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  • Kor is Home~

    Officially yesterday, Kor came home.  I had time to check him out before we had to leave and run errands, then passed out asleep when I got home.  I was so excited!  The package arrived late at the P.O., so I didn’t expect him out until the next day but the mailman made a special trip, in his personal car nonetheless, to bring him home!  I cut the package open with my box cutter like I always do (and I’m super careful), but one of the promo pieces inside was flush with the packaging opening and got sliced.  T_T  Oh well.  =snuffles=

    I have to say… Switch’s sculpt in person is gorgeous!  I have absolutely no regrets in this purchase.  Not like I ever do, lol!  I do still wish he could have been a full normal Soseo, but honestly?  Haseo is so bloody breath-taking that I’m okay with it!  He’s just a bit more gentle.  Man, why do all my bad guys need to look so gentle? haha!  I really wanted to try him on a body so… poor Rem got bumped.  Remiel, who is staring at me from the table beside me bodiless~  Ah… Rem… my love~ *_* 

    Anyway, Kor looks perfect on the Mirodoll 66cm body.  I mean, perfect!  Future purchase will be in the works.  The Switch resin is a slightly lighter color and not as pink, but will be unnoticeable by the time he’s got a faceup.  Plus, it matches the other Mirodoll resin color I have more, but I believe this pinker shade is their new standard.  The head range of movement is amazing and not sueded.  I’ve popped in those brown default Iplehouse eyes that came with Bael and gave him the random beige-ish fur wig that I got for free with Briean, for now.  None of which match his character at all, but at least make him feel less than empty.  Goodness, I’m just loving him so much!

    If things work out, I want to try painting him today.  And hopefully finishing Bael.  Man, while I’m at it… I should just paint Sorde as well and them my demon triumvirate would be complete…. @__@

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    Apoxie Sculpt Tinting Experiment 001

    Cross-posting this from DoA.  Thought I should probably share here, hehe!  There was a small discussion about tinting Apoxie Sculpt to match resin colors.  Talking about the acrylic inks made me curious… so I did an Apoxie tinting comparison test, lol!

    From left to right:
    Liquitex Basics – Burnt Sienna
    Liquitex Heavy Body – Quinacridone Magenta & Bronze Yellow
    Liquitex ink! – Burnt Sienna

    I used white Apoxie Sculpt. I could have added a bit more of the Basics to the mix before it got too slippery and over-added the Heavy Body when trying to mix up a second batch of the color… and made it a bit too pink overall, lolz. I really need to buy me some Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber in heavy body~ /o\ The ink took it really well! It’s lighter, but this acrylic ink is transparent. The color is smooth (less marbling) and blended better than the Heavy Body and Basics into the Apoxie. I don’t have any of the opaque acrylic inks on hand (except my black I believe) to try how it might differ. If I have time later I’ll try mixing my black with the Burnt Sienna and seeing how it goes.

    The color did work really well with the Apoxie! At this color depth it wasn’t slippery at all. I’m not sure if I kept adding more of the ink to the clay if it’d get darker, but I think adding in one of the opaque and/or also adding in black would be more efficient in getting the darker tone.

    I still have a Minifee Karsh head waiting on me to finish modding his eyes, so this might be the push I needed to try tinting the clay to match, hehe! Not to mention I’ve been wanting to mod the ankles of my Mirodoll 60cm girl body feet so they don’t sit so deep inside the ankles…. =wibbles= And fix those knee backs on the new 1/4 girl body!

    So many projects, so little time~!

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    Quest for the Ultimate Grail

    A lot has been going on for me the last few weeks.  So much so that posting about the most important arrival to the Ends of Fate crew had to take a firm back seat.  Today, I finally had some time to sit down and let you all know about the most wondrous event that has taken place this month – the END of Tasia’s Quest for the Ultimate Dollieh Grail!

    When I first entered into the BJD hobby I started as an admirer.  I was in college at the time and BJD’s, while highly desirable to me, were ultimately not first priority.  At the time there were very few companies selling our resin lovelies and the prices were, for the economy of the time, pretty high.  So, I gazed longingly and told myself I had plenty of time to acquire one – no rush!  Then after graduation things were busy and crazy!  When they calmed down I decided I would at least pick which BJD would be my first when I had time to buy one.  It came down to a tie between a Luts Cerberus Project El and Shiwoo.  Inevitably, the Shiwoo stole my heart the most!  El came second and I immediately put him on my then empty wish list, which would eventually grow into the current, large behemoth that it is now. 

    In 2006 I had begun to save up for my first BJD purchase.  However, major family crises kept dipping into my non-essential dollieh funds, wiping it out completely multiple times.  The next year I made a major decision – I would get one of the cute 1/4th BJDs I had been eyeing that was less than half the price of the Shiwoo I wanted so I could at least have one on hand to “play” while I worked on the Shiwoo fundz.  My brother and sister were teenagers at the time and also interested in BJDs, so I decided we would all share this little one.  This is how Kah’zril Lan’feh, our precious DollZone Megi, came to live with us and become more important than we could ever imagine.  This year will mark 10 years of Kah’z being part of our family and I will be writing an extended post about him and the meaning of dolls in general in a few months to mark the anniversary of his arrival. 

    After this my family was hit hard.  Acquisition of any more BJDs was a future goal, but that was okay.  I’m crazy patient and I told myself I had all the time in the world!  A year passed and I saw that a rare, limited, hand-crafted BJD head was available for sale.  I had fallen hard in love with him and didn’t want to pass the opportunity up, so bit the bullet and splurged for him.  I’ve never regretted that decision.  Later, he became mass produced and insanely popular, but my Remiel was home and that’s all that mattered to me.  Years passed before anyone else came home.  A chance viewing of a second-hand marketplace let me see the moment O’dan was put up for sale and I had no compunctions on buying him.  $30 including shipping was an insane deal!  Then back on the frozen purchasing plan until my Shiwoo could be realized.  By this point I had also added the Dollmore Black Lilis Liv to my WTB list and both cost about the same.  Just when I had about had the funds to buy the limited Liv, she sold out.  I was crushed, but I reasoned I could still get my Shiwoo… then another family crises and he slipped through my fingers.

    But it was okay.  He wasn’t limited, nothing to worry about….

    And then the contract with CP and Luts fell through and all CP Delf sculpts became discontinued!  So, I picked myself up, said I could wait until Fairyland released him since they had been re-releasing the older sculpts.  During the wait I started picking up more random heads and adding to the EoF crew.  Yet, he was never released.  I didn’t buy him second hand because one of my stipulations had been having waited so long, I wanted him brand new!  But he was never released.

    The sculpts began disappearing from the second-hand marketplaces and I had waited too long.  Then, CP released they wouldn’t be re-releasing the Shiwoo sculpt… and I was crushed!  I stared trolling the second-hands, but they were never what I was looking for.  I got lucky and found a vampire head and got to bring him home! But always missed the listings for a normal Shiwoo. 

    For a long time I had lived vicariously through others that had Shiwoos.  Enjoying and loving him and, believe it or not, never jealous.  I had truly believed that one day I would own one, even though it had been so long. 

    Last month when we had our meetup we had a miniature Shiwoo meet.  I was surrounded by lovely Shiwoozles!  On the way home, while sitting in the passenger seat, I surfed the second-hand marketplaces.  Not really expecting to see anything of interest.  In fact, I think it was more of a lark than anything… and saw a posting for a Shiwoo!  It had been there for two weeks and I hadn’t even looked.  I thought about it, checked in on it to make sure it was legit, and warred with myself whether to wait another week until payday and risk losing him or tap into my savings and just bring him home. 

    Finally, I contacted the seller for extended questions and her responses tipped me over the edge.  I bit.

    And after 11 years, brought my normal Shiwoo home!

    In many ways this Shiwoo was perfect for me.  It felt like he’d been waiting all along.  He was 11 years old, bought the very same year I decided to purchase him and started saving for him.  He had his original factory faceup (the dreaming Shiwoo style) and though I didn’t want pierced ears, they were done by Luts and professionally done.  She even kept his original Luts acrylic eyes, which he came with.  He was gently played with and in amazing condition.  Mellow-yellowed and kept in a box in a closet for the past 8+ years!  He was a one-owner doll and, irony of ironies, her very first BJD.  He still had his original paper work, too!  Only thing he lacked was the top of his original box, but I got the bottom and the cushion, lol!

    The only hitch was some damage… but in the inside of his headcap.  The pegs had been broken off and reglued (almost identical to the vamp head, lol) and the neck mechanism had the corners snapped off.  The owner said she can’t remember what happened but believed it was a fall.  There is no otherwise damage whatsoever.

    I couldn’t be happier than a clam!

    Now, Briean, my bebeh boy, is complete, and home, and my Ultimate Grail has been achieved.  And while it may have taken me a decade to receive him, he represents more than the acquisition of an object.  He represents years of hard work, hard times, perseverance and great patience.  He’s more than my “gold star” and certainly not a trophy. 

    Like many inanimate objects, he’s a manifestation of mile stones.  And a sign of greater things, more than just BJD, to come.

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