It's Like Magic

When I was little, I have vivid memories of going to the stores with my folks and peering from my tiny perspective at all the Christmas decorations.  The mall fountain was transformed into a winter wonderland of fluffy polyester snow and a wonderful plastic pine forest lit up with fairy lights grew where the old men took their naps.  The information kiosk was obstructed from view by Santa's thrown and giant cardboard snowflakes hung from the skylights.  It may all sound just a little crappy, but to a small child it was like magic.  The decorations layered on top of Sunday School lessons just drove the point home.  Miracles do happen.

Right now, if you take it all in, it is a little scary.  When you wake to words on the radio like gun, or fiscal or Lohan, you scramble for what your soul needs.  Sometimes it's a little hard to figure out what your soul needs though.  What's the answer?  I heard once to not figure out the answer, but to simply remember it.  At a time like this, let's remember.  Miracles do happen.

Just in time for Christmas, Poppy and BA take the three little ones to see Santa!  Thank goodness too, or I would have nothing to post.  A timely post from me... see Miracles do happen :)

Merry Christmas from SCD-  enjoy :)

The newest SCD models.  Poppy, Mira (Admiration), BA and three little ones.  

 Waiting in line for Santa,  Perry is doing a find job as Santa.

 Poppy!

Merry Christmas!

The Colors of the Wind... of Change

The winds are a-blowin'!  Autumn winds have brought a riot of color and herald the change of season.  Summer becomes fall, flip flops become boots and campaigning turns to some sort of cliff talk.  I love it, sort of.

If you know me, you know I'm a summer boy.  I love summer, the easy flip flops, the comfy shorts, the cold sodas, the lush plants, the singing birds and even the sunburn on my nose and shoulders.  As I get older, I am getting to appreciate autumn.  When before it meant school (which I hated), no more summer (which I hate), no more beach (which I hate the most), it now means, cozy nights, fluffy scarves and baking things in the oven.  If I ever had to rate autumn on a scale of one to ten, it would have gotten a solid six, now it's at a 9.1.  Not so bad :)  

With my new found appreciation for autumn I present SuperCoolDollHouse in the park.  You can even see the city from here, it's beautiful.  Imagine the cool crisp air, the smell of wood burning stoves and the colors littering the ground.  I also get to show off my new dolls and outfits.


See!?  Change.  Nice... and it's color infused... and it's windy... -enjoy!

OOAK horse, made by TRDN, hand painted, custom mane and tail.  

 Pocohantas and Captain John Smith revisted!

Hansel and Amelie, enjoying SuperCoolDollHouse City Park.

 Isha and Oakie the horse, Isha's sporting a few Color Infusion pieces

Pierre and Oakie, like Pierre's hat? 

The De Vries cousins meet in the park for a pre-Thanksgiving picnic!

WARNING:  the following bit is pure crazy OCD  doll nerd stuff, so proceed at your own risk

Back when Fashion Royalty had their convention, I was loving all the fashions coming out of the Tropicalia Color Infusion(CI) events.  I even bought an outfit... and this  started a whoooooole thing.  First I bought one of the guy outfits, and I hated all the boys from the convention, so I bought a nude Hansel.  Then, Hansel had to have friend, and I didn't like Gretel... and I had my eye on one of the older Color Infusion girls, Amelie and she was a great price... so long story short, two new dolls.  Both wearing color infusion.  Ugh, when I had them together, I didn't like the older CI fashion colors, they are to earthy.  The new CI stuff is so bright!  I shoulda' known by looking at the pictures, but a doll nerd can dream.  So I ordered one of the lady outfits, yay!  I'd dress my Kyori who has no default outfit in the old CI, and dress my CI Amelie with the new outfit.  Ugh... Amelie is a small busted gal, and Kyori is BUSTY, so no outfit upgrade there  AND the CI outfit was way to long for Amelie. #FAIL.  So I searched and searched for a gal outfit that would look nice with my CI guy outfit.  (this process usually takes 3 days, I'll either get lucky and buy something  or frustrated and buy something that won't work)  I was lucky and found a "Mighty Real Reece" outfit, and the price was right, so it too came home to SuperCoolDollHouse.  It fit, and it looked nice and yay!  Ugh... now I was stuck with a CI outfit, that wouldn't work the way I wanted.  Apparently it's for a body type I don't have in my collection yet.  Thpppppttttt...  I tugged and stretched and snipped, and nope, it would not go on wardrobe-less Kyori, poor girl.  I decided to hide it and pretend I never bought it and it never happened.  Ugh... but it did happen... (OCD much?)  So, I'm looking at my collection, shaking my fist, crying why doesn't it fit? WHY WHY WHY!?  Then I notice how I don't like what Isha is wearing next to Pierre (they are a designated pair here at SCDH), see it here.  She looks to frumpy.  So hazzah!  I did a little mixing, and they look awesome.  A lot of prest-o change-o but yay!  


P.S.  Kyori got a new dress too :)

Something Wicked this Way Comes

Happy Fall Everyone!

So apparently I'm the opposite of a fair weather blogger.  Last time I blogged, it was the SUPER HEAT  and now the east coast is expecting a DOOM STORM Halloween Week.  Sad Face.  Anyway, apparently the mainstream media always has to label EVERYTHING, "Wicked Weather,"  is the newest term assigned to anything worse than a rainstorm but not as bad as the apocalypse.  What a great time to blog, if only to take advantage of the obvious blog post title.

Concurrently, my internet friend Dana of A Philly Collector of Playscale Dolls and Action Figures is having a Halloween contest with rules and everything (including prizes).  I love her blog, and it's always neat to hear from her when I post.  I thought of all the things I could put together for her contest, and while driving home from work it came to me.  Here are a few of the cast offs I did during the photo shoot, be sure to visit Dana's blog to see the one I submitted... OH! and vote for me?  I think that's how it works.  Happy Halloween from SCD.  -enjoy

 "I think I hear something."

"REET REET REET REET"  as in the movie "Psycho"

See more photos at my Flickr!

HEAT

Guess where I live?  On the east coast, mid-Atlantic, Baltimore.  Apparently the devil hosted his annual convention around here.  What a party!  High winds, black out, and choking heat... and I mean HEAT!  On the upside, the humiture was INCROYABLE.  That's right it was so incredible I must express it in French :)  Am I being as smarmy as a hot day in July?  Any who, yes it was TERRIBLE (also expressed in French), but once I gave in to it, it wasn't soooo bad.  I ran around the house shirtless, doing chores.  Dusted, picked up, put away, folded laundry, hung a picture, did the dishes and put up a coat rack.  All things you can do without electricity.  The house has never looked so nice.  Yay!  Of course The Real Doll Nerd was not as forgiving as I.  He hunkered down in the basement with his Nook and read.  Every time I passed him with a cleaning implement in my hand, he gave me the side eye.  He didn't say a word, but the side eye spoke volumes, lol.  Mostly it said, "...you're making me hot, sit the f! down... please sit down"  


As the power came back on, we entered the July 4 holiday... and I ran down to the ocean for a quick get away.  Usually the shore is cooler, nope.  It was just as hot, at least the ocean gave us a refreshing reprieve.  The Atlantic ocean actually felt like bath water!  Crazy.


When it was all said and done and the temps dropped to the eighties, my BFF says, there are only two good reasons to sweat.  I new the first (HEE HEE), but what was the second?  His reply?  On the beach with your best friends around you.  I think that's really nice, and I'm not being smarmy at all. 


SCD presents "A Hot Day at the Beach."  Enjoy! 

Newest addition to SCD!  Summer Love Misaki

Of course, the dolls always bring a friend!  Brooklyn Forever Auden, sports Ken fashion, Barbie Loves Paul Frank.

Visit my Flickr page to see a few more photos :)