and a couple more toys :)

In their packets.

And in their proper place

Toy Sales: I had a tiny accident

So the toy sales are on … and I had a really bad week last week. So well this seemed like a good idea … and I gotta say it looks like a good idea too but well, do they need it?? Um prolly not.

Effie gives the pool a turn.

Honey waits for her go.

You can get a little glimpse of how perfect the boards ate in this shot.

And a couplr of pics of the pool.

I gotta say, when I saw it at sale time last year (yep before I started pining for it LOL) I was thinking it’d be great for swimming, we might try that one in summer!!

(Yey for camera’s being back from repair!!)

Dragon top

I really struggled with this one which is so weird as really it’s such an easy pattern generally, it just goes together real weird. I’ve made a few of this one trying to get it right. I don’t know if I’d ever ‘nail’ this pattern so I’m settling for ‘good enough’.

Rhy was still a little miffed with me for making her model bikinis while it was raining so I bought her off by letting her have this necklace. LOL

(she still refused to stand though. The pics are craptastic as I’m holding her leg lol)

The top is based on this one [url=http://www.eluts.com/frontstore/Item/item_zoom.asp?item_num=1849&catalog_num=0&mart_id=lutsdoll&level=yes&mother_catalog_num=127]that Luts made at some point[/url].

Another striped swimsuit.

High Chair Cover 2

If you’ve been round a while you’ll know I’ve done one of these before.

It aparently died recently but I’d lost the pattern so I couldn’t make another. And it turned out my sister threw out the one I made, so I couldn’t use it as a pattern.

I’m quite worried about it. Mum made me a new pattern from the chair itself, but I thought it too thing and added 10cms to the width.

Now that it’s finished I went to hang it on the outdoor chair like I did the other. I remember the other was snug, but this one still wouldn’t go on.

Hopefully it will fit.

(Purple fabric provided by my sister.)

Tent

Ok so this one is insane. It went out to Siduri also for Xara to use in the field. I wanted it to look like it had been dragged half way round the globe. Theres a lot of pics so I’ll keep the commentary down

Most of these are the staining pics, the final few are the finished pics.

Freya Lindan, Tomb Raider

I’ve been finishing up a bunch of gifts and things adding them as they arrive etc.

Here’s Freya in an item that arrived yesterday, some gun holsters. The little holsters that came with the guns were cute, but I’d bought 2 as a gift and they were both right handed, so I needed to make a new set, so Freya had a turn of playing Lara Croft!

I’m pretty sure that’s some kind of ancient ruin in the background not a kids play fort.

And yeah I realise how strange it really was to swap her down to the SB body for this shoot.

sol

I made this suit for a friend, when thinking of a name for it, all my other suits are named after henenly bodies. It occured to me, that given the fabric is brighter than the sun, the suit should be named after the sun

I loved the reflection on the table top so much I got a shot of that too!

This may well be Freya’s last shoot on the LB body.

Rhyannon to the Human

While I am proud of you Human, for working so hard the last few weeks to make it up to those you ‘dropped the ball’ on the other year … and this outfit is cute.

Why did you have to finish it and want pics now, when it’s so COLD, last week was much more pleasent!

And if it had to be NOW why not take pics indoor!!

Yesterday, Dhion and a little friend went for a walk …

They walked, and sat and talked …

and visited some friends …

and when his little legs got too tired,

they went home.

How to drop several dress sizes in an hour (staring Savonah)

Hi Everyone,

Today I want to take you through the easy tried and true steps to lose weight safely.

Step 1: This is your preparation stage, I started on this one when I first occurred to the human. When I told her what I wanted to be. If you’re already established this might be trickier, but just get your human and put into their mind what you want to look like. Then comes the waiting. For me it took 5 years, but for you it might be a lot faster, it depends on how quick your Human is.

Eventually a box will arrive and you’ll know it worked.

Step 2: Open the box. For this you’ll need some scissors (the human leant me some nail scissors as they were more my size than her normal ones).

And a lot of force. These boxes can be tough.

Step 3: Once you get the box open you’ll want to toss the invoice, sometimes they can distress the human.

Then get everything out.

Step 4: Carefully unwrap all the bits. Make sure you’ve got everything and sort them so it’ll be easier for you later.

Sometimes they come assembled … you’ll want to skip down to step 7 if that’s the case.

Step 5: With this particular body you’ll need to get the Human to glue some parts. I’d do it myself but I know how that stuff bonds to resin. As it was the human got it all over her fingers, but there was no damage to her blushing or anything so it was ok.

Step 6: Here’s where you can get back involved. The instructions said to use the metal string pull method of putting the body together, but we’ve always used the ribbon method, as we have plenty of ribbon. This body is a little different to our others, so we’re thinking it’s time we invested in a metal pull thingy.

But with the ribbon method you loop the ribbon around the elastic and through the (in this case arm) pieces get a good grip and pull. The human says sometimes feet are useful as you often need more than 2 hands, but I did ok.

We followed a combination of the manufacturers instructions and knowledge from experience to put it together.

Step 7: Ouila a finished body. You have to stop helping now and let the human behead and dress your new bod. But take a moment to admire your handy work first.

And then your done, and can enjoy your new body!

Kisses,

Savonah

Baby’s got blue eyes.

I’m looking at finally getting some eyes for Jordan. All the Campbell’s will have eyes in grey type shades.

But I had these (their actually stock so I probably shouldn’t mess with them), and they match her dress, not that you can see that.

Anyway here she is:

She didn’t want to pose without her best friend Lamby.

wolf

This is what I’m working on this week:

I sat down to draw him this morning. … Given I don’t consider myself an able bodied drawer … well clearly my familiarity with dogs works for me on this one.

The body is little off, because my figure model was rolling in my lap saying ‘love me, love me’. I’ll get the other one to sit for me later. LOL

Sorry about the image, I won’t have the scanner online til after the new computer is set up.

Last Days of Summer

Although we’re well into Autumn here Summer came back for a going away party this week. Rhyannon has been out enjoying the sun.

I snuck out and got a pic or two before she decided to acknowledge me.

She almost seems to be smiling for once.

Rhy: Human, I thought you said I had the morning off?

After some cajoling she conceeded to pose for me, even though I was interupting what had been a pleasent moment.

She even put the cardi on for me, even though it was so warm outside.

But she got bored of me very quickly and went back inside.

(This is the ‘test cardi’ for So’s new outfit, I finished off the top to go with today.)

McClelland Gallery

Yesterday a friend and I wandered down to the McClelland Gallery in Langwarrin to see if it was appropriately doll friendly for a possible meet up. It had been a long time since I was last there, about 15 years I think, and she’d never been before.

We had a wonderful time and took a bunch of pics, but not nearly enough to capture what the place was like.

But lets start at the start.

There were there of these moving sculptures in the park. They were recent additions and don’t appear on the map so I’m not sure if they are permanent instillations or not. This particular one was located near the car park. The top was made up of 3 segments that when in line formed a circle, but as you see from the pics they didn’t do that often, or for long. It also has a joint in the pole near the top so it could turn into the wind better. The mechanism is purely ball bearings and is operated by the wind, their movements were so graceful.

Here are Rhyannon and Fir sitting on a sculpture, if the map is to be believed it’s a statue called Jabaroo, but I think perhaps this is another that wasn’t on the map as I don’t remember reading that on the sign. But maybe

I was particularly excited to meet Fir as she’s the sculpt I’d like to have as Young Rhyannon if I ever get younger selves.

Freya was impressed by the large naked man, Peter Schipperheyn’s Thus Spake (I’ll have another pic of him later). We were concerned at first that his proportions were off. His legs and hips seemed far larger than his torso, but from our vantage point from lunch he looked a lot more normal, so perhaps he’s to be viewed from a distance. (Though Frey seemed keen to get up close.)

Fir sitting on a piece that I think was called Shore Column by Davis Wilson, if it’s not that piece it was another in the series

Several of the pieces at the gallery were designed to be interacted with. This piece was 4 large pieces of wire punched with holes, 2 green, 2 red set out to form 2 circles the green circle inside the red. From the outside they were quite uninteresting…

but once you walked inside the green and red holes formed interesting patterns and distorted the landscape surrounding them.

This piece titled Paesaggio Cariatide (Landscape Caryatide) by Norma Redpath is a large tree like sculpture, small base with an outwards reaching upper section. I didn’t get a pic of the overall structure, but the stairs at one side were perfect for sitting.

One can see in this picture how Rhyannon was growing pissy at me for taking her out on a cold day with no shoes and a flyaway wig. (want to see that closer? here ya go:)

She sulked most of the day. LOL – Bad Dolly Mummy

Freya tried to hide from me in this little cave,

but I found her

This piece was called Torus -Hidden and revealed by Adrian Page.
Now I love all art that’s round and shiny, but this had the added fun of sequences of numbers punched into the outside. I felt if one wrote them down and stared at them long enough one could break the code and it would say something.

This piece we were having too much fun playing with to take in the name, it may have been Port by Clive Murray-White. That seems to fit.
Anyway while I was arranging dolls at this end, Mawgy wandered around the back and took these two artistic shots.
Freya from behind.
and the Ever Glowing Fir from behind.
Fir looks almost see through!

This piece might have been Fourth Stairway by Ian McKay, but that doesn’t seem right to me. In any case it reminded us both of a giant Skull. Sadly it ate our dolls:

I’m pretty sure Homespace by Darren Davison was both Mawgy’s and my favourite piece. The outside was a basic silver hut. It looked so utilitarian that at first I wasn’t sire if it was a piece or a shed. But it was too shiny for a shed so we wandered over. I announced I was going inside even before I saw the sign inviting us to enter. The first ‘corridor’ was ok, lit as it was from the outside, but I turned the corner to be confronted with a wall of black. I could sense where the walls were, but I’d be lying if I said I could see them. I hesitated and considered turning back, not knowing how well they maintain their pieces. Could there be cobwebs? Could there be something unpleasant or smelly in there that would be upsetting? But I went on. At the second corner something frightening and wonderful happened. I was walking along looking at my feet watching where I stepped, when suddenly it looked like the floor dropped away. This shocked me a moment and I paused again, then carefully I reached out my foot and put it on the reflective floor.

It was a strange moment, looking down into the abyss of the missing floor, and seeing stars.

For stars there were, everywhere.

In the roof there were all these tiny holes cat, in various sizes and arrangements looking like constellations (yet we couldn’t recognise any). So above us there were stars, and below also.

(yeah I know the floor pic didn’t work well.)
It was magical.
We lingered there a little while.

In the woods by homespace was a do not touch sculpture (Pollinator phenotype by Simeon Nelson) … Freya was very very bad.

But she told me she wasn’t really touching it, merely flying over it.

I didn’t believe her.
I could see why it was do not touch, and we shouldn’t have, a section had been broken off at some stage and the paint had several rubs. Freya didn’t seem to add to the damage …. hopefully

This is taken from the inside of Spillwater (Matthew Cox and Darren Davison). The outside looked like a rainwater tank that had pitched sideways. Inside as a little window with distorted glass that looked out over the pond.
Fir preferred looking in:

see she glows!

These were interesting. The piece isn’t listed on the map so I can’t tell you it’s name. But I’m sure you’ll agree it’s quite morbid yet fascinating.

This piece was quite interesting given the setting. In the middle of the trees was some concrete and asphalt shapes with a signpost (no standing) and this rubbish bin. This piece I remember was titled Urban Real but it isn’t on the map so I cant tell you the artist.

While I was lining up for a second closer pic Frey got sick of waiting so dived head first out of the bin, splat into the dirt, she looked so funny with her legs and arms splayed out.

She was ok.

Just round the corner from There was White Ape by Lisa Roet. Freya decided to say hello even though she was still annoyed at me for not catching her.

This was definitely a fave of mine … it doesn’t seem to ne named on the map either. But ot was 3 poles suspending all these rocks by wires off the ground in a circle.




They reminded Mawgy of planetary rings. They were very cool.

Then there was Tarax Play Sculpture by Peter Corlett. It was a whole lot of white bubbles. Some were open. As you can see the inside was graffitied, I’d almost say that was part of the artist vision.



Fir checking out the handprints.

Inside the bubbled the wind and car noises echoed and reverberated making a sound that reminded Mawgy and I of didgeridoos.

The Micky isn’t on the map so I can’t tell you who it was by, but it’s clearly a political commentary. poor Micky is being tortured on a steel platform that’s wrapped in barbed wire bringing together several pop culture, religious and political icons to form a statement of belief.

As we were leaving the sun broke free of the clouds and the lake was all a sparkle. The camera didn’t quite capture it.

In this pic you see Snuffle by Sebastian De Mauro (the green astroturf pieces) the propeller was another moving piece I don’t have the name of, and Island Sculpture by Inge King on the island, you can’t really see the ones behind but another moving one was back there.

And I got another shot of Thus Spake, the naked guy.

And his friend the his sister Torso Femminile.

She was stunning I was really impressed with her. Only one side of the marble was carved, and yet so beautifully, and in terms of scale, you can just see the sky peeking over the top of the roof at the left. She was a storey tall.

We had a great day and will certainly be going back dragging as many as we can with us