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Fibers, alive, alive-o~

By Tasia Chiba | August 16, 2016 at 10:48 am | Leave a comment

Popping in for a smallish update. I still haven’t had a chance to take photos of all the new goodies around here, but I have been slowly working on processing a new batch of alpaca fibers I received last week. I ordered another round of fibers from WoollyDelight seeing as how my first order was so amazing. This new one is apparently from the first shearing of a baby alpaca and the fibers are just so incredibly soft and silky! Absolutely amazing! I also ordered some of the long, 11″ish fiber locks in this order. They are also suri, but not quite as silky and strong as the baby.

Along with the processing, I have experimented with some coloring jobs. If I ever want pure gray/silver hair, at least I now know how to achieve it. Oh wait, do I hear Eylyn calling me? lol~

I’m still dealing with this up-and-down bout of sinus infection/allergies I’ve been coping with all year, so what little bits I have been able to do are the fiber processing. There’s a lot I really want to do, but hard to work on things when you have blurry vision. >_< Like, I have this perfect Betty Boop fabric I bought to do a stupidly simple ’50s Rockabilly style dress for Jacera et al…. and I can’t even get the pattern finished. bleh~

All in good time, I suppose. In the meantime, I’ve gone ahead and made a HUGE Captured in Glass eye purchase. 8 pairs of eyes this time around, good goodness! Two of these pairs are for my mother’s as yet still unnamed Mirodoll Lili. She couldn’t decide between green or blue, so she’s got one of each! They’re also custom sizes, 14mm with 6mm iris’. She has such a fun eye size~ OTL

Purchase order is as follows:

The ET 74 eyes at 12mm fit either Inathé or Graeme, and since I couldn’t decide which should have them, they’re kinda a toss up. I can’t wait to see them in person, though! They look really gorgeous online.

And that’s about it for now. Let’s hope I feel well soon enough to do some proper photos of my backlog, lol!

Eventually, I plan on taking step-by-step photos of my alpaca processing to make a guide and whatnot.

Until then~

Mirodoll Bodies Have Arrived!

By Tasia Chiba | July 19, 2016 at 11:13 am | Leave a comment

My package finally came yesterday! I had a doctors appointment and hadn’t been feeling good, so no postings until today. Took photos, but need to get them on my comp and sommat edited before upload. But excited and happy! Had issues, but at least things are in hand. No samples, though. =sighs= Jacera’s head is on her body, she’s dressed in boy clothes, but she looks gorgeous! I need to order her eyes, and she’s stolen Rem’s wig, but I’m just so enamored by her. Amazing what putting her on a body and being able to stand back can do!

Mom loves her Lili~ Was looking at wigs on her own, heeeee~~ And she’s super cute in person! Had fun trying heads on her today and more than I thought would work! Sooooo, going to add two more female bodies to the list. One for Inathe and another for… shocker here… Abrethine! I popped Abby on the body and… she’s literally perfect! Honestly amazing. Will post photos later, as well.

Now… to stop staring at Jacera! *___*

Fibers From Wooly Delight

By Tasia Chiba | July 15, 2016 at 1:30 pm | Leave a comment

My suri alpaca wool fiber package from Wooly Delight on Etsy arrived today. I wasn’t expecting it until tomorrow, but it showed up today! The packaging was, well, okay. Although I did slice into the fibers cutting it open, and I’m crazy careful! O_O Either way, package is opened and fibers freed! And oh, my, they are so lovely! The critters these came from are beautiful~ I immediately separated some auburn fibers into individual locks and set about washing them. They were hardly dirty! I expected much, much more, but no muck at all! And super soft, way softer then my first batch of fibers. While they dried, I couldn’t help trying out the white fibers and… just wow. They whole process way easier than my first batch. However, these were waaaaaaaay dirtier than the auburn. I let them soak good, massaged the fibers to release more dirt, then rinsed them all. By the time I poured the dirty water out, I saw sludge at the bottom. The whole process was faster and easier than the first batch. The longer length definitely helped.

These fibers area also much more silkier then the first batch. Enough to make an impression, for sure. I’ll have to wait until tomorrow after work to brush out the auburn and new white suri, but I am SO excited over this! The brown is going for Jacera’s wig for sure! Not sure who all will be getting wigs from the white yet, hehe! I wish I had Indar’e because these fibers are PERFECT! Might try dying the auburn to a reddish black for Briean~ We shall see, we shall see.

Honestly, these fibers are so addictive! I got lots left over for roving or felting! *_*

On a side note… I FINALLY got my shipping notice from Mirodoll! =flails= Also… Apoxie Sculpt is in the mail. Been needing to purchase this for quite a while. Rujier’s been waiting forever for me to fix his eyes, poor dear. And now the F-09’s gonna need mods done, too!~

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