Organizing: Yarn...

When it comes to my yarn & storage of that said yarn. Its become quite a dilemma. I kept looking at pintrest and googled around a lot but I just didnt like the look of things or I was like well I like this, but I dont have a space to do it in. The other problem I had was my closet in that room had a weird nitch and you cant put anything flush against the wall in that corner.

So I decided finally to give this shoe rack that had been a home for my purses a try. I did end up liking how it looked, but I didnt like that the way it attched to the bar was with a velcro strap, so I worried about how much I could put in it without it falling off.

So! Low and behold I find these guys. I love it has a "heavy duty" handers on each end and you can add little shelves basically (these have to be purchased seperately) but i might not worry about it. Although I could use them to store other things like all the knitting needles and blocking tools if I get those. So they might come in handy later on.

I was more worried one of my cats would decide this was a cat house. But they have left it alone. I also had dreams i would wake up and they had pulled the yarn out of the bottom and had it all over the house hahahahah!

Overall I think this is going to work out perfectly for my yarn. Im going to need one more I think. plus this just makes me realize how much purple and pink yarn I have XD because its going to have to take up an extra cubby.

WIP: Veritys Baby Blanket...

Baby Blanket for Tabby's little girl Verity - Im making nine squares (3 white/3 purple/3 pink) and I have one to go. Then her MIL is going to help put it together and add a boarder, since I cant crochet

Update: Integrity WClub Webinar #2

So last weekend there was the second WClub webinar for the new collections. There was 3 of them released this time. I'm not going to really go into anything about the Jem dolls. I honestly cannot ever remember watching this show or not, and while their interesting, I wasnt looking forward to seeing yet another Jem like released in this webinar. I have a Color Infusion that uses the same body, so I might end up hunting down some Jem shoes, but other than that, Im just going to look this over.

I was hoping for this collection to be a little different then what I kept seeing with the Poppy Parkers. Im not into the 50-60 era look. I did preorder the "The Young Sophisticate" Poppy because the more I looked at her coat and dress I wasnt seeing this and someone pointed out the dress looked like a target dress so Im going to bring her home.

Left to Right: Irresistible in India, Spicy in Spain, Sweet in Switzerland, Pretty in Polynesia, & Joyful in Japan

While I will agree...these dolls do like "Barbie's of the World"...there are a couple things I really like. For one the only doll I preordered was India. First she had the Bergdorf Goodman screening that I have come to love so much, and I dont have a nice tan Poppy. Im not sure about the dress. Its really lovely, but I might not keep it. Spain was just a kinda miss...I like her cat eye shape, but the rest was just lost to me. Switzerland was cute, but I already have a redhead poppy from the workshop so I passed. I dont really like the screening on the Polynesia, but I love her necklace and sandals so Ill find those later. My last dilemma was Japan. I loved her kimono but wished she had sandals and dark hair...even a nice dark brown would have been nice. Not blond. I really like this new screening they used on her, though her lip color needs to be a different color. Maybe later they will do something again like it, so I passed on her.

The next collection was the "classic" collection with them looking back at the dolls before and incorporating it into this line. Retro but modern. Im really actually kinda getting sick of this, but to each its own. I know everyone has their styles and tastes, its just not for me.

Left to right: Nostalgia Dania Zarr, Splendid Jordon, Captivating Anja, Ambitious Kesenia, & Polished Korinne

I didnt choose any of these girls. Dania - Again the high ponytail with swept tucked in bangs. I already have girls with this hair style...I dont want another. Her makeup was very well done though. Jordon - Actually has some really lovely makeup for her skintone. I liked her necklace so much but again as a whole there wasnt anything that make be need her. Anja - I dont like the hairstyle, I feel she really needed some kinda of stonger lipstick or something. The dress is pretty, but plain and I hate the fringe they used on the bow...it just makes me crazy. Im always afraid I'll unravel stuff like that. Kenenia - Again nothing really drawing me to her. I do utterly love they used a darker color on the inside of her mouth to accent the part of the lips and her teeth. Her hair is pretty but eh, and I really just feel its lacking in something in the outfit...it feels too bulky to me with the shape of the coat/dress. Korinne - I love the blouse...I have one of those skirts and again her makeup was ok, but nothing really drawing me in. I felt a few of them the upper lash they drew was just way way too long for the eye. I can understand where the vibes coming from, but nothing really made me need to bring anyone home from this. I am curious to see whats to come later on.

The only other doll that I did end up preordering was the Event doll. I was a little bit shocked it was another Dania in the same webinar...I kinda wish it was a different one and then like having her at the next one to kinda switch it up. I think thats really my only complaint about it.

I find this funny that after I told myself no more tan girls (I brought so many home and then didnt have characters for them that I had to let them go) Im bring home 2 tan ones...haha! This Dania does remind me alot of the Optic Class Dania. Im not really a fan of pop collars, but this all really works well. I always love some red and black so that's something that can never go wrong. Again theres the rose necklace, but in a different color which I really like alot more. I love the purse and shoes. Everything for her goes so well together. I can wait to have her home and hanging out with my Obsidian Vanessa. Those will be some fierce ladies XD

Intorducing: Queen V...

I managed to bring home this girl while perusing Manadrake for Misaki stuff and just happened upon this Queen V. I did some research and found out originally she was $400 (shipping and all) when she was released. I decided to just go ahead and bring her home since it was a really good price and she was still in her box, she just doesnt have her shipper, which again isnt a big deal to me.

Man.....so much cat hair >_> but its winter and everthing has static.

Man I just love everything about her. Her dress is amazing. Her little crown/jewelry and such. The only problem I had was with the white pair of shoes she came with. The ruffle is leather like the shoe and you can see the brown color on it. Well i went to un-velcro the shoe and the ruffle just came almost off, like after age the ruffle deteriorated, or the stitching cut the leather to just fall apart. So I'm just trying to decide but I think since its falling apart I'm just going to remove the ruffle entirely on them. Then I don't have to worry about it. For now its just put away.

Commission: Soom Cuprit

Im working on a couple commissions at the same time right now. This is a soom Cuprit that I sold, but she wanted me to repaint her. it was a lot of fun doing her tattoo. She looks sad but thats alright that the way shes suppose to.

Status: Whats new pussycat...DMC!

So I havent been able to post as of late, I got sick and was helping with moving, and moving again, and this and that and its just been crazy, but a good crazy. Works been keeping me pretty much swamped for the last two weeks or so. Ive almost got two commissions done, which I hope to finish up this weekend so I can ship it before the 18th.

I got my hands on a Queen V and Obsidian Vanessa both decently priced so Im really happy to have these grail girls with me. Some left, and I have a couple new ones, so Im working on better assigning characters to them. So Ive been working on that aspect as well as Im thinking of moving my craft room from upstairs to down, which after talking it out I think thats the best thing.

I was thinking about possibly making a section for game reviews, I still might do it, but Im not really a great writer in expression what I think about these games. I might try or at least some help. I never thought much of this strictly being a doll site. Just things that i enjoy.

DMC: Devil May Cry (Reboot)
I know this game is a reboot and its a new company's interpretation of the character. I started to understand things better as I did research to, as to when they refer to Dante as Tony (its in the anime, and one of the novels) and this was suppose to be a branch of resident evil. The spirit that is Dante is dead. This character they've given us I just cannot care about. They already had a young version of him in DMC 3, and granted while he was ....annoyingly terrible....he still was the wise-cracking Dante we knew and loved. I played the demo for a bit and while I do like having Limbo shifting and such and other mechanics, the music isnt what Im used to and I just cant get used to the fact this is Dante.

When I bought the game I got a code to I think change him into Vergil, who also went throught the same character cutting in a sense. I also found out that they did finally make a skin that they are calling "Classic Dante" but I dont know if its too little too late of a thing, and it makes me angry is this is something Im going to have to pay for just to be able to actually play the game.

What was wrong with him being half human/half demon who loved pizza and strawberry sundays? It made him more into connection with people then now hes half angel/demon emo boy. The devil trigger is a joke. You can use it, but all it does is turn him into a white hair version with a red coat....wow...orginal..its like satans giving him a bad fashion sense as his talent.

me too Grown up Dante...me too...

WIP: Sage...

Well I finally have my girl done. I got a Decadence Festival Agnes who had painted on lashes as well as real lashes. Plus one of her eyes was higher then the other. So I just decided to turn her into my Sage. I rerooted her in a mixture of greens and painted her to have the slight bitchy look the Silver Zinger Agnes has.  She is on this body I found on ebay called like My Maid. It has two sets of legs, extra hands and feet and I really like the look of this body and the way it poses. So here is my Sage.

The only thing I was worried about as far as the body goes was her feet. They were high heeled shaped (she does have flat ones but they are stained) and so I took a look at the shoes I had. Thank you Integrity! She can wear the shoes of the Color Infusion (Jem body). Now I just have to hunt down a pair of black ones. I just dont see the blue suiting her personality.