*Faire

I know in the grand scheme of things, no one really cares about this, and to be honest, I’m probably the only one that is annoyed by it, but an acquaintance of mine just started up a simple website taking commissions for doll faceups, and the format in which it was presented happened to be a bit -too- familiar to me.

In other words, I’m pretty sure it was a copy/paste job from my commission page with post-editing to suit their website.

No one’s going to notice it other than me, really. But I worked hard to come up with the contents of my website, so it stings a bit when someone can’t even be bothered at least to properly paraphrase the whole chunk of text.

Better yet, they could have just come up with original text in the first place. It’s not rocket science, y’know.

Since moving to Newcastle, I’ve started taking commissions for dolly faceups again, and this was one that I’d recently completed that I liked very much.

She’s a Volks Amelia, and the owner wanted her to be feminine, yet somewhat sexy. Generally, I do feel that this sculpt looks better as a male doll, but I had fun repainting this one as a girl anyway! Somehow, she reminds me of an old hollywood beauty.

I’m going to be flying back to Melbourne tomorrow for a short holiday, so won’t be able to work on any faceups for the next week or so, but when I’m back, I’ll be waiting on a few new commissions to arrive, so am looking forward to that!

Sometimes, I read about so many catfights and so much wank online to do with the dolly hobby that I just want to dissociate myself with the whole thing.

I guess that’s partly why I losing the enjoyment of sharing my dolly hobby with others in forums and on Flickr? I still love the dolls I have, but it’s become a more personal interest – I find I have the need to share and get approval (in a sense) from others.

Anyway, I’m off back to Melbourne tomorrow till Saturday. Cannot wait to see the family and catch up with a few friends again!

I’m trying so hard, but I wonder if he knows that?

There are so many things that I wish we could agree on – they’re little things, really, but they add up.

The rest of the family’s on their way back to Melbourne on Christmas Eve, and I will be joining them a week later. Am not happy about it at all since we were originally suppposed to be here till mid January.

Let’s just say I hate technicalities – they screw up stuff too often.

Minor positive note is that I still get to be here for The Doll Affair, which was something I was looking forward to on this trip. I’m finding myself treating the doll hobby as a more personal/individual form of enjoyment of late – TDA should be a nice change – it’ll be something I can enjoy with other doll enthusiasts, but yet, not feel obliged to be totally social (since I reckon it’ll be pretty packed at the venue on the day). Plus, it’ll probably be the closest I can get to an event like the Volks Dolpa for a while.

I’ve spent a relative short 1.5 years at this job, and as much as I love it at times; there are days when I just can’t be bothered with all the double-handling or stupidity that goes on at work. But in 4 days’ time, this will all end since Friday will be my last day on the job.

It’ll be good to have it down on my resume; but the time at the job has maybe in a way contributed to stress on my relationship with the boy. He can never handle distance and time apart well, and me being in Melbourne, and him being interstate doesn’t help matters. Of course, it would be good if he had moved here, since throughout my time at this job, he has been helping out at home and doing freelance work; but due to family circumstances and his other personal reasons (that he rather not share); he’s stayed firmly where he is.

With the last day at work looming; I can’t help but feel a sense of impending freedom tinged with a bit dread.

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My brain is about to explode.

Everyone just breathe and take 2 steps back and reassess if all this is really necessary.