I think Hoshi will be in tonight. I am really just quite surprised at the arrival being so soon. I ordered a faceup for the event head and Rigel was a new type of doll. I mean I waited like 1 1/2 months for Ryu last year when he was a new type of doll and I didn't get any faceups so yes this was a surprise. Becuase of the surprise I don't have a wig for him yet... Sadly the only suitable things I have are currently on other people's heads... I'm not allowed to steal Llyude's wig, so I have to figure out stuff from between my own dolls and this is what I have decided....
I'm going to make Ryu angry and take Kaoru's head off. He would be just as angry with a bald boyfriend I assure you, so until a new wig shows up really Hoshi and Kaoru won't be together which is sad becuase the brother's love each other, but this is just how it's going to work out. I'm using Kaoru's wig on Hoshi until I get him one, and then I'm gonna put mister summery head (Komishika) on Kaoru's body, since I have plotted that that will be his body anyway now that they type 3 has come out and has less muscle definition I wanna get a type 3 for Kaoru. But the head swap will only be temporary until I redo Kaoru's faceup.... his eyebrows have been bothering me for months so I'm making this happen and it just means Ryu has to suffer so I'll have to give him extra coddling or something.

To the girls I'm seeing tomorrow night look forward to new dollies, for everyone else look forward to new dollies when I get my pics posted!

I just got my shipping notice from Luts this morning! My Jdelf Rigel, Hoshi is coming home THIS WEEK! I think I'll have him Friday. *squeee* I'm so excited!

Oh and also after putting together monies from check and comission monies and stuff I was able to send in another $300 toward Yuna (magical michael girl), soooo now i've just got a little more than $300 more to go... I think this girl is gonna be home in time for afest!

The weekend, it was horrible. Went to Austin for Anime Overload, that was a F-in' joke! The table took in $25 for the weekend and we didn't even go back for Sunday. I'll probably be ranting something more fierce about the con itself in my normal journal so I won't bother with it here. I never could get ahold of any of the Austin locals online to try and hook up with while I was down there so that was sad, and then we get down there and I really needed sealant from Kerbey Lane becuase I've got my whole next month of comissions already lined up and then we get there and we find out they're closed for the holiday which I was afraid that that would be the case, but oh well. And then when I got back home I found out one of my friends from here was in Austin visiting one of her friends that I know and if I'd just known apparently I could have spent most of the weekend chilling with them. Yes it was a sad thing to find out... BUT, I think the weekend overall was fun for a few simple things... Good frieds, nintendo DS and The World Ends With You, orgasmic Flan (oh god we had Trudy's 2 nights in a row), and getting to play doll's with nereusthebeaded's niece.... Oh oh, and good fun music, especially the many times repeated Buck-Tick ha ha.

Soooo some more faceup comission updateage....

This beautiful boy is for the Underhill Beadscapes table... He will be for sale starting this weekend at Anime Overload I believe... I'm really happy how he turned out and I so think that eventually I'm doomed for both a Song and an An... The resin soul mini boys are toooo damn cute!


And this is greybill_girls's Shushu elf. I'm still finishing out the last of her body work and she'll be going home soon. I've had this girl for a while (moved with her even in the middle of cleaning her)... She's so gorgeous, and her bangs sooo hide her super attitude eyebrows in this pic but oh well.

This is probably my last post for the weekend, so I hope everyone has a happy holiday!

Just droppin by to show off some comissions I've done in the last week and a half....


DBDoll Yuer for Grax

and


Bobobie Elena
This is one of the ones I was doing for nereusthebeaded for the Anime Overload table... It's just a week away and I've got one more face to complete!

I NEVER want an SD sized Bobobie doll EVER!

I finished the faceup for the BBB Elena Boy for Anime Overload. Faceup is gorgeous, though I've realized this head will definitly not work for me for anything... I'm too put off by the eye sculpting. I undertand now why it has 20mm eyes... to make it less apparent that the eyes are not even on the face....

Then apparently while I've had the head off the body the elastic (apparently they stopped using such crappy stuff) force warped the shook mostly open....

Lets just say in the end I had to reshape the shook twice and restring the doll from waist up 3 times tonight and my fingers are sore and scratched up and I'm very pissed. I really hope this doll finds someone to love him becuase it most certainly definitly will NOT be me.

There is nothing scarrier that a whole half a doll that you do not own falling into a heap on the tile floor below you.... -_-;

The Resin Soul boy I'm not very worried about. At least Kyrenea's had some sturdier hardware and there's shooks so they're sooo much easier to string if something catastrophic happens.

ShallowSleep sent me a message and Ygg's faceup is finished! OMG HE'S SOOO KAWAII! This may have/probably has saved him a bit longer with me at least. I think maybe I still want mnf eliya and mnf woosoo vamp boy to be Ygg and Rag, but I may just keep a big Ygg for sheer cute...and I'm pretty sure with myself that even if Ygg stopped meshing well with the family and me that I'd definitly have to have another Yder before letting him go. But I still feel a little bad because Rag with the exact face he has makes such the damn spot on Kataega for resiniverous Guess I could just tell him he can buy him from me whenever he wants becuase I know it'll take him a good while to pay me $700.....Ha ha maybe I should tell him as soon as he wants he can buy him off me so I can pay off Yuna and then probbaly still have money left over for a mnf ha ha.

Anyways the point of this post was Ygg's new face.... Okay everyone come squeee with me
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Well I did succeed in getting MOST of a faceup done this weekend. I would have finished him if someone had given us a phone call to tell us Dad was working late and dinner was gonna be later than planned but nooooo, they just let us show up early and sit there... Okay so I sat there and watched ninja warrior...that was FTW

But under the cut is a photo of an almost complete faceup. It is for one of the dolls that will be for sale at Anime Overload through nereusthebeaded's table. In general so far I'm really happy how it's turning out and this was probably the first time that I never had to erase and redraw some eyelashes.... This head is getting the more natural look and I think they other will have a darker one....but yah, I'm enjoying myself...
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Well after much negotiation, I AM buying the magical michael girl with the fullset items. I will be paying for her as much as possible when possible and I will have her paid off in September if not sooner, which that all depends on what I can sell and how quickly. I'm apparently raking in comissions. June's been booked since may and July is completely booked and I've already got someone down for an August slot. How neat is that? I think it's pretty cool and it means some income toward Yuna (the magmichael girl).

Went to the local dfw meetup yesterday and had a ton of fun. I think we all sat around and talked more than actually playing with dolls for once... it was sort of strange. Met a few new people who came, they are very nice and hopefully we didn't scare them away. Yah meets at iris & grax's place I think can be pretty scary for a newcomer to the group.

Miraja got a HELIOT!!!! OMG that doll is soooo freakin' hot. She decided while at the meet that she wanted to put his hooves on and they got him all sorted out on the floor and then reddeath1888 really wished she'd brought her Sard with her so that she could compare sizes and stuff and it got concluded to make a roadtrip back to her apartment to get him and Miraja and phi_san went with her to get it. I asked Miraja if she'd mind if I went ahead and got the hoof stringing started since reddeath's sard's hoofs were a major bitch to attatch I just figured I could get the elastic through what leg I could and when they came back we'd go from there, but the heliot's hooves had a much bigger hole that a stringing tool would actually fit through and in about 10min with a little holding help from kerikochan we had the boy together with hooves, eyes in and I was chillin on the couch with my new dolly boyfriend waiting for them to return. Needless to say reddeath was super jealous that it was such an easy task compared to her sard and Miraja was astounded and so shocked he was all good and ready when she walked through the door. She's so happy with him and I can't wait to see what he's gonna look like when she gets him all faced up.

So today I've been workin' on some dollies. I finished the body blushing for greybill_girls and also finally finished up and sealed and glossed the faceup as well. So she just needs her tatts and she's ready to roll. I'm not feeling up to the tatts today though and really wanna get at least most of one of faceups for Anime Overload done today so I think I'm gonna work a little on a bbb elena boy till time to go to the inlaws for father's day.

But as of today I have paid $200 toward Yuna and have another $46 in my dolly savings box to put with my payment next payday.

Well Grax LOVED the faceup so shortly I'll be posting completed piccys and stuff. I'm excited for the local meet tomorrow. Almost more so for the pizza that I'm gonna get to eat than hanging out with all the fun dolly people. I want to get started tonight on one of the faceups for nereusthebeaded's table fullsets, and I think I'm going after the bbb elena boy first... If it looks like what I want it to afterwards, I'm totally gonna have to make her order another one for me becuase I think I might have found Haruka even though originally when seeing this doll sculpt I was thinking it for Tsukasa.... But yah, wanna get at least one of those faceups done this weekend which leaves my schedule left with the RS Song and LF shiwoo elf for the month of June.... Still working slowly but surely on finishing up the bodywork on eternal_ukyou's shushu... need to catch her back online again sometime in the next week...

hmmm...i wonder who I should take to the meet with me tomorrow....

GAH I swear somehow I get so damn busy and then I wonder what I've actually accomplished. It has taken me 4 days now that I wasn't out somewhere till almost time to go to bed to sit down tonight and work on [b]Grax[/b]'s faceup. It's a little weird becuase I've done work for him before but never not with him present so it's weird. 2 people who have tried to put themselves in the Grax mindset with what direction I was told are pretty damn sure he's gonna love it, but I'm hoping he can get online sometime tomorrow and see it so that he can give me a message or a call telling me that I can seal the head and finish so that I can take him back Saturday when I go over there....

I have 3 things still on my plate to finish before Anime Overload July 4th weekend. And one other comission that I'm told doesn't have to be finished before the end of the month, but that I would like to have done...

Also I went back after and put in an offer again for the magical michael girl I've been staring at for 3 months who's still for sale and I remember I offered 750 in march before the sale was official, then after I got tired of waiting and found a great deal on Kaoru's body the girl PMed me back telling me she was for sale. Well at that time I couldn't take her but I decided I wanted to see if she'd let me layaway her still for my original offer of 750.... Well now she want's 800 apparently becuase she was hoping someone would want to buy the doll and not the outfit and there's just parts of the outfit she really likes and was hoping nobody would want it so she could keep it. IF YOU WANTED TO KEEP IT THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE OFFERED IT! I sent a message back explaining that i offered 750 becuase a mint still sealed condition magical michael fullset is selling on Y!J for 75000yen, i do value the outfit at 200, but I only paid 550 shipped for my boy a year ago. So to me an SD10 doll with that head, boy or girl, is only worth $550 to me. I'm a little disappointed that 3 1/2 months ago when her mother didn't want to sell it till she had a girl to replace it that they were willing to give it to me for 750. I told her I needed layaway in the first place, so really if her mother was buying a doll she probably still would have gotten it before i paid her off. But yah I waited 3 weeks and after the second week it was just too long to wait when you put something up saying it's a feeler but it's definitly for sale.... I mean maybe she's just asking me for more money becuase she thinks i'll flake on her since I turned her down the first time since I had had to wait too long, but I'm serious and have told her how long I need and how much I can send as of tomorrow and then she asks me for $50 more....

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Last weekend a few of us got together for a work day meetup. I think I've mentioned it and I really enjoyed myself. I took a few pictures as well so I thought I would share them.

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So have tackled a few comissions this weekend....

First is a Dollzone Hid for TokyoLynn

I was really happy that we both clicked on the image in which he was supposed to take on, so the faceup went really quick and smoothly, though it got halted a few days due to the horrible storms we had earlier this week

and the second is a Custom House Yuriel for iris0110

This little guy is sooo precious and adorable. We ran into a snag and had to start the faceup all over after almost being done becuase it was too humid outside yesterday and the sealant started peeling on me.... We changed location to indoors with good airflow and the texture of the sealant is still somehow not quite right as for some reason my pencils were not easy to use, like there was nothing for the pencil to grab onto or something, so while this little guy did turn out cute, sometime in the future he will probably need a re-do which due to the conditions in which we went through with this guy together (since I was at her house) I've promised to redo it free.... He just really needed a face and needed it then and there, so we work with what we can I suppose.
dude, kitsunari if this little one was gendered I totally would have made a trade becuase he is sooo super cute! But alas my boys need to actually be boys.

Uruha has SOLD! After the shipping costs I'm getting roughly $130 for the head... $100 goes straight to savings to cover the borrowing damage I did for the jdelf order.... soooo, I have $30 toward whatever next doll purchase.... Also kitsunari in order to help get hue off my hands faster is having me try and sell the dreamingdoll body. After that she won't owe quite so much ha ha and then I'll have like insta gratification of $300. I'm debating right now becuase I want a girl.... BUT since crescent-shop is taking unoa girl preorders RIGHT NOW! that means the unoa boy preorders are RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER! If I could get up the $560 before the end of boy preorder I could get my L-bi I've been wanting forever.... now if only the bloody Iz head would sell....

I JUST sent in payment for HOSHI!!~~~ He will be a Junior Delf Rigel... I'm so excited. And I also ordered a faceup for the event head becuase I really liked the type c faceup... I'm pretty sure he's going to become Komi... I think I shall plot and say that I will probably make my attempt at ordering Shurra around winter to drop in for another event ha ha. I'm really badly wanting a girl right now so I figure if I wrangle up the money before sept I will get a girl... But I'm not sure who yet... Maybe a cute little msd girl ... Nana (souldoll giselle), or maybe Lady J (zaoll luv).... I figure if I could get one of the three by sept, sept to nov/dec would give me enough time to wrangle 500 for a ssdelf Landy... No he totally stole Shurra's role from Regen.... but yah Waka gets lonely with the only other girl being the demon lady that threatens to eat her for lunch all the time.

So.... Went to a workday meet this weekend. It was a ton of fun. Fairly small and everybody got something done. I painted Reito's nails... still gotta take a pic to show to kitsunari because she'll squeee (*whispers* hey kit, my catboy has Bill nails!)
I'm trading services for an awesome wig that Kyrenea doesn't use anymore. I had mentioned I wanted to get Reito a fuzzy wig with cat ears in it and she's all "I've got one" and it's sooo prefect becuase I never thought I would be able to get one with black and silver streaks... Lol now he's got his name sake's hair but he's a kitty! About the time I had time to do a faceup I opted not since it was already 3 and I wasn't 100% sure how long I was gonna stay.... So I hot glue sueded Jun. He moves so much better now and those floppy little fantasy doll knees aren't preventing him from standing anymore. So that was my work. I also helped assist in a couple of restringings and give my opinions and advise on faceup work.

So that was my Sunday and I totally have pics! I think I'm one of the only ones that does ha ha. And kerikochan I have the best pic EVAR of you at the sewing machine... you totally evil eyed me. I wanna crop it down and cap it "The Seamstress is NOT Amused".

Last night I got to work on faceup comissions... OMG I love DZ Hids they are sooo cool! I've been loving doing this hid face that I'm doing now and I only worked on him for a little more than an hour and he's almost done. So shocking. I don't think I've ever had a comission build up so fast. He just needs to get current work sealed and his eyebrows and he's set to go back home. And just a little more work to go on that shushu elf... I've been so anxious with her becuase she's supposed to so specific, or I feel that she's supposed to be very specific so I've been having a lot of start/stops with her.

This is the workspace of a happy mel-mel

I spy with my little eye... New things I came home from A-kon with! I spent $100 at nereusthebeaded's booth and bought a mnf Seroin head....

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Wow... so much shit is hitting the fan about this Mijin Schatje chick.
I will put in agreeance that yes she is a theif in a way. To trace and vector exact images of doll and then throw what may actually be her original artsy stuff around it does not make the piece an original work of art. Especially not one to rake in thousands of dollars for.

I'm just posting my two cents because the last few days every time I turn around there's something about this girl. Now the situation would be different if it were me making vector art of my own dolls, of pictures I took of them myself and then traced off of... And honestly to do that I do not need the permission of a doll company. If I wanted to do it to a picture of a friend's doll I would need their permission for the doll image, if it was there picture I would need their permission to use it.

I do agree for sure that she really needs to have had permission from the owners of the dolls she has used and to the owners of the photos. I don't 100% understand why everyone's trying to drag the doll companies into it, unless I missed something and she used a stock photo belonging to them. People seem to be under this misconception becuase of DOAs rules about doll books. People who don't know publishing laws and think what DOA says about publishing a doll book is law for the part stating that you HAVE to have expressed permission from the company is bogus unless you have done nothing of customization to the doll (ie bought a complete full set and have photos of it just that way that the company made it up and sent it to you). If you have customized your dolls and want to publish a book with their photos in it taken by yourself, you need nobody's permission but your own. The doll companies give up all rights to that specific dolls image the moment they put it in the box and ship it to you. Now yes it is polite if you ask a company permission to use their dolls photos but even if they decline they can take no legal action against you for using photos of your own dolls that were manufactured by them.

Okay I got off on a bit of a rant. In the end if this artist bitch was actually a doll owner and used her own doll pictures for doing her artwork she wouldn't be in this mess... I really do agree with some that I love how people think any picture you find on the internet is allowed use as stock. Life's a bitch and this chick is probably gonna end up learning that very quickly.

Dude last night I had a crazy dolly nightmare.... I dreamed that for some reason that I had gotten my Jdelf and instead of being strung it was all jointed like a dollfie or obitsu doll and had these plasticy underwears around the mid section. And it had odd mechanisms on it that were super unsightly and would have to be covered with clothing. Don't ask me why I dreamed this, obviously from the sight pics they are perfectly normal dolls, so it was a strange dream, but it kinda weirded me out...

Oh and Luts finally posted the Jdelf price. $350! A little less than I expected so that's great, but then again I totally wasn't remembering that they're supposed to be discounted, so for sure when the price goes to normal they'll be higher. I'm still waiting to see the price on the fullset. I've always really liked those boots that he's wearing which are old discontinued delf boots, but the page says he will come with those boots if purchased as a full set... I could do with the gloves too and that wig is a perfect Hoshi wig. Hrmm.... I'm seriously debating if I wanna go ahead and get him default faced up. I'm already going to have to wait longer becuase I'm getting the event head faced up and the default is very Hoshi already....I guess we'll see how far my money can take me. He releases next week! ^_^