I took Nikolin out into the beautiful day today for a few pictures. There's no such thing as a bad one of him, but these are the best of this shoot. (And if you know me, you know I have something of a thing about this gate. If and when we move, I'm going to be stuck for a set. But not as stuck as I was today, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes while I took these. :p )

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Also, Kiriya's picture didn't win anything in the Ringdoll competition (and sadly neither did the picture I thought was best--and I don't mean mine), so here are the shots from that, as well.

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(Phew, I've got to get the stories all uploaded again. I had to hunt everywhere for those old pictures. :p)

I just now realized, in all the hoilday rush, I totally forgot to post the Nutcracker pictures here! I posted them on DoA and on our advent calendar, but forgot to do it in the journal!

This was my Christmas present to J, recreating her favorite holiday story with our dolls. It took a whole lot of sewing but I'm super pleased with the outcome (so much so that they are still in these outfits, though I'm probably going to change everybody today).

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Moar pictures! Lots of them, and big ones.

Nikolin, Tzeitel, Ilium, and Zuzu. ♥

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Our exhausting, 105-day wait for Tzeitel culminated today in an unexpected package notice, a post-office scramble, and the arrival of a doll we didn't even know had shipped. O_O I had gotten some craptastic news on a more creative/jobthing front today, so her sudden, unexpected arrival was just the thing to cheer me up, and take my focus away from unpleasant other things.

That and the fact that she is a stone. fox.

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We ordered a DoD Shall on December 16th. To spare you the math, that was 103 days ago. Fifteen weeks. DoD said last week that they would send her; they still haven't. We're not the only ones getting impatient.

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I didn't get a lot of pictures of the dolls in their Halloween getups, but there are a few. ^_^ We live in a historic downtown area that gets a hell of a lot of foot traffic for Trick or Treating, but we don't have a lot of space to store decorations so we never get to do up the front of the house as much as we'd like. (really the block goes nuts. It's like a block party.) So this year I decided to do up all the dolls in fancy dress and put them in our window for everybody to see as they stopped by for candy. The kids didn't much care; they were overstimulated already and only hoping for more candy. :p But the responses of the adults were awesome. ^_^

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We've been doing a lot with the dolls over here, but sadly, not a lot of photography has been going on! Or rather, I've been taking pictures, but none of them have come out too well. Nevertheless, in the poll I did there was a request for some introductions! While Nikolin (usually Nick, not to be confused with Nicodemus, who is Nico, sheesh) was introduced in the last episode of Highwater & Holtsclaw, nobody really knows about Zuzu except for those who helped make him a reality.

I'd planned to just have him appear in good time in H&H, without explanation, but with the speed I'm going on that it'd take forever. (I have the next episode photographed--it was done in July, and I've never gotten around to the scripting. sad.) And that's not really fair to little Zuzu. I mean, he's been here since late august, and no pictures shared! which is too bad, because he's so cute. If perhaps a little shy.

NB: we haven't seen the sun here in two weeks. ;_; So these are really dark since my unnatural lighting is limited. Also, I don't usually do the talking in any photostory, because I'm happy with the dolls inhabiting their own private universe, but that's hard to do in intro posts. ^^; thirdly, odd though he is, Zuzu is the only doll we have who is actually a child, so that's something I can't help playing with.

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Images are large. Please give them time to load. Also it's been a long time since I did these, so I basically had to relearn everything. There may be some discrepancies with text size, etc. I hope they don't detract from the story. In the works is a webcomic-style page which will make it easier to read the episodes in order. Also, that splash page image is not Ilium. :D :D :D

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