Doll Crazy

I've been going a little doll crazy over here...it all started with Angie's post about her awesome giveaway win. I've always liked ball jointed dolls and admired them on flickr, but a quick search on ebay will yield results for dolls as small as 4 inches going for $500 and up! Anyway after shouting to Ed,"I want one of these dolls!!" I hopped over to ebay and found a relatively cheap body with makeup and eyelashes included. Separately I bought eyes, a wig, and wig cap. So far the body has come and sadly I think her eyes will be the last to arrive D: so she's a little scary looking at the moment. I'm looking forward to putting her together and taking photos! Luckily blythe clothes fit this body but not the shoes, her feet are big!

I've ordered another little treat that should be arriving soon too :x but I'll show you that when I get it. As I patiently wait for everything to arrive my attention turned to my blythes. The very first Blythe I ever bought was a Cinnamon Girl in maybe 2002 or 2003, i found out about them through some livejournal community and I fell in love. I thought I would be able to customize her and sew her little clothes. I honestly didn't like the way  she looked at all but she was the cheapest one at around $160. This was before I had sewed any plush or knew how to use a sewing machine so I have no clue why I thought I'd master making intricate little clothes. I felt that the customizing tutorials were way over my head and way too scary to try on something that cost so much. Out of boredom and frustration i sort of ...ruined her, kind of making her look like a zombie with acrylic paints. When I posted photos of her like this several livejournalers commented in outrage! They couldn't believe what I had done. I ended up throwing her away at the dump and I cringe when I think about it now... Only for some reason recently did I feel like I might be able to sand a face and give rerooting hair a shot. 

Tonight I bit the bullet and took apart my cheaper prima violet with the help of Ed. I sanded her face, added some eye shadow and blush with a little mac shadow and painted a little light lip on with acrylic paint. The best part about being doll crazy is Ed never complains when I buy toys, only shoes and clothes :3

 I love her new face SO much better already. I hate hate the shiny look!

Her scalp is already detached and ready to give rerooting a shot when my supplies come in. I already foresee there being a lot of cursing. If it wasn't for Ed i wouldn't have gotten her head back together as it :) I wish I was better with tutorials and mechanical things but I just dont process it well or I get too anxious about it. Anyway I'll let you know how it goes. If you're curious this is the best website I've found tutorials, patterns for clothes too.

Please if you have a minute check out these 2 links!

1. These uniquely awesome custom Blythes.

2. This is by far the most amazing Blythe I've seen.

Our Pumpkins

We haven't carved pumpkins in yeeears, i can't even remember when the last time we bought them was, but now that we're in our own home it's so fun to decorate and I want to make sure we keep traditions going. I had seen this image sometime this month, and when we found the eyeballs that I used for the eyeball wreath  and then saw another tutorial where kids used acrylic paint instead of carving I thought hey! we can have cute pumpkins without scooping out yucky junk :D

Paint plastic eyes or ping pong balls with acrylic paint. Water bottle caps are great for drying stands.

 The holes leaked a little but I just blotted them with a paper towel and they were fine.

 Carve out a place for the teeth, it helps to make a slit on the ends of the "gum part", ours have stayed wedged in well.

 Paint your details on while you wait for the eyes to dry. I stuck thumb tacks in the eye holes and hot glued the eyes to those and viola! 

aren't we cute!

The Go! Team

Just found these guys last week and I love em! It's been pretty quiet over here, busy fulfilling Isaac orders. The super sets sold out in record time. I put 2 Cain super sets up as well.

Last night I took a little break to make a sweet eyeball wreath that I first saw on OhMyDeer! I added 2 cockroaches for good measure ;)

Back to work! This week I have an exciting announcement to make...stay tuned!!

Remember when we painted stuff at that place?

Yay! I love this place :D Ed and Tommy were with me when we picked the pieces up and they totally want to paint stuff now too. I see another visit in the near future! Double date >.<

This place is SO awesome! The first and only time I had been there before was on our 1st wedding anniversary. I can't believe my sister had never been because this sort of thing is right up her alley if you can't tell by how beautiful her gnome looks. Also my mom can do no wrong when it comes to anything creative but I didnt think she's get so into it! So yeah, its one of those places where you pick out a piece of pottery paint it and then they fire it for you, you probably have one in your town.

We had more fun than the kids for sure. Luckily Petroglyph had a "cave" with a tv in it where the kids could  play. Acacia painted half the top of her cupcake box and then asked me to finish it. I wonder what age they'll be when they have more patience for this kind of thing.

Bonus! when we were almost ready to leave, we all just had a few finishing touches to add and Eli starts burping...and coughing...thank jeebus my sister got him to the bathroom in time...and was still wearing his apron. We dont know if he caught what's been going around or if he ate too much paint :) The last time we all went out for family time Eli busted his lip in the movie theatre. We have more fun!!

Eep! I can't wait till Thursday when we get to pick up out stuff.

That's nice

Hello there, 

I was in a crappy mood pretty much all day yesterday but last night and today I have had such nice comments/messages from people, some I know, some I don't. To top it off a stranger mailed my ID to our po box, I didn't even realize it was missing. I find it pretty amazing that somebody went through the trouble to do that when sometimes it seems that people can't be bothered to do one simple act of kindness. I think there are probably a few people that think I'm blunt... a bitch but that's just because I don't waste kindness on people who don't deserve it and I'm a pretty good judge of character ;) I really do try my very best to be a sweet and genuine person so thank you to everyone who has lifted my spirits.

Listening to The Graveyard Book while I work.

 Newly acquired vintage piggy bank from Ed<3

 Prototyping Isaac badges :)

Tomorrow I'm starting a 28 Things About Me feature. I'm excited! Ed is helping, you'll see!!