LHF 2.9: "Darts"

In which the funeral is held for Anneka’s grandmother.

Comments: In the season finale, Anneka quotes the elegy of Ovid that Minerva mentioned before she died. And she tries, really tries, to find some meaning in her grandmother’s death. http://oddpla.net/lhf/?p=60 

"Civilized vampire" Halloween costume in progress

I got a pair of fangs from W**-M**t a few weeks ago for a dollar. I'm very surprised that anything can be purchased for just a buck these days.

Just now I ordered my gravestone shirt from Gravestone Artwear. It's a black long-sleeved T-shirt with as many emblems of mortality as can possibly be crammed onto one headstone: a skeleton with laurels [=Death victorious] and a scythe holding the sun and the moon, an ouroboros [=eternity], angels and bats. In case that's not enough death-related imagery, the sleeves have running borders of crossed spades and mattocks, coffins and little death's heads. If you want to see a picture of the design, go to T-Shirts, then New England Gravestone Rubbing section, then look for the Susanna Jayne stone. It's beautiful!

I WAS going to order a fake blood bag, but the list price is about $7.00 + the same amount for shipping, and I'm NOT paying that much for a glorified juice box. I think I will try to make my own. If I can do so, then I can miniaturize the pattern and make blood bags for my 1:6 vampires too.

Since I have black pants, the basic parts of my costume are now pretty much set. I'm looking for some more "civilized vampire" accessories, however. I think I'm going to make a button that says "Vampires do it in cold blood" at Zazzle.

The Hemingses of Monticello

I want to read this book, The Hemingses of Monticello, by Annette Gordon-Reed, about the family that was both enslaved by and related to Thomas Jefferson and his family.

Cory, my manananggal in progress

I got a box of about 8 dolls from Andrea today: 3 arti Barbie bodies, each with an Integrity Toys head, a Candi head, plus 4 or 5 Eversparkle male figs.

I picked up the Eversparkles so that minor male characters can have basic bodies. I also intend to modify one so that Margie, my fat doll, can use it for her body.

I picked up the Integrity Toys dolls because all of their playline headsculpts are extremely hot, but unfortunately out of print. I also thought that the strong, stylized lines of the Integrity sculpts might give me a basis for a doll of Cory, my manananggal.

These are the Integrity Toys dolls I bought from Andrea as they came to me. Andrea took this picture.( Read more... )