My Plastic Fabtastic Family

The daily life of Star Wars Clones

My daughter & I love to follow the adventures of the clones by kalexanderson on flickr and today my daughter decided she is going to start her own 365. At first she wanted to keep it with the clones but she probably will do a week of clones, a week of another toy, a week of clones,... to keep it interesting for her ;-)

I opened a new flickr-account and will post her pictures as she doesn't speak English yet... This is the new account: Rozebottel-SLVS

Immediatly she went outside with all her props and clones and came back with some real gems. Once I posted her first picture she tought her account was a little sparse with only 1 picture so she shot some what she calls "behind-the-scene" pictures (they're more "real life" pictures than behind the scene but what's in a name ;-P )

Little clones get a ponyride on Sunday:

 

Big clone looking for his spare helmet:

 

The sweet clone's room (yep she decided she has a sweet one and a misshievous one)

 

The misshievous clone's room, dreaming of hardcore skateboarding :-D

Meet the Gimals (Hybrid Girls-Animals)

Some months ago I got introduced to these quirky hybrids by noompje on flickr... They're Littlest Petshop Animal heads mounted on a Polly Pocket-body. I instantly fell in love with these sweeties so I gave it a try and before I knew it I already had made a whole family.

My girl loves them too and takes them to school, her friends thought it was a bit weird in the beginning but they've come around and one already asked if I could make one for her :-D

I also made some bigger ones from LPS DecoPets and a spare Blythe- & a Ken- body, but I'll post about them another time.

Just my luck that Polly Pockets are now getting hard to find in stores here, but yesterday I found a nice package with 3 PPs for only €10 so I made some new gimals with some LPS from the postcard-series that I was able to buy cheaply: a raccoon and a deer (I already had that one but I figured she would make an awesome gimal) 

Miss DearDeer: "It's really wet outside!"

Miss DearDeer: "Can I stay here 'till it stops, please?"
Me: "Well, ofcourse, stay here as long as you want." 

Me: "Oh, that's a cute umbrella!"
Miss DearDeer: "Thank you, I love frogs"

 

Miss FrouFrou: "Oh hi, I'm Miss FrouFrou"
Miss DearDeer: "Hi, I'm Miss DearDeer..."

Miss DearDeer: "Your umbrella is so kawaii"
Miss FrouFrou: "Kawaii??? What do you mean?"
Miss DearDeer: "Kawaii means cute, and I think pandas are cute"
Miss FrouFrou: "Me too, are you staying? Mom, can she, please?"
Me: "Well, if she wants, she's more than welcome..."

 

Shortly after Miss DearDeer decided to stay, her friend came over too: Miss CooCoon
Here are them hanging with the Polly-petlings... 

RIP Mika, Long Life Grindelia!

Everyone, meet Grindelia... Grindelia, meet everyone ^_^

You're sure? sigh...

It's been ages since I posted some Blythe-news, h*ck, any news TBH. But I finally finished her! With the duck-eyes and everything... She's the resurrection of Mika. I never bonded with that sweetie and when I was able to buy a green rerooted scalp I knew it was time that Mika should become the butterfly that was hiding all this time in her...

When I had opened her I've put in 2 little rubber ducks instead of her eyes for some photos, just for fun ^_^
But the great comments on that picture made me take that next step in customising: painting her eyelids!
So now she goes through life with closed eyes, ok, not really because I love her new eyechips too so it's a fifty-twentyfive-twentyfive deal (yeah, 2 sets of fav eyechips :-P )

The 2 fav sets of eyechips are the pink milky ones I bought and the ones I made from her orange stockchips.
I matted them, scraped off the black center backing and painted only the top of the radient-spines of her iris black and foiled the cented with red holographic paper. I love them!!! It really was just an experiment so I didn't know that it would give this result. The two others are her stock green ones but foiled and dark pine green ones.

I understand she's not everybody's taste but finally she has found her place in my Plastic Fabtastic Family and that's all that counts ^___^

Grindelia is so happy with her new outfit

Can I open them now?

Sweet little new critters

Look what my hubbie brought back from London for me: my first Moofias and Dunnies!
I'm really thrilled with them, they're so cute! He's so sweet to get them from me, he made sure he had a little free time to go to the store and pick up some for me...

Strawberry and Rice Milk Moofias (on adventure in my kitchen)

Strawberry and Rice Moofia Milk

This is Bonkers, a crazy wild Dunny (UK-series

Bonkers on the high "rope"

And my favourite of them all: Avenger Dunny Margrit.
I just love his British attire but his transparent head with raindrops is so Margrit-ish! Just a wonderful combination <3

Avenger Dunny Margrit

I love my sweetie so much! He's really my world <3

Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightning...

OMG! It's 3.30 in the morning, I'm pulling an allnighter as I enjoyed the fantasic weather earlier today a bit but my deadlines still stay the same and ofcourse an "emergency" job was also added to that list :-S But that's ok, I love my job.  

What I don't like is this storm that is raging now... the sky just doesn't stay dark, it's one lightning after another, the wind raging against our windows and I had to stop working and go hold the window/door to the terrace closed!  
Our damn landlord still hasn't fixed it, and with this wind it's just a matter of time before it will be blown open... (these are NEW windows from floor to ceiling 4m high, we live/work in a loft) I can't think of what would have happened when I was sleeping... now I was able to hold it close (and there was a lot of force on them)  
The wind is now much gentler but now it's the thunder that keeps rolling over :-s

Not the ideal weather to get my work done, my heart is still pounding from keeping that window shut...

This takes me back when I was a teen on vacation in Rimini (I had my own room, my parents had a room down the hallway), at night there was this wild storm and the wind blew the window in the hallway open, the one facing the sea where the storm was coming from... I was in the room next to it so I heard it smash open, thankfully it wasn't broken but I had to try to close it... well, it was a very hard struggle and I got soaked... Thankfully an older Italian guest who stayed in the room next to me came to my rescue, together we managed to close it.

It's weird how frightened I can get from this weather... Normally I love to watch the lightning and listen to the rain falling :-S

Well, it's seems better now... back to work :-)

incredible videoclip and lovely song

I just found this gem through the WOW-thread on istock... I looooooooove stopmotion and this videoclip is so sweet and creative. The song makes me want to curl up on the sofa with a good book and some hot tea (or watch the rain falling... OMG, I'm such an emo! )
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do...

Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

Swaps ^_^

I recently joined swapbot because I enjoy swapping very much but I was kind of stuck with Blythe-clothes swaps. I still love them but there are few and they always seem to have the same people in it which is kind of nice as you can rely on them but I just wanted to do others too.
Soooooooo some of the swaps I've received already:

* Fast turnaround swap (4 different notecards) 2 partners:
- I still need to receive one (probably lost in the mail but she' s going to send a new one)
- from ollie

Fastturnaroundswap_0646.jpg

* International Chocolate swap: 1 partner
I forgot to take a picture before I ate some of it but she had taken one herself before sending it to me (on her flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/evilkayleigh/3196322539/ )

* Small goodies in a handmade envelope swap: (2 partners)
Description swap:
let's send some handmade envelopes full of small goodies to 2 partners:
* a list of 5 things you collect (or if you don't collect anything, 5 things you wish you could collect)
* a picture of the cover art from your favorite album, and a small description of what makes it so great
* a photo you've taken
* something to read (this could be a short story, a magazine article, zine, something you've written, etc)
* 2 bags of tea (pick two different flavors)

- from creeny (superfast!)

swap 5 goodies in selfmade envelope 1

- from ljctree : the most amazing swap! It wasn't an envelope but a box that arrived (with the biggest envelope in it)
She had not only put in the 5 goodies from the list but also a package of precut blank ATCs, a sachet of scrapbook/atc-treasures, fabric and ribbons, a sachet with a personalised stone and crystal, a bar of soap, some pretty waxmelts, an envelope with pretty dried leafs and a embellished notebook.

swap 5 goodies in selfmade envelope 2

* Decorated envelope swap: 1 partner

I still have to receive it (it only was due last friday so it would be superfast if I already got it)
but I can show you mine (at least the outside, forgot to take a picture of what I've put in it)

* Quick and easy bookmark swap: 3 partners
You will make 1 bookmark for each of your 3 partners!! You may include more if you like although it's not required. please do them nicely, something you would want to receive in return, not just stickers thrown onto a card. These are handmade only. Your choice! Please make them flat where it won't rip a page. Bookthongs are welcome too. Any way/medium you choose, make it something you'd like to receive. (ex fabric, collage, bookthong, magnet, etc)
- my 2 others are still in the mail
- from deenakate : suuuuuuuuperfast! They were due today and I already recieved hers! WOW! It's a nice bookmark:

bookmark 1 in the "Quick And Easy Bookmark Swap"

I'm really enjoying this so far! ^_^

Vox Hunt: Opening Doors

Show us your key ring.
Submitted by Alexandra.

My keys & keychain

Merry Christmas, Yuletide, Hannukah,... to be short: Happy Holidays ^_^

Christmascard

The hubbie bought this little costume for our little girl for our christmascards.
This is the one I chose, but the next one is one of the "after" session: making funny faces ^_^
She even wanted these as christmascards to hand out to her classmates, my little silly girl.

And tomorrow she will be 6! Boy, time really flies T_T

My funny girl!

Living on caffeine & Mika

I've pulled an all-nighter again and I'm living on caffeine and the music of Mika!
He's as good as a half liter coffee :-D
The only downside is "Happy Endings", I soooooo love that song but it's a real tearjerker and instant goosebumps maker for me, not what I need at the moment.

Anyone else that has fallen for this xtc on CD? ;-P
(and he's sooooo the type of musician I fell for when I was a teen: deep dark eyes, half long curly hair... *swoon*)

Well back to work...

Mika - Relax, Take It Easy (Official Music Video)

"...Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you..."