I love my cat. Yes, like all doll owners, I own a cat. She’s 17 years old. Her name is Smokey. Today I bought some fluffy fabric for me to use as a blanket (great stuff, btw), and the cat loves it SO much. She walked over and stood on it, then kneaded it with her little paws. Then she squeezed onto the corner that I wasn’t under, purring. About a minute later, she was sprawled across my legs, purring in full-fledged cat-rapture.

For those who are concerned about Louisa. Kakyuu offered her a modest refund on the Zoukeimura eyes, but we had to send her the crappy mismatched ones first. She also offered a refund on the broken hand, but she wanted Gene’s hand back. That doesn’t work for Gene because they don’t make option parts in BW, so Gene would just be… handless. So far as I know, there has been no offer of any kind of recompense for the modding of his face, or his second-hand status. Once again, if you’re thinking of ordering anything through superdollfie.org, really think about it. I’m not saying that she’s never made an honest transaction, just that I’ve been hearing a lot of other stories, too, including about things purchased through e-bay.

Meantime, Gene has been modded and is awaiting faceup. He might be waiting another day or two, because it’s raining too much for me to coat his face. :( Same with the other commission I’m doing. Sucks, because I’m SO CLOSE TO DONE for both of them and I wanna get them done and shipped before the end of October so I can officially close October’s commissions. I hate Rochester autumns sometimes. And as soon as the weather lightens up, it’ll be time to rake leaves. *sigh*

Judy made an LJ Feed for my blog! YAY! Thanks, Judy!

I’m adding a new catagory to my journal… after this, this catagory will always be passworded because it’s for kinda private posts. The password is different than my modding entries, so it’s not that the modding password won’t work – it’ll still work for the modding entries. :) Just not the “BW” catagory entries.

Responding to this.
Boys’ love. Crappy photography and stiff looking dolls. :(

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Tomorrow I hope to take real pictures of him.
He looks so different from a regular Hound, but I think that nose still makes him identifiable as a Hound.

Well, I sent on the head to Lisa today, though weirdly they told me I couldn’t use EMS because there’s no exprss service to her city. *blank look* Brunei is weird. So is the USPS.

I also finished off everything for Azurielle – I opened the eyes on her Shiwoo Sleeping Elf and put elf ears onto her El. Today I did their faceups!

Now all that I have to work on for the next few days are Gene and his mods, Morraine, and then Joey’s Namae head (whever he gets back to me about the pics I sent so far). I’m really happy with the faceups on the elves. Here are some quick pics (I’ll take decent ones tomorrow in natural light before I send them on):

(The El is wearing the wig I dyed for Morraine… now that it’s dry, I really love the color. *happy*)

I had some setbacks on Morraine today, but I don’t feel like going into it. Suffice to say I’ve added a day to my wait time before I can paint his head. But it’s much better! I also matted down his body pieces and they look really good. They look almost like the Volks tan, but darker. Nicely matte, I’m relieved. I think when they’re blushed they’ll be gorgeous. Hopefully tomorrow I can do that when there’s natural light, then I’ll be able suede them in the evening. I think sueding the joints’ll help prevent chipping. We can hope, anyway!

I am at no risk of libel for saying any of what I’m about to write, because it’s true. Louisa contacted Kakyuu about the eyes, and Kakyuu has refused to do anything. She says that the statute of limitations has run out, since it was two months ago that Louisa received the doll. She says she’s contacted her lawyer about it, and Louisa’s e-mail and phone have been blocked to her! She also tried to make Louisa feel guilty by saying things about how could a “friend” stab her in the back by posting about that on DoA without talking to her about it? Well, a “friend” would never have cheated a “friend” so that she would have to do something like that!

What’s worse? Not only did Kakyuu take advantage of a new doll owner by sending a pair of inferior, mismatched eyes…. but the head has been MODDED. What the fuck?! I’ve got the paint off the head and I’m sitting here looking at it… and I took a picture to compare Gene’s head to the picture of an F-16 from the BJD reference page. Here it is:

On the left is the “default” F-16 head contributed to the site by a DoA member. On the right is Gene, Louisa’s F-16.

Wow. I tried to take a picture of the head from the same angle as the pic I had for reference… but theres no way I could tilt that head that could make it look the same. Wow.

Louisa didn’t send me the headcap (I have no idea why), but I asked her what it says. She says it says “05/01/fks”. Which I THINK means that the doll was made in January? She didn’t order until May at the very earliest (she didn’t receive the doll till August).

I don’t think this doll was ever ordered as an FCS through Kakyuu, and I don’t think she got it first-hand.

At best she’s a “middleman” who have any control over what she’s selling. At worst, she’s a scammer who totally misrepresents her product.