#silver eye

I did a scary thing and repainted Kirsten's eyes. One was almost fully silver and the other was starting to silver along the edges. I popped them out, took off the backs, and was surprised to find that the colored parts were covered by off-white paint - I assume meant to seal the color in?

Also, when I read "silver eye happens because the paint separates from the eye" I guess I wasn't expecting a *whole iris-shaped puck of paint* to be what was separating. I labeled those and put them in a bag to save for future color matching.

And there is a lot of grey in this supposedly blue eye. This is almost equal parts FolkArt True Blue and FolkArt Medium Gray. I carefully pulled the weights off the backs with pliers before painting the pupils in black, and then matched the iris color as best as I could.

In hindsight I should have waited a bit longer before mixing up that color because the pupils took longer than I expected to dry, and I didn't want to risk any black getting into the color.

While I waited I took her braids out and dunked the very ends in hot water, brushed them, and set them aside to dry. I don't think her hair was ever removed from the factory braids because they were perfect, but the ends were SO frizzy I didn't think I could fix them without removing them.

Then the first layer of color on the irises:

And restringing.

After the limbs were back on, I checked my work and then added the final layer of blue to the eyes and have set them aside to dry overnight.

I picked everything else up and put the body somewhere safe from cats. Now I have to Be Patient Until Morning, which. I'll be honest. I'm not great at. Alas, it cannot be helped. I can't rush this part.

Silver Eye

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I've been rewatching the RWBY series, and I've just finished Volume 8' "Dark". And I gotta say, I wanna bring up how it was ultimately Whitley and Willow Schnee (Weiss' bro and mom) who took down the Hound.

I'm not talking about Schees destroying a Faunus. I'm talking about how two casual civilians defeated Salem's horrible uber-Grimm. It wasn't the trained warriors that did it. It wasn't the light from Ruby's Silver Eyes did it. It was the local normals that pulled it off. And yes, I am aware that Willow can use Scheen Glyph Summons, but that's rather academic. The one who acted first to destroy the Hound was Whitley, who was also the one who figured out how to help the people of Mantle.

(He’s gluten free, fyi.)

Happy Michaelmas! What is Michaelmas you ask? It’s an ancient harvest celebration that was an official holiday in Sweden until 1772. It marked the end of harvest, when the laborers’ wages would be paid and they would be given up to a week off. The nights and days following were considered magical. A young lady might see a vision of the man she would marry and vice versa.

Like Santa Lucia, it’s a Christian saints’ holiday and Kirsten would have most likely celebrated this festival so she’s helping me make dragon bread! The dragon represents the challenges in our lives and our own foibles to be tamed…or in this case eaten if you have a gluten sensitivity.

This is the cut hair silver eyed Kirsten that I found last week. She’s enjoying some baking before her trip to the doll hospital.

Each ingredient in the bread represents some aspect of the story; the yeast is the dragon’s frothing fury and the flour is the plentiful harvest.

Of course, we had to make a doll sized dragon too! (This was the second rising part of the process, but gluten free flour doesn’t rise quite like gluten full).

the singer, alison goldfrapp, is a queer woman whose partner, lisa gunning, also directed a beautiful, cinematic music video for the (much quieter, softer) trans-positive goldfrapp song "annabele."

cooked celery???