Dolling around

Took a heap of photos this morning - see flickr.

Migifdoll has now got a proper name - it was going to be Hail - but then I came across the Bi - it means rain in Korean - and it suits him!!!

I have been writing again - it comes and goes - but I really need to write a romance novel because I'm sick of reading badly written ones and thinking I could do better. I have two already started and I switch between them. Anyone who knows me wouldn't be surprised by this admittance.

But I have lived with the characters of both stories for so long in me head - they say the key to good writing is having realistic characters - I feel sad that I will eventually have to share them with the rest of the world.

To help me do this - I have trawling doll sites to see if I can find photos of dolls that look somewhat like the characters:

The guy here: http://www.limhwa.com/mano.htm: is Haytham (a genie). It is so much like him that I really want to buy him. I'm off to stare at my bank account.

Dusty

We are in the middle of a dust storm right now - I just went out in it to take some clothes off the line. But it doesn't matter because our house is filled with dust. I can feel it in my teeth - ewww.

Wait: I think C has just started vacuuming the air in the lounge room :X

roll 7

Roll 7 of the wedding photos

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3FQ2ARBV

Roll 6

Roll 6 of the wedding photos:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AFIHX8GO

I have almost finished report cards!

Killing time

Today was such a lazy day - I talked to Tanya this morning via facebook messages, I had to do some washing and I'll do some more tomorrow. Tomorrow I will also have to clean my areas of the house and finished those looming report cards.

I painted Hail's face today (I think I'll call him Hail) but I don't like the lower lashes but I got sick of doing them over and over again. I'll try again with paint later.



I'm calling him Hail because I like rain and everything that has to do with rain. I don't realise how much I miss it but when we were at Erin's (Hi Erin!) at the start of the week it rained every night. Out here the closest I get to regular rain is my CD of a thunderstorm. I listen to it at night when I can't sleep.

Anyway - There is another doll called rain, another called storm and another called hailstorm. But Hail has kind of stuck. I really like the name Monsoon - but I decided that it's a girl's name - which I would make with a Miho head and a female fdoll body some time next year. Big plans,,,

Although I still wouldn't mind a DZ Ying before Christmas so I could get a bunny free. But my doll wish list stands at:

1. Miho head and fdoll body
2. DZ Ying
3. Curo bunny or DZ bunny - in white to be called Silverbell and in tan to be called Hopsy
4. A dollmore model doll - but who???
5. Momoko doll
6. Mimo - this one is cute
7. Another Licca doll to keep the one I have company

Please note there are no Blythes, Taeyangs or Pullips on my list - must say no!!! Must enjoy the ones I have! Beside there are not many new releases that I like.

Sorry about the Doll spam - knee news - I have this injury and will be seeing another doctor about it on the 15 of Jan.

Roll 5 of the wedding photos:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uiqxoy

roll four again

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bc5vmj

I'm going to go and watch some tv now - planning things to do do tomorrow...

Roll 6 of the wedding photos
Roll 6

Presents have arrived

It's Monday and the postman came well and truely. C came in with two packages - which was pretty exciting. You will have to excuse the poor lighting.

I got some of the evilbay clothes and new bento stuff:



I can't wait to boil some eggs up and try them out.

But then C surprised me and said there were more in the car! Yipee!
I opened up the smallest of them - because I wanted to find out which Pullip arrived:



And then finally:


I orignally made him another pair of pants but they didn't fit, luckily I had cut these ones out so I quickly sewed him some pants.

2nd hand goodness

This week - inspired to make doll clothing - I bought as good as new clothing off evilbay.
- A gray top with sculls and starts printed on it
- A gray top with red apples printed on it
- A red top
- A pink top with gold print on it
I'm still looking for masculine stuff though, it's so hard unless you go the camo look.

I was also looking at this Kyle but C has banned me from buying it. I would love to with my tax return, although I don't like the colour of his eyes.

Today one of my students brought in a b'day cake for me - after a serious of mishaps that meant she couldn't bring one in earlier in the week. She only has 2 weeks of school and I have taught her for 5 years now, I'll be crying when she leaves.

I just got the tracking numbers for both the doll and the head today - they were sent yesterday! I wonder which will get here first?

Ants

We have ants in our bathroom, they try to nest in our towels. I have only been bitten twice so far but they are amusing because they climb into our bath at night and then I wash them down the drain in the morning - dumb ants.

However last night after C had a shower and dried off with a fresh towel - he started to complain about being pricked and bitten. Sure enough he was covered in ant bits - even his peepee got munched on - Time to go ants!

Oh - my Birthday was good - had a great day at school - but got no doll mail.

Dollmore loving

I think that I'm a pretty picky doll person.

I originally fell in love with Yder - and although I still like him I haven't seen many homemade photos of him that I like (but he's my no 1 for when I want to do a Hitsugaya from Bleach. His eyes are so large and after pondering this I realised that I'm all for realistic looking bjd dolls.

I really liked Ryu (before I even knew anything about migidoll) so he was just someone that I needed to have. I know I will love him and in every photo I have seen so far he looks amazing.

But I'm all for the 'bang for the buck' - bigger is always better. So for future future plans I have been looking at 70cm dolls - and stumbled upon Dollmore's model dolls. Oh My Gosh! I just can't decide over Uri, Huey and Haneol - at the moment they are in that order.

I was looking at dollzone but those three boys - aghm men - have blown me away.

However Mars from Buddydolls is also in the running.

I live a sad existance.

Street fashion scans

We went to our town's tiny St Vinnies store today. I bought quite a few cute clothes - all of which are to be cut up for doll's outfits. I'll take a pics soon:

Edit:






Found a link to a journal devoted to scans of magazines about street style fashion from Japan:
http://community.livejournal.com/fruity_scans/

For my nail polish fetish... puiyunail's flickr:

Yuiinc's photos of her bjds are amazing and she is an inspirational sewer.

A top I made for my incoming migi/fdoll

Roll 1 of the wedding photos:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7APR48G1

Roll 2 of the wedding photos:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZZ3CV4UJ

Roll 3 of the wedding photos:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3mjb5v

Chillin

My prac teacher finished today - she passed easily - which was good. I have been on youtube looking up "It Started With A Kiss" stuff (with subs), I'm not sure if the second season has aired or not - so I will have a lookie for it soon.

And charles though we had a problem with Chihiro and our earphones...

Year 12 verification over for another year

Verification stresses me out. It's Education Queensland's idea of a halloween trick - there is no treat about it what so ever.

But 'tis okay - its over for another year - I think.

For those of you not in the know - basically you send your student's work away and a panel decides whether or not they agree with:
a) your assessment tasks difficulty
b) your assessment tasks range
c) your marking of the tasks
d) your overall positioning of the student upon the 50 point scale (yes fifty - not 5 (A,B,C,D,E nor 15 A+,A,A- ETC)
e) anything else they are not happy with such as ticking the criteria sheet rather then underlining or crossing, what colour pen you use when you correct work, or sometimes whether your assessment task questions are in dot point rather then in paragraphs!

It doesn't help that you can send in the exact same assessment tasks year in year out and they finally find something wrong with it!

But anyway - I've done my job - I didn't do too badly most of the students stayed where I put them. I just don't get paid enough for the stress they put us through though.

Migi doll is mine

For my birthday my mum, dad and brother bought me a migidoll head - ryu.

I just bought a fdoll body for it and hope it will match. If not, oh well, I'll make turtle necks and a scarf for him!

Windy and Dusty

That's the weather for today. I'm still sratching sand out of my eyes after bringing the washing in. Also have sore arms from holding the clothes line in place. Did you know that clothes are just like kites but without strings. It's not fun chasing them around the place.

Have had an upset tummy this morning - not good - will go and have a shower.