Had to share photos of some gorgeous unusual flowers. When we went to Windsor last weekend, my daughter had these growing all over her backyard fence. They are passion flowers.
My Mom always loved passion flowers, and she had them in red, and the normal purple and white. I've only ever known them as house plants here in Canada where winters are severe. I've never seen them this colour, or growing outside - except once in California. So my daughter dug up several smaller plants and I brought them home and have them potted on my porch for now.
Never did get to bring my dolls away yesterday, which turned out to be a good thing, as I totally forgot Asa will need a mask to go with her Queen of the Night costume. I definitely wouldn't want to make a mask on a freshly repainted head, and ruin the eyelashes and possibly damage the faceup, so it was good I remembered while I still had her here. I covered the head with plastic wrap, then a layer of aluminum foil, and sculpted a mask with Aves Apoxie Sculpt. I find the apoxy very hard to work with - it's like trying to sculpt with old chewed gum.
But the Apoxy dries very strong and light-weight, is easy to carve, and doesn't have to be baked in an oven. And it's amazing to paint. So I just deal with the inconvenience of working with it, and now sculpt in layers. Because I find it so hard to work with, I only applied the base mask and a row of flames across the top. I've already taken the cured mask off of Asa's head, and today I hope to fine-tune the basic mask - even out the eye holes and sand the edges. Then I'll mix some more Apoxy and add more details. I'm taking step-by-step photos as I go.
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