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Claudia Blanchard
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So I moved this summmer.  Yay for me!  I am back in sunny Hawaii  where I call home.  Living here is hard sometimes.  I admit I am struggling to survive for the moment.  BUT...damn I am actually happy and learning that not having a lot can be good sometimes. It opens up  other creative avenues.   Like everyone else, I want a lot from my life .  For my hobbies I want a lot too.   I am still fortunate to have all my dolls.  I doubt I will ever sell any.  I actually have plans to continue building my cast and writing their stories.  What I want to do now that I started  my life over so to speak...is get  a few more things going with my  chosen art forms. So here are my goals and the reasons for them.

~ Gift myself with a DSLR camera -  I am not the greatest photographer and my artistic eye is  sort of limited, but.....I used to take some cool shots with an slr camera  long time ago.  I love my  current digital but I miss the  manual control.

~Take  better pics of my dolls for photostories - look up lightboxes and  different tutorials for  background scenes.  I tend to  make a  small corner or more,in the house,  the location(s) of offices bedrooms etc. Result is  dolls all over the house.

~Learn to make  more of the props I want for my dolls - I love the idea of polymer clay foods.  Most I have found however, are  much too small to be considered scale for my  larger dolls ( my Hounds and such sizes.) I found some great tutorials here  in Deviant and that sparked a serious wish to attempt  the art.  I will post my attempts here when I am  proudest of the result.  Not a perfectionist but darn close.

~ Post a tutorial or more on making certain props/furniture/clothes - A lot of my  props/clothing collected over the years are in storage until I can afford to ship them from the mainland.  In the meantime I need some and I found that using everyday materials is a great way to recycle and inexpensively create at the same time. I think it would be good for  some of the younger bjd owners with limited  resources.

~Start showing off my sewing - I don't always buy clothes for my dolls.  It has to be something  that I  doubt my skills in making for me to buy it or  so absolutely  wonderful and right for the doll I am thinking of.  Again I would like to show ways to create something wonderful inexpensively and still quality.  

Well those are a few of my goals
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Reawakening

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I lost focus and joy in what I like to do.  My hobbies failed because I changed too much.  Now  my joys slowly steal back in to take me over and remind me why I was happy before.  Though I may not be an artistic genious like those I admire here, I will be adding pictures and drawings...slow at first but more as I get happy again.  I don't mind criticism..just keep it constructive.  My art isn't going to be here to make you happy,  it's going to be here to make me happy to show off my efforts. So if I don't measure up...I'm not sorry.
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newbie

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I'm new as far as having my own profile but not new to Deviant.  I've been lurking for a while now and I've finally decided to get one of my own.  I'll probably spend most of my time posting pics of my dolls so bear with me.  They are my hobby and my alternate life.  I can't guarantee that i'll post a lot but I'll post.
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