Super Dollfie Display Cabinet (of epic proportions)

Super Dollfie Display Cabinet
Super Dollfie Display Cabinet

Glass Display Cabinet

It wouldn’t be holiday without a Craigslist run.

@Organtitus is disassembling it to get through the kitchen doorway. Or we would have to bring it up the big front stairs. It is a big baby! 48″ wide x 32″ tall x 30″ deep. Luckily he didn’t know it wouldn’t fit through the kitchen door before we brought it home. But it is through now and he is reassembling it. It is big enough to fit a super dollfie sized room! Something had to go though. Bye bye antique trunk, I traded you for something see-thru.

Glass Display Cabinet - with legs

Happy Decoration Day
Happy Decoration Day!

Hypermaniac Claudia

Hypermaniac Claudia
Hypermaniac Claudia – Artist’s Photograph

I am delighted to announce latest release of my long hours of labour, Claudia, capturing a story of a girl who is neither living nor dead.

In a tranquil manor of the 15th century,
There lay a fair white skinned girl with enchanting golden eyes and golden locks, named Claudia.

She comes with a new slender type body with a small bust, replacing our previous androgynous type body.

Early on during my yard sale yesterday Claudia (by Hypermaniac) arrived! I barely had the energy to open the box after the sale, but did. Claudia is stunning! This is the first time I’ve opted for a Hypermaniac faceup and I’m so glad I did. Gorgeous, and highly detailed. Saddest face in the world. We’re gearing up for a bunch more events this month, but am trying to find time to loll around with my dollies.

Hypermaniac Claudia
Hypermaniac Claudia – Artist’s photograph

It has been a four years since Hyperdolly has had any releases. I understand she was busy making babies instead. I’ve been lucky enough to pick up a few over the years since she’s been offering them on an english version website.

  • 2004 Ksy (Ondine Alice) – scored head and body separately on 2nd hand market
  • 2005 So-som (Dropsy) – ordered originally on official site, but she couldn’t fulfill the order. Someone took pity on me and sold me one 2nd hand
  • 2006 Muse (Dainty Fidget) – Finally! was able to order and receive direct from Hyperdolly
  • 2011 HaHanBi (On Flickr) – After a long dolly dry spell (we bought a house) I welcomed home HaHanBi
  • 2015 Claudia – Gorgeous! Claudia is similar size to HaHanBi, but with a more girlish body vs the previous child body.

Beautiful sculpts and expressive faces over all. Hypermaniac is probably my favorite doll artist.

Who do I still pine for? Sleeping Kakiva. Oh my breaking heart.

Hypermaniac Sleeping Kakiva
Hypermaniac Sleeping Kakiva

Crazy Pop Art Madonna Inn Enchanted Tiki Room

You guys! I got the most awesome curtains ever for the Rumpus Room (tv room/library) last night! Honest, I went in for some nice dark teal blue cotton curtains AND CAME OUT WITH FIESTA COLORED PARROTS!!! So. The room is going crazy pop art Madonna Inn Enchanged Tiki Room. That’s a thing, ain’t it?

Check out the pin board where my evil plans are slowly being realized.

Parrot Bird Ornithology Curtain

Parrot Bird Ornithology Curtain
Cost Plus World Market

Now I want to bring it down a notch with a big teal/turquoise over-dyed peacock green rug.

The walls are light green.. which will really make all the ikea lampshades I got POP!

And this is just me dreamin’ but I really am dying for this chair. Cuz, HELLO.

Fuchsia Nina Chair
Fuchsia Nina Chair

BBC’s Wolf Hall and Princess Kaiulani

Heart & Country, Career & Family.

Musing as I’m watching another pair of period drama trailers: do I need to write a dissertation on why female rulers must always choose between their “heart” and their country? While their codpiece bedecked brethren are assumed to be in control of both (Ok, ok, so Henry ran into a spot of bother on this one, but if he/she’d just been willing to SETTLE, etc, etc)? Rings familiar to the Career VS Family we’re all supposed to be struggling with. My curiosity is more on the “how much is literary/cultural construct” VS reality.

Wolf Hall (2015)

Source: Madame Guillotine’s Wolf Hall on BBC2

Princess Kaiulani (2010)

Note: I have seen neither of these yet! Will remedy that STAT.

6 Common Design Mistakes You Can Fix Today

Kluttered Kitchen Pano

 (apartment therapy)

Ooooh, I’m going to study up. Guilty on all counts!

  1. Too much kitchen counter clutter
  2. Bad furniture and/or seating arrangement
  3. Too much clutter on tabletops
  4. Bookcases not thoughtfully curated or styled
  5. Bad lighting locations
  6. Art hung too high

(ok, now where’s that “I don’t give a cup of fuck.” meme? I know I laid it around here somewhere, but with all those cluttered tabletops and bad lighting locations, I can’t find it!)

Evelina vom Krampus: rings in the holidays!

A couple years ago I begged Paul Kaiju (http://www.paulkaiju.com) to do his magic on a dollfie dream body so I could have a Devil Girl in vinyl along the lines of his Yooskie. I’d had my heart set on a Delf Winking Ari head JUST as Luts discontinued her. Wah! But then… THEN… Nofunangie was selling her Winking Ari “Tankgirl” on the promise that she would be totally wiped and live no more. Mr. Kallisti did so, and sculpted some devil girl pointy ears on the head, while I bought my Brother in Law’s Dollfie Dream 1st Edition body (optimum for the doll anus in the sculpt. I know, I’m funny that way).  We inset magnets into her forehead, Mr. Kallisti did quick horns. There will be more.

Face-up by me. I promise to take more pictures of her, Evelina is RAD!

More pictures of our Holiday palace at Casa de Crockett!

New Beginnings!

Despite the sleepy blog, we’ve been quite busy in Blastmilk Land. THINGS are AFOOT, sweetie!

After nearly 7 years at my last place of employ, I’ve moved on to a new position as Web Development Consultant for Oxygenee LTD. & Absinthes.com. For those who don’t know, for many years I hosted an absinthe information website & community at FeeVerte.net. In 2005 it was taken over by our good friend David at Oxygenee.com. I’ve always said if he had enough work for a full time developer to give me a call. Well, it finally paid off and I’m working for this small eclectic Absinthe company located in Germany, France & the United Kingdom. All from sleepy li’l Crockett!

Here’s my carefully crafted wee home office. Purple desk thanks to Ikea’s new Isala.  This is located in our Rumpus Room.  Originally I was to put the office in the doll room, but the dolls kicked me out of the nursery!

Neeeext… since I’m working from home now what better time to adopt another rescue chihuahua! So here we are, introducing KING RUFUS!

Adopted from the Contra Costa Animal Shelter (I got Zillah kitty there earlier this year) on October 11th. He’s approximately 2 years old and was captured as a stray wandering open areas in the county for 2 months. He’s very friendly so we assume he’s been socialized and had family at one point. He’s 3.10 lbs! But we’re fattening him up to a nice 4 lbs.

As always, we want to make an effort to post more, but I can always be followed on flickr, or Facebook, or Twitter etc. links in the right column. I’m dribbling doo-dah there all day long.  When I’m not working or walking the dogs!