Knick Knacks Forever

All of my life I have been an avid knick knack collector. When I was a little girl, I collected Precious Moments. When I was in middle school I collected Stephen King books, I had over 20 and had read more than half! In high school I collected records to hang on my walls.

These last six months I have started collecting vinyl dolls and then modifying them. You can see my first modified Yoshi on this post. My favorite dolls to search for and buy without modifying them are the Monster High Dolls. They're creepy and well styled and they aren't too common. I love going to Target and not finding one everytime, but once and a while I find one I have to have. 

So far, I have Ghoulia Yelps in Physical Deaducation. I loved her because she's got a little rockabilly style.

Recently, I bought C.A. Cupid because she is perfection. I saw in and couldn't leave her there. She was just too beautiful.

My favorite part is her beautiful lace detail legs. They are amazing!

I also love Funko vinyl dolls. They are simplistic versions of normal characters. I have a Stormtrooper, Rudolph, and a Mickey that I modified. You can see the Stormtrooper and Rudolph in the first two pictures.

Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline

Help! I want to be a better blogger.

So as everyone can know by now, I am awful at posting! I get so caught up in procrastination from anything crafty or productive, that I ignore my blog more than I ignore the laundry. But it's not what I want. I want to be a great blogger and have internet friends and share my life with the internet.

And you know why I think I don't share as often as I wish I did? Because I think I'm boring! Here, in 'wonderful' Las Vegas, a good time is getting wasted and doing things you don't remember. To me a good time is sewing and watching United States of Tara and eating the AMAZING dinners my Mister makes me. I can feel that I'm letting other people get to me. I'm letting people tell me I'm boring.

The truth is I am not boring. I'm old fashioned and a home body and that's okay! I just need to accept myself more and do whatever the fuck I want!

And this blog is super ranty and run on sentencey so I'll end it with a new project!

I just got this sweet new watercolor brush that has water in it. Finally I am good at shading!

Love and Turtledoves,

Jacqueline

My Recent Disappearence

Hurray for sunlight!

Lately has been such a whirlwind that I, to be truthful, have lost sight of my blog and of my creative projects. I had planned to do some videos once or so a week and keep up with everything, but I lost focus.

I wanted to make a video for this wonderful news, but it's been almost three weeks now so that's out the door! Anyway, William and I have moved into our first apartment! We have a beautiful two bedroom apartment and our lives have improved so much. We live a lot closer to our work so that reduces SO much stress for us.

I'm also happy to say I have been back at my creative projects. I just made a Lovebot I am SO proud of and cannot wait to make more of. So I thought I'd share him today as well.

I haven't thought of a name for this little guy but I am so thrilled to make more of them! The funny thing is I'm not a huge zombie movie fan or anything but I'm just so into making zombie things right now. I think on the next one I make I might make half of his face a skeleton too.

I also have some big news at work that I hope goes through here pretty soon. I'll keep you posted though ;), it's not quite time to talk about it.

Have a beautiful week!  I get to see my parents today and am SO EXCITED. It's been about six months and I am in need of some family time. 

Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline

Birthday Vlog

Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline

P.S. The adorable redhead I speak of is Sammy of Everything In Between.

Death to Yoshi

On my last post and on my twitter, which I like to use to post silly things about my days, I have been hinting about my latest art project. As I said before, I bought a vinyl figure from work on a whim and decided to spice it up a little. I bought this sweet 9" yoshi figure for about 9 dollars after employee discount. I had bought a pink one the day before but didn't quite love the blue one as much.

Once I decided on a theme, I painted him solid white so that I could do anything I please with him.

It took about three coats of white acrylic paint, with no color showing through when I was done.

 Next I turned him a dark green, to look much more like real Yoshi.

Next I gave him bruises, dark patches, and other skin discolorations. 

And then the fun began.

I added some over all creepy and zombie-ness.



And here is my finished result. I have to say this is the most fun I've had on an art project in so long. I'm almost sad for it to be done.







If anyone, or anyone you know, is interested in purchasing a vinyl figure like this one, I will be making another soon. Please email me at diamondinthedark-smacko *at* hotmail *dot* com.

Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline

Apartment Dreams and Creepy toys

Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing super great :) We've been doing very well lately, living in bliss together. Work is turning out for the best for us, we both received our much needed promotions in the last few weeks! Now we both make commission and can really afford a new place! So for the next few weeks we'll be saving up for deposits and looking even harder at the places we have our hearts set on. We're going to have a two bedroom apartment to stretch out in, we're so cramped right now! The most exciting part about having a two bedroom is the second bedroom will be our art/computer room, so he can game all he wants and I can get back into sewing. I can't wait to share with you our new adventures!

Right now I'm hard at work on a new painting project. I bought a vinyl toy/doll at work and am hard at work repainting it to be a little.... creepier.  But that's all I'll say! I'll post my steps when it's all done, I can't wait to finish it!

A few things I love this week:

• Being IRL friends with Samantha of Everything in Between, we are penpals and text all the time! She's the cutest.
• Apartment day dreams! We go to stores and talk about all the cute things we'd get to make our new place home.
• Acrylic Paint
• Animal Crossing: City Folk
• William, my sweet sweet Mister.

I hope you're all doing well! What's new with you?

Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline

Awkward Silence

I know I've been blogging for a year or two now but I feel horrible about my recent lack of posting. I've been working so much and so tired all the time that I have completely neglected my blog. I feel like I owe myself and all of you an apology for that. I do love my blog, I promise I'll be making more time for it!

So as promised, I had a surprise. And as many of you guessed, I got my first tattoo! On February 29, William and I headed to Lucky 21 tattoo in Las Vegas to see Alex Strangler, one of my favorite tumblr tattoo artists. She was visiting for just two days and we were praying she'd have an availability for me! 

So I gave her one of my drawings of the flowers you all know I'm obsessed with. I was so impressed that she came back within a few minutes with a perfect stencil. I didn't have to fix anything because she did just what I wanted.

And then I sat for two hours and got my first tattoo! It's on the inside of my left arm, close to my elbow. I thought about getting it lower but that would have hurt even more! Over all I'd say it hurt like a bitch, however you get over the pain pretty quick. I just got super obsessed with how beautifully it came out and I know I'll be getting tons and tons more.

And I thought the healing process was wicked so I snapped shots of those too!

Over all I think it was an amazing experience for me. The team at the shop was amazing and friendly. Alex is kind and truly gifted at her craft. I don't think I could have asked for anything better.

Do you have any body mods? I am slowly making my way more into them. I am really thinking on dermal anchors right now.

Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline