So I started "playing dominoes". Asa's head went back on her own body, Peach went on the KID body, and Soa went on the new JID body. It's amazing just how pasty and lifeless a resin head looks without a faceup, but I think Peach will look wonderful painted. She looks like she even has a touch of a smile. Definitely a pretty young girl. I took a quick photo. I'm not keen on the eyes Iplehouse puts in their dolls - they are always one size too big for my tastes, but I left her original 12 mm eyes in for her first portrait. They are an interesting olive green, but I much prefer the smaller 10 mm eyes. Good thing I have lots to choose from.
I was waiting anxiously all morning, since the last time a parcel came, the doorbell didn't work, and even though I was home the whole time, I missed the delivery - which meant picking it up at the Post Office the next day. So I stayed in the front room all morning after tracking said my parcel was "Out for Delivery". I saw the truck pull up, and was rather shocked at the condition of the box.....so took some photos of it before opening it - proof in case I needed it. It looked to me like the "airspace" above the actual doll box had been squished in, so I was hopeful the doll would still be okay. I was right - the worst damage was to the empty airspace above the doll box, but it was damaged on one end too. I thought "please, let the doll be okay". I carefully took her out, and examined her. She looked weird, as expected, since it's a little girl head on a young woman's body, but otherwise she seemed perfectly fine. Thankfully Iplehouse has the most amazing way of packaging their dolls, so even with some damage to the box, the doll inside was still fine.
So I started "playing dominoes". Asa's head went back on her own body, Peach went on the KID body, and Soa went on the new JID body. It's amazing just how pasty and lifeless a resin head looks without a faceup, but I think Peach will look wonderful painted. She looks like she even has a touch of a smile. Definitely a pretty young girl. I took a quick photo. I'm not keen on the eyes Iplehouse puts in their dolls - they are always one size too big for my tastes, but I left her original 12 mm eyes in for her first portrait. They are an interesting olive green, but I much prefer the smaller 10 mm eyes. Good thing I have lots to choose from.
Margo
5/10/2013 09:00:22 am
So glad that she was undamaged! It's a horrible feeling when you see the box is mangled. Her face is lovely...definitely lots of possibilities there. :) 5/12/2013 02:26:13 am
Oh, my. When I saw the photo of the box, I wanted to cry. So glad Peach was unharmed. She is beautiful. Comments are closed.
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