Vita Plastica

Yay, she's here! I'm sad to say that I'm disappointed. Don't get me wrong. She's as gorgeous as I imagined and has a naughty sort of innocence that I hoped for but didn't expect. BUUUT: Take a look at the wings. Total hot glue mess. I can't even figure out how they attach to her. The cross on my coffin purse is totally scratched up: The spiked bracelets? Are you kidding? My Liv doll spiked bracelet is better: You know for the money, these boots should have been leather-like. Even the Pop Life girls have leatherish boots: Like I said, no idea how to work the stand. There's a half moon piece and a stick right? So I stick the crescent on the stick and this is what it looks like: And her two tops, a net black top and a red bustier have velcro closures! How dare you! A $150 doll? Oh and when you hold her by the lower leg, she pulls a Matrix: But still all in all, I love her and I'm glad I didn't wait for a nude figure to app...

After several trips to various Target stores in the area, it became clear to me that this was no way to secure my Douchebag Ken. Carmen has spent enough time alone. So I decided to order him online. They were on sale at Target (but not Target.com) for $17 so I hated spending the extra money at BarbieCollector.com. He arrived today and I opened the package only to be disappointed. He looked crazy. But that's okay. Buy Barbies often enough and you know you have to do at least SOME work to make them usable. I was ready to get started. So begins the grievances: He doesn't have a typical Ken head. By which I mean his neck hole is a "female", like typical action figure guys, not a "male" like most Ken dolls. So that Fashionista body I've been holding onto? Useless.  (I'm sure there's some adapter type thing you clever doll folk know about but still, it's the principle!) So first, I comb him out:  I dunked and dumped boiling-ish water, ...

Hmm, I dunno what's wrong with me but I'm bored of dolls. Maybe it's because I know that all spare money will be going towards Christmas. Maybe it's because I lost the little thingy that attaches my camera to my tripod. Maybe it's due to Thanksgiving preparation and sick babies, which provided no time for my little friends. Maybe it's because my photostories are waiting for Comic Life and for a Dragon Body for my new boy head. Well at least my heart still skips a beat when I see my dolls in their homes, doing the same thing they did last week. And maybe I'll post some crap pictures just so I can take down the set and start the Xmas set. Maybe I'll get my mojo back at the end of the year with my new dolls/equipment/software. Maybe I just need a nice trip to Big Lots where I will say I'm going to get tree lights, but will come out with arms full of cheap doll stuff... Hey do any of you collect 16 inch dolls? I have a cast iron pot belly stove that I...

Ever have one of those days? Where you are totally unmotivated to do ANYTHING. Even, gulp, doll things? That was my Sunday. I suppose all the hormones and such just made me feel down. All I wanted to do was watch TV. But we quit our TV addiction, so I mostly just whined. Then the Hubs went out and got us a digital converter and antenna! We actually watched the Simpsons for the first time in ages. And realized, much to my horror 1. Iris loves Barney and 2. Barney was singing a version of Depeche Mode's Just Can't Get Enough. Okay TV, I'm going to start slow with you... Anyway, I'll have some pics for you soonish. I practically have all of next week off so there is no excuse! (Except that whole carrying around another person thing) Oh but on Saturday I finished my nightclub set and realized even more the awesome posability of action figure girls. Everyone else was tumbling over with the least agitation, but Dusty held strong in her dancing pose. smooches, dani

Dear Blogger, Why are you so difficult to work with? You give me this tiny window in which to write my wordy posts. It takes 100 years to scoot my pictures around in my post because you make them all appear at the top when I upload. Then I go to my post and readers can't even enlarge them. And what happened to all your templates? There were some very decent basic ones and now there is just crap. You suck Blogger, but I can't leave you because I just got my follower number back up. Love, Danielle