A few different things

[cimorene]

♣ It's sparklingly sunny today. Beautiful!

♣ Tatu's new Russian album Весёлые улыбки (Vesyolye Ulybki) came today. Nice! It turned out to be less trouble (and almost as cheap) to import a hard copy via a marketplace seller than to figure out the Amazon digital download system. (Marketing fail there, Amazon.)

♣ I actually got a Flickr due to Coraline.

I started crocheting a sweater for her out of embroidery floss last night, until I ran out of embroidery floss, that is. I'll have to see if I have any appropriately thin yarn to work with. The body's 100% bendy Gumby stuff with wires threaded through, and the hands and feet pop on and off. The faces come off too which is really cool, but less necessary. Here's a great Flickr group with lots of pictures of the dolls, like some awesome photoshoots (Hogwarts Coraline, Corambo, the view), and some people who have made clothes for her (this tiny sweater and this one).

♣ My old Canon Powershot wasn't that great, and used batteries at a fantastic rate, but at least it ran on rechargeable AAs: my new Nikon Coolpix is very nice, but after six months its battery is already no longer reliably holding a charge, and apparently the industry has moved on to running all point-and-shoot digicams of its type off of specialised batteries that they discontinue regularly. Which kind of pisses me off since you could buy a new digital camera (though not as nice as this one) for the ridiculous cost of the battery.

♣ Carmela was here yesterday and stared raptly at She-Ra while fondling my She-Ra doll, which I took out of the box when I suddenly realised I was being oppressed by the inability to pose her. It's not a very friendly doll, though - it barely moves. More of a sculpture. Which just annoys me because the ones I played with as a kid weren't much better. They should have been more Barbie-ish - more poseable. And with better clothes. I want to make her one, but have a feeling that making dolls is more complex than it looks...

Comments

[undersea.livejournal.com]

Oh, that Coraline is so cool! I really need to read the book/watch the movie.

If you don't mind me asking, which Nikon Coolpix do you have? I've been thinking about getting one.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Slightly older model: last year's I guess... s500. 7.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom. I don't know if the differences are very big, though. Except that the new ones have slightly higher resolution and slightly different batteries of course.

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

...I snorted some lemon soda up my nose when I saw the pictures. Did Coraline decide to get rid of the panda because he was too much for her fashion sense? :D

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Get rid of him? No way! Coraline One was clinging to Spencer for cuddles when she went to join Coraline Two in the butterfly chair, and she was worried that he might not fit since he is technically bigger than her. They crammed him in there though, sideways, by putting Coraline Two's leg over Coraline One's lap.