davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[dargosmydaddy]

So many beautiful beach pictures!

[davidd]

Is this one of the ones you thought was “uncanny”?

This one is somewhat less uncanny, being more stylized and cartoonish. Others try for "realism" and sometimes end up being a slightly unnerving wax museum style facsimile of real.

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13 November - A Doll A Day 2023:

A Blustery Sea Foam and Flotsam Beach Day

[Alliecat]

You are really making the most of the beach proximity, looks like. I bet your "blustery' days are still shorts-&-tshirt days!!

[davidd]

You are really making the most of the beach proximity, looks like.  I bet your "blustery' days are still shorts-&-tshirt days!!

Intermittent rain squalls and a constant wind of 20mph/30kph with overcast sky, but the air temp was still around 73˚F/23˚C, so I can't really complain about the weather. 

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14 November  -  A Doll A Day 2023:

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Hangin' at the Board Shop

[Alliecat]

Yeah, I wouldn’t complain either.
She’s cute.

[fishy]

The board shop backdrop looks great. Is that one of your dioramas?

[davidd]

Is that one of your dioramas?

Yes, I put the surf shop diorama together nearly a year ago. It has become cluttered and needs a refurbishment, which I hope to accomplish soon... ish.

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15 November - A Doll (and Doll Accessory) A Day 2023:


I found these miniature glass bottles, or apothecary jars, at a Dollar Tree store, six miniature bottles for $1.25 USD (plus tax, so about $1.40 total):

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I mocked up some apothecary jar labels using Plasq Comic Life and printed them out (using my low-end inkjet printer -- they'd look a lot better coming out of a laser printer). Then I wandered around the house looking for "stuff" with color or texture, like salt, pepper, brown sugar, glue, cooking oil, and dish washing soap, to put into the bottles.

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Magic Potions

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Definitely two and a half bucks worth of fun, right there! The bottles will make interesting background accessories for diorama scenes.

[Alliecat]

Cute! Wow, I wish I had time to do fun little random projects like that.

[davidd]

Cute! Wow, I wish I had time to do fun little random projects like that.

Quit your job(s)! Oh... wait... didn't you already get fired for not taking The VAX?

I'm surprised you're not actually in prison yet for your recalcitrance!

Or did you cave in at last? 

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16 November - A Doll A Day 2023:

Stormy Beach Day

Actually, a stormy beach week! But it isn't snowing!

[Alliecat]

You mean for drawing a line that our dipsh!t government should not tell a random person whose health or other circumstances they know absolutely nothing about what they must put into their body?
What's your point?

Anyway, cute photo.

[davidd]

You mean for drawing a line that our dipsh!t government should not tell a random person whose health or other circumstances they know absolutely nothing about what they must put into their body?
What's your point?

My point? My point is that you're a REBEL and a PIRATE and CREATIVE and an INDEPENDENT THINKER which are among the many reasons you are AWESOME... but an unfortunate aspect of being rebelliously awesome is that it often leaves little time, as you note, for "fun little random projects." Or... there are simply too many fun little random projects and not enough time... after being a rebellious pirate... or putting grub on the table... or making the grueling round-trip trek to a "real city" for necessary supplies... to even get started on all the things we want to try or do.

Funny (as in, irritating) how, here in the States, where nearly everybody was full-on in support of vaxxing and boosters and more boosters and mandatory "jabs" and mass firings, it is now difficult to find anyone who admits they supported all that. They all did but now they deny it. It's an absolutely parallel illustration of how, after a certain war in the 1940s, people of a certain European nationality denied knowing anything about a certain mass social program and denied ever being in support of the government and the policies behind that program, and everybody somehow, overnight, reimagined themselves as having been part of the resistance or the underground. 

I'm currently taking some time to "slack off" and I still feel I don't have time to even slack off properly! I want to take pictures and build dolly scenes; I want to exercise and lose some weight; I want to read books books and more books, I have such a stack of books and the library here is excellent; I want to start practicing the ukulele again, and maybe paint and draw, and I want to write some stuff, and I want to tinker with making Internet websites, and I want to keep up with all my Flickr and forum contacts, and I want to watch some movies and TV shows; and I want to figure out maintenance and project priorities for next spring; and sometimes I want to just sit and do nothing; but there isn't time enough in a day, or a week, or a month, to hardly even get started.

Anyway, here's an industrious image:

17 November - A Doll A Day 2023:

Fix-It Guy

I dunno... could Guy Who Looks Like He Belongs On A TV Home Improvement Show replace Janie and Triv?

I found the sheet of tin at a Dollar Tree store (cost: $1.25) in their craft section. It makes an almost perfect corrugated tin sheet for 1/6-scale action figure scenes. I snapped a quick pic to show somebody online who has been looking for scale model tin roof material, at which point I realized how much like a TV Fixit Guy this figure looks. I don't think he'd be as much fun as Janie and Triv are when working on projects, but he looks the part!

[Alliecat]

Oh.
OK.
Cos it read like a little bit of [pun intended] needling. 

Funnyirritating... I guess the supporters are all in Canada.

I'm currently taking some time to "slack off" and I still feel I don't have time to even slack off properly! I want to... ... ... ... and sometimes I want to just sit and do nothing; but there isn't time enough in a day, or a week, or a month, to hardly even get started.

There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Start your day with a cold shower.  It can only get better from there! and will give you a get-started jolt.  Swearing is allowed.

I like Fix-It Guy.  He looks like a very upscale fixit guy.

[davidd]

Cos it read like a little bit of [pun intended] needling.  

Almost worth the brief misunderstanding for that needling pun!  

That Calvin & Hobbes strip accurately sums up how I feel most of the time anymore.

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18 November - A Doll A Day 2023:

Seeing as how pirates are in vogue....

[Alliecat]

I don't know if it's the lighting or the camera angle, but somehow her ex-pression here says "I'm humouring you with this outfit..."

[davidd]

I don't know if it's the lighting or the camera angle, but somehow her ex-pression here says "I'm humouring you with this outfit..."  

I definitely got that impression, myself! 

Also, I misinterpreted the tide chart I was looking at the other day... duhhhh, basic addition and subtraction. The rise and fall of the tide here is about two feet (60cm), not one foot. Still not very significant, particularly when compared to The Bay of Freakin' Fundy! 

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19 November - A Doll A Day 2023:

Sea Cow

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Does a photo of a plastic toy farm animal found on the beach count for A Doll A Day? Well, if you've ever tackled an A Doll A Day Project, you know that the definition tends to become increasingly generous as the year progresses.