Grocery shopping

The contest is over, and here are the winning entries. I don't like the entry that got 1st. I saw the pic of the second prize winner on flickr, and it looks significantly better over there, not all blurred and stuff. I think of the two, the 2nd prize winner has the nicer pic.

Anyway, Ai Li's insane textmate session resulted in a blindboxed Re-Ment prize that she gave to me ^-^ Thank you Ai Li!



After picking up the prize and shopping a little (I spent the most money ;_;), we ended up doing this:



L to R: Me, Mur and Ai Li

Mur: I come bearing Bizkits! And an empty bottle! :D
Pei: Why do you have a cat in there that is giving us the finger?!
Ai Li: ... haiz...



Everyone: Hi, Amal!
Amal: Hiii! Oooo, what's that, lemme see...CHOCS! :D



Mur: :D
Amal: :)
Pei: >:o
Ai Li: :|
Cat: _|_

The voting page is up

Well, it's been up since the 3rd actually. Anyway, here's the link to the voting page, feel free to vote for which ever you like! May the best pic win. I know my entry is too pink for some tastes (it nearly sent my bf into diabetic shock, it's the one with the Pinky St and the red tv), so I don't expect to win anything.

Also, cuteminis.com's method of voting is really open to abuse. All you need to do is create several new emails for yourself and you could put yourself in the lead. And I see a rather suspicious number of votes for one particular entry. Could be just my jealousness talking.

There is a rather large disparity between the prizes, the first prize is a miniature toy combo pack worth RM150 and a cuteminis voucher worth RM100, while the runner up gets a cuteminis voucher of only RM80. Seriously, what's up with that?

Strawberry House

I entered these pics to the cuteminis.com photography competition. I hope I made it before the deadline. The house is a repaint of a Willow Hall Conservatory bootleg. This thing's actually been an on and off project for nearly a year--it's pretty hard to paint since all the pieces are glued in place and you can't pull it apart without breaking it. I've also made a huge ton of mistakes (bubbles, paint runs, you name it and I've made it) since this is the first thing I ever tried repainting. That means more time consuming paint removal and redoing.

This house was also not meant for the pinky doll in it. The Sylvanian bear I wanted to put in was unfortunately too dirty and I didn't have time to clean it.

Anyway, here're the pics. Don't die from the pink overload :P

Scenes from the house

Butler Cat trains one of the girls as a maid. The road to good cooking is a tough one!


Aya: Don't take pictures! Grrr... GET OUT! *throws soap*

Modding Pinkies

I've stripped the paint off and primed Evangelion Asuka's summer outfit. I've also stripped the paint off Yoshiko's head and tried to carve her mouth open. I don't like Yoshiko's face mold, so now she's mod fodder. I need sandpaper.

Bread and Baskets

Here are some baguettes I made with polymer clay and painted with acrylics. The tutorial actually called for using chalk pastels to brush the colour on, but Brunei doesn't have cheap chalk pastels apparently. The only place that sells them is Active Art, and those were like $3 or $4 when I went there last time.

I was also lazy so I just used the dark brown paint out of the bottle and the bread now looks slightly overcooked, but I'm pretty pleased with they way they came out, especially when compared to my past attempts.




Here's a comparision of the baguettes with the first loaves I made when I was just starting out. The baguettes are basically Bread Attempt #3.


I've also 'repainted' the Sylvanian Families basket holding my oranges. I wanted to make itlook less plasticky. I had only intended to dry brush it but I apparently suck at dry brushing. I have mixed feelings with the result. Should I strip the paint and redo it?


Also, bonus pic: Re-Ment flowers!

First try--polymer clay oranges

Dug out my clay and made some clay oranges last night. The idea was to make oranges that would look like oranges on the inside as well. Here you can see the clay before it's been baked. The clay is rolled out into canes first then cut and molded into balls. I've made the orange skin too thin so I have a few oddly coloured ones.




Here's the end result: Misshapen orange slices and too orange oranges. Let's just say this has been a learning experience :) I'll do better next time, but I'm pretty sick of oranges right now.



This is the main reason I decided to make oranges. On the left is a Sylvanian Families basket with Sylvanian oranges and a lemon (?). It's all one ugly piece of badly painted and moulded plastic. The right features my too orange oranges taking over.

Repainted dining table and chairs

I got this at Giant last year. Fake Sylvanian Families dining table and chairs! The colour is really just atrocious.




Primed and masked and ready to be painted! The primer's actually gray but it loks kinda brown in the pic.



And done! They've been painted with black and red spray paints and given a glossy finish. Seats painted with cheapo acrylics. Still need to seal and touch up those parts.

Maid Yuki and some new Pinkies

This is for Oxba, who requested Maid Yuki. Here, have some cake too!




I got some new Pinkies from Chong Hock the other day--the Sky Crawlers Pinkies (strange choice of anime to Pinky-fy) and the last of the Range Murata Pinkies.
From lef to right: Kannagi Suito, Kannami Yuichi and Caine.




After some mixing and matching of parts



I quite like that combo on Caine (R). Makes her look like a little dictator. I think Yuichi looks good too, sort of like a little business man. No briefcase alas, so he had to make do with the repainted luggage case from the back of the red pinky car.

Coffee and Desert

Cakes and coffee for desert and the butler's left his cart unattended. I wonder if he'd notice if I took a muffin?

Hmm, Oxba, you'll have to wait for the Yuki pics. I'm not satisfied with the way they came out.

Beach!

My course mates probably think I'm some kind of freak now, taking toys on photoshoots during a picnic :x Sandflies are also a horrible blight upon the earth. I got 23-24 bites at Muara beach last week, and the ones I got in December haven't disappeared yet. Ugh. Anyway, this time we went to Tutong and the beach there really has no sand flies. Seems to have less wild life though, we didn't manage to see or catch as many lil crabs.

Anyway, the results of said photoshoot:

Here we have Ohara sporting Agito's front hair (the paint on which is rubbing off, much to my chagrin) and modelling Asuka's sundress.Should have gotten the morning glory in the photo as well.


I nearly lost the greenish-white popsicle. After bringing the pinky back to the picnic area I realized she wasn't holding the green one anymore. Cue O_o. Good thing I found it a little while after, half buried in the sand... Also, when I got home I found that the bottles of drinks in the bg, the some of the paint had been scraped off the package ;_; It seems pretty easy to scrape off the paint now and I'm wondering if it has to do with the trip to the seaside or whether it has always been like this... The pinky holdig the ice cream is Wild Arms Rebecca.



Crab hole!


Ker-thud


Without hat


Watching the sea


Edit: haha, my flickr badge now looks like it has a few little yellow UFO's on it.

Series 9 teaser

Well, finally Vance has put up teaser pics for their next series! According to Suemomo of Plasticpop, the new series girls will be released in August.

Pinky Street is also gettin their own website, seperate from the Vance main site.

I'm rather excited for the twin pony tail pieces. There just have not been enough girls with hair like that!

:9

Hungry and unscrupulous enough to kidnap the Puddleford ducklings for the pot.

Mayura is hungry

Mayura looking for dinner.




Miiko: Why are you looking at me like that? Stop it! It's creepy...


I got Range Murata's Mayura pinky from Chong Hock XD. I've put her in Mikuru's maid uniform and swopped her hair with the alternate colour ver. of the sitting Yukata Pinky. Her eyepatch is from the Agito Airgear pinky and the knife and plate are from Sylvanian Families

New Pinkies huhuhuhu :D

I blew quite a bit of $$$ today on toys. Finally, a local place that sells these lil gals! Too bad they only focused on the girls with anime and game tie ins though, none of the regular girls were available. Eh, those'll probably be the only ones that sell...

Here's Mikuru from the Haruhi series. I haven't taken photos of the other girls yet, perhaps tomorrow when there's good light.



Giant ladybugs are swarming, and Mikuru is stuck--how do I start this car?




Mikuru: Maybe this button? Ah no, that's the radio. DX

Late nights, early mornings

Currently printing all my lesson plans so I cna meet Sue tomorrow. Haha, serves me right for not printing themout earlier.

Also, I hope new Pinky St will be announced soon :s I hope they're not going to shut down and stop production due to the economic woes and the decline in both quality and popularity of the figurines. Ah well, all things come to an end someday, even cute things.

Still. Boo.
I'll probably move on to Sylvanian Families or Obitsu if that happens though. Hahaha.

Chun Li has Eye Shadow

TP sucks. I feel like an idiot most of the time and a bloody whiner the rest. I'm so disorganised and I dread what Sue will say when I meet her to get my evaluation on Monday. I also feel like a student abuser.

In other news: Chun Li has eye shadow.

Teach everyday till you die 2

April and May are now "Pei will not sleep" months. TP sucks your soul out and turns your hair white.

My photography skills are lacking...

Rui repaint ver with Re-Ment puppy. I want try my hand at repainting and customising some Pinky St figures, any one have spare parts they wanna sell? :P

Strawberry Tea

I hate teaching. I want to be a writer. But I suck at writing. I don't know how to write. :s

I don't actually like any of the photos I took today.

Sacchin and Sacchin repaint release. I guess they could be twins or something :P


Table and chairs from Sylvanian Families, Green leaf plate from Megahouse, everything else from Re-Ment. I like Re-Ment.


The tea inside the cup is removable.


Hmm, this picture reminds me that I have to paint the little flowers on the table white or somekind of creamy colour. Brown is too plain, and the picture of the table on the original packaging had white flowers...