New Project!

Work is still taking over my life, as I imagine it will for the foreseeable future.  However I've been trying to do some doll work, and some writing as well.  I've been dying to expand upon Emmanuel's universe a bit more, and with Nanowrimo just around the corner, I thought I'd do a bit of brainstorming.  I do have the rough outline of the next two installments of his story in my head, but I occasionally like to pluck a character out here and there and write just about them.  That way I get a better idea of who they are and why they do what they do.

Sep (tentatively nicknamed September) is one such character.  He's part of the middle of Emmanuel's story more or less, though the more I write him the more I can see him continuing on.  I've also been dancing around getting another doll for a while, though not really a whole doll (famous last words of course...).  I've been peeking at the marketplace from time to time, and haven't really encountered what I was looking for.  Initially I was seeking a MSD sized head, but then I stumbled upon this SD guy on MoC's website.

He's actually a Doll Family A practice head, specifically put out for Dollism's modification contest.  But there's still available in a few different skin colors, and I grabbed a NS yellow in the hopes that he might fit either my Volks SD13 body that Ghost is on now, or my Delf body that Uri is on.  I don't love dolls sharing bodies overall, but if I decide I want to get him his own down the road I could.  I'm not even sure what the resin match will be like overall, so we'll see what happens.  But he's got such lovely lips (apparently that's what I'm drawn to in sculpts I've realized) and he was very affordable.  So if nothing else, he could become a practice head if being Sep doesn't work out.

There's a doll noob in all of us...

Regardless of the years I have own bjds, I still find myself making utterly silly mistakes from time to time.  Case in point...Emmanuel's head.  When I painted Emmanuel, I obviously took his head off.  When I put it back on I found that it really didn't have much movement.  Kind of weird to me, but I figured I'd deal with it when I eventually restrung him.

Today I took it off again to put his new eyes in, and I realized when I put it back on that the resin donut (for lack of a better phrase...Dollshe uses a U-shaped piece of resin with a hole in the middle for the elastic) wasn't sitting right.  It is supposed so sort of "click" into place, and I never saw that it hadn't.  With a little fiddling around in that tiny head of his I got it to click, and like magic he could move his head.  I guess it had been sitting sort of sideways this whole time, which inhibited his head from moving almost at all.  Definitely a moment where I laughed at myself. :)

30 Day BJD Challenge- Day 13

13). Have you ever had a floating head?  What about a headless body?  What do you think you would do if you had either?

I have a floating, and in fact he's been with me forever.  He was one of the first doll parts I bought when I initially joined the hobby, and I've never given him up.  Unfortunately I don't have any pictures, but he is a Fairyland MNF vampire elf Shiwoo head.  I have him in dolly storage, and have for a while.  I've just never kept a body that worked for him, at least not yet.

I have never had a headless body, and I can't imagine ever getting one unless it was very temporary.