Birthday Gifts Part 1

This year for my birthday (which is tomorrow!) I decided to purchase myself to little presents and they arrived this week! (For the second one check in on Wednesday!)

The first item I bought was an outfit from Build a Bear's "International Collectiwear" series. I had glimpsed it online in a few pictures, and decided to seek it out. I did manage to find a reasonably priced one on eBay, and ordered it last week. It took a bit of a roundabout route shipping wise, as it somehow detoured once it got close. However, it did arrive, and I put it on Spock as he's just a wee bit spoiled.

This is the "Kimono Boy" outfit complete with hakama pants (attached to the top as well) and geta. It's quite nicely made, and fits Spock very well.

Busy month, and missed anniversary.

November turned out to be a busier month than I expected.  There was some personal, family-related issues going on, and then my best friend in the world (the one I have tattooed on me) came home for a week.  So I was on friend standard time, which mean lots of fun and very little sleep.  But she has departed for her side of the country with the promise to return for Christmas, and we can get back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Something I did miss in this whirlwind of a month was Nowell's second anniversary with me.  He arrived about a month after Uriel on November 15th 2010, so he is officially two years old (with me at least) now!  So here are some fun facts about Nowell:

• He got his name from a Tori Amos song, "What Child, Nowell"
• He was my first real Volks doll. I did have a YoSD Suzuna before, but was really too afraid to do anything with her.
• He is the most well-traveled of all my dolls, even coming to Georgia with me once.
• He is my only white skinned doll, and probably will always be.  
• He was featured on the Volks blog once.
• He was part of a psychology presentation a classmate did for one of my school courses.

Right now he's sort of stealing a wig from Gabe, though I really like this combined with the eyes he stole from Uri.  Not sure if he'll keep both, but we'll see.  I really need to dig all his clothes out of storage so he can be as well-dressed as he should be. He and Uri have more outfits than I do, I swear.

Sewing!

Sometimes I get this sudden urge to sew.  Right now.  I always joke that it's a good thing I don't drink, because my addictive personality would probably be the death of me.  Given how much I've been sewing over the last couple of days...I would be dead from alcohol poisoning comparatively. ;)

I don't have any pictures just yet, but the dress is slowly winding its way to completion.  I decided I wanted to make something big and beautiful for Uri, as his second birthday (with me) is coming up.  Seeing as he is an October baby too, I decided on a Halloween-themed dress.  So far it's actually going even better than I thought it would.  I'm hand sewing it partially because I don't have my sewing machine set up at my new place, and partially because I like hand sewing.  That is until I started hemming the voluminous skirt...

My plan is to hopefully have it done this week, and take Uri out for some photo shoots.  I'd love to take some pictures in my favorite nearby cemetery weather-permitting.  I may also be heading out to Salem, Ma in the next couple of days, so if I'm quick about it I could even take some shots of him there.