Strike 5, chapter 3.

Chapter 2.

I can't believe it took me over 8 months to do 1 chapter :(Chapter 2 of Strike 5

Game night

This set of pictures was created to show off the board games that I got for my 1/6 tenants.

Pepper and John are playing chess. Emily is reading a magazine, paying attention to the game at the same time. John's King is in check.

Kurt wants to play connect four. He is not a big fan of chess.

It's not John's night at all. Kurt beat him 5-2.

Emily's favorite game is scrabble. Here they are setting it up.

Motorcycles

So, since no one in my family got me any 1/6 stuff for New Year's, I figured I'd do it myself.
I got these:

Left to right: Iron Legends Orange County Choppers, Iron Legends Arlen Ness, NewRay RoadRider Indian and New Ray Honda.

They are all bloody amazing and are exactly what the characters needed. So, I gave them to my bike-riding crew.

Jaimie got the first one. She wanted a sports bike, so that's what she got.

Andrew had to have the Indian. Just look at him.

Shane got the Arlen Ness. His older brother was a motorcycle enthusiast and passed this on to Shane when he died a few years back. Shane takes amazing care of it.

The Orange County went to Pepper. It's the smallest bike, and due to her articulation being less then I'd like, it's the only one she can ride. It fits her though.

It's March 8th!
In Russia (and most of Europe) today is celebrated as International Women's Day. In my country it is traditional to get all the important women in your life something nice for this day: flowers, chocolate, presents. I guess the closest American holiday to this is Mother's Day. But hey, I like Women's Day better.

Libby (with Pepper's assistance) gives her
mother a bouquet of flowers.

Rachel does not smile much, but she is
actually very happy.

Pepper is very proud of her niece.

Family portrait.

So, to all the ladies out there - Happy Women's Day.

~Kat.

Red Carpet

As we, in the bigjob world are preparing for Oscar night (annual celebration at my house), my dolls take the time to do it as well.

Rachel, a big movie enthusiast
(don't get her started on Steven Spielberg, she hates him),
 all dressed up for Oscar Night.

Rachel with her almost-three-year-old daughter Libby.

I should have probably started a blog prior to posting things on flickr, but hey, who knew it would be frustrating that I can't share my doll problems with people in the real world (No, that's not true. I can. They just make faces and have no idea what I'm talking about).

Current problem.

Pepper, who is a Skipper hybrid with 11 points of articulation. She, in my opinion, does not have nearly enough motion range. Being the main character of my story, she needs to have exceptional range. She is also supposed to pretty short, tan and sort of flat chested, all three of which are covered by the current body she has.
For the last couple of days I've been exploring other body options. What I would love to have is a 25 cm obitsu marrone with the small chest. However, they don't exist. As a result, I have a Volks Neo EB-A coming in the mail in a few days, but it's going to be too tall. I've checked out Kurhn (not enough range), Pullip Type 3 or J-doll (their legs are so skinny! But I'm betting on a type 3 body anyway, maybe I'll like it more in person), Pullip Type 4 and Momokos. The last two seem like they would work the best. However, the Pullip stock bodies are not sold separately (or if they are, I can't find them) and Momokos are damned expensive.

So, while hitting my head on the wall (metaphorically, I like not having concussions), Pepper is going to have to stay with a limited articulation until I either spring for a Momoko or until Obitsu starts making darker bodies.