Doll to-dos

• Make tape dispenser
• Photo articulated dolls for dolls
• Redo dead version's hands
• Measure walker for handlebars
• Decide what neutral clothes Isabel needs
• Ship Skelita to Andrea
• Unstring, pack, ship Jareth's body [minus head and hands]
• Redo Dillon's faceup: new eyebrows and lips + shading

Advice column: "Saddest Song, Smallest Violin" version

Bah hah hah hah hah! 




In answer to someone who is extremely bothered by the fact that their wife enthusiastically enjoys YA fiction: "Gift her a nice Franzen box set, a fresh copy of Infinite Jest or the complete works of Dave Eggers, so that she may better learn to center her recreational reading around fictional middle-aged white men instead of fictional people who aren’t as important and interesting as they are."

Voici Dillon!

I did Dillon -- Isabel's ex, coworker, purchaser of her car and carpooler, not to mention Carter's friend and representative of stupid shit people say about PWS -- for once and for all tonight. He started off as an AA Hasbro GI Jane Vietnam Nurse, who is quite possibly one of the sweetest, cutest, most adorable dolls ever. Don't you just want to be her friend?
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Dead version of Isabel's improved hands

I tossed the dead version of Isabel's default hands. Even after I repositioned them, I still disliked them. I made her a new set out of a pair of white Takara CG gloved hands. I carved them out, gave them a dry brush of light grey, drew in wrist bones and phalanges with permanent marker, added white highlights with white out and sealed them. Wheeee.

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Dolls for dolls: articulated exemplars

Here's a selection of my miniature dolls that are articulated:

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