'Nother fat doll!!!

Awesome! I just scored a secondhand 5StarDoll tiny girl body for $80.00 total! It may be for Carter, Isabel's identical twin, or for Isabel, depending on color matching and poseability.

Cores: Fairyland LittleFee in "normal skin" and 5StarDoll tiny in "yellow"

Extremities [forearms, hands, calves and feet]: Lumedoll Lumelight in "normal pink" and Soom Mini Gem in "normal skin"

Somehow, I will get two fat dolls out of these parts. I'm thinking, though, of swapping out the "light pink" Lumelight extremities with Mazzy's "normal yellow" ones. I will then have two cores and two sets of extremities, all with similar yellow undertones.

Blah blah blah!!!

P.S. Isabel and Carter are identical twins because they are monozygotic. They were both assigned female at birth, a designation that Carter eventually rejected. I get the sense that they like to mess with people's heads by referring to themselves as identical twins and then waiting to see who objects, "But male/female pairs can't be identical!" :p

Shrunken Treasures' impressive 1:6 scale houses and sets

Shrunken Heads Treasures specializes in 1:6 scale dollhouses, furniture and accessories. Once you get past the atrocious spelling and photo quality, you can see that the pieces demonstrate superb design and construction. I get the feeling that Shrunken Treasures applies 1:1 techniques to 1:6 scale stuff without shortcuts or compromises.

Despite the attention to detail, the pieces for sale are surprisingly affordable...except for their lamps, which are all non-functional and $63.00. Maybe when I can afford $63.00 human-scale lamps, I'll think about spending that much for a doll lamp.

Mod-o-rama: crisp Mod 1:6 scale furniture by Carolyn Allen

Beautiful stuff constructed with 1:1 techniques scaled down. I especially like the Sterling credenza, though I would be much more likely to make one out of a jewelry gift box and some colored paper myself. The combination sculpture/bookcase/cabinet wall unit also impresses me: yet another piece that I would have to write an entire series around just to make it earn its keep. :p [Incidentally, Mod-o-rama's prices on lamps are much more reasonable than Shrunken Treasures'.]

Medicom Jolyne Cujoh

I'm not about to pay ~$200.00 for a Hot Toys Selina Kyle, but I would drop $200.00 without a second thought on Medicom Jolyne Cujoh, a 1:6 scale action figure based on a character from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a Japanese manga/anime/media franchise.

I know nothing about the character or the media franchise, but I don't have to. I love everything about her, from her complicated hairstyle to her pissed-off alternative head to her meretricious arachnid outfit to her navel piercing. She's beautiful!

She also reminds me of another Medicom 1:6 scale femfig, also an expensive Japanese import, also from a Japanese manga, also with unusually colored hair, also with a pissed-off expression, that I got about ten years ago: Bambi from Bambi and Her Pink Gun. Anyone who is familiar with my 1:6ers will take a quick look at Bambi and immediately identify her [or at least her head] as Baozha, an LHFer and the adopted [human] daughter of the leader of Chinatown's vampires, Chow Bang. [Here she is having a typically adversarial relationship with her father in an interstitial episode of LHF.]

Jolyne is perfect, except for one thing...

She needs pink hair!

I wonder if Baozha started my unreasonable affinity for pink-haired dolls?

Uh oh. I think I just felt ~$200.00 leave my bank account and head to Japan to exchange itself for a Medicom Jolyne.

Fur wig bullshit

After dinner tonight, I finally got around to testing the easy peasy fur wig pattern I found on DOA recently. I made my mockup in felt, so as not to waste precious faux fur. Magic did not occur, so I'm trying to analyze what went wrong. Maybe Mellifer's snarkiness contaminated the proceedings.

( He's acting like a little Jareth here. )

I'm thinking I should have either measured exactly [sigh] and/or used some elastic, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to sew elastic without a sewing machine.

If I had a Medicom Jolyne Cujoh...

Elizabeth Jr. asked me what I'd do with a Medicom Jolyne doll, so here's my plan.

Jolyne comes with two heads, a neutral one and a pissy one. I'd swap on her pissy head and make the following mods:

• Rename her Anna.
• Repaint neon green parts of hair pink.
• Repaint dark blue parts of hair royal purple.
• Repaint green lips raspberry.
• Repaint those weird black lesions on her face so that they look like unhealed wounds showing blood and muscle.
• Redress her. Ideally I'd love a white shirt tied as a crop top to show her tattoos and navel ring and a pair of jeans.

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