April

Nickname: nope, just April
Mold
Head: Ni
Body: 27cm RS female single jointed
Resin: white
Face up: by me
Eyes: Safrin doll, don't remember which.
Hair: Mohair by mom
Extras: Nah
Story:  This Is the current oldest of mom's three little girls, tabby and Ellie being her younger sisters.  Dylan and Tulip are her parents and other than that... murp.  mom's doll.
History: Most of this comes on about the face.  mom got her when she bought us our dragon boys which was super cool.  I decided to do her face one day and was doing well...  Did the last coat of spray... and there was a black bit of lint.  It wouldn't come out.  So frustrated I told mom she either was getting a mole or she was getting her face wiped.  Mom suggested freckles.  She's my first and she turned out ok.  Mom loves them but you know how it goes with your own stuff.
Related/connected Dolls
Tulip           Mom        Post
Dylan          Dad         Post
Tabby         Sister       Post
Ellie            Sister        Post

Logan

Nickname: Nope, just Logan
Mold
Head: Bao
Body: RS Single jointed 28cm boy body
Resin: Light Tan
Face up: Half assed one by me.  The boy loves it though O.o
Eyes: Safrin doll Juicy pear 12mm
Hair: Tibeten sheeps skin mohair
Extras: Put hooks in him that's about it
Story:  Logan is Muh eldest boys doll He -wanted the little guy to be Val's son but right now he's kinda sorta Vals nephew.  He's come to live with his uncle for unknown reasons
History: So when my son was about 6 and a half he decided he wanted a doll.  I assumed this would be a passing fancy so I indulged him for what I figured would be however long he kept at it.  He told me he wanted one just like Val and I was like... Noooo... you can have a smaller one.  Here, here's the little boy.  And he was like, Yea.  I told him he would have to pay for it himself.  He started saving.  I expected him to forget cus... I mean 130 bucks is a lot for a six year old.  He managed to stick with it ( until he was 8... damn good for him) and he piggy backed him with Satie.
Related/connected Dolls
Val        Uncle         His post
Cassie   Aunt           Her post
Lori       Cousin       Her post

Update time

So I feel its time to do an update dump.  First thing I've already updated my dolls to all have the correct eyes in their profiles.  Feeling a little stupid that I hadn't done that yet >.>

Next up I plan on adding some of the other people dolls that are missing atm.  Logan doesn't have his own page, I think that April (mom's new girl) is still not even on here even though I did her face... Just some pages that need tossed up here.

Then I might just go about trying to update everyone with a pixel doll image since those are all murp atm.  IDK if I can do that cus... well I don't know if I've still got the images stashed away.  The comp has been screwed up a few times.  If not, then yay.  If I'm missing all the bases... THEN I'm going to have to go back through and reposes them from the dolls I've already made.

After I get basic dolls done I'm going to see about making more of the bigger dolls.  I've only done two of them and I really do prefer them to the littler ones, but the little ones are pretty quick and easy so I might end up with loads of them and only two of the others >.>  If I don't have the base for the two I've done, I might just toddle off to make dolls for my sis.

Either way I wanna work on this blog a little atm.

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.