Well friends, it's been 10 years! I'm not sure if any of my older friends and followers still blog or still read blogs. I've been in the BJD hobby all this time a while it was satisfying and helped me to grow a lot as a dioramist, the call of the 1/6 scale dolls called back to me. It was hard to make stories for BJDs because of the limited number of characters and sets. While I no longer have a town to make stories with, nor (hardly) any of my original dolls, my new collection continues to grow and some of them are just itching to tell you all about themselves. But these heauxs don't even have names except for two. So lemme get on that... Returning to this hobby feels a bit lonely. My doll community was here in the blogosphere, my BJD community was through youtube and Facebook. Where are you, racy playscale collectors? Let's get back together! Instagram feels unsuitable for my needs. I'll see if I can direct traffic here. Who knows. Anyway.... I'v
Hello my friends! Man I have been slacking. I got so into the Roku situation that I have completely neglected the dolls. And since my car died and I now have a car note, my insane doll shopping spree is at a close. Except I found the 1960s Reading Deluxe Dream Kitchen (minus table and chairs) at a thrift store for $35. Then there was this cute pitcher there (on the dishwasher) and a Gibson guitar, so...(forgive the cellphone pic). Anyway I hope to getting back to a craft/diorama focus in my doll work. Can I be honest? I am terrified of my camera. I've avoided it since my last post. Setting up lights takes forever and changing them for every scene and the cords and the scary wiring in this house. Then taking 100 pics and those being all wrong and doing it again after I already took down all the damn lights. Ugh. So whatever. When I do a glamour shot I'll fiddle with lighting and post production. But for photostories, eff it. The following shots are done with a fl