I strung Carter and dressed him this evening. Here he is with Isabel, aspiring toward unobtrusive average normalcy. I love how he and Isabel are obviously identical twins, but his facial expression is so much more open and sincere than her perma-skepticism.

Carter, like Isabel, has a faceplate from Elfdoll Doona Ryung for a head and a 5StarDoll tiny girl body in NS with modded neck. Still need to add his lightning bolt sideburns, bags under his eyes and shading around his nose.

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Apparently there's a [mini?] series coming up this fall on NBC called Dracula.  Based on the sluggish, exceptionally uninteresting preview, this adaptation shares a lot in common with the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula, including the concept of Dracula as a tragic, wronged individual, the characterization of Mina as the reincarnation of Dracula's dead wife, reliance on expensive set dressing and costumes and casting of a sexy actor from across the pond as the titular vampire. Wow, looks like a snooze.

What is it with the idea of Mina as Dracula's reincarnated wife? Where does it come from? To me, it appears to be a modern ploy to make Dracula less of a sicko rapist predator who just goes around collecting women and children and more of a Tragic Lover who has a flimsy pretext for stalking Lucy. Whatever. The Reincarnated Lovers trope bores me to tears because it establishes intimacy between characters with no narrative work whatsoever; the author just claims, "Oh yeah, they knew each other in a past life!" and thinks that such an empty Insta-Relationship will actually be accepted by the audience.

It would truly be interesting to start off with a Fated/Reincarnated Lovers relationship that is eventually exposed as bullshit. The woman begins believing that her partner's status as her Reincarnated Lover means that he is her One True Love. However, she slowly realizes that they end up getting together in life after life because the partner is a manipulative asshole who repeatedly engineers the protagonist's dependence on him. He keeps her with him by using just enough niceness as intermittent reinforcement, but mostly by threatening and gaslighting her until she believes that their relationship represents True Romance As It Is Supposed To Be. The protagonist eventually figures out that, just because things have happened this way before does not mean they must happen this way again and just because things have happened this way before does not mean that is the best way for them to go down. She goes off to live her own life, which of course the ex-partner can't stand, so he begins stalking and harassing the protagonist. He breaks into the protagonist's house and tries to rape her. She kills him, possibly with the help of her current partner. The story ends with the protagonist and her current partner watching out for the reincarnation of her ex so that they can insure intervention such that, this time, he doesn't grow up to be a total waste of a human being. To be clear, this is not about the protagonist gentling the beast with her virtue, but declaring that somehow she would like to give her ex-partner the opportunity to break the cycle of violence.

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Love his headsculpt, love his green/green eyes, love his purple and pink palette and delicate, translucent ears. I do not, however, dig his default pale grey faceup. I am currently thinking about redoing him with some nice bright pinks and purples, similar to Jareth's colors. He just looks so blah right now. This entry was originally posted at http://modernwizard.dreamwidth.org/1511736.html. You can comment here, but I'd prefer it if you'd comment on my DW using OpenID.

The latest Soom Faery Legend's pale green resin sparked the idea that such a color should belong to a vegetation sprite. I thus invented the following dryad concept, growing from greenish-brownish bark [possibly sculpted?] on calves and forearms, through general green across most of the body, crowned with a little forest for hair.

The tree hair would be either sculpted the way that my friend Erica does her 1:6 scale bonsai trees, or it would make use of moss, crinkle paper and plastic leaves, like my forest set. Knowing me, it would probably be the latter, as that is easier and more my style.

Clothing would ideally be a brown, lightweight, crinkly cotton, preferably ombre, like broomstick skirt material.

Bright green eyes [I like Flower's green/green ones], faceup in green and brown, eyebrows and miscellaneous shading brown, lips and eyelashes green.
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He gets people high. Also happens to be green and pretty damn hot. Mmmmm, very nice. 

Fuck off, fairies! Stop invading my house!

EDIT: Are those fangs I see???

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About six months after I acquired a base for a 1:6 scale walker for Peter, I'm finally assembling it. Here's its current status.
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I just caught the first owner pictures of Iplehouse Doria's vampire head -- i.e., Yamarrah's sculpt. Her tongue curls up a bit at the tip! Adorable! 

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Ellery goes to the home of Jamisia, a character from her childhood who is standing in for absent muse Lucian.

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Thinking again about who to bring to Dollism. Even though Sardonix has a slightly loose headcap, she may be the best 1:3er to bring. Since she's bald and barefoot, she doesn't have any wig or shoes to slip off and lose. She also has a nearly indestructible faceup. Her body is balanced and engineered well, so she poses easily, and she's not particularly heavy. I could always temporarily hot glue her headcap for the trip.

Possible 1:6ers are Mellifer and Timonium at this point. Who knows if there will be others by then? Right now I'm leaning toward Timonium because I like him better.

Mellifer: :(

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As I sorted through old photo albums recently, I discovered pictures from my first 1:6 scale populations! Unfortunately, the photos were taken on film with a camera that didn't do closeups well. However, for the sake of historical curiosity, I have scanned the best ones and annotated them.

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Doll club time arrived again at last this afternoon, with me, vermont chick, goldi, Lyrajean and Megan attending. 5 whole people! Not to mention all the small populations...
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I really need to put him together. He's a cool guy, and Isabel needs her twin brother/best friend.

In one of my trades that has yielded an extensive wardrobe designed for fat bodies such as Isabel's [and Carter's], I got a button-up, collared shirt with blue dictionary text on white background. This strikes me as very Carterish: formal, but also offbeat and nerdy. I wonder if I still have a tie?

I'm seeing Carter as more conservative [not politically!] and quiet than Isabel, which cracks me up because, when he went to college, he was a radical dyke with multiple piercings and various hair colors who went bare-breasted in marches. It also cracks me up because he works as a tattooist at Champlain Valley Body Art, and employees of tattoo/piercing parlors frequently have lots of tattoos, piercings and other body mods. However, Carter eschews these.

Now that I think about it, Carter values stability, routine and peace. In pursuit of these goals, he strives to be unremarkable. He just wants to be a normal guy with his normal girlfriend. He really wants to marry Novella and have kids and be a normal dad. Normal normal normal, which neither he nor anyone around him really is.

As I mentioned, he has a past of radical activism, which he has set aside. He characterizes his time in college as a "selfish period," during which he was "wrapped up in identity politics." His break from activism coincided with his graduation, move to Vermont, realization that he was trans and anti-trans experience with some former friends, fellow Smith alums, who started crabbing about "butch flight." He no longer wished to be part of an acrimonious community; to him, they seemed jejune and puerile in their attacks, so he removed himself from those particular people, as well as the activism associated with them.

Frankly, he also started caring less about "women power rah rah rah" [his words] when he was trying to figure out how to become the man he had always wanted to be. He thought of his and Isabel's dad as a model for masculinity, a dude who was a stay-at-home father for the first 7 years' of the twins' lives and who always said that the measure of a man was not in his toughness or his strength, but in his respect, loyalty and love to those around him. He wanted to be like his dad, who thought that being a father was his most important job ever. He wanted to settle down with the right woman and have a family, which seemed to him incompatible with "running around and protesting shit all the time" [his words].

Carter's desire to be a good man is also strongly affected by pop cultural conceptions of masculinity. This mostly manifests in his long-running preoccupation with exactly how to marry Novella. He is currently hung up on what type of engagement ring to get for her and how to propose to her.

Novella and Carter have known each other for about 5 years and been living together for about 3. They have cats together. They co-own their condo and their car. They have joint bank accounts, and they have set up their wills, health care proxies and powers of attorney to default to each other. Everyone who knows them treats them as a pair, and friends and extended family have been bugging them about the possibility of having kids. In other words, they're pretty damn committed. They also obviously love each other and demonstrate it frequently, so they don't have the "Does he/she even love me???" question.

The thing is that both Carter and Novella are pretty shy and kinda passive. I mean, they didn't officially call themselves a couple until after their friends kept assuming that they were one, which led to the following conversation:

"Hey, Carter, are we dating?"

"I dunno."

"Everyone thinks we're together."

"Well, we DO hang out a lot." [Understatement: At this point, Carter was spending 5 nights a week at Novella's.]

"And like each other a lot."

"Yeah, and have lots of sex."

"Isn't that dating?"

"Okay."

"Okay."

This is what happens when you have two socially awkward people who find it difficult to talk about their feelings. :p

Novella currently has the exact same obsession as Carter: how to marry him, starting with what kind of engagement ring to get him and how to propose to him. Carter and Novella do not know that they share preoccupations, but Isabel does, since she is close to both. This secrecy is integral to the subplot, its climax and its fallout.
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Fox just coughed up an extended trailer for one of its new fall shows, Sleepy Hollow, in which Ichabod Crane is a brooding hunk who sleeps into the present day and teams up with a police detective, who is a Sassy Woman of Color [TM]. Together the two of them track the murderous Headless Horseman, who is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Wait a minute...they canceled Alcatraz, starring a tough-shit woman and a fat guy of color who kick ass and solve mysteries without having sexual tension, for some genre-confused mess that's already manifesting racist and sexist stereotypes in its goddamned trailer?

Well, Sleepy Hollow certainly looks stupid. I can't tell, though, whether it's in the "so bad it's bad" or "so bad it's good" category yet.

P.S. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow actually concerns a slight, silly love triangle story, written by Washington Irving, in which local dipstick Brom freaks out schoolteacher Ichabod so badly that the latter leaves town, removing himself from the competition for the affections of rich Katrina Van Tassel, who naturally has no personality, agency or function besides that of walking plot point.
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So it looks like Dollism Plus, a gargantuan BJD convention usually held in Hong Kong, will occur in 2014 in the US, specifically Niagara Falls, New York! That's just a 7-hour drive away! I've already buzzed to Janna about this, and we look forward to taking a DOLL ROAD TRIP WOOOOOOO HOOOOOO there and back.

I'm really excited to have a BJD con somewhere close by. In the past, many interesting BJD events have occurred in the South and on the West Coast, but very, very few in the Northeast. While I have been to shows for all types of dolls, as well as large BJD meetups, I've never been to a con dedicated to BJDs, so I look forward to meeting people, taking lots of pictures, playing with unfamiliar dolls and buying some stuff. Of course, I have to save up quite a lot of money for travel, lodging and, uh, doll stuff.

I'm already thinking about who to bring. Members of the Me and My Muses or Zombieville universes are not eligible, so that reduces the pool of available attendees to those dolls who pester me in my universe:

• Araminthe
• Flower
• Ginevra
• Janvier Jett
• Jareth
• Jujube
• Mellifer
• Sardonix
• Submit
• Timonium
• Yamarrah

Jareth is out because I've decided that, while he may go out in public with me, he's never going to any meets. I'm also leaning toward eliminating people with fragile or fiddly parts, like Flower with his hot-glued ears, Ginevra with her detachable wing and Janvier Jett with her articulated fingers. I won't bring Jujube either because she is so small, likewise Submit.

That leaves me with Araminthe, Mellifer, Sardonix, Timonium and Yamarrah. [There may be some other options by next September, depending on who I acquire before then!] I'd like to bring a 1:6er, especially if people are selling sets and accessories in that scale; then I will have a basis for comparison. I'd also like to bring a "standard" 1:3 scale BJD because she could serve as a fit model for any clothing I'm interested in. Hmmm...

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After experiencing violent allergies, Flower tells Epona why he's really hanging out in the fake forest. Jareth butts in.

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To tell you the truth, I have no idea where this story is going. I just started it because I thought Timonium looked serious, sly and threatening in contrast to the rest of my fairies.

I also have no idea how anyone could appear threatening to the inimitable Jareth. :p
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Reading a paper on operations that trans persons may choose to undergo as part of their bodily transitions...

Authors go on and on about "sex reassignment surgery." No, dipshits, it's not "sex reassignment surgery." Frankly, I'm not entirely sure what the most accurate term is at this point, but it's not that. I think the general term I've heard is "gender transition surgery," which encompasses a variety of procedures.

"Transexualism is a gender identification disorder..." A) Authors can't even spell "transsexualism." B) Cissexism is a disorder in which people think that there are only two categories of people, "men" and "women," and that all people in each group must have bodies that look exactly the same.

Authors are obsessed with penetration, defining a neopenis as one that can successfully achieve penetration and a neovulva as one that can successfully be penetrated. They apparently think that the only type of sexual activity available is penis-into-vulva penetration.

ARRRGH!
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Just purchased a secondhand scanner from a person who said she was getting rid of it to "liquefy" unwanted possessions. Is it just me, or can English be an exceptionally confusing language, even for people who speak it as a first language? 

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I finally got some green crinkle paper of the right shade to act as ground cover for my forest set! I was just going to take pictures of it, but Flower and Epona started chatting, and this happened...

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Do NOT get three weeks' worth of burritos at once. They don't keep well in the small freezer at work. :( 

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These little shits have been everywhere in our pantry recently. In our attempt to evict them, we jettisoned 25 lbs. of rice and 10 lbs. of pancake mix. This incredible waste of food seems to have removed their source, though several of them are still flying around, waiting for me to hit them flat with a blank book. We need airtight storage for our cereal-based foods. This entry was originally posted at http://modernwizard.dreamwidth.org/1507088.html. You can comment here, but I'd prefer it if you'd comment on my DW using OpenID.

My previous list of wants included Soom Auber, Soom Cylin and Lumedoll Koit in tan. I have now acquired Soom Auber [= Timonium] and a tan Lumedoll Koit elf head, so there's two of three old wants satisfied. New list:

• Soom Faery Legend Cylin. There are still quite a few of her available on the DOA marketplace for reasonable prices.
• Soom Faery Legend Asis. Skijump nose!!! ^_^
• Dollmore Kidult Melissa Hon. Been wanting her for years, but have never found her on the secondary market. Wah wah.
• A mer-BJD. Either one of Asleep Eidolon's 1:3 scale ones or a custom-made 1:6 scale one with parts from Soom Wave/Soda.

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Ellery meets her new muse Jamisia, whether she wants to or not!

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No thanks to the Canon EOS 30D Digital Field Guide I bought to supplement my manual, I finally figured out how to adjust my camera's shutter speed, which should take care of my long-time bane: washed-out photos.

The Digital Field Guide [an independently produced book] went off on a tangent about the philosophy of shutter speed and what every different mode does, until I eventually wanted to yell, "Just tell me which buttons to push dammit!"

Turns out it's as easy as hitting the DRIVE ISO button, then turning the main dial on the camera to the left to increase or right to decrease the ISO.

With my new knowledge of autofocus points and ISO control, I'll be unstoppable!

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The Monster High character Arachne's Daughter appeared as an option in a popularity contest during the 2011 San Diego Comic Con. Mattel showed prototypes of several MH dolls and asked voters to choose their favorite, which would then be commercially produced. Sadly, Arachne's Daughter lost...but Elizabeth Jr. just sent me word that Arachne's Daughter will be an exclusive at this year's Comic Con! Nifty! She is the only MH doll I would consider getting, although she would definitely need a repaint...and possibly a rehair.
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December Diamonds makes painted, glitter-encrusted ornaments of resin, including a wide selection of mermaids and mermen. They would sell extremely well in Provincetown, especially since most of the merdudes look like they're about to strip. I like how they're clearly sculpted with a certain level of realism and a sense of humor. There's a definite queer sensibility at work here. Simply faboo!
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Doll in Mind recently came out with several new BJDs in their DIM Honey line. Adeleine, Alana, Angelica, Flavia, Freda and Ruiru are all female, double-jointed and 30cm.

I like the headsculpts, though they aren't conventionally pretty. The plush lips and large, slightly droopy eyes cry out for stylized, experimental faceups. Adeleine and Freya, two of my favorites, remind me favorably of Soom Minigem Uyoo -- the same big, wide-eyed, open-mouthed features on a small head.

I'm not a fan of the body, though. While I like the sleek and well-engineered shape of the double joints, I think that the abdomen is too narrow. And the feet look ridiculously small. I understand the the proportions represent an attempt to make these dolls fit into existing fashion doll clothing, but I think that the Soom Minigem female body does this much better.

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Inspired by the striking effect of Timonium's dried-blood choker against his pale and black palette, I redid his ears in the same color.
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...into whatever medium I'm working with. Timonium exemplifies these rare and welcome occurrences.

When I last photoed Timonium, I had glued up his final wig and then enjoyed how much he reminded me of Jareth from Labyrinth.

I've been laboring intently over him yesterday and today. I did his ears and his face in a limited palette of Prismacolor watercolor pencils [French grey 20%, French grey 50%, black and white] and some diluted snow white acrylic paint.

Comments:

Watercolor pencils make mouths so much easier, as I can wet my brush and push color into the creases between lips!

I've finally figured out my faceup style: sketchy and impressionistic, but also bold and stylized, in narrow palettes. I don't do subtle!

Now painted, Timonium looks much different. At first, he seemed like a neutral alabaster statue. Originally I thought I would give him a relaxed mouth, but I decided to stick on a smirk, just to see what would happen. Suddenly he came alive with devilish attitude! in contrast to the smirk on my Jareth doll -- a playful, devious one -- Timonium's smirk is dangerous and quite possibly malicious. The word that comes to mind when I look at him is chthonic.

Yes, he's supposed to look like the Goblin King. I was trying to capture that threatening, powerful allure he evinces when he enters Sarah's room, sneering, smirking and sparkling.

He was originally going to be avian and more grey [and possibly blue], but he obviously wanted to be grey/black/white instead. This starker palette accentuates his pallor, making him look kind of cadaverous.

I put the red choker [a string from Jareth's shirt] on him because he needed a choker, and I couldn't find a black one. I like the dark red accent enough that I'm contemplating doing his fairy feets in the same dried-blood color. Maybe splatters, as if he's been walking through blood. He strikes me as that kind of person. Probably drinks it too.

Anyway, onto the pictures....

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As you may know because I write about it all the time, my next series, Zombieville, is currently developing. Zombieville features people who eat brains and lose body parts, but they are not the mindless, undead creatures of pop culture lore. Rather, they are average, living people with a condition known as spontaneous disintegrative disorder ["spondis"] that causes physical and mental degeneration, which may only be arrested through a diet of at least 50% fresh human brains. Most people with spondis [PWS] see themselves as people with disabilities, while most of the public sees them as pop culture zombies. Conflict ensues.

In one planned episode, Isabel, protagonist and PWS, encounters a vending machine filled with zombie dolls. The manufacturers model the dolls after pop culture zombies [drooling blood, chewing severed limbs]. However, the dolls also have mobility aids that many PWS actually use. Isabel's response to these toys forms an entire story arc.

The foregoing explains why the creation of these zombie dolls did not just entail slapping red paint on some miniature figures. I wanted to make zombie dolls with electric wheelchairs, walkers and canes of the type that PWS would use.

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Another muse barges into Ellery's life! [Oops forgot to resize the panels.]


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I added some green crinkle paper to my forest for ground cover. After I placed the green paper on the ground, I realized that it was too blue for the forest palette. SHIT!

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I really like Asleep Eidolon's 1:3 scale mer-BJDs. They're really expensive, though! Maybe I can get one off the secondary market. This entry was originally posted at http://modernwizard.dreamwidth.org/1503979.html. You can comment here, but I'd prefer it if you'd comment on my DW using OpenID.

Brought to you by cotton print fabric, dried moss, sticks, acrylic paint, plastic greenery, Sculpey, Aves Apoxie Sculpt and brown crinkle paper.

This is a test of brown crinkle paper as undergrowth to break up the rectilinear lines where the sky fabric means the ground board. I think I need some green crinkle paper too. The brown alone does not provide sufficient variation.
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Hey peoples! Remember Ellery and Lucian? They're back! Well...at least Ellery is.

Before Me and My Muses went on hiatus in mid-February, Ellery had banished her muse Lucian at the ultimatum of her long-distance girlfriend Kristin. Then Kristin visited Ellery at Wintermere College. Ellery felt numb and sad, but attempted to have sex with Kristin, who couldn't stomach Ellery's kinky desires. The two then broke up, leaving Ellery feeling truly alone.

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A helpful Figurvore member has identified doll "I" from my recent lineup. She is a member of the Smaller Home and Garden family made by Tomy. I happen to have all 4 family members in well-loved [and chewed-on -- the dad and daughter have human teeth marks in their legs :p ] condition. Here they are.

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I need to get these for Isabel! Fat peoples for O gauge model railroads!
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Jareth is currently hanging out in the window [open for the first time this season!], wearing the final Corset Thingie of Awesomeness from Isabeau [+ matching miniskirt]. No underwear...hence the post title. He looks almost sweet in some of these pictures, but don't be deceived.

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Outfit 1

• laced blouse with leg-o'-mutton sleeves
• black vinyl corset
• wrap skirt
• cape with collar
• leggings 1 [black stretch]
• fishnets
• underwear

Blouse, corset and wrap skirt rely heavily on Souldoll's Ruvo-Z with some differences. Jareth's version of the blouse has bigger shoulder poufs and no dangly ruffle things, but is otherwise the same. Corset is the same. Wrap skirt takes the tulle and ruffles that are part of the Ruvo-Z shirt and makes them into a separate item of clothing. There are about 5 to 7 ruffles to make it fuller than Ruvo-Z's. Colors of blouse and wrap skirt uncertain.

Cape is a full circle of very lightweight black fabric with slight train. Dull gold metal hook clasp at throat. See picture of NECA Jareth action figure below for design of collar only.

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Pandora thinks they are. I always thought they were Brit punk. Maybe they're New Wave Brit punk? 

EDIT: And the Ramones? My definition of New Wave must differ from theirs.
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This photostory started off as a simple showcase for my latest 1:6 scale accessory, a blood bag, but then changed into something longer and more pointless.
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This is why I got Timonium: he looks Jarethian.

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I had some time on Monday to get around to some of those doll projects that have been in suspension since my packing and moving.
Among other things, I made improvements to Timonium. I moved the snap on his skirt so that it fits more snugly around his hips.

I also rewired him with two thick pieces of wire down his neck, through his upper torso, lower torso, then one wire down each of his thighs. After drilling channels down each of his solid fairy feets so that the wires could run past his knee joints, I found him a much more solid poser.

Timonium got a new wig too. My wig skills are definitely improving, as this one fit snugly around the edges. However, the scalp is too deep. I'm not sure if I will correct this, as I like the bulk of wild hair springing from his head and surrounding his face.

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Here's what's happened so far:


April 22nd: Got E-mail from her saying that she had mistakenly shipped my order to another customer. Said that she had prepared a replacement unit and would be "leaving for UPS in about two hours."

April 23rd: Read E-mail [as I currently have no Internet at home >:( ]. Asked for confirmation of shipping, as well as tracking number.

This is going down in history as one of the most frustrating transactions ever.

Do not ever buy anything from Bella! Studios/ CleaBella / Room With A View sets / Christina Bougas.

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...was purchased for the sole purpose of illustrating the joke below. Coincidentally, it also happens to be perfectly 1:6 scale, so, now that its express purpose is finished, some musically inclined 1:6er may appropriate it. This entry was originally posted at http://modernwizard.dreamwidth.org/1500572.html. You can comment here, but I'd prefer it if you'd comment on my DW using OpenID.

We all know that I like to play with dolls [or otherwise I wouldn't be here]. Well, not only am I a doll enthusiast, but so are some of my dolls! Yes, my dolls like to play with dolls too.</div></div> This entry was originally posted at http://modernwizard.dreamwidth.org/1500349.html. You can comment here, but I'd prefer it if you'd comment on my DW using OpenID.

I moved last weekend to a new apartment, so I took the opportunity to take pictures of everyone in their new digs.
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15" h x 23" w magnetic dry erase boards from Three by Three x 3 = $60.00

perhaps some magnetic strips to extend height of boards

some way to prop them up
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Shortly after I guessed that the maker of my magnetic trifold had fallen off the face of the earth, she replied to my inquiry, saying that she had been sick for the duration of her radio silence. She said that it was "ready to go out" in the next day's UPS run and that she was "catching up on [her] shipping." I asked if I would get a shipping notice with tracking.

That was a week ago. Since then, I have heard absolutely nothing.

I asked yesterday for confirmation that the trifold had shipped. No response.

I am never dealing with this individual again. I'm also going to do what I can to warn off everyone I know from dealing with her. Her unprofessional lack of communication gives me no confidence in her business or services.

Do not ever buy anything from Bella! Studios/ CleaBella / Room With A View sets / Christina Bougas.
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I have 58 of them, running from 1987 to 2013.  36 [!] of those are from 2000 to 2013. My overarching goal is to scan all of them to greyscale PDFs in 600 dpi [except for the one with all those color pictures of angels in it -- at least the illos for that will be full color!], but my current priority is to digitize 2000-2013 first. Tedious....

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