Dollieh Sanctuary

Check places like the 99 Cent Store for a product called Soil Love for the stubborn stains. With the MLPs I scrubbed them with an old tooth brush as well. A few of them needed multiple soaks with proper drying in between but most everyone came clean enough to pass on to other people with just Oxyclean and Zote soap.

There might be some secrets hidden in videos about old fashioned laundry routines. Wood ash, lye, ammonia and all that.

They're on the third round of oxiclean, and the stains are fading. I'm going to rinse them later and let them dry for a couple days, then hit them with the Zote soap. The issue is that the stains are definitely mouse droppings/urine, and I don't know how long they've been there.

Got sick (again), been in bed for four days, so the next round of cleaning and stain removal has to wait until next week.

This year, I'm doing a 52 week drawing challenge. My goal is to complete (sketch, ink, and color) one piece every 7 days. To assist in this, I'm putting myself on a ban of month-long daily drawing challenges, because I always get fried for 2 months after working on one of those. It will mostly be fashion doll fanart, knowing me, but I'll throw in other stuff at my whims, like this week will be a stylized self portrait.

I was able to buy some new shelves with a Christmas gift certificate for the doll room. My DH is doing most of the work to hang them, but I'm supervising. They will be for my Monster Hi, EverAfter Hi & Bratzillas. He's also fixing my shelf for all my warrior women dolls which was sagging a bit and needed some drywall anchors.

ETA: Here's a picture of the shelves all filled. Forgot to mention they are the new home for the 11" Disney ILU4ever dolls too. The old warriors' shelf is warped and will need to be replaced eventually, but at least it's not going to collapse now. Loving the new shelves. Just the right size!

NuShelvesFilled by Kenai Queen, on Flickr

An Adventures in Wonderland March Hare, and probably a Hatter, are now in mind when I can get doll making again. Trying to decide between sculpting a Hare head out of clay, one of my PTE guys looks enough like the Hatter, or doing him soft sculpture.

I'd love to have doll shelves like that in the new place but we've decided we're only hanging things with poster tack there. The Kallax aren't coming with me either so I'll be in the market for an all new (to me) way of displaying my dolls that won't fit in the doll house.

Since I'm pretty sure my original Usagi head has been sacrificed to the cat gods under the couch, I started rooting a new one. The rooting is almost done, I just need to thicken the part line. The problem with yellow hair is that it's a little translucent and makes thin spots REALLY obvious.

It is Femslash February! So I want to do fanart, fanfiction, and photo shoots of my dollies in sapphic relationships!

Man, I wish I could get out to my workshop and get pictures of my girls, too . . .

Usagi and Rei's hair is almost done, as far as rooting goes. Minako and Makoto are next. Still waiting for Ami's hair to arrive.