Happiness Is....

Happiness is finally finishing the little mohair owl I made for my brother. He is 5" tall, mohair, felt and button eyes....not bad for the second little stuffie I ever made.

 

With photos, one gets a clear perspective, and something was not sitting right with me with this owl, and bingo, i know what it is. I am going to sew blue mohair for the underneath of the wings today to make them look more feathery......The back can stay felt......and maybe tweak shape of feet a bit.....and he's a perfect bookcase companion, as owls symbolize wisdom. i am so happy with him, though.....and want to make more, but am going smaller with the next few...about half the owl's size to 2-3"....a sloth, elephant and cat......cat will be pink....elephant will be pink and sloth will be grey.

Did not know that a week's fallen dust on the bookcase here would show up so well in the photo, though....

I will get this package out Monday morning. I really was sloth slow with this owl...Did not pick him up again from being just a face until yesterday....

i will show another photo her later of tweeked version.

Happiness is definitely the process of creating, though.

 

Happiness for my granddad was

Knock,knock

"Who's there?"

"Granddad"

"GRANDDAD?!? Oh,shit-stop the funeral!"

 

Laying nude in my pasture looking at the stars on a bright nite !

 

happiness is being someplace where no sound you can hear was made nor caused to be made by another human

(sadness is not being allowed nor otherwise able to live there)

 

Happiness was finally being plowed out of here at 7 pm tonight.
My vet neighbor got on him, to get it done by 7, as they still wanted to get to the city.
and then went out for a bit to a few different places,. Stopped at Home Depot, as I read GOOF OFF was supposed to get crazy glue off of resin...I have a resin doll here my friend sent me that seemed to have crazy glue spilled on her face.....and it does not work...WRONG! I have been working on the doll ever since I got home tonight.....and worked scraping away most of the glue with a dull side of a knife..that worked best, but took so long to do....but happiness was seeing results there....and now I love this doll. I worked on her for so long.

My friend sent me 9 dolls.....I love most of them very much, and there were a couple I knew about when they came out, but never considered buying them at $1,000.00 each.....They are BJD resin dolls by Kaye Wiggs....with deer ears so they are fawn children. I never thought I would like these dolls, so never dreamed of them either to have when I was buying dolls....but I have to say.....these two 23" tall fawn BJD's are my favorite dolls of all now....WOW! Happiness is being given something that you absolutely love....no, these two did not have glue spilled on them. there was a small doll that had that problem.....

Happiness was identifying an animal I never saw before in my life when I drove out of here at 7:30 tonight.......It was black, it was sleek, it was cat like but it was not a cat...It moved quicker than any animal I have ever seen on foot for that size. After coming home,...I put mammals in NY and looked at all of the photos and bingo! It was a black weasel. I never saw a weasel in real life before. ...so I am happy about seeing that and knowing what it is that I saw now....

 

Now, I was just reading more about the weasel.....The one I saw was longer than 8"......It was at least 14"...and not including the tail........must be one of the evolving animals around here....as last week I saw a raccoon bigger than any other I ever saw....that I thought then that the racoon could possibly be a cross breed with something else...Maybe so did this weasel....as everything else I read about the weasel was spot on with what I saw. tonight...but not the size...maybe they meant 8" high...and then that would be correct....but the weasel I saw was longer than 8" ln length.....

 

Funny,that,Moonglow...my mate GLEN [y'may have heard of him] always confuses 8" & 14"...well - so he tells us,anyway.

[personally,I think he confusing inches with millimetres.......{hehehehe}]

 

Very funny...I was speaking of the animal....weasel....lol...not a human body part....weasel.....

 

I took some photos tonight....Here are the 4 Kaye Wigg BJD dolls my friend sent me.....BJD means ball jointed doll....they move with joints at elbows, knees, ankles, wrists, ect...so they are great for posing dolls. They are made out of resin which is breakable, so these are not play dolls really....but works of art. There are many BJD doll artists out there, and Kaye Wiggs is one of the most popular. When you buy one of these dolls new, they usually come bald, with no clothes and only one pair of glass eyes. People have fun making these dolls their own by changing glass eyes for different colors...finding the perfect wig....and outfit....These have mohair wigs....and are wearing the most gorgeous clothes.....My favorite is the green fawn on your right in the apricot/peach outfit. She is green skinned and her name is Nelly...Next to her is another Nellie with lighter colored skin...different wig, clothes, eyes.....but both have the deer ears...These dolls also came with interchangeble hooves...I am going to keep them basically human....The next doll moving from your right to left right is a fairy named Miki, i believe. I am going to have to do more research and make sure about that. She has fairy/elf ears, and the last doll on the couch is Tobi...She has some animalistic ears, also.....

 

So welcome to my doll room upstairs. I also took some more photos of the dolls in there. This is a small spare room upstairs, that I keep the door closed to at all times, so no animals can go in here. It is the only room in the house that has no heat, and is a refrigerator much of the time...and is also very cool in the summer being on the west side of this house.....The dolls are pretty safe in here, as well as heirlooms and furniture from my mom, I need to keep safe in there. I really need to sell about half the dolls, but it is slow going...as I am lazy when it comes to doing the work to sell them, but slowly and surely...

This is my favorite big 38" Himsedt doll named Ajescha, that I have left, with a collection of mohair teddy bears my friend also sent me in this package...I think I am going to sell all but one of these teddies very soon. Ajescha, as with all of the Himsedt dolls is vinyl...i showed many Himstedts before with stories I wrote about them in another section here...



Here are the BJD dolls I had left....Most of these are Kim Lasher BJD dolls, an artist I favored while collecting these dolls. That is a blonde big Alice in Wonderland with her sister, a dark haired Alice in Wonderland. I sold most of my BJD collection last year, but I have these left....and may sell more of them soon....Now, I have a new favorite artist...kaye Wiggs...LOL I love the vampire one with the blonde hair on your far left holding the jack o lantern. She is by DIM.





Here are American Girl dolls coming out of my ears...My brother said....they are all the same...!
No, they are not...they are each a different character from a different era in history........






Some random dolls by various artists, including an I LOVE LUCY Barbie set with Ethel...






Baby dolls section ...




Look who is sitting in my chair...My childhood stuffed teddy with a huge sloth...

 

.....getting a f#%£ing MacBook Pro to actually do what YOU want IT to do,rather than what it FEELS like doing!

[yay me-stitch THAT,Apple!]

 

Seems My Good Friend "Pudgy Bear" Is Having An "IT" Frustrating Day Today......

Here's A Hug Pudgy.....



Cheers Glen.

 

any chance you have pine martins in your state? martins, ferrets, weasels, stoats, all pretty close, especially if you only see one scooting like hell to try and disappear from the blundering sight and mind of humans. long fur can also make a much larger appearance. under all their red fur, a red panda is the same size and bone structure as a martin. and long fur can be a seasonal adaptation that doesn't have to wait for generations the way evolution does. hear you've been having a lot of storms and cold weather over that way. predators, and these are all mice eaters among other things, can get fatter or skinnier depending on availability of their prey (which is also one of the factors in their own populations increasing and decreasing)

 

Themnax, I looked pine martens up....and yes, they live in northeastern states, including NY, as well.

I never saw one of those or heard of those, either....but yes, that would definitely account for the bigger size, and they do range in color, also....so bingo, by George, I think you got it!

 

I showed Stan photos of the pine marten, and asked him does this look like what we saw to him. He said no, that what we saw had no tail,. He is maintaining the animal had no tail. I did not notice a tail on it, either, although, I won't swear it did not have one, as I think it could have had one between its legs, or something.....or maybe it lost its tail....and it was already getting kind of dark for me to swear it had no tail...That would be sad....but idk.
We saw it after driving out of here.....right after the road was plowed, and it ran ahead of us and the car for a good distance...at record speeds...turned around and looked at us....car headlights making its eyes glow a sinister red....before it flew at lightning speed finally over the huge snow plowed mountain and disappeared into the woods. I think this thing is going to haunt me forever...There are no big animals in NY like this with no tails.

 

At first Stan said baby bear. I said no...Baby bears would not be that small....as baby bears are bigger than human babies...and this thing was not that big.

It was long, sleek black...shorter legs to the ground than a cat's.....and faster than anything I had ever seen move for that size...not a bear cub...

 

there are many members of that weasil, stoat, ermine, mink, ferret, fisher, martin, ringtail, mongoose, et al, family. even wolverenes are distant cousins.
but even bears have tails, though very short ones for their size.

tails aren't always seen when something is scooting along like that, also things can happen to them.
like getting caught in a trap and having to bite it off to get away,
or even having been someone's pet, and for whatever strange reason they may have bobbed it off,
or even just running with its tail between its legs.

i've only ever lived on the west coast, not on the coast, but within a few hundred miles of it,
so there may be species i'm not thinking of you have over there,
but again, pretty much everything HAS a tail of some kind, even if you might not always see it.

humans and gorillas are almost unique among mammels for lacking one.
though pika's and a few other rabbit relatives may have really short ones like bears do.

foxes, for some strange reason, have never shown themselves to me in the wild,
though coyotes, wolves and mountain lions (puma/cougar) have.

well the only bobcat i can recall personally seeing was someone's kind of semi-pet too.

lots of skunks, racoons, porcupines and deer.

at any rate, i'm pretty sure, whatever you saw, was, if not a martin, one of its close relatives.

 

Yes, I realize something could have happened to its tail, and that made me sad.

Anyway, my brother loved his owl,....much better in person than photograph. he also loved his Joker....Yes, I sent him the Joker to go with his Batman and did not keep it. It is awesome, and his beautiful candle in emerald green holder, and his cards and his check...and other little neat things.

I am going to make my cats here toys next. I have lots of extra pink mohair, so i am going to make shapes stuffed with new catnip, i just bought, and add some kind of wiggly tails to the shapes. Cats will love these.
They keep losing the mice I keep buying....so I will make these mohair creatures a little bigger that won't get lost under ovens and things.
Simple to make, too.