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Don't Look Back

1/13/2014

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Last week I wanted to take advantage of the fresh snow one morning, and take some photos of my MSD size dolls. They get very little photo time. Mostly because they have just one outfit each (and some don't even have that), and the various costumes don't go together, so it's almost always shots of single dolls. 

I thought Isar hadn't been out in awhile, so took her out of the case, and found her a spare cloak.  Then I spotted Madmartigan further back on the shelf, and wondered if he would work in photos with her. After all, they are both warriors......and in similar coloured outfits.....and he's been standing there staring at Isar for the past year and a half......so......I took him too.....

  "I'm leaving..."
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"But...why??"
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"Because... we are done"
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...and he watched her go...... and she never looked back
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Another day or two and I'll finally be free to do something with my JIDs. It's been so long. They are beautiful dolls but have taken a major back seat to the little dolls the past year or so. It's finally time to rectify that. There's so many costumes I'd love to make for them. First on the agenda will be making something for Owen so he's decent for the annual "family portraits". I figure he can become a pirate with very little effort, so that's what I'll do, just so he can finally come out of his box and join the others. I want to eventually make him a Musketeer outfit. In fact, it would be amazing to have several of my guys be Musketeers. There were four of them after-all.  

I was thinking that when my Asa becomes Queen of the Night, it would be really nice to have my Butterfly Narae be her daughter, and Narin her suitor. Make the two of them into a Rococo couple. I'd also love to make some Medieval gowns again, but this time for JIDs, and possibly KIDs and even BIDs. They'd also make wonderful fairies. So many ideas, but everything takes so much time. I've wanted to do some of these things for what seems like forever, and I sometimes wonder if any of them will ever get done. 
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Jane
1/13/2014 06:16:17 am

What a photostory! And using the two completely different style dolls works too! He really can't believe she went.....can he?!
Is Madmartigan one of your own sculpt dolls?


And I love the sound of all your plans for dressing your JID's. I am just so inspired by all you make for your dolls

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Martha
1/13/2014 08:44:02 am

Yes, he's one of Marianne and my dolls. She sculpted the head, but I'm not sure which one of us did the hands. I think I was given his head as a birthday present way back in 1993. I did the rest. He has human hair, and I made his armour from tooled copper sheets.

The old art dolls actually work with my MSD and smaller-size BJDs. They are a bit taller, and have smaller heads as they are properly proportioned, but they are fun to use from time to time.

It's nice to have plans. Even nicer to see them actually happen. Maybe this year!

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Marianne
1/13/2014 12:02:55 pm

20 years ago! Wow!

Inma
1/13/2014 06:29:37 pm

Great photos and great dolls ! Can't wait to see all you have planned to create !

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Lynn
1/13/2014 09:17:57 pm

You wonder if things will ever get done. I wonder how you do the things that you DO do! It would take me all day every day if I was assigned to do the photos you pop out every day for our pleasure - and they wouldn't be a fraction as good - plus to have to publish them on the Internet every day? Well I wish I could accomplish half as much as you

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