#the doll buddies

[therubberotter]

It's been a loooong week, and the weather was so rainy and cold...Alma and I decided that a sleepover was the answer to chase those Sunday scaries away!! ✨

[edlucavalden]

Oh my god.. this post was cooking i had to..

[lover-of-mine]

Okay, can we discuss the way Eddie automatically assumed Buck asked him first and his own girlfriend was the backup for the weekend plans before he knew they broke up? Not for a second that man thinks that Buck's girlfriend is already busy and that's why Buck is asking him. No, no, he is the priority and the girlfriend is the backup plan.

[animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

[beamiesbuddies]

Part 2: A Dream of an Autumn Garden

A few more photos of Mr. Morpheus, continuing from my post here!

As I said on the other photoset, I'm very happy & proud of him! I'm happy I decided to take my time to get him just how I wanted & edit the photos I took nicely. I hope you all love him too. Sweet dreams~

I have included a bunch of Cool Facts about how I made him under the cut if you are so inclined!

Started: Late Jan 2022 / Finished: Dec 30 2022

Approx work hours- 273 hours (worked on average every 3rd day out of 274 days; averaged 3h/session)

Times I remade something because I messed it up/wasn't happy with it: Hands- 2; Feet- 2; Head- 2.5; Body- 1; Clothes: 3

Pattern: trial, error & determination

Height: 3ft tall

Materials:

stretch jersey knit (body)

polyfill (stuffing)

brushed out acrylic yarn (hair)

star sapphire x2 (eyes)

pipe cleaner (hand armature)

wooden dowels/18 gauge wire (elbow/arm skeleton that keeps snapping I may add)

acrylic paint/pastels (shading & details)

acrylic thread (body sculpting & upper eyelashes)

stretch velvet/velvet burnout, cotton (clothes)

Fun facts:

his look was inspired by his overall appearance in the comics; I particularily like the depictions done by Jill Thompson, Mike Dringenberg & Marc Hempel!

his arms and legs are jointed in the same way as many teddy bears are: you use a washer, nut & bolt to butt-up the limb against the body internally and it gives the limbs full rotation. First time I have tried the method and it's definitely something I'll try again!

I had no idea how I was going to do the inset eyes, but I was determined to have them as some sort of stone. I had to redo his first head completely because I cut too far in! Eventually I got it to work by creating a "backcushion" with clay for the stones, and then closed and sculpted the eyelids overtop to secure them in.

You can't see in most of my photos but his eyes are star sapphire: when light hits them correctly, it causes a ✨to appear just like his eyes in the comics~!

making his hand & feet were a challenge, especially thinking about where to put the needle through to sculpt tendons, nails, etc (and also deciding how detailed to get without looking strange). I think I learned a lot tho and I'm very proud of the hands

my favorite sculpted parts are the collar bone/chest, the right hand & the nose~

because the skin is white, he gets very dirty with his black clothes, so I had to line all of them in white. He also has to soak in bleach once in a while to maintain his complexion (LOL)

A signature somehwere on his person xD

Thank you all again for your nice tags & comments so far on my work. If you guys would like for me to share some behind the scenes photos of this photoshoot, or WIP photos of me making him, let me know and if there's enough interest maybe I'll make a post down the road!

[littleplantfreak]

if you’re not selfshipping with your friends and making you two besties in-universe while you’re romancing your F/Os then what are you even doing?

[military-newsboys]

Tommy: I’ll pick you up at noon tomorrow, for dinner.

Buck:  At noon?

Tommy: It’ll take us time to get there.

Buck: To get where?

Tommy: To my favourite restaurant, El Cafe Cubana.

Buck: And where is that?

Tommy: Havana.

Buck: Havana, Cuba?

Tommy: Right.

Buck: You wanna take me to dinner in  Havana, Cuba?

Tommy: Well, why not? They eat in Cuba, same as we do.

[therubberotter]

These pics are from last Monday, I thought they looked so aesthetic together! And they sum up that evening quite well.

I was so happy to get Coconut and Sombrita!! They need loads of cleaning and some work, but I just couldn't pass the chance to get them. They're very rare to come by in my country. These babies will be a fun project 😁

[skulkingfeline]

[shiftythrifting]

Cool and/or interesting things I saw on my last few thrift/yard sale adventures

(I wanted that frog pot but he was missing a big chunk of his foot)

[gurlypop]

The only person standing in your way is you.

[animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

[ultrabrite-dl]

So I found this little guy while I was out?

He looked lost and thirty so I brought him home and gave him a bit of water

...ok, maybe it was impolite of me to eat those crisps in front of him....

Aww~ he's drawing something for me!

Huuhhhh....

BITE ME ONE MORE TIME AND YOU'RE GOING IN THE OVEN YOU LITTLE SHI-

[beamiesbuddies]

Part 1: A Dream of the Trees

He is known by many names- Prince of Stories, Shaper, Lord Morpheus, Dream of the Endless - but many a child 'round the world hearing stories at bedtime know him simply as The Sandman.

It's my pleasure to share this project with you after sitting on it for so long! The Sandman (Neil Gaiman) is a profoundly important & personal piece of literature to me, & Mr. Dream such an important figure, I absolutely needed to bring him into the waking world. I worked, reworked & re-reworked on my interpretation of him until finally saying "done!" in December of 2022.

I learned so much about what I could accomplish sculpting with fabric, I'm very proud of him & love him terribly. I really hope you will enjoy him too!

(more photos to come!)

[tips-tiny-workshop]

✒️✨Brush Bugs are finally ready to adopt!

Now they ALL have hats!! I’ve restocked old hats & added plenty of new ones 🤭

You can find them in my shop!

[decapod-appreciator]

My izutsumi doll is officially done! I'm so happy with how she came out, I'm gonna try to get better photos of her later :3