Vita Plastica

I'd been feeling kind of down lately. As you can tell by my blog, I just have no time to be in my doll room now. It's upstairs and usually me and the kids are downstairs and when I do set them up upstairs, they want to be in the doll room with me too. And little crawling Isobel has a knack for finding the most dangerous thing in the room and putting it in her mouth. But I got my mother to babysit the kids all day so the Hubs and I could enjoy our respective hobbies. He cleaned the house (sucker) and I hung out in the doll room. The plan was to make my cobblestone street for an upcoming photo project. There were a few different way to do this: 1. Get a big piece of foam and carve out the cobbles. I tried this with some foam core. Um, no. 2. Make a stamp out of clay or something and stamp out the cobblestones. 3. Roll out some clay and carve the cobblestones 4. Make individual stones out of clay 5. Visit hobby shop and hope for something that will pass for 1/6th sca...

I finally hung some art in the rest of the house. It never fails to make the place instantly look finished. And it basically is. Well, not the dining room. It has some hideous flowery wallpaper and I just don't know what to do in there to say, "We know it's bad, but we have to live with it for now," or "Yes we hate it and let's mock it openly."  Making that place normal looking almost says, "We approve of this wallpaper and not even in an ironic way." Okay sorry got caught up in my 1:1 decor. Here's what you really want to know about. Here's what we have so far.  Though I'm sure it's not the final spot for anything. Going clockwise around the room.    On that little wing of the desk, I might make a green space for the dolls to picnic or whatever. I really like the white backgrounds in the Expedit shelf so I think I'll stick some plain white foam core back there instead of agonizing over decorating backing panels right ...

Sorry for the teaser, I'm still all boxed up. Man, that room is big. I'm no Saucy Suiwi but it must be twice the size of the last. It's a pretty daunting task, building your dream room. When I unpack I'll find you the rough sketch I made. I'm sure the real thing will not measure up for quite a while. You know with the popularity of Facebook and blogging, real life social issues have been replaced by electronic ones. So when my social circle (followers) decreases by one or two numbers, I'm filled with self doubt and worry. What did I do? Is it because I haven't done photostories in a zillion years? Because my photographs suck? Because I'm not interested/capable of buying every Fashion Royalty that comes out? Is it because Johnny asked me to prom and not her? Waaah! But then I remembered that I'm a doll lover first and a blogger second. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up on this doll world. You look at other collectors and see what you don...

Okay I promise no more random thought blog posts. But I am a big believer in destiny and signs so I'm sharing this one. And no one on my human Facebook cares. And I don't post to my doll FB like I should. I was looking in the various Grandvilles for signage (thanks Corset Kitten ) when I came across Cons-la-Grandville, France which is near the borders with Belgium and Germany. Signs: 1. The town is situated around a chateau, just like Foix, which I mentioned here last time I was looking for a name. 2. It is located in the Lorraine region where my job (Georgia Tech) has a sister school. 3. It is very close to a more urban area called Nancy, which is my sister's name. Okay maybe I'm reaching but to me this clearly means we picked the right name. Good job, readers! Here is the Chateau de Cons-la-Grandville .