Is it madness?

Tonight I continued on with my Loki pony sculpt! I worked mostly on the legs. I made foil cores for the leg armatures and hooves, which is actually not something I normally do. Normally the limbs of my sculpts are just clay because that's easier, but I'm getting low on clay stores so I wanted to try the foil. I think it's going alright, it just takes more effort. xD I have the back legs roughed out, and the front legs near finishing. I also conditioned clay for the rest of the sculpt. I also did a bit of fiddling around with the head and body.


I'm pretty happy with how it's coming along.

I'm still sick, but I did manage to go into work today. I'm actually doing better, though I'm still depending on cold medicine to allow me to continue to be at least somewhat functional.

The weather here today is weeeeird. I left work a little early today since I'd been fairly productive and I felt ill. I only walked home this week on Monday, but every day after that Scottie's been picking me up from work since walking home in the cold while sick didn't seem like a great plan. I miss the excercise but I certainly want to get better. But since I was leaving a little early the sun was actually still out, and not only that but it was raining. And it wasn't freezing rain like I'd feared it would be, it was just... raining. And SUPER windy. I felt like I was walking out into the twilight zone because just, wut. It is currently 36°F, that is so so weird. I expect this time to be somewhere closer to like -10°F or something lol. I know this can't last, but I'll enjoy it while it does?
The wind was crazy though. With the high winds and the wet ice I felt like I was going to get blown away when I was walking outside. We stopped at the grocery store and when we were leaving the wind blew a bunch of ice/snow off of the roof and caused Scottie and me to get pelted by rocks when it hit. I'm glad that it didn't hit us though because that would have been less than pleasant. :P

I scored an awesome deal on some dolls while we were there! Fred Meyer had a selection of MH dolls on clearance, and then they had all of their clearance stuff at an additional 40% off. I haven't bought new dolls in forever so I only had a couple of the dolls that were on clearance! (In fact, there were a couple of dolls in that selection that I couldn't pick up that I didn't already have lol)
Scottie has our budget planned out so that I can get a doll in a month, and I spent my doll budget tonight. xD It was awesome though because for the budget (allowing for one doll) I was able to get four! It was slightly over, but one of the dolls was for Scottie because he collects Operetta and there was a Dance Class Operetta that he's been wanting. I'm so happy he was able to finally get her!
For myself I picked up a Dance Class Robecca Steam (my first doll for that character!), and an I <3 Shoes Lala and an I <3 Shoes Cleo.

I'll have to unbox them tomorrow, but I should get to bed now. n_n'

Yesterday I decided to go for another walk with the ghouls! When I first woke up everything looked really dreary and there was a thick fog. I wasn't sure I'd be able to walk, or at least, that I'd want to walk because that didn't really look pleasant. But by the afternoon the sun had come out and the fog went away. And of course, since it had been foggy the trees had frosted up, which was pretty!
I'm rather excited about seeing the sun, lol. When I'm working I don't see basically any of it because it's not up when I leave for work and it's already down when I get out of work. :P

Trees outside of my apartment building were frosted up so I thought I'd take a picture. :3
( Frosty tree )


Clawd look at all the sparkling plants!

( More pictures of Lala and Clawd )

I then continued on towards the school. I took some more pictures of scenery on the way there. More pictures of trees, and then a picture of the creek. I thought it was interesting comparing the creek to yesterday, because of the iced trees, and the ice in the creek itself.
( Two pictures of winter scenery )

I got to the school and took some more pictures of Lala and Clawd near it. :3
( More pictures of Lala and Clawd )

Then I started back. There were two ravens flying around and I got a picture of them. I thought it was funny because when they showed up I'd been thinking about Odin and Loki, and so I was like "Are you Hugin or Munin?". I only got one in a picture though. I'm easily amused.
( ehehehe )

On the way back I took more pictures!

Blazing a trail through the snow...


Lets climb!

( The last of the pictures )

I realized that after I'd taken my last pictures there that my fingers were basically frozen. I hadn't actually noticed when I was doing the picture taking though! Oops. Just channeling my inner frost giant I suppose. xD


Hope you guys like the pictures!

So I woke up this morning to see that it is... snowing. Dear weather, it's not even October yet. Could you perhaps wait a bit. Thanks.

Oh Alaska... how I hate you.

More substantial post later!

So I've had a busy weekend so far! I'm sad that it's almost over. It's nice though, I have this Monday off and I am soooo excited about that. I needed the break!

For sculpting, yesterday I decided to go ahead and bake the male figure. I poked holes in the body so I can get the arms and legs attached later. I think I'm going to hold off on the girls until after I've gotten the male the rest of the way finished. With the animal figures I would generally bake the legs and sculpt those onto a still soft body, I just want to make sure I like this method before I do it to another one of the figures. Sorry dude figure, you get to be the guinea pig. lol Before I baked him I removed the penis so as of right now he has no male parts. I figured that if I decided to have the penis I could just put it back on later, but if I didn't remove it when it was still soft it would be a pain to take off later if I didn't want it after all.
First I buffed him with talcum powder, then did a wash of alchohol. I'm not sure if I like the alcohol wash, and I'm a bit unsure about the powder because it still has a dusting, but I do think it was good for smoothing. It really helped get the hard to smooth marks off of the face. While I was baking him I prevented any scorching by laying a damp paper towel over him. I AM SO GLAD I DECIDED TO DO THIS I AM GOING TO DO THIS EVERYTIME WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS BEFORE AAAAAAAA. Ahem. Not that the colour changing is that important for things that I'm planning to paint over anyway, but this is so much nicer.

( Out of the oven! )

On Saturday we were going to a Spring Celtic Festival head nearby. There was to be music, a craft fair, and lots of workshops! The workshops were very reasonably priced ($10-25, and the one we wanted was only $10 and included materials!), and one of them was a class on how to carve celtic knots into leather. Scottie does leather work so a class on that was amazing! We both signed up for that because it would be really nice to do something like that together. Unfortunetly when we got there we learned it had been cancelled because the teacher couldn't make it. :(

We were there early though so we were able to see the first musical act, Rogues and Wenches. We'd seen them at the UAA library before, so we were familiar with them. They were a lot of fun. :3

We checked out the craft fair which was kind of small, but there were some cute things. I didn't end up getting anything, but it was fun nonetheless. :)

I took a few pictures there! There was a totem pole outside that I thought was interesting, then a picture of the musical group, then a picture of some hanging beads in the skylight there that I thought were pretty. :) They have bird patterns in them, but the way that they are hanging reminds me a bit of northern lights. :3

( Celtic Spring Festival )