Fall Fun

I ended up having to take a day of this week for a doctor's visit, and I manage to make it outside to snap a few photos since the day was nice. I have a lovely graveyard right near my apartment, and I took St. Christopher there for some fall photos.

She's not yet painted, but I still wanted to dress her up. Since all of the clothes I made were modeled on this body, they fit perfectly.

I found that MSD shoes fit the Obitsu body very well, which is nice since I have a few pairs of nice ones in that size. I've also looked into getting a few more through Mimiwoo, along with some additional body parts (alternate hands, additional chest pieces, etc).

Omake! A few shots of the graveyard, as it looked really lovely.

The new (much improved) St. Christopher!

Doll Stuff and Nanowrimo

Still working on a catch as catch can type of posting schedule as I deal with the continued health issues, but I do have some updates for today!

As we head into the end of October I've been starting to prepare for National Writers Month, or Nanowrimo. I've written about this here before, but for anyone new it's essentially a challenge to write a novel (50,000 words) in the month of November. This will be my sixth year participating, and I'm actually looking to do something completely different this time.  Normally I work on Emmanuel's story as it needs editing, re-writing, and of course continuing. However, this time I've decided to write about St. Christopher instead. So I've been doing my basic prep which includes getting my storyline and character notes together. As I've been doing that I've been looking to the doll for inspiration, and I've come to realize that the RS Mi just isn't jiving with my concept for St. Christopher.

It's not that she's not a beautiful doll because she is, but I think she might be too beautiful? The more I've been working with her, the more I've realized that she is a little too perfect for this character. St. Christopher is supposed to be a little odd in a few different ways, and the stunning beauty of the RS Mi sculpt just doesn't quite express that. I'm certainly going to keep her, but I think I will be shifting things a bit.

One consideration is modding her, which I may look into if the other plans don't work out. I've seen quite a few modded Mis (almost all of them really), and they look lovely. That though is a pretty big undertaking, so I will have to see if I really want to do that and how my health is overall.

I did do some browsing for a possible head sculpt, but initially I didn't find anything through the normal channels. I would almost prefer having a male head sculpt for her on the female body, but I didn't even see any male sculpts that spoke to me. Then I decided to explore another alternative that I've looked at before, but never had a particular character for.

I ended up on Junky Spot's page looking through their Obitsu heads, as I do have an Obitsu body, and RS NS is a good match for WS Obitsu. So I could keep Mi whole, or I could put the vinyl head on the resin body. I purchased a Gretel head and a pair of pixie ears as St. Christopher is supposed to have some distant elf lineage, and they were pretty cute. Overall the head and ears weren't horribly expensive either, so if I find that it doesn't work for St. Christopher, it's not as if it would be a great deal of money. I've also been toying with the idea of an elf character, and/or a character named October or something Halloween related. So she could do that as well. I'm still not sure if I'm going to use the Obitsu body or the Mi one, though I'm leaning towards the former because it's spectacularly poseable. Although if so, I will need to get some new hands as hers are a bit stained. The package should be arriving tomorrow, so I will have in-person pictures soon. For now though, these are the stock pictures of the head and the ears.

Imaginarium Galleries Drabbit

While at the ren faire I wandered over to Imaginarium Galleries booth and tried on a few dragons. I actually have a wood baby from many years ago (from A Midsummer Knight's Dream), but the "drabbits" (dragon rabbits) are a slightly differently styled bunch. I tried on a big green fellow who had lovely hooves, but didn't quite fit right. Then I happened upon this fellow and fell in love.

He is one of their smaller sized shoulder drabbits, though I can't quite determine what "breed" he is. He has the typical head movements (up-and-down, side-to-side), and poseable wings. He will need some more breaking in, but that will come over time. 

He actually matched my ren faire outfit quite well, though that wasn't quite intentional. It was funny because after adopting him, I met another faire goer who had also purchased a drabbit that. We looked at each other and laughed because our drabbits matched our costumes (and personalities) so well. 

I decided to name my fellow Skellig because that was the first name that came to mind. He's not really related to the book of the same name, though I have a feeling I read that many years ago. He just seems like a skeleton-themed fellow. I like to think he was bred for a villain, but decided to turn to a life of good. Or mostly good, as he does seem to perturb my dog quite a bit. Here he is in his winged-glory. 

My October plans have been somewhat held up by my recent illness and resulting complications, but I plan on taking him out for some fun once I have him broken in a bit more.

Ren Faire!

I didn't get too much in the way of photos during the faire this year as it was pretty rainy/chilly and I was not feeling well. It was still a lot of fun to attend though, and I did get a few pictures of SC's outfit. She stole the show as people kept coming up and commenting on her. It was a lot of fun to bring her, even if my arms did get pretty tired. I dressed her as a sort of elf/wood nymph/forest creature.

Still alive!

I'm alive, just still working to get back to some semblance of normal. I am going to attempt to follow the regular posting schedule, but I'm not positive if I will be able to do it each week. Aside from the health issues, I'm also dealing with what I like to call "peripheral" internet. As in you can see it out of the corner of your eye, but if you try to outright do anything...forget it. However, I at least have some posts set up for this week, so enjoy!

To make this more than text, here is a snapshot of St. Christopher from before the ren faire.

Posting Delay

There's going to be a bit of a delay in posts for this week and probably next week as well as I'm dealing with some health issues. I hope to be back soon!