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Hey lovely people! Here are the dates for my small run of werewolf Violet dolls. I am limiting spaces to only five, and will not be printing any more unless my sandblaster radically changes my life lol. Stay tuned!

Psst, I'm gonna do a short run of three Violetta spots tomorrow to help me get more resin and go towards travel expenses for NYC Doll Con. They should be finished before the con! I will offer shipping OR con pickup; you don't have to be attending the con to get one.

These orders will be the very first Violettas to exist! If you support this earlybird order, you'll be one of the first people to have one.

I'm prioritizing PIF orders, but will open to layaway in two days (Feb 1st) if the spots aren't filled by then.

Hey all, here's a preview of what the finished Violettas will look like! This one is in ResiOne's TH-BJD cream pink. I'll have her at my booth at NYC Doll Con next month.

I have six others whose parts I'm processing, and I'm still printing a few more! I'm kinda in printing hell right now tbh, but assembling this girl as a test has encouraged me a bit.

A lil pic of the assembled Violetta prototype 💛

I'll have some more news for these soon, going to wait till I have her magnets next week and make a small revision to the inside of the tail base, and a version with slightly resized hands to see if I want to change it.

My next doll will by my sphinx, but as I'm currently printing big Violet orders as well as con prepping, I won't be doing an official release of this doll yet (or the sphinx!). But, I will be making some for the two cons this year. After the summer, when things are more settled, I'll be looking ahead to the sphinx and Violetta--in that order.

Proto-were-Violet had a little adventure yesterday

The tail works but I'm trying a third glue that I hope will be strong enough for the magnets this time.

I don't have "in stock" dolls. I can't afford that. TH-BJD is almost $50 per bottle and it takes several bottles for me to print a doll. I want to be really transparent with people because I don't like the sort of mystique people seem to have around artists. Making dolls is money- and time-intensive

In order for me to make a few dolls, I need to float that money, and I need to sell other dolls to fund that. So like, for the five dolls I made for NYC con, I sold four of them so I could cover (SOME OF) my travel expenses and the cost of making dolls to have at my booth there. People seemed to think that I just live in a house surrounded by dolls I generated (I kinda do tbh but I mean, of "in stock" dolls I am intending to sell at some point), which is nottttt the case and probably never will be the case except for VERY small handfuls of them for cons.

Because I print my dolls, I'm doing everything. I'm not complaining. I'm not overwhelmed. I do what I can within my means and capabilities. I see artists complain about being burnt out and stuff and I suspect it's because they don't properly plan/budget/have self-care? idk. I'm not burnt out. I just don't have like, the capacity that a larger company has because I don't have employees. I'm not a casting company. I print shit. I sculpt a doll for literally a year as I print other dolls. I have to clean and sand everything and do all the packaging and marketing shit myself so basically my time gets divided between several disciplines rather than me having an employee doing each different thing.

I think in the future I'm gonna be more clear with people and say I'm not going to re-release a doll, because after making like four different sculpts, I legit have no interest in going back to a previous sculpt, printing more of them, re-releasing them, or (when applicable) having more cast. So, I don't want to give people false hope by saying I will do something in the future. It sounds kinda lame like I'm trying to instill fomo by being like "this will be the only release! idk if I'll do this again!" but um. I lose interest like CRAZY because to me, the project is "finished" once I make a few, and my brain just like, moves on.