Sometimes I feel a little sad for the things I start and never finish.  This head is out of scale for my project, so it’s not going to progress past this point… It was just a practice head, but it looks so expectant.

I don’t think this kind of stupid sentimentality helps me at all, because it makes me work on inadequate projects too long before admiting that I need to discard.  As an artist, I find that if I don’t get off on the right foot with a project it never comes around.

I feel like a lousy artist tonight because I really want to sculpt… but I just can’t abide the thought of getting my hands dirty.

Good morning!

I’m excited to say that all of the Dollheart orders have been shipped… so I no longer have those hanging over me, and I also have reclaimed my dining room.  YAAAAAAAAAY.  We have extras of both oufits because I am neurotic and wanted to make sure that 1) I didn’t miscount and 2) we had some extras in case there were any defects or any packages that got lost in the mail.  I’m glad we had extras, as the post office lost three packages!

Anyway, will be posting up the extras for sale in a day or two.

Also been working hard on commissions.  Everything I’m doing right now seems to require hours and hours of sanding.  Ugh.  I am doing faceups tonight, though, once I get back from Thanksgiving pizza with my family.

When I haven’t been doing commissions or packing up stuff to mail, I’ve been doing NaNoWriMo.  I’m 785 words off of 50,000… and I am thoroughly out of steam.  I will be finishing the 50k today, though I will still be about 50k short of a full manuscript.  Then I’ll take a month or so off and resume.

I enjoy artistic sprints like this… and I am thinking that in January I am going to sculpt a tiny doll.  I want to make a BJD for Knife.  I think I could do it in a month… ArDoScuMo?  Armeleia’s Doll Sculpting Month? ;)

We are also thoroughly cleaning the house.  When we moved in, there were a few things that we just never got around to doing – such as bleaching the bathroom.  Yesterday I bleached the floors (and the walls, though that was more to guard against mildew as we don’t have a vent in the bathroom) and it looks much better.  I hadn’t even noticed how yuck the grout had been between the tiles.  I’m going to pick up some Oxyclean and see if I can really get it back to being white.

I can’t wait till we get our $8,000 tax credit.  I will not be purchasing anything frivolous with my half!  It will be going to redoing the damn bathroom!  I also need to look into how much it costs to re-side a house… blah.

Raising some funds… thought I’d give dibs to the friendlist first.  Pics available on request, but I don’t have them handy:

Puki Piki Singing Faceplate NS $25
Blank Leeke Min Head (matches Volks pureskin or Luts RS) $85
Feeple Nanuri 08 head with lovely faceup (NS) $90
Blank SDF Karis head (realskin) $100
Blank Ricky Bermont head (matches Volks oldskin) $90
Blank Nanuri 06 head NS $90
Blank, modified Juri 07 head NS (eyes opened slightly, actually need to finish sanding him) $70

18mm Green glass eyes – HG glass Green, HG glass Bottle Green $20/pair
18mm Black glass eyes – HG glass Black $20
16mm Volks Metallic Silver $5
16mm Mystic purple urethanes (vibrant!) $50
14mm Mystic dark purple urethanes $50
16mm Mystic silver urethanes $55
15/16mm Hitomiya beige-gold glass $20
18mm ginarolo special eyes in violet (not vibrant, but definitely purple) $25

I also need to photograph a lot of wigs and clothes I have.  I think I will also sell one of my Dollheart Man Fers.  I’d ordered 2 so I could modify one to look like the original design, but I don’t think I need two of it.

I am also struggling with the fact that I just can’t do unattached tinies.  I am selling…

Gingery Puki Chichi Custom with Daisy Dayes legs – $250 + ship
Everything shown.   I suck at making wigs, so this one is ill-fitting.  However, I will include the rest of the rather large plate of mohair so you can make your own with your considerably more impressive skill.

Cherishdoll Cecil – $85 + ship

Please PM me if interested.  I’ll give them a day or so before sending them to DoA.

I just finished painting this Supia.  Catrina told me to paint her however I wanted…. and I was thinking a bit about how fashion doll repaints often define the lips… so I tried something a bit different.  Then I added more red/pink to the blushing.  And then a few freckles because I like them.

I think I like her… though she is slightly consumptive-looking.  Supias lend themselves well to this look, though.

I imagine Catrina will be selling this doll at some point, but I have no idea what her fate is.

I’m plodding through commissions.  I MUST SUCCEED!

Well, Lacey has been ordered… I’m soon to be painting, and all is pretty good.  I have tomorrow off, so there will be much packing and mailing of international parcels. Wheeee……

Could it be Lacey?

One of these things is not like the others…?

38 of the domestic DoAxDollheart orders are going out tomorrow.  Go us.  W00+.

I’m tired now. Gonna write a bit more (I wrote on my lunch at work today) and go to bed. =_=

Maybe it’s the recent full moon bringing all the nutjobs out of the woodwork.

I feel like we got a really odd crop of newbies over the summer… lots more mystical whoosh dollsoul stuff than we’ve had in awhile.  But while the crazymeter has been rising, it seems like a lot of the longstanding hobbyists are finally putting their collective foot down and saying “Fuck no.”

I have also been transformed into a 12 year old again.  Doa lists the most recent posts in each subforum on the index… but if the title is long, it truncates.  There is a thread that always seems to be popping up in the Marketplace when I’m browsing that is title “Three dolls with huge…”  And my brain keeps supplying “tracts of land.”  A thread in Debate titled “Taking BJDs a little deeper” is making me giggle every time.

I was all set up to start posting Dollheart outfits tonight, but realized that the black ink cartridge is out.  Tomorrow night is the night!

*  Leave me a comment saying “Resistance is Futile.”

* Questions posed by zagzagael And, yes, if you ask, I will respond to more.

1. How many dolls do you currently own? How many would you like to own?

I currently own 19 dolls of varying sizes.  I am trying to only own 20 – current collection plus a Zaoll Muse.  However, in an ideal world where money and space were no object, I’d probably add a ZuZu Delf Lio, an ebony Dollshe DSAM32, a Soom Alk, an Iplehouse EID Chase, a Souldoll Chiron Centaur….

2. Is house ownership all that you had hoped it would be?

For the most part… all of the annoyances, frustrations, and expenses for sure.  But the freedom has been nice, and I have been surprised by how many skills I have acquired already and how much I have enjoyed acquiring them.  I think things are pretty much what I expected.  As time passes, I find more and more that I was either pessimistic going in or damn near clairvoyant.

3. If you had a time machine, is there a time you would love to visit?

I would love to go to 1900-1920s.  I would smuggle back so much Deco and Art Nouveau crap, you wouldn’t even believe it.

4. Creation? Or evolution?

What is it that they say – Intelligent design?  I believe that some degree of growth and change (and perhaps evolution) has happened, but I think that it has been guided by a greater vision.   Yes, scientists have been able to synthesize animo acids with electricity and a broth similar to what scientists believe the mineral -rich primordial sea must have been like… but it still doesn’t explain how they came together into mitochondria, which were first organisms of their own but later became pieces of more advanced cells… it doesn’t explain how these mutations became other organisms, which somehow sprouted legs over the course of millions of years…. and so forth.  If it came down to it, I feel like making a leap of science is about as sound as making a leap of faith.  And while some people like the thought they came from monkeys, I’d prefer to think I was created intentionally in the image of a greater being.  It’s more optimistic. :)

5. If you could be offered your dream job tomorrow, what would it be?

I’d do volunteer work focused on bettering the lives of women and children and get paid a good, living wage for doing it it.