Doll population movement

The following are going up for sale. We'll see if there are any takers:

• Karito Kids Ling [Junebug]
• Soom Faery Legend Aenigma + extra head [Ginevra]
• Lumedoll Lumelight Elin [Avery]
• Hujoo chocolate bodies x2

Possibly going up for sale:

• Lumedoll Lumelight Arine [Mazzy]
• Soom Minigem old style body [raw dolls]
• 5StarDoll tiny body [raw dolls]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MERMAID EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Asleep Eidolon is now taking preorders for a 1:6 scale mature mermaid BJD! Comes with male or female torso with double-jointed elbows, faceup, eyes, fin ears, shell top, 2 tail fin options, 2 wing options [wings?!] and a whole lotta cuteness.

brb buyin a mermaid

A mermaid swam into my shopping cart.

This one, with the drowsy head and semi-translucent aqua fins. I put her on 6-part layaway, just for manageability, but I hope to pay her off earlier than that.

I've decided that she is going to use Absinthe's old head, my sleeping Elfdoll Kathlen faceplate, with a new faceup, of course. I may move the finny ears off the Cordelia head and onto the Kathlen head, but maybe not.

No name yet, but we're working on it. 

EDIT: Her name is Polly.

Zombieville needs kids.

I have a 12- or 13-year-old: Alabama. [She just needs hair.]

I'd like to have an 8- to 10-year-old and a toddler.

Hmmmm...

8- to 10-year-old kid from spare parts!

I knew that photographic inventory of my raw dolls would come in handy... I just realized that I can cobble together an 8- to 10-year-old kid from parts in my bin: one of my extra Batchix Nan Sook heads on one of those chocolate Hujoo bodies. To accomplish this, I need to:

• adjust Hujoo neckpost
• mod Nan Sook head so that it doesn't look identical to Chaz
• sculpt headcap
• paint head to match body

 Very easy! The most challenging aspect of kid dolls is finding clothes for them.

The resulting girl, Sheila Stockard, is 10 at most. Her parents are friends with Isabel's parents. Isabel and Carter have known Sheila since she was born. They have babysat for her in the past; she calls them Aunt Isabel and Uncle Carter. While Carter is not as close to Sheila as he used to be, Isabel still sees Sheila regularly. Sheila is a rather serious kid with few friends and little interest in pink sparkly shit. She does, however, like dolls, a fact that causes her parents some consternation [and Isabel much joy]. Isabel feels very protective of Sheila, especially because she, like Sheila, was shy, quiet, socially isolated and well-read for her age. Sheila, for her part, absolutely worships Isabel. Conflict occurs when Sheila's parents discover that Isabel has spondis. They don't want Sheila to hang out with Isabel anymore. Isabel and Sheila sneak around for a while, but then have to confront her parents' prohibition head-on.

Notes: Overalls if possible. Glasses. Pierced ears. Glue black boucle yarn to head, then trim close for hair.

Katherine Taylor-McBroom's collaged, reflection-like dollhouses

Burlington City Arts hosts revolving exhibits of local artists' work in the halls of my office building. Down in the basement there are currently some fascinating mixed media pieces by Katherine Taylor-McBroom. I found the architectural collages less interesting than these 3-D collages incorporating 1:12 scale dollhouse pieces, public domain photos and illustrations. Her use of reversed and/or mirrored elements combine with a desaturated palette to give these works a haunting, dreamlike atmosphere.

Unfortunately, the light down there was very poor, so I was not able to do justice to these pieces in my photos, which often washed out. Photocopied figures peek out of windows and lurk behind working doors. The layered nature of the work practically invites peering and poking, while also evoking a palimpsest and/or layers of memory. Brilliant stuff.
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