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.