Summer dolly projects

[dargosmydaddy]

Spent the weekend tackling the eye mech from hell... I reglued the broken bit with my Tacky Glue, then started the process of trying to reassemble the mechanism (which I disassembled about a month ago in hopes that it would make the chip easier to remove). I am not very mechanically minded, and despite having a Dal eye mech in front of me to use as a model, I still found it very confusing figuring out what went where. During this, the glue failed yet again, at which point I tried to put everything together without the loose eye globe being attached to the swivelly bit. This ended up working, finally, and then I was able to glue the peg on after everything was in place. Thus far, the glue seems to have held, and I was able to reassemble the whole doll (getting her on the Dal body I purchased for her also proved a little difficult, but what about this doll hasn't been??).

So here she is... I named her Patience upon arrival because it took patience to get a Yeolume, and then she definitely required a lot of patience since then! I would still like to get her a custom face-up someday, but I'll be patient with that, too

Patience1 by tisue999, on Flickr

Thanks to everyone for their advice during this ordeal, and for finding/ attempting to find me a replacement eye mech-- it was much appreciated!