The sun starts heading toward the horizon and lighting starts getting... interesting. I am still SO happy with my new camera. T_T My old one would never have taken non-blurry shots even in this light - which is still plenty of light really! Sony is LOVE!! :D

We passed by some flowers near the mall and stopped for a quick Ani shoot. Flowers have been amazing this year - it's all the rain, I'm sure! Non-stop freaking rain... but these flowers loved it, anyway, they were spilling over the planters on all sides and SO vibrant... Have I mentioned I like vibrant colour? ^^

DoA 12-picture post: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=318543



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And that's it! Wow, what a day. :3 Was good times. Enjoy? <3

Wandering home, we found a bit of green space in the urban jungle and decided to exploit it. >3 I like vibrant colours - reds, greens, etc. in my backgrounds - can you tell? I love how the dolls' colours pop against them. Speaking of popping colour, Keeley's cute lil' knit is courtesy of miffimifster. It's totally cute and fits perfectly. I <3 hats. :)

And yes... she really is balancing there - all on her own. :D I kid ye not. :3


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Took Aniqa and Keeley to work yesterday and spent the evening wandering home, taking pictures, missing buses, taking more pictures... ^^; It was fun. It was such a gorgeous day yesterday! It was nice to be outside. :3

I got some cute pictures of the two sisters, I think. I'm trying out new eyes in Aniqa - a gorgeous purple pair I traded for last weekend. They are so pretty... Not sure if they will stay, but I like them better than her defaults, I think - not sure... I have yet to really find a pair of eyes that scream "Aniqa" to me, I really have no idea what colour I want her for. XD So it's mostly trial and error trying to find the perfect pair for her...

I also got a new outfit for Keeley - at the same meet - and OMG it fits her so nice! XD It's a DZ outfit, so it should fit, but it's amazing... Keeley has clothes an' all, but most of it is 'a little off here, a little off there, a little tight here...' It fits okay, but not perfectly, and this fits perfectly and is cute to boot. I am ecstatic. :)

And okay before I ramble too much more, on to the pictures! I'll split this into 3 posts so it doesn't kill anybody's compies (there were lots of pictures I liked - I took 450+... I was out a long time... >>).

If anyone wants to wait a bit, I'll be posting on DoA after I post here and that post will be limited to my favourite 12 from the shoot. I'll link it in post 3/3.

Let's start with the obligatory dolls-on-a-bus photos. XD


( this post: 20 pictures total, mostly bus piccies )

Post 2 = change of scenery and even moar commentary! :3

So I went to Ai-Kon all weekend (anime convention) and guess what I did? I took pictures of Pearl... before I even got there. Go me! XD

Random pretty:


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That's it for today. :)

I took a shoot of my little ones the other day, Aniqa (SDC Renee), Keely (DZ Feilian), and Doyle (Hewitt 2). My Mini Fae (not minifee - Mini Fae XD because they are all supposed to be Fae (their characters) and they are mini-size ^^).

I took a bunch of just Keely after, too, but I want to get some icons done for her before posting those - I'm just doing lots of nothing much today - surfing DoA every hour or so in hopes of a Pearl and otherwise just anxious and not knowing what to do with myself. :\ So I share pictures. ^^

Actually, it's a PhotoStory (haven't done one of those in a while ^^). Just a short lil' one, though. :3

* * *

It begins with Aniqa and Keely wandering around in the snowy trails deep within Fae woods, the crunch of their footfalls loud in the hush of silent snow. Keely's steps are regular, slow, soft... distracted. She is a delicate thing, rosy skin pulled taught and almost translucently pale over strong, but thin arms, as if the flush of her cheeks were merely the colour of her insides filtering through to the outside. Large eyes, bright sea-green, are wide, sharp, angular face thoughtful, mind wandering with her gaze, elsewhere, and her slender fingers twitch at her skirts and twist absently in her hair, ribbons of ruddy-red dripping silken through her touch.

Her sister is loud, in contrast, Aniqa's steps quick then slow then quick then slow, as she runs away to peer around every corner then back again to walk for a while beside her sister only to run off once more. The sound of her excited jabber drifts across the snow like birdsong, a quick twitter of words almost too fast to follow, cadence musical, lyrical, rising and falling as she has to speak louder further away then quieter when she returns. The words are not English, nor are they Common Fae, they are Brixie, a strange and alien twisting of Pixie chatter and a Brownie's slow-as-rock rhythm. Keely's replies fall like a counterpoint, softspoken and distracted, as oft spoken in the completely opposite direction from her sister as towards her.

It is a strange thing, to think of them as sisters, but related by blood they are, at least through their father, anyway. Aniqa's dirty-blond frizz of hair comes from him, as do her yellow eyes and muscular, stockier, if lithe and completely female, build. She is the picture of health and vitality and compared to her sister's wan and birdlike frame, the differences are clear. But still there is something akin in them, they are completely even in height, right down to the barest millimeter, and they have the same, twitchy curve to their lips when they smile, though in truth, it is the more boisterous sister who smiles more often. But the one, almost tell-tale and completely obvious sign, of kinship in them is the care they clearly feel for each other, the protective air that hovers around Aniqa whenever she is around her sister - or not around her, too - the care of a sister for her own, younger, prone-to-wandering, totally innocent one. And the way Keely looks to her sister, following her lead, safe in her older, bolder protection, yet still quietly showing care for her sister in return, as well, in her own way as she can.

The two, together, are more than they are, apart.

Keely: Ani?
Aniqa: Ya?
Keely: Do we know where we are, Ani?
Aniqa: What are you talkin' 'bout, 'course I know where we are!


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So... yes. I did say in my Unoa sales post (;_;) that there was a rather erm... expensive reason for my newest foray into seller-dom. ^^;;; And there is... I haven't posted pictures on my L.J. yet about her, because frankly I have just been very very busy (which is also why I am SO behind on my f-list - sorry guys!) and I've kind of felt like I've been going from project to project for days. o_o Exhausted every day... But it is time, I think, to introduce the newest member of my crew.

I haven't been gushing about her - or I'm trying not to, because I am still oddly afraid of like... saying I like her too much and then not liking her or something. >< It's ridiculous and I'm pretty sure it's unfounded, but selling Shea, and then the Unoa girl... it's starting to feel like... well, frankly, I kind of feel like I Fail. ;_; Like somehow it's my fault that I can't bond with these gorgeous dolls. Because I do think they're beautiful... but when I pick them up, I don't feel the connection I do to my Volks. I love looking at them and taking pictures of them. I even loved having them with me or around me when I bothered to pick them up... but I simply don't connect with them. I don't understand it. And it makes me scared that it could happen with my other dolls, or any new dolls I get - Volks or not... so... I'm trying not to gush. I don't want to feel like some sort of liar, either... I know I said I loved the Unoa and Shea and then I turn around and sell them... it just doesn't look right and I felt like a hypocrite. Even though I truly did love them as dolls. Beautiful dolls... they will be missed (at least a little...). Anyhoo. I'm rambling.

But... I am very very happy. :3 She makes a wonderful addition to the crew and has been quite comfortably draping herself all over anyone who will let her, putting her feet up on the furniture and razzing Doyle, since she arrived. ^^ Shea and the Unoa never did this... they spent their time together in the little bed-setup I have beside my dresser, away from everyone. Another thing I never really understood when I had them. It was like they didn't mix with the others, or like their characters were not in their dolls enough for their desires and actions to express themselves through their real-life doll forms. If that makes any sense... ^^; *sounding crazy again, aren't I?* She is Aniqa. More than the Unoa girl ever was - although looks-wise, once in the wig and her fist hands... dang was it ever Keeley - Aniqa's sister, who the Unoa was supposed to be, all along - but still, when I pick her up, Keeley just isn't in the doll. Anyway... so the Unoa is going. The new girl is staying, Aniqa successfully reshelled.

And now after all this long-windedness and crazy-talk, I give you pictures. ^^ These have been up on DoA for a few days, so I apologize to anyone who's seeing this twice, but...

Tada?


( 12 total - Yes, it's a RENEE! )

Anyhoo. :) I'm pretty happy. ^^ Totally makes up for missing the Volks After-Event for her when I had the chance at a retail Renee. XD She came pretty much new-in-box - the girl I bought her from had never opened her before o_O - which was Yay! I didn't get the feeling she was a scalper, either... she hadn't sold any other dolls on DoA before (didn't have any feedback at all actually - which is why the sale was a bit nail-biting XD but she was good to deal with ^^)... but she did make nearly double retail. So... good for her? ^^; I'm happier to play with her, myself. :3 Much happier. I don't think I could ever keep a doll in their box... But at any rate... this nearly-double-retail doll is almost, I'd say, like 80% of the reason I am selling the Unoa. The Unoa... is almost pretty enough that my not bonding does not matter. Almost. But the not-bonding is the other 20% of the reason. :( At any rate, she will go, Aniqa will be loved. :3

Hopefully everything works out... ^^

Yay~

I do stupid things when I'm bored, god... T_T I feel like I should write. I have the time for it, and I want to, but my brain is not working. T_T Have only been up for 14 hours, wth is wrong with me? o_O I'm so... bleh, today. I have no motivation to do anything. I woke up this morning at 10:30am 'cuz the Father was much with the noise-making. I'd only been asleep for maybe 5 hours at this point... I was up for about a half hour then went back to bed for another 4 and now I've been for 14 and all. freaking. day I've just been a total space cadet. *_____*

Sucks.

And since I'm spacy and bleh and can't seem to bring myself to do anything actually productive I've spent the whole day browsing my f-list and DoA and looking at pretty pictures... and wanting things I can't afford. It's frustrating. I want to DO something. ><!

*sigh*

The weather is also very stupid, at the moment, as we got about 10 centimetres of snow over the past couple days, which kinda melted and turned into freezing rain at one point and coated the roads/sidewalks/everything in crunchy white. The cold has also accompanied teh snow. Like duh. It's almost MAY for pete's sake! Why is it snowing?! D: Isn't global warming supposed to be making things warmer? Surely, this cannot be right...

Oh. And guess what? -_- Y'know the new girl? >> The one I said would definitely not be going anywhere... ya... she's got to go, now. See, here's the thing... a couple dolls came up for sale lately, dolls I just... really wanted, and have for a while... and a certain someone kept asking me if I would trade my Unoa for one... y'know... hypothetically. My response to at least one was... HELL YES. It was like I didn't even have to think about it... It kinda saddened me, actually... ;_; But when faced with a choice between Volks A that makes me whimper with need... and... the Unoa (as a doll)... there just isn't any kind of competition there. This is the fact I have been forced to face. T_T

I am such a Volks whore. >>; Don't hate me. :(

I do like the Unoa. She's super cute and poses really well and I love her slouch... I also REALLY love working on them... o_o I love the fact that she is MINE. I put her together and I still plan on blushing her and giving her a mani/pedi and redoing her faceup and doing the other Bully face and and and!! It gets me totally excited. ^^ I love it.

But... it's the faces, again, I think... >> Something about the Volks sculpts (and clearly, for me personally, some SoulDoll ones because Con's still here and I adore him, right? ^^) just have so much personality. They draw me in and I get sucked right into the characters. ^_^ ... Sadly, I don't get that with the Unoa mold. Just like with Shea, I do get a brief impression of a personality, but it's quieter. They're mostly just really, supremely pretty dolls. Gya~~~ If it weren't a choice, like if I won the lottery and could have all the pretty I wanted, I would keep them ALLLLL~ D: But I can't. There's always choice. Doll A or Doll B. Bummer, eh? ;_;

Now, Aniqa is totally talking in my head. I'm not saying she's quiet... but... like, when I pick up Ni, the doll, she'll comment on like... everything. It's distracting, really... >> If I'm watching t.v. and holding her, I'll hear her thoughts in my head (I'm strange, I know, anyone figuring this out for the first time, please don't be too alarmed, okay?). She's very connected with her doll form. Which is why every time I've considered switching her for another mold that I like better... I just can't. Ni is Ni and she's a Mimi13. She is her doll. If I changed dolls, she would change. I would lose my Ni. Unacceptable.

With Aniqa... and this Unoa doll... it was like I get the impression of another character, but she's not... attached to her doll form. I see no problem in getting another doll and having Aniqa move shells. And if I got her a Volks shell... one that I SO want and have been KICKING myself for missing the after-event on since freaking Christmas DX ... I think she'll be more at home in her doll-form and... sink in better? She will be her doll. Now, she's not really... she's more like a shadow.

That said... the Unoa is freaking pretty. >< I love her shape (cuuuuuuuurves~ I cry ;_;), and she's a decent weight (though not heavy enough, quite, for my Volks-whore tastes). And like I said... I love that I MADE her... That was so awesome and I would totally do it again. O_O

Gya. I'm totally wavering. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I've managed to jump in head-first yet again... in my impulsiveness... and essentially made the wavering pointless as now I really will have to sell her... Fark.

I might have kept the Unoa if I hadn't seen... her... but... ah well. ^^;;;;

Yes, I'm being cryptic again. >> But it's all so very up-in-the-air at the moment and maybe I've just talked to Miss Nyx too much and absorbed her phobias but... I dun' wanna say nothin' 'til she's hooooome~ D': I don' wanna jinx it. o_o No jinxing!!! O_O I'm freaked out enough by this whole sale as it is...

Anyhoo. I have time, still. Planning on waiting 'til her wig gets here, SOON, hopefully. -_- And her extra parts (also, hopefully, within the next week or two). Blush her, wipe her face, sand her face smoother, redo her face (nicer, hopefully ^^;), her Bully face... mani/pedi all her hands and feetses... and she will be going as a fullset with her one outfit. XD Ironically, all this work to be done has me SUPER EXCITED :D I swear, I love doing work on these guys... ^^ But the prospect of a sale has me wondering if I really have to or if I can get away with keeping her... >> ... ... I don't think I can. ;_; Fark. Ah, well... *sigh* No rush, though... this sale will be for maximum fun (on my part, with all the work) and maximum profit. Will post about it when I get around to it...

Aniqa, the character, will hopefully be re-shelled. :3 Yay~ She really isn't going anywhere...

But damn... that was quick, wasn't it? Felt like I just got her and was so excited and now she's pretty much gone, as a doll, in my head... So sad.

Okay so here's one I really wasn't expecting. XD Lord knows I'm a fan of impulse buys, but you throw in a bargain and I'm pretty well doomed... ^^



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