Mega meet and the ride home

So the Chicago mega meet was pretty damn awesome.  I sold two necklaces, we sold a bunch of coats and had a blast.

Some highlights:
Despite having a near panic attack the day before, I got Jesene a new necklace to go with the outfit Keeley made for her...

My new dragon arrived the day before the meet so I got to take he/she/it with (leaning towards he)

Sister bought a kitten tiny... it's super adorable.

just generally had a blast.

Some other funny things happened that weren't exactly what one would call a highlight.  On the way home we were talking about our awesome monetary gains and missed the exit from 355 to 88... BUT!  we were totally able to turn it around... got back onto the toll way in less than 5 min... it rained and we got a chance to laugh at mom wearing a garbage bag poncho... I dropped my frappe while we were still in the Oasis just outside of chicago and not only did we get a good giggle but they gave me a replacement for free!  Good guy greg McDonalds...

Now on the ride home.... We had some amazing revelations... I have a bunch of parts... They are damaged and not all the same color.  It sounds like I might be making a 1/6th centaur homunculus... Sister is kinda frustrated with my immediate claiming of the butts but right now I'm missing a top torso, back legs and a head even with her parts... so I'm not worried about it but she is... but so far we have 2 full bei legs with feet (damaged in light blue) 2 full 1/6 DJ arms (also damaged but in green) and then she will have up to 2 butts (undamaged, one male one gender free both sky blue but one darker than the other) left from Orn getting a new ass.  So that leaves me with the idea of getting the Pixiu ears on a March or Ni (can't remember right now) or seeing if they'll make me "mermaid" ears on a 1/6th OR! getting a pixiu head as a last resort.  I'd also need, all the parts already present in the pot, an upper torso and back legs, which I'm thinking of going for like... a pixiu torso or maybe even the little girl chest.. not sure why.. but yea and maybe a pair of pixiu legs for the back legs.  This is a mod doll and a half so I'm thinking things like...  carving the feet so they won't look so human foot like... and or using bigger feet on the back like Saties hooves... but those are huuuuge.  BUT YEA!  Sounds like my "spider doll" might turn into this doll... But I'm super tired right now... so the couch is calling my name... Laters.

The boaaaax! what's in the Boaax???!?!

So not too long ago I had my first moment of "do want naow.  Must have naow... GIMMIE!"

I bought a second hand Wyvern from The Mushroom Peddler...

This makes he/she/it the second doll for the year... Bad naughty me... But he's just sooo damn cute... I'm pretty sure it's a he... I have no name... no ideas... no nothing... all I know is CUTE!  He was expensive... 125 shipped... But I'm so damn excited about him... it's just not even funny.  I'm pretty sure he's white skin, so IDK what I'ma do with him colors wise.

In other news the replacement arms and legs for fig and lotus, happy about that.  got her restrung all nice and tight. Fig's going to get a small mod before he gets restrung, Want to put a latch spot in his arm ball... Havn't done it yet so yea >.> Thinking about actually doing a double... Like... one for all the way out and one for half way... IDK if I can...But I might try on his "not good" arms... >.> yea...

And last but not least, Keeley and I are working together on Jesene's outfit... I'm stoked.  It's kinda floating back and forth but I'm pretty excited about it... Miiight be using tea dyed lace on it... How cool is that?

Pre-Mega meet and Yellow fairy

So I'm still pretty calm about the mega meet... it's a good few weeks away, but we haven't made anything since Puddle so I'm starting to get nervous.  Plus it's in Chicago this time which is disappointing.  Originally, mom's dog was supposed to have her puppies like... between now and when the meet is, so mom wasn't going to be able to come... Yea Dog isn't prego.  Little punk's been pretending to be prego to get the extra fuds.  Ok so maybe she doesn't understand it but yea, it's what it feels like.  So bad news, No puppies.  Good news mom gets to come with to the meet.

Not much else going on.  Still need to finish Fig's wig (heh) and I have a yellow skinned fairy burning a hole in my brain.  Like... Yellow skin, and burgundy hair... She's lovely in my head.  Starting to try and decide what she'd have for a wig, and that's a dangerous road.   Does she have a fluffy wig?  A home spun wig like it's dreads?  Is it home town dreads?  Maybe it's all little knots of regular yarn... IDK!!  I'm trying not to look at flowers... Cus I -saw- a flower... Have I talked about this yet? I don't care.  I found this Dahlia... I think that's how it's spelled... But I found it at Pecks and was like O.O OMG I LOVE IT!  it's got almost redish leaves... a dark center and a lovely yellow petals that curl slightly... It's lovely.  Well turns out it's a "new" flower... So "Dahlia"  is the "scientific" name for it and about a dozen other Dahlias...  Sooo that won't work... And I'm so sad about it... cus it's so pretty... And wouldn't you know it?  My dumb ass is out there, googling yellow flowers... See... It can't just be -Any- flower.  It has to be the -right- flower.  It has to be yellow, with dark, preferably redish leaves... it has to be native to Australia or africa... and it has to be lovely.  So far, I have Dietes bicolor which is the african Iris... So name wise she'd be "Iris"  which is ok but not great... but the flower is -really- pretty.  OOooor Eucalyptus preissian which is the Bell-fruited Mallee.... And name wise that's absolutely intensely awesome... But the flower lacks a little... It's kinda like a yellow koosh ball... I mean the leaves are dark green and red, the yellow is the perfect color... The flower is kinda... Masculine?  If this was supposed to be a boy it would be totally fine... but it's clearly a girl name, and in my mind it's a girl...

But this is dragging on... I've documented my ideas and well... they aren't perfect.... so the search will have to continue at a later date/

Post Puddle 2015

Apparently Puddle is always something of a mess... We didn't get any notifications about when everything started and ended this year... which was a pain but we got everything figured out.  Mom was a mess cus some creepy car noise started when we got to Chicago, luckily it wasn't a big deal, she took it to an auto center while the sis and I watched the booth.  They had a really cool "mingling" activity this year, we designed a doll with a group of people while in line for our door prize, which was fun, the doll we designed was pretty cool.  I would have liked to see what everyone had done though... so yea.  We won the item from the raffle I wanted so I'm pretty stoked.

I always have a hard time with the attitudes, the desire to continually have the newest and the greatest doll pisses me off.  It really flies in the face of my desire to be creative and do stuff with my dolls.  There is such a big deal about keeping this doll exactly like it was... and I'm just not into that.  It's one of the reasons the Mega meet is way more my speed.  And since it went later this time, I was really tired of it by the time it was done.  I really feel that having it be shorter would be way better.... but they just -milk- it.  But whatever.  Friday was a blast... We all had a blast, I got to do some swimming and there was an Indian wedding party staying at the hotel so there was so much pretty stuff to look at.  I sold a necklace and we sold 6 coats, plus the outfit with Keely, so that was awesome.  All in all.  Good times.  Not super sure what we'll do about next year, sounds like we wanna drive up that day, do puddle, then chill the next day rather than the day we drive in... we'll see when we get closer to the day.

The mega meetup is in Chicago this year and I'm both irritated and happy about that.  Bad news:  It's in Chicago.  This means that the trip is going to be long, we're going to have to deal with the damn construction again, and we have to deal with the Friggin toll ways.  I hate toll ways.  Good News:  We can go to Mitsuwa again.  IDK, I really like going there, I didn't enjoy myself as much this time cus I was really wound up. So, at least I get another chance at their fud.  Cus god damn their food is good.  But that's not for another month and some time.  So we'll have to see how that goes.

Puddle 2015

Tomorrow T_T

I'm so spazy right now.  I know I need to be doing like 80 million things... Cleaning the house, making pants for Fig so He can have pants... make his wig... Alll the things.... And Here I am... writing a post.

I'm really good at using my time wisely.

Ok... So I'm really stoked about how much stock we have... and the colors this year, I'm getting better at making things look great, feeling less pressure to just make it work... and mom's been letting me do the cutting.  So we're getting more sweaters, better planning on sizes, and better quality color combos.  We have long and short coats in all sizes... we're thinking about ways to make our display better... cus lemme tell you, it's gonna suuuuck.  We have one, small, 18"x18" or so rack.  That's it.  We're going to have to display our stuff on dolls as much as possible cus we just don't have the space to take 35 outfits and place them individually.  So I'm currently on hold with walmart to see if they have something that I saw online and think might work...

But yea... I haven't made any new necklaces... but I also haven't -sold- many so I still have some from last year... So yea.  I'm going to try and make some in the hotel room and offer custom while we're there...  Buuut yea.

BLURK!

No pants dance

So Fig still be naked, April still's got no damn pants either...

HEY! I been trying!  Seriously!

I've got a sketch done for Fig's outfit, Think I've figured out how to make them look like fall front, but... I am probably getting way over ambitious... Wanna make them fall front and put a strap thingy in the back and that might be just too much for these pants... Cus.. I mean where will they close for realzies?  But enough on that... Lets get to the reason for the dancing!

Marius... He's fuckin drying right now bitches!!  Ok that was alittle fucked up but I have a headache and I'm allowed... Was working on him last night and realized, well since after I was in bed with teeth brushed that I forgot to eat supper... so that's probably why I have the headache... Working on breakfast now ish...  But yea, did him in a bronzy gold with purple and bronze claws.  The claws may have to be redone cus it may look bad with his hair... but claws (while there are an assload of them) are a fairly simple thing and they end up needing repainted alot... Like saties hooves... Even though her hooves haven't been repainted >.> Hey that's why I dyed them!

But yea, Gonna see if I can get some pics of him once he's dried... plus I wanna see if I can get the minecraft server back up and running today, unfortunately I can't play on it cus it is gonna take windows seven to play on T_T  But yea... Just killing time till he's dry... Lalalalalala Ok I'm done.

Patterns!

So I like making little patterns... So that I can either do what I wanna do or so that I can remake it or see where I went wrong...

Only problem is me actually keeping those patterns someplace I can find them... Just lost the pattern that I was totally gonna make Fig a pair of pants from... Along with my first go at a button down shirt T_T

Oh hey... it's several hours later and I just totally stumbled on them... WOOT!  Now I have no issue saying this cus I know my mom won't read this... I plan to make April some clothes for a belated mother's day prezzie.

now I just need to pick out fabric...