DollsArtCats

So here is another Miracle Doll--this one is more Bad Cat than Snake God, but I like her styling a lot. She is Miao and you can look at her here: http://www.acbjd.com/miao-girl-p-11275.html?cPath=710_713 Her chair, props and friend are pretty cool too! There actually has been a lot going on here both dolly-wise and getting ready for winter--I have been cleaning the house and trying to resurface the driveway, which is a colossal drag because it went too long between coats and now needs extensive patching. Also selling a few dolls on Den of Angels, and of course then having money in the PayPal results in new peeps coming in. But overall I am getting to somewhat rational amounts of doll. Somewhat :D

Iplehouse has trotted out yet another pretty FID girl, this time Vanessa. She has the sweetest face :D And much for affordable then Full Sized Vanessa!

So Akutenshi has this cool HHT Automail arm, but it was a bit short on the Super Gem body, and the edge had a crack that needed some reinforcing. So she kindly gave me two large pots of Apoxie Sculpt to make something to extend the arm and to put on the opposite arm. Here is the stuff: And some closer pix of the new additions: Other arm: (You can see the edge crack on the upper half of this photo). Apoxie Sculpt is pretty easy to use if you have used Sculpey--  it mushes and makes shapes in the same way. What is different, is that AS cold-cures; which means once you mix it, the clock is running. It stays workable for 3 hours according to the label, and is completely cured in 24. You need nitrile gloves, metal tools and parchment paper under where you are working. Paper towels are good to clean tools right away. I found AS was the most cooperative at about 1.5 hours after mixing it, taking impressions even better than Sculpey does (it's a little stiffer). I was to...

                                                     Mom. Mom. MOOOOOOOOOOM.

                                                                          If this doesn't make you smile, you might be dead :D

So I am really low on useful eyes. I have a lot of eyes, but they are all "the weird ones" at this point, so I needed some bjd eyes, and when I went to etsy and plugged in that search term, BOOM there was a Etsy shop selling MOLDS . Oh boy!! I have a homemade mold but it is not flexible, so it is a drag to get the sculpey back out when you press the sculpey in, even using cornstarch as the release. This mold up above is for cold cast resin, and I am ready to either go buy some resin and give it a spin, or bake sculpy using the mold to shape the eye base. Now Velvet Way also sells the other part of the set, the molds for making the cornea/iris: I had to pay attention that I was buying a compatible iris mold to go with the base --I chose the "Medium" one which has 12mm and 14mm as part of the set, since that is what I use 90% of the time. This I really will use resin for, unless I can get my little Modge Podge Jewelry acrylic to sit and dry properly and bubble-...

Some cool resin eyes made by Lynn Corr--these were experiments, but there will be more to follow. The gold ones are cast metal, and look very cool even without the iris inserts. I forgot my camera at the monthly Mitsuwa meetup, But Akutenshi kindly took some photos instead: See that backpack in the middle? It was STUFFED with toys..like..an unbelievable, hilarious amount of tiny toys. That wig is yarn, not alpaca--yarn that was combed and combed and combed to pull out all the loose fibers. The end result is very shiny! This girl's outfit is so pretty--I like how shy she looks! This is an etherial Island Doll Noah, on a tenshi body--it's a very posable body and the hands are beautiful. I also like his otherworldly eyes. I did clean some things and ship a doll, but otherwise I wasn't too productive today.