It's been awhile!

I admit I've let this wane a bit. Most of it is because I've been incredibly busy with school. I know, excuses, excuses.

Fortunately, this blog will now be full of pictures. I have my own camera! It's rather hard to motivate myself to sew when my cell phone camera (which, let's face it, is not the greatest) was the only thing I had. But now I can quite happily snap pictures all day long with my new DSLR!

With that explanation, it's time for a lot of pictures.



The first few pics were a bit hard to shoot.



...shortly after that, I discovered that the image stabilizing on my lens was still off. That helped!



A nice portrait.

Then Christmas came!



Annabel thinks this new girl has a fantastic dress, but is the worst conversationalist she's ever met. (I did try desperately to get the dress off. Unfortunately it's very much glued on. Sigh, sigh.)



But, Annabel got the tiny necklace that was supposed to be for it. HaHA!

(Christmas decorations are my mother's doing.)



Then I found...

...the pile of old Barbies from my youth. Much mischief managed.



"You mean people actually WORE this? Intentionally?"

"It was the early 90's, Annabel. It was a very, uh, different time."



"I can't believe anyone would wear this. I'm a sparkly, glittery mess. And the tights! No human being would EVER make such things..."

"Two words, Annabel: American Apparel."

"...point."



"I thought you said 'nice holiday portrait', not 'try to make Annabel look like a soccer mom' portrait..."

Silly comic thing...

Hello, Goodbye...

...as in, Hello from Emory instead of home -



as this cell phone picture from my dorm can attest. It's cold and blustery out there but so far my classes seem to be going well!

That's the good news...

The bad news is that the good camera is at home. Tomorrow I am trooping to the library to see if they have a setup for doing digital photography, however, if not, image quality will be... well, about as good as that picture of me above.

So with the wind sort of out of my sails, pictures may be few. All as well since I need to study. If I get really desperate for detail, I'll just SCAN Annabel...

But until then - 2 pictures from when I was still at home, and more from before.



Look! She can stand up in those shoes! (shamelessly stolen from another doll...)



I don't really like that top that much but oh well.

And from before...





This gazing globe was sent off in a trade but it sure was fun to snap a few pictures of it beforehand.

Goodbye, Sarah

Being into dolls isn't exactly a new thing for me. This is Sarah, my American Girl Doll that I got in about 4th grade.

Truthfully, she's the first big thing I have ever saved up for in my life. It's strange to realize you're about to give up the first Big Thing that you've ever gotten. I had her and I loved her, like any young girl would, but in retrospect I have a few reasons for being happy to see her go. Looking back I can see that I got her mostly to play with my best friend at the time, who, in that hindsight, wasn't such great of a friend at all. Being able to look at her and realize that, wait, those feelings of being excluded and upset were perfectly valid, makes them run a little afresh. Not a pleasant feeling.

But at the same time, it's giving up a major figure of my childhood...

...Yet I'm taking comfort in the fact that I'm not giving up on the hobby. My love for the hobby is very much renewed. I'm planning, if there's enough money, to perhaps save up for a digital SLR of my own so I can continue providing nice photographs, if not a lovely 60 cm satyr doll.

So goodbye, Sarah. It's hard to see you go, but you need to find a happier home.

Parasol! + Links?

Guess who found the paper umbrellas that she had gotten years and years ago in a pack of 100 for her barbies? Guess who discovered there are a very few left? :D Guessed right!! Now Annabel has a lovely new parasol. I'd love to do a shot of her a la Kaylee from Firefly, sitting outside the ship with her wacky outfit and her parasol... that's the first episode I think? Ah, I can't remember.

Also...

If you would like to link to this blog, I would be more than delighted - ditto for followers. I made this button for use on forums and if you would like to use it to link I would greatly appreciate it. I will link back as I can!