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 Cyrus Bronock's tiny creations, customized Barbies for TV: https://slate.com/culture/2021/01/search-party-doll-designer-cyrus-bronock-barbies-hbo-tbs.html?via=rss

  The Smithsonian now allows you to browse and take a huge amount of public domain goodies from their collection! Here's a good entry point: https://www.si.edu/openaccess/updates

  Among other things, I have been trying to learn materials in Poser 12; things are a little different than in previous versions..I think a little better, though there is one option that I miss, and that was a little script that got rid of any slots that you weren't using, which made it just cleaner and neater to set up materials. And of course the best way to learn is by doing, so I am justifying my habit of buying little trailer and house models for Poser and redecorating. They certainly take up less space than real doll houses. This is another Meshbox trailer model, called "Granny's Trailer", and boy, does Granny like pink. Here is the inside of the kitchen/living area: I bought the chihuahua off of TurboSquid (with points!) and he was not really optimized for Poser scale. This is what he looked like when I first loaded him: It took me a minute to find him because I was looking under the trailer with a spotlight, trying to figure out why he wasn't at the usual ...

  I had a credit card for thirty years, and they finally took the points I had accumulated, and instead of offering me a vaccuum cleaner, luggage or fine engraved items.... let me use them to buy items via PayPal. And I went hmm, click n' ship..and Ebay :D So my Christmas postage was paid for, and some of my Ebay shopping, but sadly the credit card company has gotten fly to my buying and is starting to put daily curbs on it and not allowing multiple trips to the Ebay well. It's still been fun. I bought tea today with my points, and a wig. Eventually the slot machine will run out of quarters/points, but my dolls have benefited and it's made an otherwise sucky winter more fun. The photo above was from Emily1957's wonderful Flickr--Emily just loves dolls. ALL THE DOLLS from Barbies to antiques to Steiff dolls to ball-jointed dolls, so her Flickr is so much fun to look through. You can find it here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/76763000@N05/

  Marina Bychkova's site is always worth a visit--both the dolls and photography are so beautiful! I will never own one--they are meant to be worshipped in a glass case, not dragged around the sewing table and backyard--but I love the artistry and the fact that Bychkova looks like she is living her best life :D https://www.enchanteddoll.com/snowwhite

  She's one of the big Fairyland 65 girls and if I had endless space and money I would buy her as a fullset..LOOK at the SNEKS. hehe! https://dollfairyland.com/shop/step1.php?number=1641

  I haven't done an inventory for at least 2 years, because it's a hassle to find the time, the space and the light to do it (my phone camera is actually better in low light, but less convenient to upload here). But that just reminded me that I need to stop buying large dolls, since my ability to deal with the time/space needed is limited. I also didn't prep them at all this year, this is how they came out of storage. I did get my Phoenix Doll Android Mei on some Resinsoul parts I had saved for her for a year: I knew she would fit on the RS Lian body, I just didn't have one in a color that matched her (the one I had was purple).  I do have someone new--Akutenshi GAVE me this cutie for my birthday!! She is a Fairyland Lucywen and a really nice size--she is a minifee and a lot smaller and easier to deal with than the SD dolls. You can't see them but she has elf ears. Such a wonderful present <3 <3 The dolls I have left to "finish" are my IoS A2 grumpy ...