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Shark's Teeth Necklaces

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Yesterday I got a package containing 20 shark teeth. I only needed one--I kept four, well, five--so I had to come up with a use for the rest of them. Since I'd bought them to make a necklace for a doll in the first place, I thought I'd make doll necklaces out of all of them. It took three or so hours to make sixteen necklaces--my back was killing me by the time I was finally finished. Turning eight into MSD size and the other eight into SD size, I figured I'd put them up for sale, but then Barrel Ryder decided to keep one for Marcus too, so I listed seven. I started with the MSD necklaces, because I wanted to use Ransom for the SD pictures and his head is currently occupied, so I have to wait for a little bit to do those. Hopefully within a day or two, Ransom will be ready to work. Rocky was a little reluctant to be a model. However, we were able to convince him after a bit. Honestly, I think he really got into it. Rocky's necklace had a mauve seed bead t...

Howl's Day Out

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We had a big snowstorm today, and so I took a doll out for photos in the snow. I got him back at the end of December and have been wanting to introduce him, but I wasn't quite done with his outfit yet. I'm still not--he needs a sheath for his sword yet--but I also wanted to get photos of him in the snow, and I decided today's storm was the perfect time. So immediately after breakfast, I grabbed him, my camera, and my coat and hurried out for some pictures. This is Mycroft "Howl" Wolf. He's my winter wizard wolf. Here he is, standing in our front yard. Immediately after I took this picture, he tried to make a "wolf angel" in the snow. Before that he tried to do that same thing on his back and on his face. Our front yard is a little uneven... He had an easier time standing on the rocks for some reason, but he may've just been leaning against the tree. At least the snow wasn't so bad under the trees... If it weren't for t...