Nicola is supposed to be a writer, but he's been afflicted by a writer's cramp lately. Furthermore he was somehow engaged with Edda and now that she left the house he's been looming around idly flirting with all the girls.
Trying to revive his inspiration he has decided to take a trip to Dublin, on the tracks of J. Joyce's Ulysses.
Anyway he's going to enjoy a tour of the pubs.
Cecilia, who should know better, seized the moment and volunteered to accompany him, as a secretary. She's been eyeing Nicola since her arrival.
She thinks he's got the "tall dark stranger" looks. So she borrowed Ofelia tartan outfit an off they are!
Day One
First of all they pose for a picture with J. Joyce statue.
Then they head for the Writer's museum.
Then a visit to the Martello tower. Cecilia is bored already.
And Ormond Quay.
Nicola has been blabbering for hours, he's in a stream of consciousness mood and Cecilia wants to die.....
Day two
Nicola is stunned when they meet Giorgia in Grafton Street, he completely forgets about the stream of consciusness and dragging Cecilia with him invites Giorgia to join in.
Giorgia loves Joyce, so she enthusiastically agrees.
They visit the Phoenix Park
Sandy Mouth Strand
And the Castle. Nicola and Giorgia are getting along wonderfully!
Day three
Nicola has completely forgot to focus upon his inspiration and proposes a tour of the pubs!
The Market
The Stag's Head
The Temple
The Quai
Nicola and Giorgia are definitely an item. Cecilia is very angry at me, but I don't believe she had any chance with Nicola, would she ever find Mr Right Guy?
Back from our vacation, just a couple of weeks to sunbathe, swim and recharge us! Sorry for disappearing so suddenly but I was really burnt out and just had to switch off for a little while!
I'm not ready yet to write long posts, as I'm still in the "lazy" mode, but I can let pictures speak for me.
I haven't been completely away from dolls, in the evenings I've been working on the Mexican Bar, I took some pictures in the process:
And here are the finished structures, I still have to make the seats for the table, anyway on the shelf there is no room for the table so I'll have to come up with some ideas on how to display them!
Arturo is the proprietor of the bar, he's checking the height of the counter
The Bar partially decorated with bottles and food!
And finally the girls can throw their party!
in the meantime I added stools
Giulio and Pietro have now complete outfitts, I'm still working on the others, these two are part of the Tobacco Road collection
It looks like the bar is attracting a lot of customers, is a perfect setting for super fast photo sessions, it is not perfect but photographs well enough!
Now I have to prepare the walls for the rooms and I've some more diorama projects lurking around, and of course I'm sewing dresses.
Since the Gloss Convention I've been resisting buiyng Adorned Vanessa, Grandiose Natalia and Noctunral Glow Veronique.
As I already ordered Rare Appearance Dania, that sooner or later shall be released by IT, I decided to stick to the girls I already had.
But I have to tell you: I don't like FR Tall Body. I thought so the first time I saw one "in person" and unfortunately it didn't grow on me. Quite the contrary.
While Nu-Face and FR2 can easily swap clothes (with the exception of trousers) the "tall body" girls can not. I don't really like to have to sew multiple versions of a same dress and I find the Tall Body proportions difficult to handle. Just a matter of personal taste and sewing skills.
I can understand that people with huge collections of earlier original FR clothes and accessories (in the older days IT pulled off many outstanding outfis) are upset by the body change, but as I only started collecting FR a couples of years ago, I don't have this kind of problem. But the main thing is: I can only have dolls that I absolutely and throughly love!
I only have Dania (red headed Margherita), Natalia (Hot Property - Edda) and Veronique (Costanza) on a tall body, so I've been thinking (for a while now) if it was the case to buy the girls in their FR2 versions and substitute these dolls.
In fact last year it looked like at IT's they were doing everything they could to help me: delivering dolls with the updated facesculpts (which I like a lot) on the new enhanched FR2 body, feathuring the all time favourite faceups and hairdos.
This was the case with Grandiose Natalia for istance, who really reminds me of Hot Property (besides the grey eyes).
Ok, why I'm telling you all this? Because I actually ordered the three of them and today Natalia arrived!
So my decision is final: Margherita and Edda shall go to Carlotta's (with some dresses) and I'll only keep Costanza. Her Classic Hollywood features are too dear to me and, for the time being at least, I'm not ready to part with her!
I also decided not only to substitute Natalia, but also to give her a new name. As she arrived at home I knew she was going to be called Giorgia!
So let's go ahead with the deboxing ritual!
I can't stop taking pictures of her!
I really like the outfit, I think I shall use this dress as a template for better homemade evening dresses to come.
Burgundy sandals .... OMG I didn't notice that!!!
I think she looks a lot like Raquel Welch, I absolutely love everything about her!
Well these outfits are so wonderfully 70's that I'm leaving you on the notes of this hit from 1974, it's from the soundtrack from the worst movie with a stellar cast ever made: The Towering Infermo
