Journey of a Dollmaker @shesgabrielle@mastodon.social

Directory of my posts. I post about a lot of different topics.
For 𝓣𝓮𝔁𝓽𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓼, see: #GabyDirectory

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BJD Dollmaking and accessory making: #DollyWIP

For 2D digital art: #GabyArt

Photos of me: #GabyPix

Additional: Videos and music are on the tag #GabyVid

September sculpting WIP compilation ✨

#DollyWIP #Art #Sculpting #BJD

Ok I've updated all three of my websites now, and decided what they are.
Nothing is available for sale since I have to make it first (aha), but:
https://DollUnited.com is my corporate website, where I post doll updates (DollUnited is the name of my business)
https://ShesGabrielle.com is my art site which is also a shop
https://animated-angels.com is/will be my doll shop (Animated Angels is the name of the doll range)

All because the lady loves... Sliders

I should state that zero of my posts online are directed at any specific people, unless I screencap an individual person's posts and comment on them, though lots of people tend to say very similar things at the same time these days

If you relate to my posts it is mere coincidence. I mostly only pay attention to anonymous posts on women's blogs and forums rather than public posts/accounts and definitely give 0 shits about anyone not personally involved in my life irl

What she said in response was polite and reasonable, yet the bootlickers appear telling her to be "humble" because Jack wrote a one-line Tweet asking her to DM him.

I did a scale drawing of my dolls (most of my prior drawings were for a larger size) propped it up on a shelf behind my head and fell asleep (essentially 'under' it)--

Prior weird feeling is gone. What spell did I just cast?

Ok I have a theory for why I (and other people) feel strange in autumn.

It's kinda a time for preparing for the winter, getting ready to hole up somewhere safe, get food supplies to get you through the winter and such. The deja vu/cabin fever feeling is your body trying to remind you to do whatever you did last year that resulted in your still being alive now - there was a time when that feeling was a relevant survival strategy.

I did a random related search 'strange feeling october' - opened the first result and I've read this page before! I probably searched something similar last year. (Just a junk article with ten ads)

https://www.bustle.com/articles/113060-6-weird-things-that-happen-to-your-body-and-mind-when-autumn-arrives

Also this very useful(?) page here on another site, and a thread of people with undiagnosed vertigo/fatigue going all the way back to 2006.

I seem to feel slightly strange every October, I know I did last year and I don't know the cause nor solution. My life is the same all through the year, and there are no significant events that have happened in October to me in any year (to my recollection, which is poor/nonexistent)

Sorta cabin fever deja vu type feelings. Mysterious.

So I did a painting for day 16, but I wasn't happy with it, and I think it's because even though it was an interesting theme, poison plant is going offbrand for me (where my brand is cute princesses and animals)

With that said, I sketched out something for the day 17 prompt 'Ornament' in about 30 mins, will probably work on it more later on today.
#GabyArt #MastoArt

Well, I made an art, and I think it's good but I'm not gonna show it, eheh

I'm in a weird mood today probably because suddenly launching into reading php files as a hobby broke my brain

Using my usual winging it technique of randomly painting with no plan in order to try and make a nice artpiece - I think I managed it.
#GabyArt

Watched a bit of a video on Youtube about how the regime in North Korea is so severe that wearing makeup is banned, and you are only allowed a few select short hairstyles.

A woman had her whole family arrested just because she brought makeup in from South Korea and sold it to people. The camps they take you to if you are arrested torture and kill you for such minor offenses.
I knew it was severe but that really gives you perspective on, say, people complaining about movie releases

Decided I preferred the slider on the art site to have no text other than the title, so I tracked down the slider php file and set it to 0 instead of 25

Keep being amazed when one of my tiny edits doesn't break the site 😅

Updating my cookie notices on my sites to be kawaii lilac and pink to match the theme.

I'm going to take a little better photos of my traditional art from now, now I have a nice website to post it on and I'm not restricted to a couple of inches of an app to display them on. Closeups an' stuff like that.
#GabyArt

Divorce: the hot new trend everyone is talking about

So I guess we have a situation where one person did not know or respect the boundaries, and the other person finally decided enough was enough. I wonder if this was a tolerance that changed, or the initiator was newly empowered by something. I've seen this happen twice *this week*, so I'm serious when I say 'trend'

Don't want to seem insensitive, but I notice a trend of people posting Tweets or other content where they describe their intentionally annoying or disruptive behaviour -as if it were charming, and then a few months later, several posts announcing their divorce, where it appears the annoyed party was the one who initiated it.

I wasn't interested in the Inktober/Drawlloween prompts for the last few days, and also was working on my websites and doll stuff, but I like today's prompts 'Poison Plant' and 'Wild' so I will be drawing something.
#GabyArt

My sense of what is "enough" work to do is warped from previously being chronically fatigued (permanent tiredness = ignoring tiredness)

Which means doing 6-8 hours work, thinking I'm ready to do more and then falling asleep.

Anyway, I'm happy with my sites now. They all connect nicely to the others while still offering something unique.

Minor adjustments of making sure categories exist that links point to, even if there's nothing in them yet, and changing the colour of She'sGabrielle to be a perfect lavender/lilac.
Removed the double menu on the header bar by creating a menu called 0 with no links. I like the double menu on the doll shop, but it's a bit cluttered on the art site with post descriptions too.

And I think I'm done editing these sites for now; still need to make the links page/complete the art for it.

My websites fully work now. I really liked that theme. so I think it was worth the extra effort to fix the error and change the banner.