Miss Fae (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} weetziefae) wrote,@ 2005-08-01 15:59:00 |
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Those of you who have 'known' me for awhile know about my ball jointed doll obsession, spurred by the artist Hans Bellmer and egged on by a love of all things japanese. I have wanted a Volks Super Dollfie for quite a few years now. On those long nights of dial-up, the girl that originally and permenantly laid claim to my heart was mimi, an SD10 with an F-13 head (first incarnation: Mimi original second incarnation: Mimi new make-up). I lusted and lusted and added her to my oh one day some day some how........
This past January, I decided the time had finally come for me to get my girl. The timing and reasons and finances were all wrong. I was lonely and unhappy and wanted something to replace that feeling...so i decided not to get her, though i did make some connections, but lets not give away too much, too soon
While in Japan, I e-mailed angrybutter as I emailed her in earlier in the year...due to a great deal of help and enabling fromblastmilk and gothiclibrarian, I knew Miss Sandy had an F-13 head that she did indeed want to sell. A girl love's paypal! Also, while in Japan, i bought and re-sold a super rare blythe, Parco and made enough of a profit to fund my super dollfie dreams, if i bought her used and in parts....So one head down, only needed to find a body.
Within a few weeks of being back in SF, i found a body for exactly what i wanted to pay; a lot less than she retails for...A LOT!
By the middle of july, i had my dollfie! She came quite filthy and tightly strung: a girl can get anxious without a head! I took her apart and she cleaned up beautifully with a little Bon Ami cleaner and a toothbrush. I wrapped all of her pieces and bits in vintage hankerchiefs and put her in a violin case i scored off of FreeCycle. Last saturday, I climbed on an East Bay bound bart to goto Mr. and Mrs. Kallisti's house for Super Dollfie Academy. After a fun day running around a Asian Strip Mall, we got to work!!
here she is, in pieces, waiting for her frankenstein resurection!
Photo by blastmilk
Here is what an SD f-13 head looks like without any esthetics. This is Mrs. K's girl fifi before she glamed up, but my namelessgirl looked about the same when we started with her....
I wanted to do as much of the face-up as poosible, and Mrs. K was a very very patient teacher. She put up with many: AHHHH! AM I DOING THIS RIGHT?!!
So far, so good.
What's a hard day of painting and blushing dollfies without a nice cool glass of absinthe?
Mrs. Kallisti painted her lips and drew her eyebrows and glued her lashes for me...the dollie and i are much obliged!
VOILA!!!
So much fun!!!
and this picture of fifi and miss no name, one more time:
It was so much fun. Thank youblastmilk!!!!!!!
I must pay homage to Mr. Kallisti, as well. He is my logistical hero! He cleaned her head up so nicely and washed the horrid mannicure she had off her little fingers! Then, he figured out how to re-string her and made her violin case into a carrying case! BIG MR. K HUGS!!!! THANK YOU!!!
This past January, I decided the time had finally come for me to get my girl. The timing and reasons and finances were all wrong. I was lonely and unhappy and wanted something to replace that feeling...so i decided not to get her, though i did make some connections, but lets not give away too much, too soon
While in Japan, I e-mailed angrybutter as I emailed her in earlier in the year...due to a great deal of help and enabling from
blastmilk and gothiclibrarian, I knew Miss Sandy had an F-13 head that she did indeed want to sell. A girl love's paypal! Also, while in Japan, i bought and re-sold a super rare blythe, Parco and made enough of a profit to fund my super dollfie dreams, if i bought her used and in parts....So one head down, only needed to find a body. Within a few weeks of being back in SF, i found a body for exactly what i wanted to pay; a lot less than she retails for...A LOT!
By the middle of july, i had my dollfie! She came quite filthy and tightly strung: a girl can get anxious without a head! I took her apart and she cleaned up beautifully with a little Bon Ami cleaner and a toothbrush. I wrapped all of her pieces and bits in vintage hankerchiefs and put her in a violin case i scored off of FreeCycle. Last saturday, I climbed on an East Bay bound bart to goto Mr. and Mrs. Kallisti's house for Super Dollfie Academy. After a fun day running around a Asian Strip Mall, we got to work!!
here she is, in pieces, waiting for her frankenstein resurection!
Photo by blastmilkHere is what an SD f-13 head looks like without any esthetics. This is Mrs. K's girl fifi before she glamed up, but my namelessgirl looked about the same when we started with her....
I wanted to do as much of the face-up as poosible, and Mrs. K was a very very patient teacher. She put up with many: AHHHH! AM I DOING THIS RIGHT?!!
So far, so good.
What's a hard day of painting and blushing dollfies without a nice cool glass of absinthe?
Mrs. Kallisti painted her lips and drew her eyebrows and glued her lashes for me...the dollie and i are much obliged!
VOILA!!!
So much fun!!!
and this picture of fifi and miss no name, one more time:
It was so much fun. Thank you
blastmilk!!!!!!! I must pay homage to Mr. Kallisti, as well. He is my logistical hero! He cleaned her head up so nicely and washed the horrid mannicure she had off her little fingers! Then, he figured out how to re-string her and made her violin case into a carrying case! BIG MR. K HUGS!!!! THANK YOU!!!
