the parade, and everything else has been put on hold this week as i try to finish up last minute stuff to open up my new etsy store. after months of research, delays and procrastination i am committed to getting it open by next friday at the latest.
after spending the summer crocheting pukifee dresses from assorted cotton sewing thread, i sorted them by color and washed and blocked them. once they dry i will thread a ribbon around the middle, then i need to make petticoats to go with them.
wovenflame and the realpukis started a parade on doa which has grown and looks to keep growing (or so we hope)
it has spread to a flikr group called dolls on parade and will be a gallery thread on doa as well, with all sizes a types of bjds joining in.
heres what happened today when the mid sized kids got involved….
tiera took it upon herself to announce to the world that there was going to be a parade
becca decided to be a tightrope walker and insisted that digory pull her in the wagon
ellyce is just back from the spa and fancies herself a trick rider. her steed being a typical donkey, was not terribly cooperative.
tiera and eilidh had a bit of a squabble when eilidh decided that she was a lion tamer and was going to tame tiera
tiera – no i won’t be your lion, and you CERTAINLY are not going hit me with a whip!
eilidh – FINE! i’ll pull this “lion” instead.
to be continued
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
i finally managed to join in on an adoption meme going round on flickr. i got tagged just before we went on holidays but since there were people still doing it, i figured better late than never. basically it works like this. you take a group picture of your dolls or make a collage of them, whichever works better (due to the widely disparate size of mine i figured the collage was a better bet) then people look at the dolls and decide which of them they would like to adopt if they could pick one without changing anything, and vote for their choice in the comments section. each person that joins in is then “tagged” to do the same with their crew.
so this isn’t all my dolls, since several of them are undergoing revision right now and are in pieces but they are the ones available for photos
top row left to right: smidge, mr tumnus, beezie, amberglas
2nd row: noah, skylar, crystalorn, kiri,
3rd row:eilidh, tiera, cailyn, quinn
bottom row :becca, ananda, shaelyn, ember
who would you pick if you could take one just as they are?
mr tumnus is a gentle soul who loves to quietly explore his world, preferring nature to the busyness of city life. but after all if you were only 4 inches tall wouldn’t you prefer gardens too, even wild ones?
red somehow cries out “look at me!” no matter how small the object
amberglas and crystalorn had been playing a bit too hard and had had scratches and chips on their faces. so when skylar arrived and needed to go to the spa, they decided to make a girls day of it and get “prettified” with her. there was a lot of giggling involved and it took a lot longer to do three squirmy little girls, but it did keep skylar from being scared and amber and crystal were very happy with the results
i was happy that they retained their unique “selves” through the transformation
if at first you don’t succeed, sky diving probably isn’t the sport for you… 😉
Continue reading amber and crystal also return from the spa »
we just got back from holidays and here is the first picture of skylar/pio. i’ll get more up when i get more edited but i have over 500 pictures to go through! this will be her hair color, but she has blue/green eyes coming to match her big sister ananda, and apparently i went overly subtle on the freckles for this last bunch of faceups because they are almost impossible to photograph. of course it is threatening to rain again today so i have time to decide if i want to enhance them. anyway meet skylar…
have no fear of perfection- you’ll never reach it. salvadore dali
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis
ananda and the little ones are away this week to see if the can get more pictures like this to post