Wednesday's Child on a Wednesday

I have shown this sweet doll before, but thought I would take new photos of her today.

Wednesday's Child is full of wow, so must always have a hankie to catch her tears.

Wet Play Day

What to do when the weather is wet, dull and miserable?  Why play of course! Forget the house work, this was much more fun.

April was delighted to get back into her yoga gear!

Alicia chose a new outfit to wear.

Although comfortable enough in herself to be a little 'blue' in her dress sense, Blue is still rather shy.

She still seems a little unsure of herself and her surroundings.

The boys, Tom & Brian met up to do some skateboarding.

Penelope Bluebell went out to do a spot of shopping and saw Wren, Blue and Alicia chatting.

Parker walks home from College and meets up with the boys and Trisha

The Scooby Gang are discussing their next case.

April is still practising her yoga.

Peter S is wondering whether he can be bothered with a game of chess...not that he is likely to find anyone else to join him at this stage...

Nelson and Tane Mahuta are discussing the World Cup Rugby.

Pat-A-Cake

Florence has been teaching Oliver William how to play the clapping game Pat-A-Cake 

After a few false starts and some co-ordination blunders

He seems to have got it sorted.

Rugby World Cup

Tane Mahuta and his mate were very excited about the World Cup Rugby Match between New Zealand and Argentina yesterday.  They even forgot they were sitting on a PINK couch!

There was a lot of cheering and a few tense moments going on...

Tane got so excited in fact that he removed his leather waistcoat - most unusual for him to remove his 'leathers'.  Lots of cheering going on!

Yeah New Zealand 26:16

Wandering with Wren - Ashridge Estate

Just three photos of Wren's little wander around Ashridge Estate today.

The day was lovely and sunny.

Wren did a bit of location scouting...and thinks this has some great possibilities.

Outdoors in September - Two: Changes in nature

After a terrible few days weather wise and a day of continous rain yesterday it was good to be able to get out in the garden today.

The miracles of nature never cease to amaze when we discovered these fungi that had come up overnight.

Are they edible?

I am not sure, so best to err on the side of caution I think.

Look the leaves are also changing colour.

Isn't this leaf so pretty?

Changes at MakieLab

Things are changing at the Makielab and they are replacing the 3D printed body to an injection molded one to bring costs down to make these dolls more affordable to the younger market.  This means that whilst the heads will remain 3D printed the bodies will not.  Whilst I understand the reasoning behind this, I still think this is sad as the fact they were all completely 3D printed was what appealed to me and many other adult collectors.  It seems a shame it isn't possible to keep two options available...the cheaper IM body and the slightly more pricier 3D printed body.   

Because of this change it means that the white frost colour option is no longer available.   I decided to go for it and order two in this option as I didn't want to get further down the line and wish I had! They are yet to arrive, but here are their computer generated design pictures.

I decided to really max out the features on the boy as a complete change.  He probably won't keep this wig...but will wait and see.  Not sure what I think!

I also maxed out some of the features on the girl - so she should look quite different from any of my others.  Whether they will remain 'pure white' or whether I will dye them remains to be seen.

It will be interesting to see what they look like 'in real life'.

These changes have caused a considerable amount of what perhaps could be called 'panic buying' amongst the Makie enthusiasts and I think quite a fair few people have been ordering over the last couple of weeks when these changes were first announced.

I had a boy arrive the other day as I ordered some I had already designed in my account....before I decided on the white ones as I wasn't originally intending on ordering any white, but then thought it might be fun to dye them at some stage.

This boy has been called Peter Sinister - who can't help his surname, so prefers to be called Peter S for short.

He arrived without his clothes on....as a girls outfit was sent instead as requested.

I made him a pair of leather pants/trousers and he borrowed a sweater from Nelson, but he was not happy with this get up at all  - seems he knows his mind!  I said if he wasn't careful he would end up in spandau and skimpy tank top - like the heavy rock band Kiss wore!

In the end he deferred to a shiny brown pair of trousers.

These seemed to meet with an nod of acceptance.

A white shirt completed it.

He said this was acceptable for the meantime...

Seems he is quite strong minded and very hard to please - but then I shouldn't have been surprised!

I've got urm... uh huh, cough, cough...a few more to arrive....one went slightly awol in the lab and a search party has been sent out to locate him!

In the meantime I will be kept busy making gear for them all!