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

S L O Dubaya

So... Back in fabuary I actually got those eyes for my crew.  They look awesome of course.  Koth has his wig done, Marius doesn't, I'm sloooowly working on it.  I've realized that Satie doesn't have any clothes that I've made for her and Marius clearly needs some duds... It's kinda frustrating to be honest because i really can't get into it atm.  Whiiiich sucks.

That is all >.<

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.
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