Doll stuff to do in the next three months

• Restring Epona's arms.
• Deracinate Epona's hair.
• Make Epona new faux fur hair.
• Make Alabama hair.
• Give Alabama shoes.
• Redo Anna's fiber hair.
• Make Pearlene ears.
• Redo Doctor Z.

What shall I do with you, Epona?

Epona is a customized 1:6 scale action figure that I purchased in 2008 from Therese Olsen. She represents a period in Therese's dollmaking when she was moving away from mere customizing and into wholesale doll construction, a move that ultimately led her to sculpting her own resin BJDs. Therefore Epona interests me as an aesthetic object and also as a historical example of my friend's doll development.( Read more... )

Epona rehaired

After I wrote my entry wondering what to do with her, I decided what to do with Epona. I finished rehairing her and stuck her on my CG 1.0 body with the broken ankle cup. She looks great! I have decided that I will transfer her calves/hooves from her old body to this body.
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