all the wigs

So I have two wigs, one for Marius and one for Koth in the wings.  both have wig caps atm so that's cool.  I'm looking very forward to working on Marius though cus I'm trying a shaped wig cap this time, with a widow's peak.  Don't know if the peak will show but I hope it will.

In other news the eyes for a bunch of our dolls are in the wings atm.  Safrin doll is super backed up atm so hopefully she'll get caught up soon.

Stokesia laevis

Nickname: (Stokes) Aster
Mold
Head: Pixiu
Body: Single jointed 27 cm torso with double jointed 27 cm arms and legs
Resin: Purple
Face up: Me!
Eyes: Probably pale yellow or the natural thundercloud from safrin doll.
Hair: Blue maybe?  It'll be one of my yarn wigs.
Extras:  magnets for wings?
Story:  Aster is the youngest and the most outgoing out of the three fairies.  She's the most likely to pull a mean prank on someone but also the most likely to actively help someone.  She's a bit of a tom boy but she has no problem being cute and sweet.  Unlike Lotus she's quite happy to muck about in jeans and a tee and get dirty and hands on but while Lotus likes to look adult, prim and orderly, Aster is quite happy in a baby doll dress and a mess of ruffles.  Aster's more active and hands on life have made her alittle bigger than lotus, a fact that Lotus abhors.  Aster has a mess of a style that she happily calls "American" It leans somewhere between "pirate" and "colonial".  Aster has Grasshopper wings.
History: Aster is the last of my fairies both in story age and the last one to become "figured out". First the purple doll was going to be a mei and therefor larger.  Then I knew that the purple wasn't right for the doll I wanted... By the time the purple changed and I decided it was ok to have more than one doll in a single color Pi and pixiu had come out.  I didn't know what head for sure cus I really don't wanna have multiples of the heads.  Pixiu just looked so adorable, feminine, and mischievous that I couldn't help it.  Once I decided that Pi need to be the prince's daughter everything else was sunk, Pixiu had to be my purple tom boy and I needed to find her a name.
Related/connected Dolls
Lotus     Friend      Her post 
Fig         Friend      His post 

Dolls in.... Decision time

So we got our new boys yesterday and Marius is sitting thoughtfully on my desk as I try to think of what -EXACTLY I wanna do with him.  I'm (god forbid) leaning towards purple and orange... Yes I know! CRINGE!  I just put a purple wig on him and he's angry looking....  He looked good in Val's shoulder length green and black one but I don't really wanna put him in green... I mean it -could- work but I just don't like it for him.  I'm not thinking like... Bright yellowy orange either, I'm thinking more like copper/bittersweet more on the red side of orange possibly with metallic blushing..  I found several eyes I'm liking even if I don't go orange I'm looking at either ending up with blue or purple eyes right now... there are a few neutral colored ones I like but I'm just genuinely unsure.

Along with his eyes I have very little in the way of plans on how I'm going to blush him.  His hair, eyes and blushing all kinda go in the same vein.  Until I have one for sure then I don't know for sure what I'm going to do with the others.  Perhaps on Friday when I go to walmart I'll check out the yarn and see if I can get some Ideas though there's a damn good chance that I'll have to hit up Micheals because I want some homespun yarn for this and I know I don't have a/the color I wanna use of homespun...

Also... Marius has the frigging biggest case... Like ever.  Damn thing's an SD case.. not just an SD a 70's case.  It's enormous.  And I feel like a sociopath carrying him around cus it's almost big enough to be a small rifle case...  And I wear a hoody.  Nothing could go wrong with this.

Edit: oops! I was going to post this here... Cranky Marius

Waiting times are strange

So Waiting for Marius has been easily my easiest wait and Satie has easily been my worst.  I'm really REALLY unsure as to why that is.  As excited as I am I have not been chomping at the bit, or getting nervous while I waited for my email to load.  I've been checking EMS now that he's shipped several times a day but it's not like it's been before where I can't get him off my mind.  I'm not saying I'm not excited, I'm just not as excited as I've been in the past.

There are any number of reasons why I'm not so blisteringly blindly retard excited, I'm actually a little unsure about his body for one.  I think there's a good chance he's gonna get a good ole fashion sanding to remove some of the veining on him.  I'm a little scared actually that his Mu head is going to be too "soft" for his big muscly body... But I love Mu's head to death... and once I get him... I can't wait for them to put out a female version so that I can get my Yao, or maybe there will be a way for me to swap bits between Satie and him so that I can make the female version (who more and more might end up with small titties... IDK it just feels right...)

Either way I just checked and he (and two other dolls that are in the box with him) hit Des Moines at 8:11 tonight and I'm kinda hoping that they'll hit town and mom's house tomorrow.  Now is the first time I've felt the flutter in my tummy of the impending dollyness.  I guess I'm just not huge on boys... maybe that's why his kid is going to be a daughter... *shrug*  it doesn't matter though.  I'm getting him almost assuredly in the next two days... TWO DAMN DAYS!

On an unrelated note... I'm going to try and start taking photos of the things I do and posting them in the blog.  So like.. the super cute knit wardrobe Lori got... Pics.  The almost finished dry sink?  Pics!  And Oh man oh man, I NEEEED to remember to take pics of all facups.  ALL.  But yea, FUN.  Maybe I'll get to post more tomorrow... with Marius in muh lap.

Zaria Laetitia

Nickname: Zary, princess
Mold
Head: Autumn
Body: Pixiu/pi (likely with the torso swapped out for the standard 1/6 female torso)
Resin: Red
Face up: By me (gold highlights)
Eyes: Metallic gold hopefully
Hair: Probably red dreads or a fur wig.
Extras: Pi's horns probably temporarily since they are so huge, we'll see.  If not I'll figure a horn bit that will match her parents horns.
Story:  Daughter of Marius and Rosaline and likely the heir after her father Zaria is the perfect "I totally didn't do it and even if you saw me I was coerced" princess.  She'd relish a playmate and scape goat for her antics but manages to be prim and lovely whenever the need calls for it.  Otherwise she's a child, she gets her fine clothes dirty by sneaking food, peals out of the dress she begged to wear a few minutes ago and otherwise is a bit of a terror.  She has her mother's tenacity and her father's ability to obfuscate, when she's being good she's an angel, bad, the devil.
History: When pixiu came out I about lost my mind happy.  There was a little dragon, many things with "the prince" and his "slave" just fell into place.  I was so happy I decided they needed to be an adorable totally dysfunctional family.  Daddy Ming the prince dragon, mommy Yao the slave dragon and Pixiu the prince!  I had it all figured totally up.  I wanted the SJ male torso with the dragon limbs and that would be it!  Then I got to thinking right when I was looking at names for Marius.  I wasn't sure I wanted a boy dragon... I kinda wanted a dragon girl.  I started looking for girl names and things once more, just fell into place, I'm hoping that I can get the wing magnets to stick to the inside of her torso so that I can do this proper.  But wait! There's more!  So at first, the head was going to be a pixiu, I had plans for all the other heads afterall.  Then Pi came out and I was like Oh it's so sweet!  It wasn't perfect but I liked it.  As of this editing the new centaur deer babies came out and I'm in deep smit.  As I was looking through them I came on to autumn, simmilar face to Pi, that same slightly downturned mouth but the eyes and ears were WAAAY better for a Yao/ming baby...  So she's changed again, this time she's got the autumn head.
Related/connected Dolls
Marius         Father          His page
Rosaline       Mother         Her page

Marius Impero

Nickname: Prince or Marius
Mold
Head: Ming
Body: RS MSD dragon boy (sui)
Resin: Dark grey
Face up: By me (metalic?  maybe blue or red?  Not sure)
Eyes:  Safrin doll Solar eclipse 16mm
Hair: He might actually have a fur wig, but if he does have a yarn wig like the rest of my resins, he'll have dreads in a complimentary color, Maybe even white or grey.
Extras:  Horns, probably the Ming horns, and then whatever they come out with for the 1/4 size dragon bits.
Story:  Marius Impero is the Dragon Prince, he's the son of a dragon that rules the forest that  most of my fantasy dolls live in.  He's spoiled and headstrong but fairly reasonable so long as you don't challenge him.  He's been gifted a lesser dragon concubine named Rosaline who is his devout servant and lover.  She's birthed (at least)one child (looking like it'll be a female red dragon child).  He has an affection for her and is protective of her but doesn't particularly respect her person-hood in any way shape or form, she's like a beloved pet or prized toy.

History:  He started off as a ming, just a regular ming, still was a prince of the forest but he was a satyr, he was going to have an "elven" concubine.  Then Pixiu came out and I got wind that resinsoul was thinking about making an adult dragon doll and I about shat myself.  I was already reeling with my brain demanding a pixiu in my collection, then when I found out about the 1/4 stuff everything started falling into place.  I had never really liked Rosaline as a normal skin doll, I felt it was just too plain, even if it would work ok, I wanted her to be pink but it didn't make that much sense... I'd kept leaning towards her being pink.  This fixed it all, Pixiu would be their son (cus there were no females) and they'd both be dragons.
*Now Marius has been ordered by mom, a xmas present, and up till this point he hadn't been named.  I still  don't know a lot of his particulars like blushing colors, wig and eye colors.
*Marius is much more solid visually now.  Instead of yellow or red eyes he's got orange and purple safrin doll eyes, He's got a purple and grey wig instead of just grey or white like I'd originally assumed.  I'm going to be blushing him soon and my plan is copper and purple.
Relpated/connected Dolls
Rosaline       Servant        Her page
Zaria            Daughter      Her page

new kids and -16

So mom decided that we needed new dollies for xmas.  So I have a Sui with a Ming head on it's way... Oh yea, Sui is the MSD DRAGON BOY FROM RS! OH YEAAA! >.> Yea I'm a little stoked about it, We're at the "It's time the doll should ship" point and about 2 days ago I was told that it should ship in about 2 days.  So he should be on his way now in theory, haven't gotten an official "Here's your tracking number" email... which is fine but I'm getting itchy for it >.<

That leaves me with a problem.  The Prince may well be on his way as I type... and I don't have a name outside of "Dragon Prince" so... I need a name for him, I haven't decided what colors I'm going to have him blushed in, likely red and gold though but not certain.  He's gonna be dark colored and I'm going to try and mature the Ming head up a bunch.  Being that poor Jesene still doesn't have a face neither does Addy... pretty bad on me.  I tried to get Addy once and had a shit of a time with her.  I have so many faces I need to make right now it's not even funny.

Talking about things that aren't funny... it was -16 this morning.  So my car doesn't start right now, it's bitterly cold to the point of painful to breath outside.  And I need milk.  T_T Suuuuck.

But rather than sulking on that note, I've been doing all sorts of dolly stuff that's good.  Mom and I get together on Thursdays and do crafty stuff.. So we painted all our wood stuff, the hutch thing I got many moons ago just needs some fancy little handles on the doors and it'll be done.  Got lots of little things done, Many many tiny tiny dresses for Lori and a little hat and diaper cover... knit the dresses... yep, I knit now... O.O apparently I knit backwards and forwards... but I don't really pearl >.> so that's a bit of a problem... Once I get that down I'll be doing pretty well.

Otherwise... I'm just chilling.  The littelest Baijo decided he wants a doll too so we'll see if he actually does that >.< probably would be another boa >.<  Or maybe he'd pick a female and name it after his imaginary friend like about eight of his stuffed animals...