Sunday, March 10, 2019

Mature tinies and their clothes and shoes.

I had been looking for a mature tiny bjd for a very good while. The companies that made them over the years have discontinued them and sold them out almost immediately--at least for the resin ones. I got this little Lumedoll or Lumelight doll 3rd hand. It was freezing cold outside and I pulled her out of the box. She felt like porcelain. I was scared she would break so I let her sit in my room till she got room temperature. She isn't porcelain but the resin really feels like porcelain.
The first thing I did was trade some clothes with Barbie and the WWE fashion dolls. She wears their outfits well but not shoes. The WWE dolls have bigger feet and Barbie is just too small in the feet. It's already known that WWE dolls can trade outfits with Barbie. 
I found a pair of shoes that were made by Mattel over a decade ago but I'm not sure what doll they belonged to. Maybe a Dora doll? The shoes look good, stay on with socks and she can stand without support in them. 

 Then I tried Monster High and Ever After High shoes on her. She has flat feet but can point her feet well enough that shoes don't look too bad if the toes aren't open. I put her in the little green dragon shoes and they look good. Plus she can stand in these. Other shoes fit but it was obvious they were the wrong shoe for her because she is flat footed. I did see that I can buy some ABS feet for her size on ebay and may actually try that out. The problem is that the dolls feet are not hooked in and I will have to completely restring her to get new feet on her. She is loosely strung right now but poses well, so I don't really get concerned about it. 
Then I had these little Project MC2 doll shoes to put on her. They fit like a glove but wouldn't come off. 
 I had to take an X-Acto knife to open up the slits in the back of her boots for her. 
I promised myself this is the very last doll I will be getting. I just had it in my head for so long that I wanted a doll that is like Barbie only resin.


Wednesday, March 6, 2019


I filled my new TWSBI Go last week when it arrived. I already used an entire fill of the Lamy Vibrant Pink. I did some more doodling with it just to get a feel for the lines and shading. The thickness of the lines is very close to what I was wanting.
I can draw with this Pen and ink combination for very long periods of time without any drying of the nib. This is great since the paper is not the greatest for fountain pens. The paper here is a small journal 8"x 5" size paper. It is made by Pacific Giftware is what I can see on the sticker inside. I bought the journal because it is wire bound and has a really pretty cover.
The TWSBI Go with Extra  fine nib just draws and draws on this paper with no feathering. I also noticed there is no pilling of the paper in my nib.
The pen writes fast and keeps a uniform flow of the ink. When the pen is just filled, I can slowly draw and get richer darker lines. If I really want finer lines I can reverse the pen nib. I also noticed as the pen runs low on ink the lines seem to get finer.
A really big plus for me is after using this pen all week, I didn't get on drop of ink on my fingers. No leaks or surprises.
I am so excited after seeing reviews on youtube about the different pens available. I can get an idea of what the lines will look like. I am getting a Moonman M2 next. I am planning which ink I will use in this new pen. It is a demonstrator pen. So it needs to be pretty like Apache Sunset or a green color.
I think I should title this piece "Everything is connected".