I’m absolutely addicted to the ABCs for ABJDs thread on DoA. These are pics of resin-kids which in some way depict the letter. You’ll get the ideal. I love going up there, seeing what letter is waiting, and seeing if I can come up with something on the fly…but I’ve got a few that have just occurred to me and are waiting for the chance to get posted. Anyway… Wiishu and now Pookie love doing these. I’ll periodically repost the slide show as I add images to it. There’s some duplication because I’m going through and trying to get the captions incorporated into the images. Eventually, I’ll have them all a uniform 600×600 and have updated the posts and there’ll only be one of each. In the meantime… Have fun!
I LOL’ed at the deadly diminutive dinosaur devouring a dolly. Any explanation would just dig the dungeon deeper.
I eyed the extraterrestrial. I checked out all the others too.
Regarding the P for Perrier: If pint-sized Wiishu pours in that much Perrier, he will learn a new meaning for P is for Perrier! Then you might have to call him Whizz-shu….
He will, however, be heavily hydrated hilariously.
LOL!
Be warned. Soon as I get done sorting through my scarf drawer, fabric stash and notions cache, you, as the seamstress of record, are gonna get such care package. . . .
Zigzagging on a Zeppelin while listening to “Stairway to Heaven”? I thought the Deadly Diminutive Dino was hilariously scary. I looked for “Cat” in the Christmas Cactus because I thought it was Tink, and lo and behold, it’s Eushu in the foreground. Hidden in plain sight.
These are wonderful!
I think the Dino one is winning so far on the funny chart. Was that when Wiishu was still uncertain about Pookie?
Oh, Pookie’s wig is AWESOME!
I’m talking about the one with the short dark purple in front and the long lavender/grey in the back. GREAT stuff!
Thank you! He’s only got one. It’s reversible.
I made it pretty much the minute he got here. I got these cool weird fur samples and had three picked out to see which worked best when he arrived and the purple eyes just begged for this one. It comes with the short purple pile and the long “feathers.” He has one grey streak where the feathers were just too random, but I think it just adds to the wonderful oddness. I got it here:
http://www.distinctivefabric.com/fabric.php?product=FEATHEREDFUR1
The nice thing is, you can get samples for $1 which is just about right for a wig! If you want to make one for a larger doll, even for Wiishu, I’d probably get two because you have to find the “spot” on the piece…when it’s these weird patterns
Ah yes, Distinctive Fabric. I got some swatches from them a few years ago. I need to do that again.
I’ve signed up for the fur wig making workshop at Dollacon at AKon this year so I can finally make myself sit down (or lie down the way I am right now) and play with fur and thread.
I really like the big blue eyes on that dino, and the nasty, pointy teeth……hopefully, it isn’t biting too hard on Pookie’s head.
Isn’t he kewt? I trekked out to KMart before Xmas looking for Wiishu’s new electric guitar and discovered their sale toys shelves. I refuse to pay more than a couple of bucks for a Wiishu toy…and there he was! I guess there are others in the series, but he’s called “growser.” You open his mouth and he growls and yips as it closes…then he purrs as his head nods. He’s really very cute. And yes, his “bite” looks much worse than it is.
“D” was available and I’d already used the “dinobuster” on the scavenger hunt, so I didn’t want to reuse it…and I glanced at 2Shus for inspiration… there was Growser licking his chops…
At first, I thot it was going to be Wiishu feeding Pookie to Growser, but he sat on his butt and started pulling, so I figured he was trying to rescue him instead.
Pookie, of course, just started riding Growser at the first opportunity (Note “ignore”…he was trying to get Wiishu to notice his new conquest. :D)
Hath yonder mini minstrel heard the T. of Rex playing “The King of the Mountain Cometh”? It seemeth appropriate, somehow. One expects such a callow lad hath not yet.
Somehow or other I missed the “A” picture. Where did you post it?
Do you really have a desire for more fabric? I have a WOL-sized quantity of random things that might be good for BJD clothing, but if you don’t want to be overwhelmed with fat quarters, I completely understand.
P.S. Lieutenant D’kaan has been painted up, and the next step will be her uniform(s)! Gray tabby with mittens and a nose blaze.
Oo oo oo! Pictures?
I’m open to Stuff, if you want to get rid of them, as long as you don’t mind if some of ends up in the Methodist’s garage sale. I’m doing my own purge this year of STUFF, but it’s with the idea of focusing my round tuits to a handful of keepers…the dolls, my ships…I’ve got two of the plank by plank models I’m determined to build… and narrowing what I keep to those things in keeping with those projects.
Wiishu doesn’t have the whole alphabet yet. These are just the ones I come up with for the DoA game. Eventually, he’ll come up with something.
Always Awesome (Wiishu in general)
Almost Armor (when you’re working on some for him)
Aggravated Antihero (Halloween costume)
Advertising Adoration (Wiishu doing the ‘cute’)
I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with her!
I’m waiting on some gray fur I have on order, to see if I can give her a proper ‘mane’ (a la Pyanfar!) She may look better as a shorthair, but I won’t know until I experiment some. Is there a guide on posting pix or links to pix here? Thanks!
Those plank by plank ships can be incredibly beautiful, but they are a time suck.
Pyanfar! Awesome!
I may have to nudge Emory at Junky Spot to nudge Hujoo to cast a batch of Freya and the upcoming Freyr in tan ABS so I can make a Hilfy to go with a Tully.
I think some of the things I’m sending you would make fabulous “glad rags” for Morgaine.
BTW, and off topic, but this link: http://phoebeallens.com/
is to a webcam with a live feed on a hummingbird’s nest –She appears to be a calliope hummingbird (species) She’s located on the west coast (PST time, GMT+8).
@Jane — Random color question: What is the RGB or hex for the theme’s dark red-violet or magenta/purple color, please? Why do I ask? I have a story character, a woman officer who’s (somehow) in an “aubergine” jacket. Of all things, I did a wiki search for aubergine (color) and came up with a link to red-violet, then to the color “eggplant.” (Aubergine is French for eggplant, but somehow aubergine sounds so much more exotic.) They say #614051, rob( 97, 64, 81), which seems more grey than I want. Other references seem to be near #660033, rob( 102, 0, 51 ). Hah, so I’m trying to find it. I may very well buy a dang eggplant at the store and scan the silly thing!
Related, I had in mind to draw her with the coat/jacket draped over her shoulders. (The old pose with Khan in Star Trek II came to mind.) But without looking at a reference, hah, the draping came out looking … just awful. If I do sketch that again, I may end up taking a photo of me with a jacket for reference. I am, however, really not the right build. Not exactly “busty.” LOL. Plus, the moustache just would not be a good look for her, even if she needed a moustache to twirl. (Hah, though some of those Blackbreech hani….)
Is your computer screen a PC or Mac? Mac (as much as I can’t stand the OS) monitors are colour accurate for printing. What you see is what you’re going to get. If you’re on a PC, the colour will be different on every monitor.
My old laptop is a Win7 PC. My new desktop is an iMac. I’m still getting used to the “new” Mac. (I used to be a regular Mac user, 80′s and 90′s, but that was before OSX.)
Colors on the Mac (and on an iPad) look “warmer” in general, while on the PC, yes, it can vary wildly…especially if someone fiddles with their monitor settings.
Add to that, I’ve had a slight issue with my own eyes’ color perception. I know what it is, but apparently, there’s not a compensation for it. My color perception used to be darn near perfect. Now, I catch myself with colors between orange and pink, and between cyan and green. Very, very weird when I first began noticing. I *think* it may have swung back toward normal a little more, but it is not where it should be. (I’m relying occasionally on where I know a color’s numerical values are, and how some colors are visually, perceptively very close anyway.) But… it is freaky to deal with.
I think I’ve got the color range for aubergine right, though I’m buying an eggplant tomorrow. Hey, you weird purple vegetable, you’re, you’re…*dinner*! (After suitable reference photos and some color sampling.) :LOL:
moustache, mustache, my browser’s spell checker doesn’t like either one. My internal editor speller says mustache, despite what the browser did to my post above.
^ moustache — always looks like there should be a mouse involved. Possibly not a good thing….
Good News / Bad News — went to the store, forgot the eggplant; but I’ll have errands the first part of the week, so it will still arrive.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes — OR — Attack of the Killer Eggplants! — Eggplant Pod People Invade! — Honestly, which vegetable would scare you more?
Heheheh.
Eggplant, because tomatoes have thinner skins and you can ‘kill’ them more easily.
BCS, the eggplants I see in the stores here are a nearly black deep-purple. I’m not quite certain of the shades in purple, violet, magenta etc. so purple might not be the right name for this colour, but the point of this observation is that the colour of the real vegetable is (much) darker than the colours called aubergine in the clothing stores. I’ve also seen both a very dark blue-purple jacket ànd a middling dark red-purple sweater labelled as ‘aubergine’ in clothing stores, though the last was too reddish a purple to be called aubergine by me. So, scanning in the vegetable might not give you a colour anyone else would call aubergine or eggplant, unless the eggplants in Texas are less black than the ones in Holland!
Really, the vegetable is more like black with (maybe) a purple tinge, rather than a shade of purple, while the clothing called aubergine is definitely not black, but always a shade of purple (or magenta or violet or whatever the name is for that shade: as I have a PC even looking up the English colour names doesn’t really give me any certainty).
Funny language thing about purple colours: English uses more differentiated words for shades of ‘purple’, even the USA abbreviation ‘Roy B. Giv’ (for the colours of the rainbow, for pre-schoolers) already recognises one more colour in the rainbow than Dutch children learn: red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple is what we’re taught as kids, and though artists use names like violet, lavender and lilac, kids use purple (“paars”), and maybe red-purple or blue-purple to denote a difference for which English has names like magenta, violet and indigo.
I only read them in books, where there is no colour reference, or online where the PC screens make colours unreliable – so somehow those names never really get settled into my mind as definite colours.
BCS (and everyone) Sorry. I’ve been sans-computer for the weekend. Took the computer; forgot the power cord. Oopsie
Anyway…the background color is: #38033b
I’m going to try and link an image of an eggplant in here to compare colors, monitors being totally unreliable!
Hmmm…I’d say, my b/g color is definitely aubergine! Cool!
Hanneke: for the most part, English speakers learn the same rainbow. I think the differentiation of colors…esp the pinks and purples, has come in primarily since the sixties and usually in conjunction with fashion. My initial reaction to your comment was that it began with ‘hot pink’ and has gone from there. It’s curious that by far the greatest differentiation does lie in the purple tones. You don’t really hear people talking as much about different greens blues, reds or yellows…isn’t that weird….
And your eggplant vegetable really is aubergine in colour as well!
Much more so than the ones I see here, which look like this: http://www.vitaminevoorthuis.nl/webshop/groente/aubergine–courgette/detail/90/aubergine-per-stuk.html – maybe a different variety?
Aha, thanks for the color. Yes, that photo matches the usual eggplant here. The wiki article is neat, too. (The white eggplant variety explains why the English named it an “eggplant.”) For “aubergine,” I tend to think of an eggplant’s color, if you get the stronger, glowing, jewel tone, a deep red-violet, without the white highlights or very black shadows. Put an eggplant in a good surrounding bright light and avoid strong highlights, say in a sunny picture on a counter by a window. I think now I have in mind the color I need.
There was a big deal about “teal” and several kinds of blue-green / green-blue in the 1990′s and 2000′s, when the color became a huge hit for cars and clothes and other fashions. That color is cyan printer’s ink plus some yellow and a little black, to give a vivid green-blue / blue-green color.
I’d tend to agree on “hot pink,” which to my mind is essentially magenta, defined by the printer’s ink.
Most American (and English) children learn about 11 basic color names, and everything else is a more specific color name. If you look at a child’s set of crayolas, map colors (colored pencils), or watercolors, you tend to find, in America and maybe most of Europe, the basics minus white and grey, plus two colors commonly used. The basic 11 color words kids learn are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and violet are about equal except when you get specific, pink, brown, black, gray / grey, white. Those common coloring sets usually omit white and grey, and the pink is sometimes “pink” and sometimes magenta, and then they add either light blue or cyan. (Note magenta and cyan are specific, two of the basic printer’s inks used in four-color process printing.)
In the Roy G. Biv mnemonic, I read that comes from Sir Isaac Newton’s day. He chose to call blue the more turquoise, aqua, cyan hue, and indigo (like blue jeans or navy and marine pea coats) was the darker blue. But most English speakers don’t regard indigo as a basic color word. It’s more specific.
Then things like beige or khaki are common, but not as basic. “Tan” and “beige” and most colors have a range. — But most European languages have some commonality in how we divide colors. — And in art, especially painting, artist’s oil paints and watercolors were taken mostly from Italian and Dutch masters
so there is commonality there too.
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Hanneke, you’d asked about confusion over English distinctions for colors near purple. I can clear that up a little. “Purple” and “violet” are somewhat interchangeable at the most basic general level. But when you get more specific in describing colors, English speaking people will tend to say that “purple” is more a red-violet and “violet” is slightly more blue, and the technical color theory words use violet as the basic secondary color, so you have red-violet and violet and blue-violet. People’s concept of “violet” is not as blue-violet as, say, an African violet, the common flower. People’s ideas of color associations do go back in history, which explains the purple versus violet difference.
Lavender and lilac essentially go back to the flowers. “Grape” varies a lot in design and fashion, by which period of time the color word is in fashion. In the 80′s, it was a strong, medium pastel tint of violet, nothing really like an actual red or purple grape.
The dark red in the Star Trek uniforms from movies II through VI, the original crew, is called the “monster maroon” uniform, either maroon or burgundy. I would say maroon is a little more red-brown and burgundy is a little more red-violet. For Burgundy or Bordeaux, those words really go back to the French wine regions. “Wine” is from real red wine, deep red-violet.
English has brown, yellow-brown such as yellow-ochre and raw sienna, to red-brown such as red-ochre or even browner and burnt sienna.
Then if you get into light browns, English goes crazy with color words. Trying to pin those down exactly tends to go into people’s opinions, and into fashions in clothing and shoes. English borrowed several of those from French. (Khaki is from Hindi-Urdu, beige and taupe and écru are French. There are also bone, stone, string, natural, and so on.) Then there are ivory and cream and vanilla. English has severe trouble when you get into brownish-greys and greyish-browns. At least twice in my lifetime, and once more in my grandmother’s, they tried to use “greige” as a blend of “grey” and “beige,” but it has never quite caught on.
There are a whole set of color words specific to horses in English, traditional, going back to the Normans, Saxons, and back to when the English, Dutch, and Germans were the same group.