Soom's latest monthly doll: the Saggitarius unicorn Heliot

Since Soom's earlier hooved/horned/winged dolls, Beryl [April, fem] and Sard [May, dude], attracted such universal squealing and wanking, the company wisely decided to release another highly desirable hooved/horned/winged doll for December and the sign of Saggitarius. Heliot has the added distinction of being a unicorn. Like almost all entries in the zodiac series, he has a petulant, androgynous face and a drapey, esoteric outfit.

I admire Heliot's headsculpt greatly, as I do with so many of Soom's mature sculpts. However, after my failed experiment with an 80 cm doll from Soom, I have realized that I do not have room for more than 3 1:3 dolls. Since Jareth, Frank and Sardonix aren't going anywhere, I have no room in my life for another large doll, except as an unattainable object that I admire.

I miss Michaela...

...My innocent vengeful Catholic schoolgirl vampire with a cross burning into her skin and a red '50s flip. The best thing about her is her absolute seriousness about all matters of life, in contrast to her casual, chatty and very personal relationship with God, mediated by the Archangel Michael, who she firmly believes in, but who we never see. She has no designated role in any upcoming season, but I would like to bring her back. Here she is in (Un)Real Life, the previous incarnation of LHF, writing her column Dead and Devout for the vampire newspaper. The best joke of this whole episode is that I used a font called Catholic Schoolgirl for her handwriting! ^_^

Well, anyway, I have a Kisaragi Honey head that I could use for her; I just need to get that red flip and a schoolgirl outfit...something very demure.

Catholic schoolgirl outfits

Nouveau Toys, which specializes in Aoshima's Ladies' Mission dolls, has limited quantities of these Japanese imports, some with schoolgirl outfits! I like the ones without the scarves around the necks, Ai and Yui. I'm also very interested in the nun ["Street Corner Princess?!?!?!?!"] and the maid for fetishwear purposes, also because they are endlessly amusing. Anyone wanna split some LMs? :p

In other options, Triad has some possibilities. There is the New Skool outfit, but it has that stupid neck scarf which is more appropriate to Japanese school uniforms than U.S. ones. Cadence could work, as it is conservative and kinda girly.

As much as I like the Aoshima fetishwear, I think buying just an outfit would be better than buying a whole damn doll + clothes + guns when I am only going to use the clothes. Now the question is...where to get Cadence? It's $25.00 at Triad, but they're known for their naaaaaaaaaaastry shipping costs. Alternatively, it's $37.00 at Good Stuff to Go, but why the $12.00 markup?

Oh, the weighty questions that plague me....

My First Triad Thingy

Turns out that the $25.00 price on Triad's site for Cadence is the after-Xmas sale price, while $37.00 is the regular non-sale price. Deciding that $37.00 was too much for one outfit, I sprang for the sale price, which means that Michaela's clothes are in the mail, so I will indeed be remaking Michaela [YAY!], but will not be getting any Ladies' Mission fetishwear [DAMMIT!].

Anyway, shipping from Triad was $2.99 for normal USPS first class. They must make their killing on shipping bulky items like dollies.

NOTE: Tonight I will post pictures of the apples I made this weekend and of the progress that I have made on gouging Ethan's head.

Travel back in time to 1996...

...a time when Web sites were characterized by multicolor walls of cheerfully misspelled text, uselessly animated buttons, blinking banner links, spasmodic mouseover animations and obscure Web rings! Case in point: Men Without Hats' site. Despite the simplistic design, I actually love this site. It was clearly made without a designer [or any sense of design principles] by the hatless dudes themselves, who are just bubbling over with an infectious enthusiasm for the music. That's one of the things I love best about this band: From their music videos and concert vids, it's obvious that they're having so much fun, grinning and singing and flailing wildly.

Anyway, from what I can unearth, Men Without Hats has a NEW ALBUM OUT, No Hats Beyond This Point, marking a return to their synth pop roots after a few decades away. I'm going to get it when I'm not hemorrhaging money in the direction of dolls and doll supplies.

Please excuse me. I need to drool over Ivan Doroschuk listen to more MWH music vids now.

EDIT: Okay, it's not new. It came out in 2004. Well, it's new to me.

Ethan in progress

Well, I can't find the "before" pictures of Ethan's head, so you'll just have to feast your eyes on this progress picture, with wiggly arrows indicating most of the places where I gouged a lot. Fascinating. I need to gouge his nostrils deeper. ( Read more... )