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Rajendora (Sewing Box Designs) sent me this amazing quilt!!! It's actually for Captain Aldwood, so I had it "delivered" by Camigwen, the Messenger of the Fae Court. So much detail! All hand-embroidered 0.0 Camigwen points out the peacock on one corner, for India. (Aldwood was there as a midshipman, and actually missed most of it as he came down with some kind of stomach ailment, alas). Behold the beautiful compass roses! The African plains are represented: And of course a lion. Aldwood has only seen them in the mountains of Algeria, not in the central part of the continent: There is a leopard, which delights Aldwood as it reminds him of his Boatswain, Consuelo, who is a species of Panthera fae and one of his closest friends: Ayers Rock, which Aldwood has not seen, though he has been to the north coast of Australia and admired the great number of colorful fish there.  And he has been to Stonehenge on holiday: And the Arctic, which Aldwood ...

Today I went to the Chitown Dolls Spring Meetup, and I ended up coming home with new friends..this lady was from a trade with Akutenshi; I also finally succumbed to Kiyono's Galena, and Jo sent me her Erica Snow, so I have a lot of photos to load up over the next 3 days (I also have to ship out dolls to balance things out). I love trades :D So here is "Cherie" who is just barely not-a-tiny (she is a..small msd/fairy). That is my story and I am sticking to it. Also Kris the Resinsoul Ju needed a friend, though I think she will probably use him for a chew toy. And she is SO CUTE. While I like these eyes, I have another tiny pair of "oil slicks" I'd like to try in her, since I do like pupilled eyes--but they may not fit. I will find out tomorrow. Tokoz Dragon gave me books!! Lots of tiny, gorgeous, handmade books! You can see that Coppersmith and Aldwood are glad to have something to pass the time while sitting on the shelf: (The dark blob at...

It's a Christmas ornament from JoAnn's--I just pulled off the eyelet holding the string. They have a variety of animals--I thought this guy was the cutest and also had fur that was obviously plush, and not ...something else. I had intended it for Coppersmith, but the Nuevo body is just enough bigger that the dog looked out of scale, and for some reason Coppersmith's hands don't naturally fit around these little guys. Like a real dog, he sheds--Aldwood has black poly "fur" on his shirt now. I've wanted pet dolls for my guys, but 15.00 is much more possible than 200.00+, even though the ornament isn't posable. I went out last evening..and SOMEONE TOOK A BITE OUT OF MY PUMPKIN. No more of that, I say. Fortress Pumpkin:

It's a little Italian jewelry box from the Kane County Flea Market! The weather was glorious and we met up with Akutenshi7 at the cowhides. I should have taken a picture, but I forgot that the cowhides are not a normal Flea Market item in most part of the country. I was more amazed at the Pre-Columbian Pottery special: Also there was a booth that we totally agreed with: But the chest was the best thing--here it is with the Craft Store That Will Not Be Named chest: For the larger dolls, it is a little short: But the drawers open fine and the inside was nice and clean: Altogether it's a very fine chest!

They came today, along with the Mirodoll Iris, and they are splendid! Here is the box: And here are the eyes in the box! They are more gray than blue, and feel almost like glass--they aren't squishy. They are wider and flatter than a lot of doll eyes so they fit very well in Aldwood's head--I suspect they also would fit in my Iplehouse girls, but since they are expensive the girls are going to have to wait a while for theirs. I am going to save up for more, though!

This was my favorite of the photos I entered-it's three photos; one of the Du Page river bank(for the rocks and the snake in the middle right), one of Teodor in my backyard above the pond before I filled it in, and a final one of Alexei in a box at more or less the right angle. And yes, my pond did have ice on it! The skull is a tiny plastic skull from the Spirit of Halloween. This one is just a portrait: Another "just a cropped portrait" of Aldwood and the Cat: And a fancy one of Sidonia/ Ami on a very windy day ;) I had ambitions to do much more elaborate photoshoots, but it ended up I had paying work to do instead, so it worked out fine--there is always next year to do more! I hope everyone checks out the other entries and the winners !

Thank goodness it was assembled--when I opened the box I was sure it was in kit form! But no, it was in kitten form. :D I need to read how to change the eyes, though. It's fairly posable--you do have to tug on the forelegs to move them (it's strung pretty tight), and it can do a lot of catlike poses. The only thing it can't do is bend it's paws all the way forward--I have a couple ideas to fix that, but I have to be comfortable with unstringing it and I need more elastic before I try it. I think it's the cutest thing ever! Here is the scale of the cat with it's owner, Captain Aldwood; who is a 65+cm Granado Davon ( I think he is on the 68cm Long Leg body). So this is Ratbane, the ship's cat. :D

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 ba...