Shopping Uri

Found blue eyes!

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A bigger picture of Uri's new face up. I also changed him into different eyes today, a pair of silicone green ones he came with. The yellow glass ones are lovely, but too small for his eye holes. I think in the future I'll be ordering him some new Ersa Flora eyes, probably in reflective blue. The devil should have blue eyes no?

New project and...oh Uri! *Updated*

Well I was going to spend tonight working on a new project, but then I took Uri out and found he'd chipped his whole face up. Everywhere! Sheesh, you'd think I don't pay enough attention to this boy already. So instead I'm going to do a new face up on him, hopefully fairly close to the last one. I really liked it too. :(


What I wanted to do tonight was work on something I'm calling Project Hell in a Hand Basket. I recently saw this adorable Lolita-inspired basket at the Sanrio store. It was a plain neutral colored basket with cute pink fabric lining the inside and making storage pockets. Very cute, but also insanely expensive for a basket ($60?!). So I've decided to make one.

I want to have a different mode of transport for Uri other than my arms or my purse, as neither is really good long term. Once I saw the basket I knew it would be perfect, but just not "Uri" enough. So I found a basket at one of my jobs and am reclaiming it as a doll carrier. It's a big (but not cumbersome) woven wood basket with two handles. Big enough to sit Uri down in comfortably, and have plenty of room for storage.

I'm going to line it in this lovely burgundy silk fabric I have, and give it all sorts of suitable details. I don't have a firm plan drawn up yet, but it's definitely going to have some black lace, and crown motifs. Kind of Princess Ai styled?

Alas that will have to wait until tomorrow as I'm off now for another coat of sealer on my obviously attention deficient boy. :P


*Edited to add...* It took me forever and I'm exhausted, but he is so beautiful. I decided to do something a little different after all, something similar to the face up he came with. I incorporated his original black eyes along with the same shading I've done for him in the past. No eyebrows as usual, though I apparently prefer Uri without them. I darkened the lip shading a bit more this time, so you can really see the design.

Collection shots!

So I'm in the midst of reorganizing my room again, but I really wanted to display some of my collection. It's all being displayed in my book case/doll house/manga corner etc. This isn't everyone or everything, but it's what I had easy access to and wanted to display.

The top has my Pullips, Luna P (Sailor Moon), my
BE Goth doll, and my original childhood ponies.

The next floor down is a "corral" of sorts for most of my ponies.
Not everyone, but there's a bunch there until I have another
better place to display them. Also there is my new Sailor Moon purse,
some of my SM dolls, and some of my manga.

More dolls! The resin/etc. floor here. You'll see Namu
Wolf made it down here as he's so big and snuggly
there's no room for him up with the others. Also here is my
childhood Woody doll as well as his large collector counterpart.

Finally more manga, more ponies, and some of my Sailor Moon
plush collection. They are ooold, and so well loved. :)

My new...err old...revisited obsession.

Vocaloid!

I'd explored it a bit before on YouTube after stumbling upon a version of "The Disappearance of Hastune Miku." That particular video has since been taken down (unfortunately, it was rather good), but then I found the "live" concert footage of Miku and the Kagamines performing.

Only in Japan would there be an expensive auditorium packed to the very brim with people to see a...hologram? A projection? I'm not really sure what you'd call Miku and her freinds, but they're not real either way. That just makes Japan my kind of place I guess. :P

Vocaloid was initially created as a music recording program where you could input melody and lyrics and the program would sing them in the chosen voice. As time went on they decided to create characters for each voice, resulting in Miku and her friends. They are considered vocal andriods (hence the name) and are immensely famous in Japan.

My favorites are Miku and Kagamine Len (the boy of the "twins"). I decided to purchase two nice nedriod plushies of those two because they are just so cute and large, perfect for hugging! Miku should be here by next week, though my favorite Len won't be here for a bit as he's coming from China. Ah well, I'll take what I can get. Uri won't seem to let me get any more dolls, but stuffies appear to be allowed. :P

Some Vocaloid links for you: World is Mine, Disappearance of Hatsune Miku, Melt, and Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder.

Moon crystal power, make up!

Be jealous, very jealous. :P

My demonic harem.

I know, not much of a harem with only one man, but he's really all I need. :P

Uri and I decided to make him some black velvet harem pants this evening (my super goth boy), and then take some photos for a friend of mine. She's become his other favorite person, and he wanted to do a little "sexy" shoot for her.