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I bought these because Aunt Doreen, as she was known in some tarot circles, always had the best art, and the art in this deck is really fun--it's a lot of romantic Victorian paintings clipped apart and reassembled with new painting by Howard David Johnson, and it looks great. As a tarot deck, it's ..kind of treacly. Now I have had other decks by Virtue, including Mermaids and Dolphins and the Goddess Guidance Cards, and they are unrelentingly upbeat and positive, and sometimes you need that.  But I have to say that fairies are..well, let's say traditionally they are not all sunshine and unicorn farts. Doreen Virtue herself has now become very Christian and says she plans to read all of the Bible from beginning to end, which is sort of...hmm. You have been making Angel cards since Jesus had a paper route and now you are going to pop open the Bible and read all of it? Anyway, I should not dunk on her because millions of people have used and enjoyed her cards, as a...

I spent some time yesterday fooling around with face shapes on Poser's new default model, La Femme. I have trouble with her hands, but her head is a lot of fun. The skin was a RPublishing product called Alethea: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/lf-alethea-for-la-femme/139173 And the dress was also purchased there, as was the crystal . The crystal actually loads as large as she is, which I thought was a bit much :D I'm going to waste more time tomorrow playing with her!

And Granado has a new guy on a new body! If you are tired of the buff muscle guys, there is a Zen  70 cm body that you can put Galileo on: https://doll-granado.com/mbody_zen (Photos are pretty Safe For Work) The Zen body is really tall and slim, it reminds me of the Doll Chateau bodies without the weird extra parts. There are jointed hands to match as well! Galileo is the model for the Zen body, but here is his head if you want to see it here: His promos on his sale page make him a Zen monk   but I think he'd make a nice dancer or a weedy scholar as well. He's very graceful!

                                  I try to keep politics off this blog, but today felt historic.

Poserworld was an online marketplace for poser-format models; when Smith Micro lost interest in Poser, it kind of kicked the stuffing out of a lot of side marketplaces for the add-on models. Renderosity bought Poser this year and immediately went about fixing a lot of things, updating it and added La Femme as the default figure that comes with the program.                                               (That is a prop scone from a tea set I have :D)  I use both Daz and Poser-- and I have to say I use Daz because the base program is free, and I already have a lot of the content; but in many ways Poser is a better, more stable program that runs in a cleaner, more compact way. I have a computer dedicated to Daz Studio because the damn thing wouldn't run on anything less than a Nvidia900 series card, and it would really like one of the Nvidia10 series. Poser runs ...

Dear VIPs, Today we welcome 2 new Asian guys.  They are V-09 and V-10! These 2 heads are made for our VIPs exclusively. V-09 and V-10 can be put in Male body Zen or Male Embody, if you want a whole doll, we can let you have a whole doll discount. ---------------------------------------------------------------- If you have bought from Granado before, you should have gotten this as an email; if you are a previous owner who has bought directly from Granado and did not get an email and want one (the limit is 2 heads), you should contact Granado directly (They have photos in the email of the heads) ---------------------------------------------- Right now I am waiting for Jane--people who ordered just her head got her pretty quickly, but Crocus Lee decided he needed to re-sculpt the feet on the new female embody, so I was told it would be another month or so. To be honest I hope it is after Christmas, because the Post Office gets so cray the e...

I totally bought this deck from Ebay for the art, but it's just a nice deck all around. It is a normal Waite/Coleman-Smith deck, but McClelland puts in some of the symbols from the Golden Dawn decks as well. It feels like a very North American deck, with bears and sunflowers and here and there some Native American motifs. And it's just SO PRETTY. It's published by Red Feather, a subsidiary of Schiffer Press, and it has OK quality card stock, pretty much the same weight that you find in "oracle decks," but nothing you want to shuffle normally. Or get wet. Like an oracle deck, the cards are wide. I like having the cards a bit larger,as there is a lot going on. I almost wish they were even larger to see some of the detail in the paintings. I found this deck when I was watching one of my favorite YouTube tarot explainers, Katie Flowers, take scissors to the deck to make the cards smaller. It sounds bonkers, but she has a few tips and tools...