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Jul. 2nd, 2013
Roses that make me happy.
Jul. 2nd, 2013 03:43 pmRight now, I'm most pleased with Margo Koster, Darcey Bussell, Julia Child, Prairie Star and ::gasp:: Scepter'd Isle. They all have a lot of flowers and no foliar diseases. At the start of the season I never would have thought that Margo Koster, burned-out little twig that it was, would fill out and blossom into a lovely and generous potted rose. Unfortunately, she isn't easy to photograph!
Scepter'd Isle has turned out to be a real cutie with her bunches of pastel pink flowers. I guess I shouldn't have talked smack about her. You really never know how these roses are going to turn out.
I finished rerooting both Princess Luna and Fluttershy. They both just have to be styled a second time for their curls. Cutting out Fluttershy's neckpost was an absolute nightmare. The pegasus ponies are especially thin around the front of their necks, and I cut into her body a little bit with the Exacto knife. I don't think the mark is too noticeable, but still...
There really is no easy way around it. I'm starting to figure out a technique that causes minimal damage to the pony but it's a very tough job. I tried this out on Twilight Sparkle and I managed to remove her tail without hurting her.
I kept dipping her neck into a cup of boiling water (I had to do two rounds because the first cup cooled off after about 15 minutes), holding it under for one minute at a time to soften the plastic. I used a tiny glasses screwdriver to gently dig into the seam between the post and the neck--but I only cut out the back half of the plug, just enough so I could bend the post forward, reach into the body with a crochet hook and pull out the tail. As long as I can get a 3 inch soft sculpture needle in through the tail hole from the outside and through the opening I made I should be able to re-tail her without a problem. This is what I ended up having to do with Fluttershy once I realized that the rubber around the front of her neck was too thin to cut into. It still took me almost an hour to do this. Phew!
Scepter'd Isle has turned out to be a real cutie with her bunches of pastel pink flowers. I guess I shouldn't have talked smack about her. You really never know how these roses are going to turn out.
I finished rerooting both Princess Luna and Fluttershy. They both just have to be styled a second time for their curls. Cutting out Fluttershy's neckpost was an absolute nightmare. The pegasus ponies are especially thin around the front of their necks, and I cut into her body a little bit with the Exacto knife. I don't think the mark is too noticeable, but still...
There really is no easy way around it. I'm starting to figure out a technique that causes minimal damage to the pony but it's a very tough job. I tried this out on Twilight Sparkle and I managed to remove her tail without hurting her.
I kept dipping her neck into a cup of boiling water (I had to do two rounds because the first cup cooled off after about 15 minutes), holding it under for one minute at a time to soften the plastic. I used a tiny glasses screwdriver to gently dig into the seam between the post and the neck--but I only cut out the back half of the plug, just enough so I could bend the post forward, reach into the body with a crochet hook and pull out the tail. As long as I can get a 3 inch soft sculpture needle in through the tail hole from the outside and through the opening I made I should be able to re-tail her without a problem. This is what I ended up having to do with Fluttershy once I realized that the rubber around the front of her neck was too thin to cut into. It still took me almost an hour to do this. Phew!