TRAIN SHOW ROAD TRIP THIS OCTOBER!

Feeling a desolate lack of train shows in my life [last one we went to was in March :( ], I checked the online calendars for local upcoming events. Sure, there's the annual show in Rutland the last weekend in September, but I hear that's the smallest of the Vermont shows. Why go to Rutland [at all] when we can go to the annual Southern New England O Scale Model Train Show in Gardner, MA, a week later? It's an entire day devoted to Janna's favorite scale! Also the ads say there will be homemade pie and "other goodies."

Gardner is about 3.5 hours away by car, eminently doable. We could travel down Friday, spend the night locally, enjoy trains on Saturday, then travel back Saturday afternoon or evening. 

You never forget your first Jareth.

I mark the beginning of my doll customizing career with my first 1:6 scale Jareth doll, which I created in November and December of 2001 as an Xmas present for Jill. [After all these years, she still has him! He hangs out with her 1:6 scale dolls who use wheelchairs.] Let's see how far I've come....

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Dollism thoughts

I've been tergiversating on  whether to bring a 1:3er and a 1:6er or just a 1:6er. I just realized that, if I really want to shop for my 1:3ers, I can always take measurements of them, bring my tape measure and measure the clothes or accessories against their measurements.

Alternatively, since the convention is happening in the same hotel where we'd be staying, I could conceivably bring everyone [of the subset that bug me, I mean] and lock them up in the hotel room until I needed them to come out for fittings, meetups, photos, etc. That's 11 dolls, though. Sure, 5 are 1:6 scale, and 1 is 1:12 scale, but that's still a lot of resin!

Update to Perdita

Redid Perdita's eyebrows and controlled her hair with Mod Podge tonight. Now waiting for her oxygen mask...and some hands.

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Pearlene's framework for neck and shoulders

Made Pearlene an internal framework of wooden coffee stirrers and hot glue for her neck and shoulders.

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Clothes for fat dolls

I realize that bodysuits made for male action figures should fit well on all the fat female figures I'm making. They would make easy bases for outfits that would also showcase the shapely figures I have been adding to!