Hey! Things look different! The spam problem got out of control- somehow old posts were turning into ads for casinos and on-line medication sites. We shut down all comments and posting, changed over to WordPress and now hopefully all is better. There is still work to do, and I lost some archieved posts, but we’ll go forward.
Here is the article about blogging that appeared today in our local newspaper. Only slightly embarrassing.
It is suppose to get really cold tonight, a real hard frost, so I have picked the last few flowers in the garden- the ones that made it after the last, not quite so cold night. These roses are so fragrant- they perfume a whole room… but they won’t last long.
Here are pics of some more mini dolls. I think I’ll have about 20 for the show on Wednesday.
I am so impressed by what Kerstin of At My Knits End has been writing since the election. I’d link to a specific entry, but everyday since election day has been excellent. Wow!
I’ve started an album to put photos of my holiday inventory. Everything is $32 each- the dolls and the pins. I experimented with ways of showing scale… it is very hard. Got any opinions on what works best?
I am working on inventory for my next event- a sale called
Girls Night Out. I did it last year and it was an exhausting but successful event- that was when I sold my first doll!
I am working on bug pins and the little dolls. I hope to get a photo gallery of 2004 inventory finished over the week-end. I will post when it’s up.
I have to admit that I am finding working on these production items a dead bore… so I’m working on all kinds of things at the same time- that’s how my work area gets to be such a mess. I do bugs for a while and when I can’t stand it anymore I go over to the mini-dolls. I have all kinds of partially finished projects spread on every flat surface.
What I really want to be doing is making more big dolls, so I am letting myself work on these 2 kiddos, a little every day. It always amazes me how different they look in a picture- it really helps me to figure out what areas of the painting still needs work.
Don’t they look kind of sad and cranky? That’s how I’m feeling!
Have you noticed that cool little map on the bottom of the links? It shows what parts of the world readers are coming from- really neat!
I have been working on my links- adding and subtracting… sometimes I think I curse people when I link to them- I add them and they never post again! Pretty amazing considering my (not) vast readership.
I get tons of spam comments. Many every day. I have decided to close the comments on any posting that is more then a month or so back… if anyone is desperate to contact me they can email. We also get tons of spam on our stats… It is really no fun to try and figure out the stats when obviously it is all image theft and on-line gambling… but I can’t do anything about that.
I appreciate any blog that made me laugh today.
and here for some inspiration…
Japanese Dolls on the Western Toyshelf is an amazing site with tons of reference pictures. I love these dolls.
Dollmasters has a beautiful catalog, full of large, color pictures of some wonderful dolls and toys. It is always a treat when one shows up in the mail. You can also see it on-line but it is not quite the same. This is a picture of a doll by the German artist, Peter Wolf.
They have some Gail Wilson dolls and animals and one of them-
made me think of Loobylu’s A Month of Softies challenge… which I am thinking about doing- way in the back of my mind. This is such a busy month already…
Okay, this is the closest to politics I will ever get on this blog- don’t read if you don’t want to know… I am feeling very sick this morning.