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Soom includes three lengths of elastic in the kit--the shortest length is for the arms, the medium length is to be folded in half and used to hold the head on, and the longest piece goes around through the legs. The only place where you might want hooks (and Soom doesn't send any) is for the hands. Or you can untie the shortest piece of elastic and loop it over the posts in the hand pieces. I made my own hooks. The arms are already sort of put together. I found it easier to pull off the shoulder piece to string the arms. Now for the head stringing: Now the legs: For some reason I didn't do any pictures of putting the feet on, but the earlier post Super Gem Stringing Guide shows that. Here's Antoine all strung, if bald:

Merry gets a head,(the Impldoll Christopher head I have had for ages), Antoine the Were-Deer gets the Benmore Human head (but tragically can no longer fit in his favorite coat): And Robyn, the Pointy-Ears head, is stuck on a Migma body for now: He will probably get a boy body later. Here he says "Dude, I like this wig." Merry does not look pleased.:

No blue box, which might be standard for kits? This is the first kit I have ordered from Soom, so I have no idea. And now the stuff! The much-awaited Pointy Ears Head..which is not an Amber. But cute. And now a profile: Sadly, not a girl. Merry will just have to find another head for her body, poor thing! The adorable human head. I like this one even better than the pointy ears head: View from the front: The issue I had with "no room for the leg knots" has been fixed, too--in both the human legs and the fantasy legs: Glorious hoof feets: No need for hooks on the hooves, either--they are molded on! And the human head has pockets for the magnets so he can wear the horns too. :D Once again, I was amazed to get everything pre-sanded--somebody at Soom is very nice to me! Now I just need to wait for it to be warm enough I can spray him and give him a face--in the meantime he needs clothes, like everyone else. It was like Christmas all over again!

They are making a "special delivery run" for the box, which I think translates to "Oops, left it in the bin this morning". J says calm down, it really was on a separate truck, as it just arrived at his office.

Shipping notice from Soom! Now comes the postman stalking. In ant news: And did I mention I got a shipping notice? :D And finally the dance with Michelle Obama: Mom Dance

It works really well, the gap around the neck is tiny. This means my incoming Benmore "pointy ears head" should fit on Merry's body! ******* So as usual I go over to Ilsonya's blog to see what is new, and she has the Volks flyer (all in Japanese..note to Apple--please make a smart phone that can scan and translate typed text.) Anyway, what is Volk's newest theme? Beauty and the Beast ! Who knew?? Or, as Ilsonya said, perhaps a coincidence, "as when Disney and drimvorks simultaneously released films about ants." (I always thought that was pretty fishy myself).