Abieka

Kawaii punkster lovie

Luka thought I’d given up on her for a while there, poor ole’ blossie. She’s forgiven me now, because this week I got her scalp back on and let her dress up for ATP’s Harajuku Style comp.

She was a Mod Molly. Now she is herself:

• wool dreadlock reroot.
• removed blush and eyeshadow.
• iridescent glitter to eyelids, as eyeshadow and under eyes.
• 3 new eyechips (kept the green) and foiled all 4.
• shaped eyelashes.
• pinker lip colour.
  

• butterfly cheek art.
• new scalp painted to match MM complexion.

  Her design was an experiment, and I am very lucky that my first Blythe custom turned out so well. The kiddles help me make the wool “worms”, which was an excellet sunny day adventure. ^^ More pics will make their way to Luka’s flickr photoset.

Blythely organised (geddit?) get together

It’s my birthday, I think I have to go.

Everyone, meet Minerva

My first Blythe anniversary girl. I have’t had much time to get to know her (I’ve been working furiously to get my entry together for the Addicted to Plastic Harajuku Girls competition). But she made it plainly known up front: Minerva might be a princess, but she prefers blunnies and bovva boots to blahniks:

She’s proof that it’s been worth it to pfaff about with Yahoo!Japan auctions. The engrish translation of her auction page made me think that her crinoline skirting was broken (the white plastic birdcage-thingy), so my bid was well below her release rrp. Her stock is present and minty, but it’s her white outer box that’s a bit scuffed. Minerva even arrived in her shipper-box. Check out the booty that the 6th Anniversary Princess a la Mode Blythe comes with:

I’ll take more pics after I’ve finished the Harajuku craziness.

Sullivan & Lane

Russian Jet

Originally uploaded by smittee

I know nothing about Sullivan and Lane. I was just lucky enough to stumble across their work somewhere on the net (I’ve been lots of places today). These two pics just gripped me. It’s possible I’m in a very grrlie mood today. But if you go check out their portfolio, you’ll see the fabulousness goes beyond leggy revolutionaries to a bit of muscle (which is also my kind of thing, heh heh).

Oh, a teeny bit more effort researching says that Brandon is the photographer and Kyle is the illustrator.

<3s all round boys.

Melody update

I mentioned earlier that a My Melody pullip had joined our family - and that brushing out tight sausage curls is the fast track to an afro. After a bit of fussing, conclusive proof:

Melody: the fuzz and the straight

A nylon afro can be straightened!

New look!

Pretty colours! Thank you to john78 at assorted web-template sites for this great looking theme. I haven’t taken it for a full test run yet, and I need to tweak my links around a bit (I was using a 2-column template before). I like vibrant colours if you haven’t guessed. I like this theme a lot. Yummy.

Simple dumb luck sent me to his themes, because a good theme is hard to find. Search for “john78 wordpress theme” will give you his themes and other great designers too. Or follow the links at the bottom.

Unexpected home improvements

This picture is completely unrelated to today’s post. I just like my boy’s gumboots.

There is a mean little gap below the kitchen step into our family room. Once upon a time that was the door to the back verandah, so a gap under the house was no big deal. Add an extension to the back of the house though, and it became a protected access point for the local ratties. We dealt with the rodents, so it was just a bit of an eyesore.

Now my littlest has started to give offerings to the monsters under the house. She is obsessed with shoving cutlery and textas through that gap every chance she gets. Definitely time to deal with it. My better half wanted to stuff it with steel wool (he has a utilitarian soul), but I went for a more whimsical solution:

before & after

I set out to make a sweet little accent in an unexpected place, and I think it works. Just simple glass stones mounted on painted wood. It took a lot longer to be “utilitarian” than to be decorative. The stones are epoxied on and the wood is recessed a little, to deter prying little fingers. And it’s backed with flashtac, to keep it in place and deter any little pests that might try to nibble past it from under the house.

I think I like it.