temporary fixes

I always kind of marvel at the number of things I seem to have neglected to mention on here. A lot of things from last year, really. I was not in the best place emotionally and sometimes I just didn't feel like talking about stuff as it happened I guess.

But I'm feeling chatty again so have some information on something I neglected to talk about before.

Sometime last year (I cannot for the life of me remember exactly when) I acquired a Blossom Doll Molly head in a trade (at least I'm fairly certain it was a trade? I could be mis-remembering) and I briefly tried to put it on my white skin Impldoll body but I didn't like the proportions so much and I also had already made clothes for that body that I didn't feel suited the head. So I put the original head back on that body (which is also too large for it) and Molly ended up in the head cabinet.

I spent most of the pursuing months on and off looking for a cheap body for the head. I strongly considered one from Mirodoll because they're just so darned affordable, but ultimately I decided the amount of work I'd have to put into it to make it work the way I wanted it to would not be worth it.

Then April Story had their closing sale and I was very very tempted because I felt like their bodies were far more elegant and well sculpted and the price was really good. But ultimately I decided to be financially responsible and I passed on it.

Fast forward to about a month ago. I had enough spare money to afford something relatively inexpensive (as I had not yet gathered the motivation to start selling things) so I put up a WTB thread and set a maximum I was willing to pay and within a day three people had gotten back to me. One of the three had an April Story body up for offer and I jumped on that offer.

Because of the seller's class schedule they were not able to ship until last week, and yesterday the body arrived.

Sadly, it is still too small for the head but it will do for now. Initially it really bothered me but it doesn't so much now.

I couldn't find a wig I liked on the head until I tried on Aura's old fiber wig. I was about to get set up the boiling water to make it lay flat again (because I'd boiled the back to make it capable of being in a high ponytail) but then I got this idea to try to style it.

I initially wanted some sort of bun, but I was having a great deal of difficulty getting it to stay in place as the hair was just a little bit too short to wrap around itself enough.

So I decided to try a braid. But the high braid look wasn't working quite as well as it did in my head, so I ended up wrapping the braid into a sort of bun type deal and holding it in place with toothpicks. But then she had hair still hanging down in the back (cuz that was part of how Aura's hair was styled) and too much visible wig cap, so I was messing with ways to pull the rest of the hair back and ended up doing yet another braid along the base of her neck. It looked fairly ridiculous so I looped it around and pinned it onto the braid bun and it still looks fairly ridiculous but oh well. It'll do for now!

Have some pictures.

 I could not get the side shot to come out clearly for some reason.

And here she is from the front. There are an absurd amount of flyaways because the wig was boiled to lay in a very specific position. At some point I may boil it again in its current position to calm that down, but for now it doesn't bother me much.

 My other temporary fix was to give little Sollux one of Id's spare shirts that he never uses.

This is a truly horrendous picture but for some reason he would not cooperate. The shirt is ridiculously out of character for him but at least he's not half naked like he was before. I need to make so many clothes and I'm having such a hard time motivating myself to sew. I suppose I could do something crazy like buy clothes but finding the right sorts of things is so hard...

Lyse Photos

Okay so here are the promised pictures of my Cerisedolls Lyse! Yesterday it was very dark and rainy and I could not get anything that looked even half good enough to be photoshopped into something other than an abomination.

Today the lighting is better so I was able to use photoshop to make something SLIGHTLY less abominable. When I get more money I'm getting something better than a point an shoot that might as well be "baby's first camera". It's the worst. XD

I am adding a cut since there will be some NSFW pics. I tried to get some of her clothed but since she wears an enormous shirt half the time (because I've been too lazy to sew. Also I don't know what I want her to wear yet) it hides her figure and makes her arms look awkward.

selling things

I've been considering selling some things for a while but I get unreasonably attached even to things I don't plan to use.

I recently pulled out the sleeping Vivien head I modded and decided I liked it a lot better than I originally thought. Probably even better than the default head. I am very reluctant to sell either (despite having no need for TWO Vivien heads) because I know it is very unlikely that I will ever get a chance to own this head again.

After agonizing over it for a few days I put the default Vivien head up for sale on DoA. I love the head and it works really well for the character, arguably better than the one I modded, but I just don't feel that... pull. There's no sense of attachment. But there is with the one I modded, so I've decided I'm going to keep that one.

I also decided I'm really never going to make use of my Sist Bully face again or the Impldoll Charles head that came with the body I got for my L-bi.

And after holding onto it for a bazillion years after I wasn't using it anymore, I also listed my Latidoll Chaim head. This is another one I know I will never get back if I let it go and I'm not sure if anyone will even be interested in it so many years after its release but it's just sitting around doing nothing in the head cabinet so I might as well see if someone else wants it.

I did not list my Soom Sphaler even though I probably should have. I completely forgot I even had the head (which is never a good sign) but I'm going to give it more time to think about whether or not I want to pursue the project I had in mind for the head.

In other news, some other sales went through and I was able to gather enough funds to acquire a secondhand Lillycat/Cerisedolls Lyse. She'd been on my wishlist for a while and even when I wasn't sure when/if I would ever find time and motivation for the hobby again, I still wanted her.

She's in cream skin instead of caramel like I originally wanted, but she's absolutely lovely and I'm completely smitten. I don't own anything that fits her so she's been sitting around in a massively oversized plaid shirt I got at one point when my friend was considering making a Marshall Lee doll.

Her posing is FANTASTIC and so natural. She makes almost everyone else look so stiff and lifeless by comparison.

I will have to try to get pictures later! For now I must be off to work!