Reward After the Storm.

Sunset After The Storm, August 1 2011., a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

We got some bad thunderstorms last night that stayed parked over our area for at least an hour. I spent the whole time in my basement cowering with Lucas (who isn't even remotely afraid of storms, by the way) but I could hear large hail boinging off our roof for about five minutes. Thank goodness nothing was broken!

We were treated to a nice sunset afterwards. Those steep mid-level lapse rates that gave us giant hail always light up the night sky nice and pretty.

A Rare Treat.

Flickr is down again. LJ has been up and down lately. Doesn't anything work right any more?

I've been wanting to show off this gorgeous rerooted Dark Angels Marya that Kristen did for me within the past week. It's not often that you find a rare Volks head in great condition floating around on eBay. I'm especially grateful this time because as far as I know, this doll had the NEO body. I don't think I've ever been able to extract the head from a NEO body before.

She's been rerooted with Restoredoll saran in Mahogany. I had liked her with short, dark hair but I don't know why Volks is so hell-bent on giving Marya that manta ray hairstyle. It is seriously ugly. Why don't they give her a nice, thick bob and leave it at that?

I renamed this doll "Kirie" because that was the name I gave my female protagonist in Persona 3 Portable. I had always wanted to do a custom doll with red eyes and brown hair in a similiar hairstyle. Well...maybe this is how she'd look with her hair down. I don't think that it's possible to root a doll with short, upswept hair and all those pins...even if we managed accuracy, it would probably look stupid on a doll with such a small head.

I have to give Kristen a lot of credit for choosing Mahogany as the hair color. The heroine from Persona 3 Portable has been shown in promotional material with at least three different shades of brown hair. Screw accuracy! I prefer the hair color that looks the prettiest.

Group Shot!

I had wanted to do this for a while. Unfortunately, Peach Cobbler isn't present at this photo shoot. It has no flower spikes to cut right now.

Butterfly bushes, from left to right: Black Knight, Royal Red, Petite Plum, Miss Ruby, Ellen's Blue, Pink Delight, White Profusion and finally, Honeycomb.

I think that Ellen's Blue finally looks true-to-life in this picture. Isn't it a lovely color? Also, the flower spikes on White Profusion are HUGE.

Maybe I'll do another shot when Peach Cobbler is ready...