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Two Big Bald Girls

4/3/2013

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I'm making good progress on the two Celtic costumes, but they are extremely labour-intensive, so will probably take until the end of next week. My two models are Kaye Wiggs Nelly, and Ryung, by Elfdoll. Both are big sturdy dolls. It's been two years since Ryung has been a model, and it's easy to forget just how well she poses. Iplehouse could take a few lessons on how to engineer joints that pose well. Ryung's joints may not be the most realistic-looking - they are true "ball-joints"- but to me range of motion is more important than making a doll look good naked, and under their clothes who will even see?  Give me pose-ability!!
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The girls are still wearing their fancy shoes from their "default outfits", and will put on their "Celtic boots" later. To the casual observer, Nelly's outfit may look just as far along as Ryung's, but it's nowhere near close. Her underdress needs snaps, beading at the neck, unravelling of the hemline (which is a lengthy manual process) and staining of the hemline. Then there's still the knitting of the silver "chain-mail" sleeves, and sewing them on. I don't have enough silver crochet thread, so need to go to Michael's and get some. Then there's Nelly's top. It still needs snaps, and then all the embroidery, and then dozens of tiny studs. Much of the work is very hard on my fingers - especially the fraying of edges, and studs - so I need to spread it out. Their tartan cloaks are also in the process of having the bottom edges frayed.

I still have a lot of things to wash after last Friday's kitchen tile removal as well. All the cupboards with things we use every day, have been cleaned, but there's still plenty more. Then there's the rest of the main floor. It's amazing how just a few hours of ripping out a floor leads to a whole week or more of cleaning up afterwards - and that's even with considerable care taken to blow most of the dust outside. 
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Inma
4/3/2013 06:09:05 am

I am with you, what I ask for a doll is poseability ! I am very demanding concerning that point. We should perhaps tell it to Iplehouse to move them to improve that ! If we are many asking that, they will perhaps improve their bodies.

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Martha
4/3/2013 07:23:03 am

There's really no point, as we'd be in the minority. So many of the collectors of the big Iplehouse dolls like to display and photograph them scantily clad, in sexy positions, showing off their beautiful bodies. Posing is only secondary. There's no way they'd change the joints to make the dolls pose better, since for them (and most people) it's all about making the dolls look beautiful naked.

They do make the most beautiful, realistic-looking dolls, so I just live with the posing issues.

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Inma
4/4/2013 06:40:35 am

OK I see, what a pity !

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