Of Arrivals and Face-ups

Bo finally arrived home a couple days ago and is he ever the cute wee one!
I had him borrow a yukata from one of the other kids here and, though I had ordered a pair of eyes for him, the ones I found in me Jar of Eyes is a definite keep for him. I don't really have a clue from where they are from but I'm almost 100% certain they came along with one of the guys here at some point or other.
Sadly the weather is all gone to shits with plenty of rain and cold and zero sun. I would really have prefered if the weather hadn't turned for the worse as I'd have loved being able to start painting him.
Anyway, here's the kiddo with his adorable pouty lips and button nose.

I'm going to be buying a few pairs of extra hands for him as I'd like some more natural hand poses besides his eternal peace signing and pointy finger on the other hand.

Now I'm just wanting for AC to send Jack on his way. The only thing being a hindrance for that is EndlessBJD not having finished up on my order of a dress, that even after over 3 months. It's getting a bit irritating as I had actually thought it'd be finished in time for when Jack would be sent on his way up here. It's why I ordered it, now I'm regretting it a little. Just hope they'll finish up on it soon as Jack is simply waiting for that silly dress to be completed. Would be nice if they had a notice board or a banner saying they were behind schedule, very busy because of a lot of orders, I'd understand that, but they haven't any of that. It's not that I'm made purely of impatience, but after 3 months one would expect an order to be finished, or am I wrong in thinking that?

Also recently got a few faces painted and I'm nearly finished too. The weather was amazing last Friday, blue skies and the sun high in the sky. I got some paint in those cheeks of Harry Potter and Minoru.

Upon painting Harry I noticed his one nostril being larger on the one side compared to the other. Hadn't noticed this back when he was blank. For a split second it bothered me a little but then I thought, to heck with that, he's perfect anyway! And then later that night I came up with a brilliant explanation as to for why his nose looks like that. He works as an Auror, accidents happen, they're bound to, some shit went down and he hurt his nose and before Mediwizards could get to him Muggles had brought him to a hospital and stitched him up. Shit happens, no?

Also, just look at those Scarlet Johansson lips, they really look something fierce like hers if you ask me and I can't unsee it. Perhaps it'll change when I add some more detail to them but I doubt it.

It's a shame one can't really see the blooper on his chin from where sealant did something weird, instead of thinking I had to remove it all again I instead embraced it and thought, hey melasma! I really want him to have a very soft expression  and love how it's turning out so far.

Also tried my hand at a third one, but, eh, it didn't really, uhh, well, see for yourselves:

I couldn't figure out at all what I wanted for him so I just went berserk and did whatever, and I don't even know. This was me not even being serious and part of me had hoped it would spark something in me but nope.

After wiping his face clean from that disaster up there I got the idea to do something inspired a little of BlueOxyde's boys. I sadly haven't had the chance to do anything much because the good weather didn't stick around after Friday. At least now I have an idea of how to paint him.

Of new arrivals and a bit of splurging

Because of my tax returns I could finally pay up on this cutie patootie from a friend of mine in the Netherlands. He was just too adorable, those chubby little cheeks, button nose and pouty lips, couldn't stand for it! When I expressed my interest they were so grand as to hold him for me and said I could take as long as I needed to pay them. Hadn't expected to have him home for some 2-3 more months, but hey, luck shone my way :D
Also went ahead and splurged on some clothing, eyes and a wig for him, though all of it won't arrive before who knows when exactly. The clothing was some 5-8 weeks, eyes are little over a month perhaps two, and the wig 1-2 weeks tops. Waiting times aside it needed home nonetheless! This little guy, if all goes according to plan, should arrive home next week at some point. Can't wait to greet him and have him meet all of his new little friends along with everyone else here! Precious little ankle biter ♥

Merida of Dun Broch

Got Merida painted not too long ago. It's 'only' been 3-4 months since she 

came home and started feeling bad for having her laying around as a blank

 face for so long. So yeah.. First things first; I got her eyes opened at long 

last, she came home with her eyes closed as I wanted to decide for myself 

how big they were going to be. Had to drill a bit from the inside to hollow 

out the eye sockets a bit and after I outlined the shape I aimed to make. 

Here with the first one opened..

Then the other..

Got out the pastels, brushes and got down to business!

Blush work down, moving on to the freckles.. 

As she's not quite the same age as in the movie I figured she'd have a lot
more freckles coming to since then.

The eyebrows wasn't as much of a pain in the ass as usual to paint and
found they came out pretty decent, definitely getting better at
painting them ever so slowly.

Some gloss and eyelashes in place later she could finally get back on her 

body again sporting her untamable mane of curly red hair gazing out 

on the world with her blue eyes.

Now I just need to sew her her dresses to be able to really show her off.

Merida of Dun Broch

After having watched Brave a handful of times back when it got up on NF I started getting the idea to find a suiting sculpt for Merida. This idea grew until I started looking around for an actual sculpt as well and some 3-4 months back I also found one. An AngellStudio Dana which with a few modifications here and there will be just perfect in my eyes as the 16 year old fiery redheaded wee lass, Princess Merida of Dun Broch. Going to sand down her nose to make it more button like, lips needs to be rounded off some more and her eyes needs opening.

Her eyes, which are already on their way, are from Mako and from their Owl series. Found the most perfect wig at etsy which are also well on it's way here.

 

First time ever that I've felt excited about getting home a girl and she will get to be the only one, any other girl dolls I see I just want to put their heads on a male body xD