Requiem Art

Ok, my power supply is still out for repairs, which means no pictures until it returns. This works well with this story, because there are no pictures of it.

So. Wanna hear the sad, sad (and embarrassing) tale? Read more »

My computer’s power supply seems to be failing, so I am RMA’ing it. I expect it’ll be 7-10 days or so before I get it back.

…I swear, my computer has spent more time being repaired than actually working. And I haven’t even had it a year!

Alice du Jardin:

That’s right! Another f*cking Alice. Read more »

From the Groove blog via Google translator:

Regeneration series 2012 start new project!
“Regeneration series (reprint)” Release of

Since its launch Pullip first of July 2003, Pullip series
Now has grown to more than 400 titles.
This is what growth there is in love with Pullip Kudasaru support of our series solely,
We are grateful to. Thank you very much.

In nearly 10 years of history, such as email and the following letter has been received from our fans,
Recently, a growing number that we dominated. We introduce some of them.

<1 e-mail submitted from users like>
“Could be seven or eight years ago became interested in the Pullip.
At the time I was a junior I did not want to buy a Pullip.
I started working, you could afford a little, get a product that is not historical.
Most of those auctions are expensive but I see they have ”
“From about three years ago, but now Pullip fans can get the product past.
Have them or can not reproduction? ”

And so on

E-mail you ※, We will be writing a letter excerpt, please understand we introduced

Among the over 400 titles are also a variety of situations at the time of sale,
From our fans, “the phantom” referred to by phrases like, some things very hard to get.
Until now we, reproduction was not made ​​any Pullip series.
However, these voices from people asked, seriously confronted,
What results can not be considered to meet,
From March 2012, some models,
“Regeneration series (reprint)” to be released in the form of we.

“Regeneration series (reprint)” is not reproduced “re-time items of products fine” is.
As of Pullip body has evolved, while making the best of the original
We have products that match today.
Specifically, in speaking Pullip, even with the 1st original body,
“Regeneration series (reprint)”, the body will adopt the current 4th,
With its well designed, some, re-use our fine.
Quantity for sale is limited to top 500 will be the world’s
Package for, “Regeneration series (reprint)” and special packages.

Will be released in late March 2012.
First of Regeneration series
Pullip / Fantastic Alice (the original, released July 2004)
Pullip / Fanatika (The original, released in January 2005)

Will be released late April 2012
Regeneration series second phase
Pullip / Moon (original) Pullip first model launched in May 2003!
Anne Pullip / (original, released in April 2004)

Regeneration series after the third bullet, we will be announced

This is similar to something that happened in the Blythe community, and I’m not especially happy with it, either. Read more »

First topic request!  I thought I had already done this, but turns out nope.  I just did it on flickr… ahahahaha.

While I have chronicled the various extreme customization projects I’ve done, I am not as good at chronicling the mundane.  Sand a face off, slap some paint on there, add eyes… done!   Eventually.  Several hours (or days) later.  And after much swearing and occasionally bleeding.  But that’s the gist.  There are MANY pictures from this series, so if you want to see the full set, go here.

Step 1: Decide what I want to do.  Lots of people do this different ways.  Some people sketch out their ideas.  I don’t usually need to sketch things out, but sometimes I do (like when I did Puddles, after my first failed attempt at making a ‘cute’ clown) and when I do, it’s usually nothing flashy, just some basic MS paint type stuff to help me decide what I want to do. Read more »

I heard once that all comedians fall into two categories: ones who think they are much funnier than they actually are and ones who think they are not nearly as funny as they are.

I mention this because I’m not especially talkative, especially online.  If I have something useful to add, I will.  If I don’t think I have anything to say that is either a) useful or b) interesting I tend to spare my fingers the typing and everyone else’s eyes the reading.  If I were a comedian, I would definitely be one of those “Don’t think I’m nearly as funny as I am” people.

I’m sure there are dozens of topics I could talk about that people would find interesting, just as there are dozens of topics I could talk abut that I don’t generally because I think most people would find it terribly boring.  Like my fascination with nail polish.  See?  I bet your eyes are already glazing over.

(suffer the sparkles!)

And yet there are blogs on nailpolish.  I’ve visited them.  To me, they are interesting because they are things I don’t already know.  However, this is not a website about nailpolish, it’s a website about customizing.  Therefore, to most people reading this, the nailpolish is not so interesting.

See the problem? I don’t blog for myself, because I already know everything I put in the articles and tutorials.  To me, most of the things I could write about are less interesting than reading an article on how to wet-marble nailpolish, because I don’t know how to do that and I already figured out how to do whatever it is I would be blogging about.

What’s the point of all this?  Feedback.  Specifically, if you all want to see more posts in the future, tell me what you want to see more of. Pictures of customs?  Random dissertations of the evolution of the pullip bust line?  The story of the time I accidentally shrunk a doll head?  Leave a comment here (or in whatever blogpost is most recent if that’s easier)or shoot me an email.

I found the Monster High Skull Shores first wave (as in, everyone but Draculaura) and it has just about everyone who wasn’t released in a swimsuit for Gloom Beach, plus Gil, Lagoona’s boyfriend. Figured It’s been a while since I did a MH review, so I’d put another one together
Read more »

There is a pretty long list of dolls that need a bit of work in All My Pullips. Ash and some other dolls just need some maintenance to maintain their looks and some dolls I get itchy customizing fingers when I look at and want to do over.

OH NO! Yes, I hear the protests. I understand. Mind you, I’m not planning huge changes, mostly here and there I look at a doll and go “since I figured out how to do ______, I could do that so much better now…”

The first doll on this list is one of my first customs, Saturn. She was made from an Arietta, and I kind of liked her lips so I kept them, but over time they started to annoy me. I also did her faceup before I found her perfect wig, and I always thought her eyebrows could be a little lighter and maybe a touch more purple to go with her wig. Small things, mostly.

“Oh no you don’t…” Read more »

I’ve decided to migrate over to Etsy from Ebay. Most of my auctions generally had BINs and Etsy doesn’t seem to have the same problem with people buying things and never paying that I’ve had with Ebay since sellers stopped being able to leave feedback.

I haven’t made a banner yet, because I’m really no good at that kind of thing, but the following items can now be found in my Etsy Shop:

Eventually I’ll get some pullips up there, but so far I’m testing the waters with some of my Monster High experiments. Don’t worry, I’m not leaving Pullips!

To celebrate the new shop opening and give a discount to website visitors, use the coupon code NEWSHOPSPECIAL for 20% off everything all month!

New England weather is a fickle bitch. It’s always been changeable, and having grown up in the area, having a 70 degree nice sunny day followed by a frigid 40 degree day (or vice versa) is pretty standard and doesn’t really bother me much. This past year though…WTF. By the end of last winter, the accumulated snow in my yard was just about level with the tops of my 6′ hedge and we had literally run out of places to put the snow from my driveway. This summer? Record breaking tornadoes, floods, and Hurricane Irene, which resulted in a 3-day power outage for me, and a lot longer for some other people. It’s a little extreme, even for New England.

For Halloween, we got a snowstorm that dropped 31″ of snow overnight in parts of Massachusetts, and, like Irene, caused massive power outages. I lost power Saturday, didn’t get it back until last night (Monday night). Unlike the Irene outages, it’s f*cking freezing out (literally) and no power=no thermostat=no heat even though we don’t have electric heat. The town cancelled Halloween. Yeah, yeah, kids can go trick or treating on friday, but it’s not the same. It’s not Halloween.

So… I had great plans for this past weekend. Was going to do Monster High customs saturday, then some All My Pullips Sunday, some photo shoots of Puddles who I got back (I made her owner an offer she couldn’t refuse) but um, guess not.

Anyway, here’s a picture of the one custom I did get to finish before I froze my ass off in the dark this past weekend and halloween:

TL;DR: I could really do with some of that global warming plz. Blizzards before November are not acceptable.