Slowly getting back into the swing of things

It's been a stressful time lately for me, we're hitting that point in the year I always start to struggle, I had family visit which is nice but also super depressing because when they leave it's like... that sense of loss all over again (it had been 10 years since I saw them, TEN YEARS, might be another ten before I see them again, so you can see why that might be a bit upsetting?)
plus doll drama and being unwell and still recovering from the whole nearly dying thing and just eugh..

I'm still not totally back to myself. I can't stop sleeping and I don't know how much of that is post sepsis, how much is depression and how much is just the time of year. It's like a big clusterfuck of terrible.

But amid the screaming and gnashing of teeth I decided I needed to get back to faceups.

Mostly this is because i've had a doll sitting on my desk in their original packaging for literally months now and it's making me feel guilty. And also I got sent a Pullip head to paint so I need to get my skills back up before tackling that because omg i'm super nervous about screwing that up.

So this is kinda a.. update kinda post? and a look at my "newest" bjd, who actually arrived like way back in July.

He turned up right at a really bad point for me so he got just sorta, checked over, put back into his bag and set aside till i felt like I could tackle doing something with him.

But let's start from the begining.

Thinking about giving up.

Angst ahead, ignore.

Living Dead Dolls series 35 - 20th anniversary

It's been 20 years since two guys started showing off their creepy horror themed dollies at art shows and such. 20 years since the concept of Living Dead Dolls was first dreamed up.
So here we are, at series 35, the 20th anniversary edition.

Now to be clear, this isn't 20 years of Mezco producing these commercially. Living Dead Dolls only became commercially available in 2000, but for a few years prior they had been a thing at horror conventions and art shows, hand painted and as a result, one of a kind. 

Even so, series 35 is celebrating "20 years of horror" and is rather a special little set.