Blythe head off

Hot 'n Spicy is headless.  I have been doing a little customisation á la Puchimadam on Hot 'n Spicy (PWP)...as I've bonded with her least, I felt that I had nothing to loose by playing around with her a bit.  A few weekends ago I sand matted her face - and this worked well...then over Easter I painted in some lovely deep brown lipstick with a little smile for her.  Then this weekend just past I decided to do something with the custom brainworm eye chips that I had, so I gathered together all the foiling paper I'd been collecting and got started.  I painted the chips with tamiya gloss paint, 2 coats.  Let it dry over night.  Then in the morning I experimented with different colour combinations.  By far the best was pairing deep charcoal grey eye chips with gold holographic paper - giving a beautiful deep olive sparkle eye chip - this one for Hot 'n Spicy's front facing eyes, and pairing a blue/pink/turquoise pearl paper with light crystal blue eye chips - these ones for Original (LL). 

My first problem came about when I thought the glue had dried after putting in Original's eye chips, only to have one of them fall into her head when I pulled her string to change eye colours.  Luckily I was able to open her head, by unscrewing it and carefully prising it open and getting the eye chip out with tweezers.  This time I've glued them in PERMANENTLY and am leaving them 24hrs before even thinking about changing eye colour.  As a result of this little mishap, I decided to change the glue on all the replaced eye chips, and moved to a fast dry, permanent glue - well it said it was fast drying.  I pulled Hot 'n Spicy's string to change to her side facing eyes, and one of her front facing chips fell into her head...except this time the procedure to open her head and rescue the chip didn't go so well.  It seems that one of the screws in the back of her head had been glued in in the factory, and I couldn't prise open her head further than about 3mm, not wanting to damage her I just left her.  Even though I only opened her head about 3mm, her body came straight off...yet when I opened Original's head, even though I got it open about 10-15mm, her body wouldn't come free of her head.

Still sick today, but took Blondie and Smartie to Lollipops indoor playland with Tracy and her son Liam.  It was ok - the kids had a great time, but it was packed, and very noisy, and the general lack of staff supervision was a little disappointing.  It was also very expensive...generally I wouldn't complain about the cost of something - if it's too expensive I just wouldn't do it, but this was just on the borderline between acceptable and too expensive.  Mostly I was irritated by the blatant money grubbing of it all, kids can't wear socks from home, they have to pay $1 to wear playland socks + $5 deposit, no food or drinks to be brought in, all sorts of little irritating things that make the $10.50 per child entry + $3.00 per adult  a bit annoying.

Anywho the kids had a great time and in that respect it was worth it.

Weather was awful today, humid and raining, I hate this sweaty steamy weather that we have before Winter.

posted by: blytheswideshut at April 05, 2005 22:18 | link | comments |

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