pira

At the grocery store today I found a bin of tea towels that had just arrived and was struck
by their moss green stripes.

Aside for my current obsession with this particular shade(s) of green ...and tea towels in general, it occured to me that THIS would make a marvelous blankie for my doll bed.

....I was correct. It's a prefect size and it lays really nicely and looks most natural :)

It had me thinking though ~ when I put Willow in the bed last night, on her side. Her elastics are still tight and she sort of curled up and looked very lonely...so what if I finally introduced her to Kohl?

I flipped her over, face to face with him and her arm flipped out as if to embrace him. *0__0!!!


( Kohl = catnip )

Personally I'm just completely intrigued and totally emmersing myself in the whole enchillada ~ and as I mentioned to ariss_tenoh earlier...I don't think I've been as absorbed in a hobby (thing, topic, fandom, whateveryouwannacallit) since I was involved in the LoTRs fandom.

It totally engrosses me, with the blessed exception at this point, of story telling/writing the dolls as characters and/or buying/modding them to match. I am letting the ones that *ambush* me evolve rather than bang a square peg into a round hole. Not what I need from them.

I am trying to absorb the whole thing and it's so big, and so diverse I have a hard time believing that BJD people are still considered rare birds and when they are exposed to the harsh light of the media they are so ridiculously stereo-typed I'm torn between wanting to laugh or cry.

I am at this point a closet doll enthusiast, hiding this mania from disapproving strangers, local RL friends and extended family. *cough* I'll speak of that later...this peculiar need to keep these dolls to myself.

*DOLLS* ~

....you might have noted the plural.

Suffice it to say I'm not going anywhere for a while and in retrospect I'm actually fine with that....too busy playing with my toys. I'll elaborate on that later...but

ANYway I decided to swap out the red eyes that came with Kohl....

( More Kohl pix )

Yep. It's offical...well more official than it has been up to this point.

My first doll of the ball-jointed kind arrived the same day that my mother did, just prior to my leaving for SF. ARGH!!! At least she didn't have to sign for it but still...that meant spiriting the unopened box to a dark corner and waiting a week till I was back and she was gone to open it. Hard to believe I'm 43 and hiding toys that have nothing to do with smex! >D

I don't even want to contemplate her reaction to him...or any of the *cough* others. Teh Bob seems bemused with this new obsession and the girls sardonic but slightly creeped out by it *snort*...ANYway...yeah...I won't bore you with the details beyond the fact that it's been fascinating to unbox the first doll because I really had no idea how I'd react to him.

I teared-up. Seriously...I did not see that reaction coming. He was nothing at ALL what I was expecting but as I mentioned to another bjd-owner...he is 1000 kinds of wonderful. The texture of his limbs? Smooth as satin (blew my mind away that did). Dismiss them all you want but don't look to closely at them, because I really don't think you can be totally immune and once you spot *the one*...you ~ are ~ doomed.

The following are just a few images I managed to snag today when the sun finally came out. I wanted to capture his skin colour and face-up without a flash. Now I've got to choose a fabric to make a kimono out of that compliments his colouring :)

I still have to change his eyes...I have dark ebony ones for him. These glowing red, demonic coals are not quite doing it for me...but I'll get to that later.

( Let me introduce you to....Kohl )