Wowie Zowie, I'm Back! With a Very Late (But Great!) Xmas Post!

Wow! Hello peeps! Let's see if I can remember how to use this blog thingy! It sure has been a while!

So, I've come to the end of my latest set design job, sort of. I'm on a mini hiatus for a few days, before I start up again on a couple of things-- including more of that pilot! But, more on that in the next post. I think I slept for about 12 hours yesterday, which is kind of insane, but I feel (and look) a little more human now.  It's sad how long it's been since I've worn clothes that aren't covered in paint and glue, lol.

Aaaaaaanyway.  I'll have a few pictures of the sets to show soon, and actually a ton of other posts planned too. I'm going to do my best to blog more this year, since otherwise, my brain seems to fill up too much, and overflow! Not pretty.  :P

Aaaaaanyway. No, really this time.

The first post back is going to be a very belated Christmas post, showing you all the incredible goodies I got from my extremely sweet and patient bestie, Erica, back in December. (You know, back when Christmas was? How did a whole month race by so fast??)

I think I told you guys that I accidentally deleted the first pics I took, (idiot)  but luckily, we didn't take the Christmas decorations down until just a couple of days ago (yes, I realize that's crazy) so I got to snap some pics in front of the tree to give it that Christmassy vibe! I just didn't get to take another pic of them wrapped, but they looked very pretty. :) So, lets just climb into out mental DeLoreans and crank it back to Christmas 2011. Falalalalalalalala!

 Ta-Da!

 Yay! Look at my haul!

Since this Christmas was a little on the rough side, all this fantasticness really made it so much better. :)

Let's take a closer look, huh? And let's start with the card, which totally rules.

Merrit and Mallory decorating for Christmas. :) How cute are they? Freakin adorable! Seriously, it's just too much. This thing is staying up in my office year round. Next year, I'm totally doing a doll Christmas card, if I have to shoot it in June, damnit!

Back to the presents! I can't pick a favorite, because I just can't, but I always love adding more CorsetKitten heads to my collection, and now I have 2 new ones! (Naturally, I put them on bodies right away, at least temporary ones.)

So, I thought Erica did a blog post on this gal when she painted/flocked her, but I couldn't find it, so maybe I'm wrong. (That does happen every now and then.)  She's just freakin goegoues, and her features are so strong she can totally pull off the barely there hair. Which rules. 

I put her on an obitsu body, one of  3  I bought back in November(?) They were kinda busted up, but super cheap. This body came with no feet, but you can't tell in this pic. I've since fixed that, though, so that's another post coming up. :) 

I think the outfit kind of suits her, a little flannel, a little frilly. But also, my clothing cupboard is just about bare! (But, I'm working on that too!) Still batting around names for her, nothing's settled in quite yet. But, she's currently hanging with the favorites club on my desk, so she'll start chiming in soon enough. :) She's also holding some scrumptious peanut butter bars. More on those later.

Lalalala! I've wanted a Modern Circle Melody for a couple of years. But to be honest, I was mostly drawn to her hair and just the hip Modern Circle story line, lol. I'm actually a huge fan of the Twist 'n Turn head sculpt, but globbing it up all Midge-like, with crazy face blue bug eyes and big fat freckles... not so much. (I know, I know, I'm a terrible person, and totally anti-feminist for not liking Barbie's ugly friend better than I like her, but whatever.) Here's original Modern Circle Melody:

Before

Just really super-sweet-cartoonish, not my style. However, give me an MC Melody with the pretty head sculpt and the blue hair, but repainted with heavy lids and quirky eyebrows, so she looks like a sort of haughty stoner chick... um, yes please!

After

Super Rad. :) :) You can see her body doesn't watch the face too well, so I'll have to dig up a body soon to remedy that, but it's not terrible terrible, so it's okay for a little while. While I don't call dolls by their box names too often, I've been calling her Mel, and she doesn't seem to mind, so she might be an exception.

I guess Blaine & Erin would be exceptions to that rule, too. 

And look how well they turned out, lol. ;)

So, yay! 2 new CK repaints! That makes 5, altogether. I'm a lucky girl. :) One chick is still a head without a body, (Can someone please step it up and make some skin tones beyond mildly tan!?!?) but as soon as I find (or more likely paint) one, I think it will be family photo time!

Let's see more stuff! Okay, moving on to the biggest surprise of the package-- a quilt! Or, to quote myself when I opened it, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, ohmygod-ohmygod, I quiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllt!!!!! Or something like that. ;)

So, here's Mel modeling for scale. (She really should be covering up with it. Shorts? Really?) 

Not only is it super gorgeous, it's super detailed. I mean, suuuuuper detailed. I'm in awe of people who can sew to begin with, but sewing on a scale this teeny tiny is mind boggling. I kinda sorta think Erica is putting us all one and is making her dolls do all this work, because I can't wrap my head around human fingers doing the tiny work she does. But, for now, we'll just go with the story that she did it herself. ;) Take a closer look at the teeeeeny tiny slices (um, yes, sure, that's a real quilting term) of fabric she sewed together to make this:

Insane, right? Not to mention gorgeous. Sorry the pictures aren't super sharp, I had the lights down to photograph the tree better, and didn't even think about blasting them for these shots. But, no worries. You'll see this again, lol.

Next! (yep, there's more!)

Since I don't quilt, or paint, I can't guess which of these took longer to create, but they're equally gorgeous. Handpainted, on a handcrafted canvas, if you can believe that. If you looked closely, you can see a painting in the background of her Christmas card, too.  Erica's getting her art on these days, and I'm glad to be on her Christmas list!

The colors are gorgeous, and I love that it's called Freedom of the Female. (Hopefully representative of the year to come, since I know a few females yearning for some freedom!) Don't worry, I'll take more/better pics once I hang it. I'm already planning a room around it in my head. I've been dying to do something with purple. 

Next up, more baked goods! (I am getting fat just by looking at these things.)

Two kinds of chocolate cupcakes and peanut butter bars. These are why I haven't used my stash of polymer clay to make anything besides bongs, lol. The textures are insane. The swirls in the frosting, that like soft, creamy sort of peanut butter filling-- your mouth knows exactly what these taste like, and it's the textures that really make these rock at a level above rement. I'm not saying rement isn't rad, but it's not this. (Did I mention the cupcakes have foil wrappers? Yeah.

Hey! Next is something non doll related, if you can dig it. No really. We doll nerds do have other interests, lol. One of mine is jewelry. And look what I got!!!

Yummy delicious vintage pendant. Ooooooh! I'll be finding a better chain for it, but this works for now. Almost forgot to take a picture, since I was wearing it. Just try to take it off my neck. I dare ya. Looooooove!

And! Rounding out the package, (as though it needed more rounding) my new stash of teeny beads! Yay!

People, this is the year my dolls finally get clothes and jewelry. You heard it here, and I'm sticking to it. (Since this is looking to be the year of being flat ass broke, since all our money is going into the moving fund, it's a great year to pull out all the stops creatively, lol!) 

So, yay! Super rad package, right? A definite big bonus to my Christmas! Thank you bunches and bunches, Erica!

I'll be back next week with a new post.

Hope your weekend rocks!