Hujoo bodies

Mimiwoo sells Hujoo dolls [26cm] in white, apricot and chocolate for ~$40.00 with s/h included, but they all come with those unappealing heads. Blech!

Hujoo itself sells bodies without heads for $20.00 apiece, but s/h for orders <$100.00 is $20.00, while s/h for orders >$100.00 is free. I'd have to get at least 2 or 3 bodies to make the increased s/h worthwhile. That said, those bodies are amazingly cheap, so it would probably be a worthwhile investment.

Collections

I was reading an open thread on Shakesville about what people collect. Then I started wracking my brains about my own collections.

I'm actually not much of a collector. This may seem like a hypocritical statement, given the sheer numbers of my doll population; however, I don't consider my dolls a collection. To me, the term "collection" denotes a group of objects that mostly just sit there being admired. While some of my dolls sit there, looking pretty, I play with most of them. They're my toys, of which I happen to have amassed a lot.

Anyway, in the past, I have collected the following:

• Stamps
• Amusing epitaphs
• Books about twins
• Labyrinth memorabilia, especially ephemera
• Pulp paperbacks from the 1950s and 1960s about queer women ["lesbian pulp"]

I currently collect the following:

• Songs about queer and/or trans subjects
• Rements

I have a small selection of my Labyrinth ephemera [novelization, Labyrinth Photo Album, French lobby cards, Japanese program, Goblins of Labyrinth, comic adaptation {I think}] on my bookshelf, but that collection is no longer active. I also still have a few of my lesbian pulps, but that collection is no longer active either.

Now that I think about it, I could easily sell or give away most of my Labyrinth ephemera. I have, can find or can make digital copies of a substantial portion, although I would keep the Photo Album just for nostalgic reasons. As for the pulps, I can scan the covers [sometimes the best parts!] and find some special collections in which they could be preserved and referred to as a part of twentieth-century queer history.

I'm also thinking that I don't use most of my Rements either. All those detailed 1:6 scale models of specialized food etc. just sit in my storage containers. When I do use some of it, it's the basic stuff, like plates, cups, bowls, silverware, pots, pans, kitchen utensils. If I do use the food, it's fast food, sweets, drinks of all types.

Okay...time to clear out the Rements!

...And my closet too, while I'm at it.

Oh look -- concern trolling!

This gem is from Monday's Dear Prudence, a trove of crap:

Letter writer: "I'm in my late 20s with a husband and a young daughter. My husband, who has a familial history of thyroid problems and high blood pressure, has gained nearly 100 pounds in the five years we've been married. He has developed liver problems and high cholesterol, OBVIOUSLY because he's so disgustingly fat.

"I exercise and eat healthily and encourage him to do the same, but he resists, calling me a nag. He's a grown man, but I'm so concerned about his health that I refuse to treat him like an independent agent. How can I further insult him by infantilizing and objectifying him?"

Prudie: "Fat people are gross. They're also stupid lazy slobs who don't eat right or exercise and can't perceive that their fat is killing them. KILLING THEM I SAY!

"Oh wait...you had a question there. I strongly recommend going to a 'bariatrician,' a.k.a. someone with lots of letters after their name who gets paid handsomely for bullying people into losing weight and supporting the lucrative, ultimately futile diet industry.

"I also recommend even more nagging and shaming. Project for your husband a future in which he lurches from health crisis to health crisis and where you have to take care not only of your daughter, but also his fat lazy ass. That should motivate him into the spiral of shame and self-hatred that makes people lifelong devotees of the 'bariatric' industry.

"Good luck...you're gonna need it. At the rate your husband''s going, I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up wheelchair-bound, never to walk again, because he's such a tub of lard. Then he'd be fat and disabled, and that would just be...[ralllllllphgack].

"Excuse me. On second thought, forget the 'bariatrician' and the extra nagging. Just do the world a favor and put him out of his misery now. Poison his cupcakes."

What a sad, bitter, lonely, empty life she must lead to be so full of hatred toward fat and/or disabled people.

Dyeing dolls

Tutorial on DOA: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?39703-Tutorial-on-dyeing-your-doll-(with-pics)

Discussion thread on DOA: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?50004-Dyeing-a-Doll

spamsama's tutorial in DOA discussion thread: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?50004-Dyeing-a-Doll&p=1951682&viewfull=1#post1951682

Tutorial on BJD_WTF: http://bjd-wtf.livejournal.com/2251.html

• Basically...Tan RIT dye is recommended for darkening a doll's skin color. Some have also have good results with cocoa brown...not dark brown.
• I have to prepare the dye by adding it to warm/hot water, which I then bring to a boil. Then I have to dunk each part that I want colored, making sure not to let the piece hit the bottom of the pot, checking frequently to see if I am achieving the tone I want.
• I also need to keep stirring the dye to make sure that it does not settle to the bottom of the pot.
• When parts are the appropriate color, rinse with hot water to get rid of extra dye, then cold water to cool everything down.

This sounds like so much fun! I am definitely doing this with Metel when she arrives! \o/

MORE FAT DOLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1eleventy

I have acquired a third 5StarDoll tiny girl body for the purposes of fattening someone up. At this rate, I will have perfected fattening techniques in a few weeks.

The Rements [well, 95% of them, anyway]

I took some large pictures of my boxes of Rements. Actually, they're technically my boxes of 1:6 scale accessories, with the exception of those currently in use or in storage. But a huge portion of them are Rements, so that's why I'm calling them.

Some people organize their Rements according to the sets in which they were packaged. I organize mine by category.( Read more... )