Man… this weekend I got so much done!  However, as I sit here…. I can’t do ANYTHING else today, OMG!
But due to a few small but not-immediately-fixable errors, I’m still behind again on Fran.  I’m so frustrated, I had really hoped to get her finished by tomorrow night. :(  ARGH.  I will get caught up, though, and having to redo some things gives me the opportunity to fine-tune some other little things I noticed while I was working.  It’s still depressing, but at least something good will come of it.  The main annoyance is that I’ll need to drag out the airbrush again.
All of the Surprise Modding Packages are finished!!! :D :D :D :D So happy.  Can mail those out soonish!  I’m psyched about both of the ones I finished off today… I took a bunch of pics of both and I can’t wait to be able to post them.  But I never post pics before the owner gets to, so I have to wait.  I’m dying to post!  The surprise packages were really fun for me… I loved just getting to play and enjoy working.

This week… I will work hard. Must get a bunch of stuff done!  I WILL finish Fran within a few days! (Man, her body blushing turned out nice!).

Right to left: MiniMee on SD13, head lineup for resin comparison (CP white, MiniMee, CP normal, pureskin), MiniMee on SD13 with SD13 Link, view of neckholes on MiniMee and SD13 Link (not at the same angle, makes the MiniMee look bigger than it is), view of neckholes on MiniMee and SD13 Heath.

I took pictures tonight to send to Denny of the head… it doesn’t look nearly so bad in pictures as it does in person. I feel more depressed about this, because I feel like when I send these pictures, they’re going to be like “what the hell is her problem?” In pictures it doesn’t look as small. It’s so bad in person though… I seriously almost cried while I was taking the pictures.
I finally tried eyes in it…. and the eyes are too close together.  The whole head is slightly crooked, which I couldn’t see in the preview pics. I’m starting to wonder if the refund option is just the better way to go.

All the other MiniMee look so good.  I wish mine worked.

Tonight:

• Blush Fran
• Fur Fran’s other ear
• Faceup Fukubukurou #2?
• Photograph original head and post for critique on DoA (!) I haven’t worked on it in weeks and need to get some critique to give me direction.
• John Barleycorn’s mask for Roommate’s photoshoot

This weekend:

• Start on F-8
• Faceup Elf Chiwoo
• Faceup Fukubukurou #3
• Faceup Fran
• Coat Fran
• Armature for costume contest piece
• Suede Fran
• String Fran

Anything that requires MSC is weather-dependent. ;_;

I’m hoping to get the bunny girl out of the apartment early next week.

I’m hoping to get the remaining Surprise packages out of the apartment by mid-to-late next week.

I’m hoping to do some mold-making by May 20th.

I just tried the MiniMee heads… they are SO small. They are even smaller than the smallest SD13 sized head that I have. They are…. like…. miniscule. It doesn’t fit an SD13 body, Kiss body, or CP Delf boy body… anything. I don’t know what to do with these heads. They’re beautifully sculpted, but they don’t fit and they look absolutely stupid with my other dolls. I’m so upset. What a waste of money.

I emailed DIM, but I don’t know what they’re going to offer to do… if anything. I’m just so disappointed.

I feel really demotivated to work on anything tonight… but it’s not fair of me to deprive other people of their dolls for longer just because I’m depressed over mine. Off to work.

ETA: Denny wrote back to me and said they’re willing to work on it, to modify this head or sculpt another if necessary… but they need some measurements to try to make sure it fits.  I’ll take some pictures of it on an SD13 body and with some other heads.  I feel better, though I’m still bummed it’ll probably be another 2-3 months.  It’s not so long, I mean, some faceup artists take longer than that.

Tonight:

• Fix that one spot on Fran’s ear…
• Airbrush Fran’s parts to match body
• Fran’s blushing
• Paint Fukubukurou #3’s extra parts
• Coat and suede #3
• Wipe Elf Chiwoo (;_; Gorgeous faceup, I feel guilty!)
• Wipe O!Head

I got the MiniMee heads. The sculpting is beautiful and the resin is very nice…. but… they’re very small. I don’t have anything to compare them to at the moment (I’m at work), but I think they’re the size of the smaller CP girl heads (like Lishe). I’ll see when I get home… but the size makes me sort of unhappy with them. Especially since I asked them to make it bigger to fit an SD13 boy body and they said they would try. I think I’m going to have to mod the neck hole to make it fit a boy body at all. Maybe it’s not that bad, though, and it just seems small without anything else to compare it to.

I mentioned this in the MiniMee thread on DoA, and they said they were sorry and that they’d tried and could not make them any bigger… and that the next MiniMee would be bigger. Good for the people who plan to order, but it doesn’t help me at all to know that. I just hope I haven’t basically wasted the money on these heads – I wouldn’t have ordered if I had known that they couldn’t make the heads bigger.

I need to stop flipping out over this until I get them home and actually try them on a body.

Well, I am finally winding down on the biggest individual mod commission that I’ve ever done… and that will hopefully be shipped out early to mid next week. So after that, I have to faceup one of the Surprise! Packages, faceup and reassemble the other….. and then do a faceup on an Elf Chiwoo. And everything will hopefully be out of the apartment within the next week and a half.

So the question is, do I open new spots for May or not? I have a lot I want to get done before the NYC Volks Event n June…. including a rather major mod to enter in the costume contest. In an ideal world, I would have the original head done and ready to sell…. but I don’t think that’ll be happening.

Here is what I need to do for me before NYC:

• Finish sculpting nakayoshi hands (SD13 and Yo)
• Mold and cast nakayoshi hands
• Sculpt part for Costume contest
• Mold and cast that part (secretsecret!!)
• Costume for costume contest
• Finish modding Link head and faceup

Can I do that AND take a few commissions? :\ I’m not sure. The weeks go so fast. It’s almost May already. I have 6 1/2 weeks.

Anyway. I’ll figure that out… and if I’m going to open spots, I’ll open them on Friday night. There will definitely be June spots.

To do tonight:

• Finish joint on extra parts (Man, that took longer than I’d expected!)
• Coat Petit Ai
• Make armature for costume piece
• Sculpt one side of costume piece
• Finish sanding under Fran’s eye
• Mask Fran’s fingernails and toe claws
• Airbrush Fran’s head, hands, feet, ears (if masking fluid has dried)

In other news, the MiniMee will probably arrive tomorrow! XD

I finally got choco.lately’s theme working, meaning we can start using it soon.  I just… have an aversion to using a default-themed blogs.  We have so much chocolate in the apartment.  Easter was good to us.

i will also post in doll-a-day today.  This isn’t momentous or anything, I just haven’t updated it in almost a month.

I love things that are plastic and person shaped! We got this figure for Cathead and were going to torment her with sending her small detail pictures until she found a picture of what exactly it was.  It only took her two pics (a butt and an arm) to both figure out who the figures were of, and then to find the figure in question.  Pretty impressive.

   

And now I am off to SAND THINGS!!!! *gusto!*

Y’know what REALLY irritates me about owning Volks dolls? The fact that it means that whenever I don’t like another company, it’s automatically because I’m a obviously a Volks Elitist. And any thread I lock must obviously be due to the fact that its not about a Volks doll. Despite that less than a quarter of my dolls are actually Volks.
I had a guy on DoA PM me and basically call me a biased, powerhungry Volks-elitist moron because I locked his thread. Which was identical to a thread that already existed. Sorry, I don’t see owners of any other brand needing TWO threads to hug each other and tell themselves it’s okay they’re not Volks.

Get the fuck over it. No one looks down on you because you own Dollzone, no one’s going to smash your dolls, no one even cares.

Every once in awhile, I go through and do a search for my real name and email addresses, just to see what comes up.

My old high school art blog came up. Last updated in 1999.

….

How embarassing!

I didn’t even think it still existed. I requested my username and password, logged in, and deleted it. DEHLEEEEHT.

I saved two things from it, though.

This picture of me from when I was 15 from a friend’s photography class… (hanging off a bridge)

And this drawing I did when I was 14 or so. This is where my domain name came from originally:

And that is all that remains!