Fur-doll making

Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:07
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After Bido's passing, I have been taking more care when I look at my remaining 3 dogs. Suddenly, I see that Menina's colors have faded much. She looks a lot more white that she used to, especially her beige parts. And then my brain clicked, geez, she's 17 already. And her previous vet had said "Dachshunds go up to 13 only". Well. She's won 4 solid years. (I can foresee that it will be very difficult for me when Menina goes. She is totally MY dog. She followed me without hesitation that first fateful night that we met. That's a story for another day.)

I started to look around at some other hospice and funeral services and noticed a service to make a "framed fur doll", the dolls looked pretty doll-ish... I mean, those looked really cartoonish doll type, but that reminded me, I had seen a really good artist make those fur dolls. So I searched. And I found her on Taobao.

Look at her works!

For the framed, you can see what is frame and what is the real animal, because of the frame.


But for these full-bodied dolls... when she first sent me the sample (the Pomeranian one), I needed a moment to understand that that.... there was a fake dog there.


Her fur-dolls don't come cheap (close to MOP$2000, say around USD$250) and she has a 2-year waiting period. But comparing to the other artists (one of them local from Macau), they really don't compare. This lady here definitely makes the most life-like ones. Even she was hesitant to accept my commission as "it's a long waiting period" but I figured, I'll wait. What is 2 years. Sounds like a long time but I believe soon it'll be 2 years.

I also don't think she's a scam artist because I've actually seen her products a couple years ago and I had bookmarked it. Now, I also found her products from my old bookmarks, and people are still commenting and reviewing, so I suppose this is somehow safe.

Though I'm more worried I'd forget about it myself, haha!
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I wonder if this is considered cheating on the journaling front. I joined the Hobonichi Challenge, which provides a prompt everyday, and we write or draw about that prompt.

January 2018 theme is dogs... they even have a list of all the prompts each day.

So... I’ve been cheating. As I know I wouldn’t find the same patience everyday to go draw a dog, I’ve been working ahead. I felt like drawing on Monday, so I drew a couple day’s worth. Then I didn’t feel like it on Tuesday. Worked some more on Wednesday and today for a bit too.

I leave enough space to do my journaling on that day though, so I guess it’s ok?

Here’s a sneak peak!



What I like about this now is I’m actually using more water colours. I never liked water colouring... now? Always.
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(drawing from over 10 years ago)
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Então, a minha vida recente... aconteceu bastante! Aindo estou com este tosse. Não consigo curar-me deste tosse. Como comprei umas coisinhas para por a mostra no escritório, tive de arrumar um pouca a mesa. Agora é só preciso ver quanto tempo fica assim arrumadinho. | So, my life recently... much has happened! I still have this cough that I just can't seem to shake. Since I bought some small knick-knacks for work, I cleaned up my workstation nicely. Now we just wait and see how long it stays like this.


E as coisinhas que mencionei... o Charlie Brown com o Snoopy, e um arranjo floral com flores secas. Nunca gostei de flores frescas, sempre que cheiro o cheiro de flores frescas, lembro-me de casa mortuárias e cemitérios. Mas flores secas não tem aquele cheiro, e eu prefiro flores secas. Por isso! Comprei-o. E foi bastante caro. | The small knick-knacks I mentioned are these: Charlie Brown and Snoopy, and a nice dried flower arrangement. I never liked fresh flowers. The smell remind me of funeral homes and cemeteries, but dried flowers don't have that smell, so I like dried flowers. And so! I bought it. And it was quite pricey.


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There's a new dollar store kind of shop opened in town called Miniso. Everything looks very Japanese-y but I'm convinced it's all Chinese stuff.

They sold some pretty cheap markers.




So I've been mucking around in my sketchbook these few days and ended up with that above and this below...




I saw I didn't get enough colours at first, so two weeks later I went to get all the colours they had.




Yeah, 9 colours don't get you too far. I bought the whole palette they had (something like $2 usd for 3 pens). Sadly there are specific colours they haven't got on their palette, but I improvised.

Behold!




Pig Girl Burin. Don't ask me why I drew this one. I thought I'd draw something Slayers but... Burin came out.

Don't know how long this drawing bug will last, but we'll see if I get to feel artsy again in the near future again.
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I have a link to an image.

Click at your own risk XD

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150429472526153&set=a.443042726152.219098.342845101152&type=3&theater

Some friends on Facebook may have already seen this image from my wall...

Those who haven't... just... beware. I'll just say, it's the Hetalia (mainly MALE) characters dressed up in Sailor Moon (mainly FEMALE) costumes. 

This image has sent me in laughing fits for so long... I mean, everything is just so wrong, but so hilariously wrong, that it has crossed all boundaries of "it's not funny anymore" to "it's funny again"

Or, I'm just looking for a reason to procrastinate. Gawds... I hate translating official documents! It's so hard to understand the legal-wannabe Portuguese!

Will tell you more about my weekend later :P
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I am so sick that I really should be in bed already, but I just saw something that has really gotten me very excited, and I can't wait to go see it for myself!

First, let me present to you...

★ The Ruins of St. Paul ★

This is one of the Macau Landmarks. You can learn more about this facade just right here at Wikipedia :-)

This post is about one of the show items from the Macau Arts Festival.

Using light rendering, music, and other visual effects and the facade ruins itself as the backdrop... the guys from Telenoika.net (Spain) have managed to produce the show, Encounters: Audiovisual Mapping of St. Paul’s Ruins. Program info page is right here.

The show is going on until the 22nd May, 2 viewing sessions per evening. One at 8pm, and one at 9pm, each around 20minutes. If it is raining at 6pm, the show will be cancelled.

What I have here for sharing is... some guy's video of the show... I myself will be going on Saturday night. ENJOY!

光影大三巴 Visual Effects Ruins of St. Paul Part 1:


光影大三巴 Visual Effects Ruins of St. Paul Part 2:



光影大三巴 Visual Effects Ruins of St. Paul Part 3


光影大三巴 Visual Effects Ruins of St. Paul Part 4:

And that's it for now!
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Drawing Meme - Day 7 - Fav Movie




Supposedly it's Nightmare Before Christmas, but I don't remember exactly how Jack looks.
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And apparently I still had a Day 6 to post too.

Day 6 - Fav Book

Not even Pride and Prejudice beats the number of times I've read THIS book. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. About a black horse with a white star on the forhead and a white patch on one of her legs/hooves (forgot which one). It was terribly sad to read about Ginger. It made me proud reading about Black Beauty's reluctance to cross that bridge which would later on break. The best thing was the happy-ish ending for Black Beauty.







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Oh boy I was so exhausted yesterday I totally forgot about the drawing meme.

Drawing Meme Day 5 - Best Friend
My friend Carol (Carolina). She hates my recalling the story of how we became friends, because she thinks it's very embarassing.
We've been classmates probably since forever (Kindergarten) but we became really close in Primary 6 (Grade 6), specifically, on June 1st in that year.

It was her birthday, and for I don't know what reason (she doesn't remember either), she came up to me and asked me "It's my birthday today. Can you give me a present?" and I said "sure, let's go to 雅明 (a back-then very popular mini-mall for school kids in the area)". We went there, I took her to a (now I know) Taiwan bootleg CD Shop called Teenager, and asked her to choose a CD. She chose some Ranma 1/2 CD (I don't really remember which) and since then, we started to trade CDs to listen, telling each other what albums were good, what weren't good, what anime to watch, what not to. Thus started our blossoming friendship.

Certainly some event in Form 3 (grade 9?) happened and we simply didn't talk for the whole of Form 4 (grade 10?). And then we were back best of buds in Form 5 (grade 11?) and then we each went our own way, she to the UMAC (University of Macau) and I to the IFT (Institute For Tourism Studies). I should have gone with her to UMAC because there was that Japanese Business Administration course that Carol took, and she spent a year in Japan *envy*envy* whereas I stayed always in Macau, and was duped regarding the chance to have my internship in Japan (the registry kept saying "wait for the application announcement!" but when the announcement came, it was about a student having gone and come back from the internship already)

Now, she works in a rivaling company, but we still keep in touch regularly. Just tonight, we're going to the stupid tailor I talked about. Fun times, huh...


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 I almost forgot about this meme!

Day 4 - Fav. Place
* floor plan not drawn to scale
It's no other place than my own bed :D
No that all I like to do is sleep, but, I do spend a lot of time cooped up in there. To read, day dream, nap, snuggle with my dogs, listen to music, chill when putting a facial mask on, used to do my assignments here, talk on the phone, play on my NDSL and PS2 ( the control is long enough to go from the TV to the foot of my bed)

If one day Mom really decides to go ahead with the renovation plans at home, then I'll rearrange things in the room. I'll probably flip the bed so that it lies horizontally, with the foot of the bed at the window. The desk would either have to be downsized or the wardrobe to be redesigned, or something. Anyway, I'll think about it when we know for sure that we're going to get the renovations going.

But I doubt it ever will :/

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 erm... just wanted to get this over with today. I gotta rush to walk the dogs, and maybe I'll post something tonight :P maybe... :P

Day 3 - Fav. Food



It's the APPLE! 
Sorry, I couldn't resist to add that worm. Which reminds me of a joke

Q: What's worse than finding a worm in your apple/peach/(fruit of your choice).
A: Finding half a worm in your apple/peach/(fruit of your choice).

I came up with this little joke when we were memorizing a poem about a peach in elementary school. I don't remember the whole poem, but the last two lines went like this:

"But what made me really blue
was to find a worm bitten into two"

!!!! 

I can imaging the horror! LOL

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It's Day 2 of the Drawing Meme!

Day 2 - Fav. Animal


Why, it's none other than the dog! Once upon a time, my nickname was "Doggerina" (as in "Katherina"). Fun times, it was. Fun times.
I remember people saying that I can imitate a dog's bark quite well. There was a time that I was having an argument with the dog... using dog barks... 
What's more, I may be a 1983-er, but my Chinese zodiac is not a Boar. I'm still a dog! Apparently in 1983, the Chinese New Year was sometime in February, so I'm still considered a Dog. My friends would make fun of me that I'm just the Dog's Ass. *shrug*.



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Drawing Meme

Friday, 5 November 2010 17:22
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There we go again, I swore off memes, but I couldn't turn this one down. I snagged this off [livejournal.com profile] audamy a few weeks ago and am finally starting with this.

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Man, it's so boring at work right now... what should I do?

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