This year’s Christmas cards. I was really slow… so I couldn’t print them and mail them. Hope you enjoy them anyway!

And interesting trivia about each one: Juri has no body (her head is on a bottle of body wash wrapped in fabric), I breathed on the glass and used a q-tip to make Rory’s fingerprints, I made Knife’s mistletoe out of bendy Sculpey, and Tam’s sleeping head was just painted this morning!

This week has been really stressing for me. At the moment, I’m home sick with (possibly) the flu and my car is in the shop. The radiator needs to be replaced, which comes with a heavy pricetag of ~$300. It’s funny, people seem to have the same problems with all their cars. My friend Becky always has problems with her transmissions, and I always have problems with my radiators. Anyway, happily my Christmas presents are all paid for and my cookies are all baked… so I can just get through by writing a check for the radiator that won’t get cashed till tomorrow when there’s money in my account, and resting. Hopefully other issues will resolve themselves today as well!

Yesterday on lunch I took pics of the Juri head’s faceup and of Tamwoo in natural light.
First, my beloved Tam:

And then Juri. She’s such a unique head. I like how she turned out quite a bit, though I’m still not sure if she’ll be staying. I’m getting a [damaged] DD1 body in trade for mods, so I’ll see if I like her as a whole doll. (It’s hard to pass judgement on a head that lives on your bottle of body spray). Otherwise, I’ll let her go on to be someone else’s dream doll. Her lip color makes me happy. I almost never do girl faceups, so this is the first time I’ve gotten to do dark lips… it’s really addicting. And they’re the most lush color in person – they’re like the honey-glazed rasberries on a fruit tart. Mmm.

Wheeeeeee. My head is killing me, and I have to go pick up my car in an hour… but I feel better posting pics and chatting with people. Thanks so much to my wonderful lovelies! Meantime, I need to clean a bit and rearranged. I put my Tom of Finland on my bookshelf real quick the other day… and the way he’s positioned, it looks like he’s — nevermind. I gotta rearrange him because it makes me feel pervy. I love his sneer, but sometimes he’s just too much!

Wow, talk about caught red handed!

Well, I finished esthetics and blushing, as well as painting one head. :) I need to take pics in natural light, but here’s a quick one (sorry it’s a bit blurry).

And I will call him….

… Mini Woo.

Just kidding. His name is actually Tam, like the MSD Ken. He’s (hopefully) going to replace the Ken as Tam’s character doll. I think this suits him much better. It has the right sort of somber, spacey look I want for Tam…

A little bit more on the body:
First, I have mixed feelings on the new headcap. The new headcap snaps on with some grooves on the inside of the head. It’s nice because it stays on well, but it’s a little bit difficult to get off. I LOVE the neck joint. The minifee neck has a separat piece that fits up intot he bottom of the head. You align the piece correctly, then just turn a flat piece inside and then then head is on. No fighting, no fuss. I think I will actually end up using Tam’s sleeping head.. though I’m also thinking of modding the sleeping head and just playing. Though I am kinda enchanted with the idea of Tam being able to “sleep.”

Omigod, I mailed my Christmas cookies out today. The bulks of the cost was in the international boxes, but the total for mailing was over $60! EEEEK! In good news, though, I got a box in the mail today from Erica! I got a Tyler doll to repaint. :) That’s exciting. I’m trying to decide if I want to savor it or do it tonight. I kinda want to do it tonight! Thanks Erica!

Mini Fee Chiwoo’s here!

He’s so cute! He’s very slender and pretty, though he still seems a little less mature than a Luts Delf. The body is very similar to a 60 cm boy Delf, but it’s just a little younger somehow. Not sure what the difference is! The differences (aside from size) between this body and the 60 cm delf boy body are relatively few… though one noticeable thing is that the shoulders don’t have the joint cap that the 60 cm does. It does, though, have the beloved CP buttcaps. He is also lovely and lightly muscles. He has abs! I think his abs are actually more definted than my SD13s! I need to take look. :) His hands and feet are what get me though – they’re so delicate and beautiful. I am completely in love with his little feet – they’re so perfectly sculpted.

His head is very pretty too… though it does seem to be slightly different from the 60cm Chiwoo head. I’m not exactly sure what’s different, I’ll compare it later with pics, maybe. But looking at a pic of a mini fee head next to a 60 cm head, I think I’d have a pretty easy time telling which was which.

The only thing I don’t like about the mini fee is that the neck is kinda weird. The hole for the elastic seems a bit thick, and the head is a also a bit smaller. So some ways of positioning the head make the neckhole visible. That was something that happened on my DoD also and I didn’t like it.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel mroe ambitious and I’ll take some pics of him with other dolls for comparisons. I was gonna do it tonight, but the truth is that I didn’t feel like stripping anyone. I love my dolls, but sometimes I hate changing their clothes. Anyway, I’m gonna see what he looks like with an MSD head (and vice versa). Tomorrow night he’ll probably get taken apart and esthetized. I’d like to get him esthetized, blushed and coated this weekend. And then I can faceup his two heads Sunday night or monday. I’m getting slowed down on dolls by annual cookie baking. (So far I’ve filled a 16L tupperware container with cookies. And that’s only 2 of 4 kinds.)

I’m happy because I bought him in the normal resin color. Some people complain that it’s too pinky, but I like how healthy and rosy it is. I love Knife in white, but I think Tam is just so pretty in peach.

I also got the Christmas head! It’s an interesting head, though I don’t know how I feel about it in person. The eye shape is not quite desireable to me… I’m trying to decide if I want to try modding the eyes a little or not. I’m not sure if I’m going to keep her, and if I don’t keep her, I’m afraid modding the eyes will prevent me from being able to get a good trade/sale on her. I guess I’ll decide later! Here are her unpainted pics:

Label/Receipt Number: ——-
Status: Inbound International Arrival

Your item arrived in the United States at KENNEDY AMC at 2:12 am on December 14, 2005. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.

*cheers* He’s on American soil! Well, sort of. He’s on sort of ambiguous, countryless soil that’s almost American soil. Yay! New York City! That’s only 8 hours away by car. Chiwoo should be here by Friday, I think! Assuming no customs problems.

I started sewing something for Knife tonight… but I’ve decided since then that I really need to sew it on the machine because this looks like crap. It’s the first I’ve really picked Knife up in a few weeks, though… normally I just pose him with Mac and let them cuddle. I always forget just how gorgeous Knife is. If there’s anyone out there who’s considering a Shiwoo but is having doubts, don’t. I love that head mold and his chipmunk cheeks and skislope nose. He’s so pretty, but in a very touchable way. (No, no, Perv-o, not like that). Some dolls are pretty but stand-offish, but Shiwoo is just pretty and playful. Yay, Shiwoo!

I need to take pics of the boys. I dressed them all up nice in button downs. They look cute. I need to take a new group pic when new Tam gets here. I can’t wait to sew clothing for Tam! YAY! He needs pants first. >_< The only things I ordered for him with him were a pair of shoes and a wig. So he’s gonna be cold if I don’t get crackin.’

Chiwoo has left Korea. (Said like “Elvis has left the building.”) ETA, according to Luts, is 12/20. Though I honestly expect him a few days before that. And yay, I get a Juri head too!

I also received ModernWizard’s Hound, and I took deboxing pics for her. Soon he will begin down the path toward manly cheekbones and chin… but not tonight. Probably tomorrow, cuz I need to stop and pick up Milliput white.

The season of cookie baking has begun with an unsuccessful experiment. Every year I make up at least one original recipe. This year I tried to make up a low fat apple-cinnamon-oatmeal cookie. In a lot of cookie recipes, you can substitute apple sauce for the butter/crisco (it just makes it a little softer and cakier). Oatmeal cookies are a noteworthy exception; don’t do that substitution because your cookies will have a bizarre texture. I wanted “chewy” cookies, but these are chewy the way an inner tube is chewy. I ended up not bothering to bake the other half of the dough, and I won’t be giving them out with my usual cookie assortments to friends. ;_; I’m disappointed! But tomorrow night I’ll make my yearly meringues and I’ll make the batter for my 20-ish dozen cut-out cookies.

I’m also almost finished with a 1/6th girl for ebay…. she’s cute. Very spunky. All she needs now is her pleather miniskirt… but I just can’t bring myself to sew it. Yeah, I actually sewed clothes for this one. Woo. OOAK outfit indeed.

On DoA, people are talking about wanting an OT forum. ^_^* First, um, there’s an LJ community caled “Chat of Angels.” And there’re BJD chat rooms on almost all of the messenger services. So…. um…. why on DoA? It’s a doll forum. We talk about dolls there. If you wanna talk about anime, go to an anime forum. If you wanna talk about My Little Ponies, go to a My Little Pony forum. If you wanna talk about your original comic, go to DA. If you wanna talk about how much school sucks and how stressed you are, go to LJ. If you wanna whine about how no one would miss you if you left, go watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Sheesh, people. If you wanna talk about BJDs, DoA is awesome for it. For your other needs, go somewhere else.

I feel stressed. :(

In one of my auctions, it said that I take paypal. But it says in bold, red text “no credit cards.”

During the auction, a bidder asked a question – he acknowledged that I don’t take credit card and asked if Bidpay was all right. I said no, that I can take money orders or paypal balance transfers.

After the auction ended, the bidder attempted to pay with credit card. I denied payment because I do not accept credit card and it was stated in the auction. He is pressuring me to sign up with bidpay. I have said no, and that he can send payment to my other paypal account (that is set up for credit card but it is not verified). I think I might have said it was my friend’s paypal account because I don’t want him to yell at me for not just having him send payment there initially. That account isn’t verified and I’m having trouble getting Paypal to verify it because my bank is being stupid… so if I take payment there, I’m not positive that I can get it out. Anyway.

They are saying that they will pay that address if I can guarantee that it will arrive “TW.” I don’t know what this means and I’ve asked – waiting for a response. Maybe “This week?” I told him that either way, if I get payment by Monday, it will ship on Monday (either way, it’s already too late for me to mail it out today)… and I said that it said in the auction that I don’t accept credit card, and that I accept paypal without credit card or money orders. And that I was sorry if this was inconvenient for him, but it was inconvenient for me too. I also said that if he didn’t want the doll anymore, I could cancel the auction.

I just feel stressed because I’m worried that he will leave me negative feedback. So soon after I just got to 100 positive feedbacks too. :( Also, I’m pretty sure he’ll never buy from me again and he’s one of the people who bids high.

Also, allforspike e-mailed me yesterday to ask if the doll I was sending had been shipped. I’m concerned because I shipped it on Monday and it’s only going maybe or 3 states away by priority. It’s insured, though, so either way we’ll both get our money back. Dena got her Snape head already and it shipped the same day.

But I’m just bummed because I feel like this is making me look like a bad eBayer. Not so much a big deal, really, but I’d like to be able to sell on ebay and actually make a little money. I’ve said up for the general GRE (YAY MODDING!), but now I need to save up for the subject one for bio.

Makes me feel bad about getting mini Chiwoo. Today is just not off to a good start.

You know how I said I needed to wait and think about it before I ordered anything?

I lied!

I just bought Mini Fee Chiwoo. I sent payment. It seems like a lot, but I sold Baron, so it’s okay… and I made a lot of money selling 1/6ths. *deep breath* Still, buyer’s remorse is rough! I think it’s good though. Because this way I can have him and make sure I like him before selling Tam. He’s gonna replace Tam if I like him enough (which I fully plan to, but…)… and if not, he’ll get fully customized and then resold. *nods* So either way, it’ll work out well, I think. And really, Chiwoo was one that I knew I was going to buy – it’s the girl doll I’m in limbo about. And this way I can really think on the girl doll and make sure I get the perfect little girl.

And I get the Luts Christmas Event head as a gift! I wanted to get one of the cloth bodies for her, but they were sold otu of girl bodies…. they had the cloth boy body though, so I ordered that instead. So, uh, she’s a he for a little while. I wonder if I should paint her up as a boy to go with the body. ;) I can always remove it…

And Mandychu’s getting a nice outfit for her boys. Should be fun!