Please don't hate me, but the truth is, I'm not a lover of summer. Or rather, I do love summer when I'm somewhere rural and on the ocean, like my father's house in Cape Breton; there I can walk in the woods and jump in the ocean when it gets to hot, and the heat is a nice, dry heat that makes everything brighter, more intense. But in Montreal we get humid, melty, smoggy heat that makes me feel tired and perpetually dirty. We've had a pretty mild summer so far and I have been so very happy, but we are having our first real heat wave, with temperatures in the 30's (or 90's, depending on your location). I. am. hot. But at least I got the go ahead to take my brace off at night for the next two weeks; sleeping in that foamy, fleecy, velcro-y, metal roddy contraption might send me into a homicidal rage...
Speaking of the ocean, I will escape to it soon. We are leaving for two weeks to visit my family on the 21st and I can't wait to breath in all that salty blue and fresh green, to see wide open space and walk on dirt roads. Realistically I will not have time to finish the dolls I'm working on currently before we go, so the next shop update will have to wait until mid-September. I now that's quite a long time between updates, and in the future it won't be nearly so long, but I think I underestimated just how tiring it has been to recover fro my accident; I can really only work in a seated position for 1 - 2 hours at a time.
I did manage to finish one little lady recently, another of the custom orders I've been finishing up over the past month or so. I asked her her name and she told me Pierette...
She is a figurine with poseable arms but static legs, a form I will continue to work on. It's a bit trickier than making a doll at the moment as it's new, and I'm figuring out how to make a static armature. But I like the fact that they can be displayed, so I'm determined to keep trying until I get the hang of it. But I'll still keep making 'real' dolls as well (ie. the kind with bendy legs that start dancing the second you leave the room).
