Friggin' Wigs

Yes, this is the same old Fataio wig that Aldwood has been wearing since he was painted up. I was never quite happy with it because it's short and doesn't pull back into the regulation queue in the back, and I hadn't found a longer wig in the right color/texture--I did find one and it looked so much better on his mom (an Iplehouse Doria) that she is wearing it now. I finally gave up and went out Saturday, and bought a skein of Lion Acrylic yarn in the right color, made a wig cap out of white felt (after a couple of false starts), picked apart sections of the yarn, and made this wig:

Which was OK, but also a not an amazing wig for 8 hours of stitching, and you can really see how wimpy those eyebrows are. So I changed out his eyes for the new ones, took off the eyelashes that were shedding, and repainted his eyebrows..and tried on a Jpopdolls Kana wig on him that was kicking around, and it looked a hundred times better than the yarn one.

It's not fond of being tied back though, it tends to slide out and look messy. So I went and retrieved the old wig and slapped it on Aldwood again. I did read on the blog "British Tars" that the default hair style was in fact a bob a lot like what he's wearing, instead of the long queue; and as the blog consists of painstaking original research on contemporary engravings, I tend to believe them. Also, the old wig fits fine. The yarn wig is now on Ami, who is being a fit model for the incoming, and hopefully size-identical, Venus. Ami looks pretty cute in it:

And totally unrelated, my water lily is actually trying to make a lily:

The sunflower gets a star for trying:

We had a short, very vigorous little storm yesterday and that didn't improve anything in the yard, though squirrels might be responsible too. You never know with squirrels.