song+ Lace and Leather- Britney Spears- Circusbook+ Huntress/Question: Cry for Blood
scent+ cookie
quest+ buying Soom Vesuvia
upper+ i have a decent shot!
downer+ Vesuvia costs an arm and a leg X.x
attire+ lazy clothes
drink+ milk
so i know i'm not the best at the whole posting regularly thing. sorry ya'll. xD
i'm excited that the Glot and Glati orders have been shipping, but i'm starting to get anxious about when mine will. xD i'm looking forward to Cuprit starting to ship relatively soonish, but not expecting to see mom's until probably October considering how far along the Heliot and Amber are. i figure by the time the goat babies are all shipped, it'll be time to send out the cublets (the ones pictured here), and i'm really looking forward to that. then after that i'll have some fishy bits to look forward to. i'm kinda glad Hati/Skoll and Eliv/Iv were pretty unpopular, it makes me think that maybe they'll ship faster xD shipping 25 or so is bound to go quicker than shipping 400-ish. xD
when i first saw Cass i thought i was totally Soomed, she has a beautiful classic face and is conceptually brilliant as a Siren. when the full images got released, i WANTED her, because i knew exactly how i wanted to paint (and bedazzle) her. after further consideration i've decided she's not for me since she'd really only be an art project and i don't think we'd bond well at all. instead i'm looking into buying Vesuvia secondhand.i've always (or at least since i first heard of her) loved the look of Vesuvia, but she was pretty unpopular initially and not many were ordered/cast. i think the Pearl Violet resin threw a lot of people off. after her arrival photos went up, people in general realized how awesome she is and now when one gets sold (a rare occurrence) it gets picked up pretty quickly and the sellers are free to charge pretty much whatever they think they can get. i've found someone willing to sell the doll with all resin option parts (horns, clawed hands, tail-torso & barbed heels) and original Soom part-painting and blushing for 1200 USD +shipping. today i sent the seller a PM asking if we could maybe work out a layaway payment plan, or if she could just hold on to her for a few months while i frantically save. xD i'm looking forward to hearing back from her. if she does a) agree to layaway or b) hold her until say October(?) the next thing on my list will be trying to get the rest of her set- the outfit, wig and eyes. the eyes i could easily do without, i'm not desperately into them, but i really want her outfit and wig.
if it doesn't work out with this particular seller, i'm going to save anyhow and actively keep an eye out for any that go up for sale. i really want this girl. *sigh* just having this be a possibility makes me realize how much i wish i could have ordered her direct back when she was initially released. i didn't know about Soom back then though (luckily for my wallet) ..and she came out about when i was broke due to moving followed by a comic convention. xD
i spent a few hours today looking at all the images of her i could find on DoA to figure out what i think looks best on her:
yes!~ burgundy/wine, true reds (no orange-reds), dusky rose pinks (especially Beryl's outfit!) and rich greens make her skin pop.
okay~ black and DARK purple are good neutrals for her. nothing lighter than a plum shade works though.
no!~ white, grey, orange, brown, dull greens and the like tend to wash her out and make her greyish.
never!~ lavender and lilac-you'd think they would be good on her, but they make her look dead. X.x
????~ yellows, blues, metallics? who knows xD no photographic evidence
i think when mine first arrives she'll wear the white default Delphine wig i never use.. until i can buy her a cute wine/red wig. most likely styled in pigtails. i think something cute and innocent could help offset the blatant sexuality of her sculpt. i plan for mine to be in full-on scorpion mode pretty much all the time, which limits her clothing choices to sparates and custom-made things only. i do think i have some SD boy clothes she can possibly fit in until i can get her better. i may also have the Cuprit outfit by the time i get her (which is kinda depressing), so that could work for her temporarily too.
2 comments:
Love Cass. So does my best friend at work. Seriously coveting the Dollmore Bonnie, and Iplehouse's Jessica. Don't really *need* them, but would love to have them, nonetheless. I wish the companies made more sculpts with happy faces [can't we all just get along?]. I had enough angst for a lifetime, when you girls were teenagers, LOL.
i do prefer happy faces in general, but something about Vesuvia's pouty mouth makes me smile. it's like half-smirk, half-pout. xD i love it! it's a lot more expressive than Beryl's scowl or Sard's frown.
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