{"id":3887,"date":"2015-02-24T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2015-04-10T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T16:10:10","slug":"working-on-dolls-at-long-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/02\/24\/working-on-dolls-at-long-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on dolls at long last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am taking advantage of a true vacation to work on a list of doll projects that has expanded alarmingly in the past months. So far I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Derooted Cutey Honey&#8217;s brittle, shedding default hair. When <a href=\"http:\/\/vtdolllovers.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/vermont-doll-lovers-valentines-meetup.html\">she<\/a> went to the last VTDL meetup, I noticed that sad state of her hair and vowed to replace them. I don&#8217;t have the appropriate replacement hair, so she&#8217;s mostly bald at the moment. At least she&#8217;s not shedding anymore, though.<\/li>\n<li>Put <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1708980.html\">Thalia<\/a> on the body formerly belonging to Janvier Jett, painted her hands and gave her a temporary outfit.<\/li>\n<li>Found a large, fabric-covered storage container at Goodwill and set it up on its side, thus converted it into a passable seat to accommodate long-limbed dolls like Jareth.<\/li>\n<li>Improved Yamarrah.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yamarrah&#8217;s hair was not sticking up enough, so I tacked down more of the long pieces.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/yamarrah\/improved\/03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also removed the peach paint from the bases of her hands. It was originally there to provide a smoother transition between the translucent orange resin and an opaque &#8220;normal skin&#8221; resin. I like the pale yellowish orange better.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/yamarrah\/improved\/02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also painted her forearms. They used to be a pale sort of pink with yellow undertones, matching the paint on the bases of her hands. I painted them pale orange to continue the color from her hands.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/yamarrah\/improved\/01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now my perky happy floppy fire elemental vampire looks pretty much the way she&#8217;s supposed to look! She just needs an appropriately scaled creemee or eight&#8230; :d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1710434.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1710434.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1710434.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am taking advantage of a true vacation to work on a list of doll projects that has expanded alarmingly in the past months. So far I have: Derooted Cutey Honey&#8217;s brittle, shedding default hair. When she went to the last VTDL meetup, I noticed that sad state of her hair and vowed to replace&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/02\/24\/working-on-dolls-at-long-last\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Working on dolls at long last!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[651,650,652],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hair","tag-thalia","tag-yamarrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}