the pokemon haze has lifted

song+ ah.. Timebomb -Kylie Minogue
book+ nothing
quest+ custom Sailor Moon character dolls
upper+ lots of creative ideas!
downer+ money's easier to spend than earn
attire+ pajama pants and a dark blue tank
drink+ strawberry kiwi juice

after two solid weeks i'm ready for a break from pokemon. my brain is still in that really nerdy space though, because i've returned my attention to something i devoted my self fanatically to some time ago: Sailor Moon.

it's hard to describe just what Sailor Moon as a series meant to me when i was younger without getting into why i needed it so much. there are things i got from it that i couldn't ind in any other program or story then. i can now, but the importance of finding them then still matters and most of my affection for the story is rooted in nostalgia. by no means do i think it was a pioneer visually, at times the animation was terrible, and there's a part in one of the books where a character was drawn with two elbows, it made it past editorial and through localization multiple times and still the error persists. basically, without getting into examples of things, Sailor Moon was the first thing to consistently tell me it was okay to be different, to want different things, that i wasn't less for being so or wanting other than what was expected.

it's a story i re-read every so often, and i'm looking forward to the new animation it's getting, because at times the old one is painful to watch. mostly though i've been thinking that i want dolls of the characters. not BJDs, which i don't have space for and would be hideously expensive. i've been looking into customizing fashion dolls. i learned how to do a custom Barbie ages ago (even if i never finished her, re-rooting hair is not something i enjoy), and i looked at the Monster High dolls because there's already a huge community dedicated to customizing them, but i think i found my answer in their sister series- Ever After High. it's still a pretty new line, but all i need is re-wigging and slight alterations to existing face paint if i go with them. and making their clothes, but that's the thing i most wanna do.

the best thing about customizing a MH/EAH doll is that i shouldn't need to re-root, they're basically compatible with the wigs made for Liv dolls, so slight styling is all really. it's not an immediate project, i'm still in the planning stage, but i've already listed which dolls are best suited to each sailor, and i'm reading up on the differences between painting and sealing resin vs vinyl. it's a very entertaining project thus far, and i've yet to spend a dime, so i imagine it'll only become more fun once i'm actually holding them and making changes.