FINALLY! (long post ahoy)

So I'm finally 95% over this damnable cold, and I'm FINALLY getting some stuff done.  One of the two commission wigs is finally done and I'm getting to work on the other, slowly but surely working on it a little bit every day.  For some reason these SD wigs are just hell on me... probably has something to do with the fact that I'd rather be making wigs for Lotus and Izuko, but I was having problems with it well before that.  It might be the uncertainty with the size.  I LOATH the uncertainty I feel when making wigs without an appropriate head to try it on... I don't like flying blind.

My mom's Ya is due to come home either end of this month or early next month, we're all so damn excited it's stupid.  in preparation for her coming home mom and I went and did a shopping spree down at hobby lobby and ben franklins... and holy cow did we come out with some fun stuff.  New stuff is littered around my house, I still need to make the necklaces for Xuza and Cassie.  I'm gonna make one for Lotus out of the spare bits, and earrings for Cassie... I've got a full plate... which brings me to my largest excitement.

Dolly bed!!! Mom bought me a metal... Thingy, I guess it was a plant stand or something, and it' going to be converted into a dolly bed.  Not just any dolly bed, a full size/queen bed for Val and Cassie.  I've honestly got my work cut out for me a bit, gotta make EVERYTHING for it, mattress, sheets, blankets, quilts, pillows, the whole shebang.  But when it's done... Oh man.  I thought the couch was cool, I just KNOW this is gonna be epic.  And best part is, if it turns out I don't like the first set of blankets I put on it... I CAN MAKE MORE!  Nothing about the bedding is permanent, it's not like the cushion on the chair where I had no choice to change it afterward without ripping the thing apart.  If I decide to change something.... I can just do it!  Mom's bed is in yellow with green and pink smattered in, Mine... well we all know I can't resist purple, and being that the bed frame is kinda earthy tones Purple will be the highlight and I'll probably go a chocolate brown and a comfy green to join the purple.  we'll have to see what Delights I can get from the Fabric store for this >.>

On a side note, the kids now have those melty beads... you know.. the ones that you put on the little peg boards and Iron them... and after makign a few stock items I've begun making them plants and zombies... from plants vs zombies.  The sunflower came out a little lack luster, but the face is really kinda hard on that one...  the squash came out fantastically.  Now I need a few shooters and some Zombies  to fight off and we'll be going to town.  I do love making stuff for my kids and these are fun and fairly easy, so... why not!?!

One thing I failed to get while I was at Hobby Lobby was magnents.  they had the high powered magnents that I need to put in Lotus's torso so I can put wings on her but I failed to remember to.  I need to pull her wings out of the closet and atleast make her a rig for them >.< poor little fairy... having to run around without wings!

And ill...

So Saterday, I was all happy before The hubby woke... I was gonna take some pics of Lotus and Maybe a pic to replace my less than satisfactory avi on DoA, definitely get some with my whole crew... And by the time I got back from dropping him off... I could barely move.  I ended up having someone else bring him home and I tell you... I have not been well since.  Today is probably the best I've felt since sat... I'm not 100% but I can talk again, swallowing doesn't hurt, I've just got this nasty little cough.

I have so many things I'd like to be doing... yet I have so little energy that it's just like pulling teeth to try and bring myself to do more than what's absolutely necessary.  I haven't cooked real food, haven't washed more than the bare minimum of clothes... nothing.  Even though pretty much every time I lay on the couch I pick up a project to try and work on... all I've accomplished is to get a few hexes for my hot pads worked on (critically low on hot pads that don't have burned spots on them >.<) 

I have about a million projects on the burners right now.  Wig comishes, Hot pads, Dress for Lotus, moer blankets for the house, Pillows for lotus, Lotus needs her Cocoon for the suitcase, My sisters Suitcase needs finished... Fuck.  I've got so much shit gonig on... and I need to clean on top of all that shit... T_T no wonder I just lay on the couch.

Nymphaea caerulea

Nickname: (Nile) Lotus
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Head: Bei
Body: ResinSoul Single jointed female tiny
Resin: light blue
Face up: by me
Eyes: Safrin doll Natural mossy 14's at present. 
Hair: Yarn Wigs by me.  Her hair is dark purple braided (half plied yarn)
Extras: As a fairy she will be modded ever so slightly so that her wings will stick, likely that means that she'll have a magnet inside her torso.
Story: Lotus is the top dog of my fairys, she takes no guff from anyone, she's bull headed and always has to be right.  That's not to say she can't be fun, she loves pranks and the like but she wants them done on her terms and doesn't want to be the butt of the joke.  She seems to believe herself some kind of  Egyptian Muse even though she came to be long after Cleopatra died.  That's not so say she's young or a child, she is in fact some 250 years old, though she won't fess up to her exact age, claiming to be quite a bit older than she really is.  Out of the three she is the most mature acting and the others do allow her to be in charge, or at least defer to her in matters they aren't comfortable with themselves. Her flower is the Nile Lotus or Blue Nile Lily.  Her wings will be scarab wings.  As must be obvious by now, Lotus leans towards an Egyptian theme.
History: So at one time I was like "OMG MEI+LAVENDER= FAIRY WIN!" and I started planning some fairies.  Then I met a lavender doll and I was heart broken.  It wasn't purple... It was a lavender grey!  so things got put on hold.  There had always been a bit of an "Oh bei would make a perfect sister to Mei"  so I was planning a bei and a bao but I wanted three fairies and with Mei out of the picture, well that left muuuch planning to be done.  In the end I decided that a blue bei would be perfect for my ringleader fairy, thus Lotus was born.  Entertainingly while she was on order is when I picked out her name, and Fig, my green bao (not sure if he'll stay a bao since he's still in planning) managed to get a name before she did.  Received her on 1/5/2011 as a late Christmas present ^_^ THANK YOU MOMMY!!
Related/connected Dolls 
Fig        Friend       His post 
Aster     Friend      Her post 

Loreli

Nickname: Lori
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Head: Fairy head (gogo)
Body: Felix Small comfort
Resin: Natural skin
Face up: by me.
Eyes: Acrylic blue
Hair: Yarn Wigs by me.  She'll be a llittle brown headed thing, probably with some silly little punk wigs just to liven things up... baby wig shown ^_^
Extras: Lori will -hopefully- have two heads, an open eyed head and a sleeping head.  We'll have to see what the little booger has when she comes.
Story: Likely to change, Since Cassie and Val are up in the air.  Cassie and Val's baby... As for her personality, she's a bright cheery baby who loves all the attention you can lather on her.  be warned, she loves to chew on fingers.
History:  As far as dolls with back stories go, Lori has had one of the more frustrating ones.  When I saw the Small comfort... I immediately fell head over heels in love with the body.  At the time I had not wished or wanted for any doll more than Cassie and had every intentions of it staying that way for the rest of my life (oh how foolish).  But seeing that little baby body, with those little baby toes and little bowed legs... I was smitten.  because Cassie is white I had to come up with a reason for this little baby to have natural skin.  My options were, adopted and dark daddy.  Well if you've ever seen Val's profile, you know that the answer was darker daddy.  I started trying to find her, to get here and man was that an ordeal... It's all over the blog but sufficed to say Lori is the reason I started looking at other dolls and ended up actually getting other dolls.  As of right now, her mom and dad dolls are in flux, so right now she's going to be a foundling that my forest critters have found until I either decided to pick Cas and Val back up in new shells or totally rewrite her.
Related/connected Dolls
Cassie   Mom        Her post
Val        Dad          His post

problems

I'm havign so much irritating problems.  I'm wanting to finish my last commission (ever) but I just can't get it finished, it keeps frustrating me.  I have way too much of it done to just tell the person I'm not doing commissions anymore but I've been at these same wigs for FOREVER! T_T  not to mention it's like nothing I do makes these thigns any easier... I'm way too far to be in the "home stretch"... and I REFUSE to start on any other wigs until these are done.. so Lotus and Izuko are both boned until I'm done with them... not to mention tien has a wig that i'm supposed to be making.... and any wigs I wanna make to sell can't start until after this is done... SO MUCH is riding on me finishing these things and I just can't even look at them...

Can I please borrow some Gumption?  anyone?

Izuko

Nickname:None yet
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Head: Lan (Lightly modded)
Body: Resinsoul single jointed Female MSD (lightly modded)
Resin: white
Face up: by me. It seems I'm getting better
Eyes: Acrylic brown.  Size 10
Hair: Yarn Wigs by me.  She's going to have a bunch of straight yarn wigs.  I suspect she'll be wearing her updo wigs more often than not so I have her pictured wearing one.
Extras: Izuko is supposed to be a geisha so we decided to make her a liiiiittle more Asian looking by evening and lowering the center of her eye.lids.  Essentially we straightened the inside of her eyelids.  Then I sanded off her nipples to nice round pseudo nipples so that she could be a modest Geisha (can't have those things poking through her outfits! XD)
Story:  This is my sisters doll so I have no claims to who she is or what she does. What I do know, is that Izuko is supposed to be a geisha.  She's got Kimono after Kimono after kimono planned for her clothes along with some other Asian flavored clothes coming from my mom.  She should be fun.

Welcome to the family

LOTUS IS HERE!!!
Now to get to making more clothes for her >.>