Mega Meetup

So we (mom Keeley and I) went to the Dairyland Mega meetup.  That was fun.  We've been working on stuff to sell there for a while, Keeley sold like crazy, mom sold well and I sold one necklace.  Yep, just one. T_T BUT I sold one, and I had a blast.  Got to meet a Doll Chateau spider, and several modded dolls, one of which was a made centaur which was just so cool.  It made my spider doll Idea so real.... Like really real.  I'm thinking I might end up making her butt out of several SD bits... Cus >.> BIGGER!  I'll have to study and figure out what I'm doing with it cus there's a chance that I might actually figure out a spider to mimic (one that has a long skinny butt?) and then see if RS will send me unfinished cast peices... cus that would be the best.

BUUUT yea.  The other huge deal.. mom got a pipos rabbit in lavender.  It is so cute... but it turns out she might have gotten taken for a ride on the price, Which I feel terrible for cus I assumed that there was only one size of pipos critter and was very very wrong.  I think she's a limited and she's got the factory face, and mom loves her to absolute bits... but I still feel like shit for steering her towards getting it when it wasn't a good price.

Other than that, uneventful on the doll front.  I wanna get some fuckin faces painted but shit if I can bring myself to them atm, I think the problem is Marius is so damn huge and kinda still mystafies me as to what he should look like. then I have Koth to do as well which is like T_T He wouldn't be so bad if it was -ME- who was so sure about what he should look like T_T  Buut yea, this has devolved into bitching so I'ma stop.

The itch...

I have the planning itch again.  It's a horrible thing to have cus well... then I usually start planning more dolls... and then my husband gets irritated.... and I'm down to only four more dolls planned and I'm like T_T Want more!!!

But here we go.  planning itch!  So I'm thinking I might end up doing modded dolls after I'm done with my current four.  I've had this itch before, that spider girl is still running around in my brain.  Originally She was going to be a single jointed body with extra arms modded on and then another single jointed torso chopped and put on the back end so the last pair of legs could be added.

That don't do it for me no more.  Now what that does do for me at this juncture is remind me that Centaurs are awesome and we're probably never gonna get a centaur from RS... So I might could maybe end up making me a damn centaur and that could be badass.  But the spider girl has taken another different turn.

So my thought now is that, well I'm going to have to mod and probably epoxy this doll.  So why not just go for it?  Why not take a SJ body, add the arms like I'd planned on, but then take a DJ hip joint, an extra pair of SJ legs, put hooves on all the feet, and fabricate double joints into all her arms, then fabricate her a slightly mobile butt?  If I get really crazy, why not make the butt have spinnerets on it that could do stuff?  I've even considered adding an extra joint to the legs cus... well this is a fabrication project.

Another mod project I've considered is making jointed hands from RS hands.  PROOOOBABLY won't be able to, but hey! it'd be a fun project to try.  Teeensy tiiiiinsy joints because I'm totally not crazy as fuck.

Post puddle

Had an overwhelming and awesome weekend.  Looking back the only thing I truly regret... is getting so many damn bug bites.  IDK where they all came from but the one on the top of my foot and the one on the back of my leg are the worst.  We sold Five sweaters including the one that was a combo with the item Keely'd made so we're pretty stoked about how much we sold.  Five doesn't sound like a lot until you realize that the cheapest thing we had was 15 bucks and we only had one of those.

Puddle is an odd fish for sure, the lady who runs it is nice.... but SUPER high strung and perhaps being that it's her baby takes a few liberties that I'd prefer she didn't.  Keely had a stupidly awesome day at puddle she sold so much it's silly, selling two, maybe two and a half times more than she normally does.  Which I'm so happy for her.  We learned some good stuff, Saw that Toleka puts the ziplock on the bottom of her item's bags which is absolutely a better Idea than putting it on top under the paper.  I'm also going to suggest to mom that she not buy ziplock because Crap on a cracker I hate the white triangle on her bags, plus if she can get something without a colored seal, bonus points.  The only issue I have is that I feel as though if we're going to do this again, we need to have our own pulip to display.  Which I have no problem making a doll cus damn you know I don't mind painting and all that shit but I don't -like- pulips.  I like their clothes, I like the larger eyes... HATE the look of them.  That big head tiny body bullshit.  FUCK IT!  *siiigh* and after being around them for a weekend I'm totally inured to the look of them.

There were some rough patches but all and all I had a blast, I'm looking very forward to going to the dairyland mega meetup and now I need to go to my brother inlaws and help his fiance make stuff to go on their table at the wedding next weekend.

Puddle

So my good friend Keely and mom and I are going to puddle.  You know, the pulip convention in chicago?  No?  yea I didn't really know about it until Keely told me about it and I was like "Oh that's nice" when she first told me about it.  But she invited mom to go with her, and mom asked if it was ok if I came with and Keely was all about that idea... But of course money was an issue for me.  So muh stepdad was like "Well... We can pay for her to go!"

So I'm going!  And while I was really blah about the convention, the idea of going to a con with Keely and mom is totally out of this world YEE!  I'm really excited but it's kinda at the whim of others, so it's also a little scary.  It's also in chicago... so that's a little scary.  But mom and I have our own room, which is hella better than when we first started looking at doing this.  cus then it was like.... we were going to be rooming with 3 other people then there was going to be a 4th and blah blah... it was going to be a mess.  So we changed the plans and have our own room.  So I need very much so to figure out some stuff to work on in the hotel at night while we're chilling after the meet.

Buuuut yea, even though I'm apprehensive I'm still super toked. SO YEA! that's the skinny.

Sewing win

I've been slowly piecing together an outfit for Marius.  He's supposed to look regal and his colors are going to be purple and bronze, so I made him a kinda kimono out of a pattern mom had a while ago, and that turned out fine.  Then the other day I wrote about making a tester... well that was for a vest for him, not like... Waist coat vest... I'm talkin like, tails vest.  Well I did a bunch of alterations and did a tester at moms, and I was pretty pleased with how it came out so tonight I actually sat my ass down at my machine and lo, I fuckin made that damn vest.  I'm really quite happy with it, I just need to get some kind of clasp that will work because it butts as opposed to overlaps.

I used some of the stuff we got at good will, which honestly this outfit is really the first one I've actually made entirely out of good will clothes, but I'm kinda liking it.  The fabrics I chose were pretty cool, a black fabric with a leaf pattern on it that was only partially opaque.  Under it I used this really neat gold/purple/silver stuff that under the black looks kinda bronzy.  I'm totally gonna have to show it off to mom tomorrow.

Speaking of mom, She and the sisterly unit decided they couldn't wait any longer for Junkyspot to get MSC in so they went and Ebayed that stuff.  So there are 2 cans of MSC headed my way, which I'm damn glad about because Xuza, Val and Lotus need redone, Marius, Koth, and Una all still need first facups.  Lordy I have a lot on my plate.

I SEW? Since when?

Well who'da thunk?  Today I went to mom's and I not only copied some patterns from some of her stuff so I could alter it, I altered one of them and actually made a test copy of it!  WOW!  and the tester came out mostly how I want it, so that's nice... Doesn't usually happen that way.  I've been trying a bunch of stuff unsuccessfully lately.  I went and tried to make wings for lotus... that failed.  I went and tried to make a pattern for this same vest I worked on today.. and totally screwed it up and then lost it.

SO yea.  I sewed today and I'm excited to have sewn.  Also, I recently decided on what the wings for my other fairies (clearly when I was trying to make the wings) and I'm so excited about what they are all going to be.  I found out that not only do grasshopper wings function really cool, but they can look totally badass.  BUUUT yea.  I'm rambleing

I made Progress? What?

So Today I fought with making Lotus wings, Oh that did not turn out well.  First off I don't have any parchment so I was using waxed paper.  Well that didn't work very well, the film tended towards getting cloudy... Plus while playing with temps I may have found ways to make the film do -Interesting- but not -Useful- stuff.  After fighting and fighting and getting frustrated and then inspired and then frustrated -again- I finally gave up on lotus's wings for the day.

But that isn't progress is it?  Nope! What I -DID-  was I finished  Marius' first outfit chunk.  He's got a kimono! YAAAAY.  Now all he needs is the vest for the top of it and some pants for under it.  I'm thinking I might make some drawn at the ankles Hakama pants... Either that or some tailored pants with lacing up the sides... *shrug*

But yea... it's the first dolly thing I've made in a while. T_T