang 1/4. I'm so unbelievably happy they're home. I was so worried about buyer's remorse but they're perfect, everything I hoped for and more. It's unreal handling a 1/4 body for the first time and seeing how much detail goes into a doll this size. DF-H's design and engineering is amazing too. Sometimes I just carry Ji Nuo around with me while I do chores and chat to him.

I wanted to take a high quality photo of the two of them before their faceups and Ji Nuo's body blushing. This is the last time they'll ever look like this. I'm glad I was able to capture a tender moment, the characters I've started to form around them love each other very much.

I've noticed that when I use saddle soap on a particularly sweaty or close to the body piece of leather, the suds will smell HORRIBLE. Fish that's starting to turn and hairdye ammonia strong enough it hurts at close range and is noticeable at arm's length. The only thing I can think to compare is bar soap being used on a very sweaty/grimy body part, but several times worse.

I know it's not my soap or brush, I washed a pair of boots with them minutes before soaping down a leather wristband I wear almost every day. The smell was the worst near the hollow backs of the rivets (which get cleaned out with a toothbrush) at either end and the stretch of leather that gets the sweatiest, but nowhere else. The more suds I removed, the fainter the smell got, and disappeared a few second after it was all gone but still wet.

My only thought is it could be a similar process to the soap bar, and the stink is grime getting broken down, I just want to make sure I'm not getting up close and personal with something that's as bad for me as it smells.

Took a portrait of my two grails to welcome them home 💖

SERIOUSLY Stinky Saddle Soap Suds???