Hyacinth in Art Rage
There were a lot of cat food bowls in the actual unpainted photo. Here Aelfric wonders if she could share the blanket: But this is where it ended up late last night:
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Hyacinth the Barbarian
Hyacinth arrived yesterday in an enormous Iplehouse shipper--I am not her first owner, and I was really curious to see if an Iplehouse Elemental was any different from a standard--the answer is "not really"..except that Hyacinth (who is really an Iplehouse Aurora) has elf ears . I had no idea! They aren't huge points, just little cute ones. Iplehouse, if you had told me, I would have bought her new. I do like buying secondhand--for one thing, I can afford them, and often the dolls have had factory problems already corrected--they have been restrung, sueded, the seams sanded down, and sometimes problem areas re-modded. The downside is occasionally I get a doll that feels like I bought someone's stuffie--this girl was obviously loved, and even had her name pencilled in her head. And I am going to do rude and amusing things with her--Hyacinth is like Boadicea and Conan the Barbarian rolled together and has no taste in clothes whatsoever, and a big yarn wig which I am ...
A Dollie Bargain
This pretty lady is an Iplehouse Aurora, the blonde doll whose concept art is on this blog entry: http://dollsartcats.blogspot.com/2013/03/jjan55tistorycom.html I saw her in passing on the Marketplace, but at the time I wasn't sure I had the funds for her, even though she was half the original price (I was still waiting for paychecks to come in, and to see where I was with taxes), and I was thinking of maybe ordering Aaliyah..but as much as I adore dolls, every now and then a little rationality comes in and when I added up the options I wanted for Aaliyah, the answer was "too much"--and seeing how other older Iplehouse specials have held up on the secondary market, I knew I would only get back the full price only if I kept her Mint in Box, which isn't much fun, or if I wanted to sell her for a slight profit, I would have to buy Aaliyah as a fullset; which meant that I could have bought, say, a used car instead. So I went and instead bought Aurora, who I will happil...