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  This is such a tease--it was outside, but then we got a tornado watch, a severe thunderstorm warning, and a chance of hail, and I said the heck with it and snipped the entire bud stem and brought it in. It's a good thing I did, most of the other iris were blown over since we had gusts up to 45 mph (but no tornado). Because it's in a vase, it will bloom, but so much slower than it would outside, and it does look like it will be a very very dark purple. I'm excited to see it fully open! I love iris and they are so expensive to buy at the nursery, especially if you want the more unusual ones. My friend Eden in New York develops her own varieties for fun, and they are so exotic and gorgeous! This is one of hers: And this is one my friend Andy brought from Kansas in a suitcase (she brought me SO MANY) Andy's are super hardy and the white ones actually bloom twice, once in spring and once in fall, which makes me so happy :)   So once Cat's is fully open I will take anot...

I had some honey peanuts on a plate. The cat was very disappointed after checking them out: We have a lot of possums: We have at least two skunks: (The water bucket has a trough heater in it to keep the water from freezing, I have been very happy with it). And we have two foxes:  These doves are so cool: And of course squirrels: I'm not tired of them--these guys get enough to eat so they aren't the big garden pests they can be. Who knew a camera with a tiny pinhole lens and no viewfinder could be such fun? This is me now every night:

This is much further away from the house, and the animals seem a lot more relaxed; so I will probably keep the camera out there. J made a stand for the camera so it can be moved around more easily than the fiberglass urn that it was on before, too. Here are a couple of photos from Saturday night: A mouse: A pretty good skunk photo! I'm hoping to get the fox again--I can see the prints in the snow where they like to travel, so I will put the camera near the prints and cross my fingers. ___________________________________________________________________________ The doll show was, as usual, a lot of fun. It was also super crowded this year, so it was a little harder to paw through tupperware than in previous years--I still found a lot of inexpensive clothes and three pair of minifee shoes, which was great (especially at 3.00 a pair). I saw a vendor (verisariod at gmail) who makes comissioned miniatures of all kinds of things. The business card is a bit blu...

I guess the fox decided the possum was too big. There is a delay in the camera and sometimes the most interesting things happen between shots :D

He's PURPLE and ADORABLE..he is a Soom Dia shrunk down to fairy size. Cat gave me an Auber for Christmas and it is such a nice size--weighs nothing, fits in the palm of your hand, and poses amazingly well. The outfits tend to be just trim decorated and stitched together to fit, because these guys are sort of Ken sized--they can take Ken sized tops and jackets, and slim stretch pants. I love how this version is painted. Here is his sales page: https://gem.dollsoom.com/en/shop/metato-cosmic-sprite/ And a photo of his fairy feets: (he comes with "shoe feet" as well) And now the story of some bananas:

I cheated last night and put out a turkey carcass in front of the camera, and surprisingly the possums were the first to show up. They got most of it :D Then the skunks came by: Then the raccoon (which I have not resized, it was just an OK image) And finally two foxes: On one of the other images you can see a second pair of fox legs, but I liked this one because his eyes were at a good angle. If the camera was less expensive, I would be tempted to take it over to a local tiny wilderness area where I know there are deer and strap it to a tree-- but I am pretty sure some other mammal would take it away. :D

So here was my attempt at getting a "cheap White Skin old Soom Super Gem body" for Honey, my Soom Cass. While this Soom Nephelin was extremely affordable, (less than half of what a new one would have cost back in 2011) she has...a head. So I couldn't bring myself to take it off and put Honey's head on it. I have also gotten used to Honey on that ridiculous Longsoul boy body... so here is  "Liana", who now is going to cost me a little more as I have a "Want to Buy" on Den of Angels for her default horns and wig. Though I think I can make her a somewhat similar braided wig myself. Also I may darken her faceup a little--it may have faded a bit over time from the original. But she is very sweet! I had thought I could put her on Dragael's body and time-share, but I had forgotten that Dragael has Normal Skin resin, and Dragael was also was having none of this body sharing nonsense: I do have wings for her, thanks to Cat--I just need to paint ...

The cardboard prop is done! Photos were taken, which meant I wasn't on the computer much, or outside--though I did look out the window, and we have a possum. He or she is living under the shed, and is pretty cute-- since it's not living where I live. I prefer possums to raccoons--the possums aren't as handy with their fingers.