DohVinci Fail

I'm entirely convinced that DohVinci is not worth it. It's been two weeks since I made ears for Li'l Pinkie using DohVinci.

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After

OK this is not a good 'After' shot, but I only have my webcam at the moment.

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After

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After

If you could only see the After shots much better. Basically, Li'l Pinkie's ears are still sticky, gooey and wet. It didn't dry up at all. The doh has my fingerprints all over them because I kept touching the thing to check if it's already dry. Apparently not. I'm ready to scrape her doh ears off of her head and replace it with something more solid. DohVinci, sadly, is frustrating.

I'm not going to stock up on the stuff anymore. I don't know what else I can do with the other bottles of DohVinci I have, now that I know that it doesn't dry up and harden. Either this weather we have in the Philippines is just not right for DohVinci, or it just doesn't work.

Update on Li'l Pinkie's Ears

I read up on the drying time of Dohvinci and found an answer here:

If the compound still feels soft or wet then it is possible that environmental factors including humidity or the thickness of the application of the DOHVINCI compound may be affecting the drying time for your design to achieve the spongy or dry quality. However, you can display your finished projects as soon as you're done designing! Unless purposefully removed by hand or with a tool, the compound will stick on the surface as it dries.

I'm actually observing how the Dohvinci dries up on Li'l Pinkie's head and I have to say, it's not looking good.

The swirls on her head have become less defined. The doh has become sticky and not hardened. One time I accidentally touched the doh and it's still soft.

I don't even know how long I have to wait. It's been more than a day, and I could see a speck of glitter that stuck to the doh. The glitter most likely came from Elsa's skirt, and we do know that glitter transfers on things like crazy.

I can't say much about the lasting colour of the doh right now. I mean, I used white. Of course it's bound to get dirty while it's still not dry. But I do hope it remains white until it's dry, and not grey.

This DohVinci stuff is testing my patience, haha. Is waiting fun for kids? No. For adults? It depends, I guess. I'm not getting positive results along the way so this is quite tough.

If DohVinci doesn't work out, I'll probably use the doll hair I was talking about earlier, or yarn. I just want to complete Li'l Pinkie soon. She actually looks cool next to my The Secret Life of Pets toys from McDonald's Happy Meal. A photo of them soon!

Making Ears for Li'l Pinkie

I have a Pinkie Cooper doll, and I bought her naked and without ears, er, wigs, er wig ears. I managed to complete her look by adding a Monster High wig on her. She looks fine now so I don't need to work on her. However, on a different occasion, I was able to thrift her pet, which happens to be called Li'l Pinkie. Like Pinkie, Li'l Pinkie has detachable ears/wigs, but the pet I found didn't come with any at all.

I wasn't able to take photos of her when I got her. Oops. When I brought her home, I was thinking of ways to complete her. Like, perhaps attaching some doll hair on her head. I thought of using the blonde hair that I cut off a Bratz Babyz doll and which I photographed here, but I couldn't settle with a method of putting the hair in place. For a long while, I've just secured the bundled hair around Li'l Pinkie's head with a clear loom band.

Tonight I decided to work on her using DohVinci. Here is Li'l Pinkie with her DohVinci ears.

I am waiting for the DohVinci to dry up. It would probably take days because I applied it quite thick, but it's part of the plan: wait for it to dry, add another layer, wait for it to dry, add another layer, repeat... basically just build up Li'l Pinkie's puffy ears. I made her ears swirly, heh.

I haven't experimented on what else I could do with DohVinci, but if this turns out well, I might stock up on it because DohVinci is on clearance at the toy store, and I could get loads of refills while it's still available. DohVinci is really soft; I think it's much softer than Play-Doh, and it has an applicator called a styler which is convenient because I don't have to keep touching the doh with my fingers all the time. I actually saw a styler at the thrift store way before I bought a DohVinci set, but I wasn't interested at the time and didn't think it would come in handy. I kinda regret not getting it because I could just buy refill packs afterwards instead of buying a new kit, but oh well. What's done is done, or rather what was not done is... oh you get it. LOL.

Now I wonder if after this project, the DohVinci ears would become removable. I would love it to become removable so that I could make more DohVinci ears for Li'l Pinkie in different colours. Li'l Pinkie is, after all, owned by a fashionable jetsetter, Pinkie Cooper.

A pet with a pet! Haha!

A Photo Dump! [Part 11]

I took these photos a couple of weeks ago.

Oh new blind bags from Playmobil. I heard on YouTube that they are quite difficult to assemble at times.

Shopkins food fair blind... cookie jars?

Sour Flush toilet candy.

I'm not sure if this is 1:6 scale. It might work?

I bought a DohVinci pack for P200 because I was curious about the airdry playdoh. I have no use for that peace sigh frame thing so I kept it in its packaging, haha. 

I wanted to make doll shoes with DohVinci but my first attempt was a fail. I think I'll be more successful with just plain bathroom tissue paper and water or water/glue mixture. DohVinci is fun though. I'll think of something so I can still use it.

My Daruma doll collection so far. It's not much, but it's fun to collect these because they even don't cost that much when bought secondhand.

Gumby and Little Gumby on his shoulder! These two Gumbies don't look the same though, have you noticed?

My Hiragana fridge magnets, which is not complete, and a movie fridge magnet I won as a prize. 

I found the Hiragana magnets from a Japanese thrift store. If you could read the first two lines on there, you can find Nonde kudasai which means Please drink, and Yaseru, which means to lose weight, haha. I was only able to come up with those things given the limited number of magnets available to me.

I also have a collection of magnets, mainly magnets from different countries, not in photo.

Rocket and Groot in one photo, finally! They are not of the same scale, but hey, Groot is very small in the upcoming movie sequel, okay!

I took a photo of budget Raven Queen because I didn't see her when I took these photos. There are actually more Ever After High dolls available locally now, like the book party dolls, the Dragon Games dolls including the forest pixies, and I even saw extra tall Madeline Hatter! I don't like this doll version of Madeline though because her hair looks so greasy and flat.

The new My Little Pony Equestria Girls minis are out, too. To me they are more adorable than the dolls, haha.

I found this brochure of Brother sewing products at the book store.

I wonder when I can have my own sewing machine. Their cheapest machine costs around P10,000.00. Sigh.

I bought a cheap Vespa scooter for P25. It looks promising.

I took this while waiting at the car wash.

It says on the back that there is assembly required. This is not true. Maybe the original scooter needs assembly, but not this cheap Vespa!

Look, I can even flip the top of the seat up, and the stand at the rear wheel also works! I didn't need to use the mini screw driver or the extra wheels for it. It's good to go as it is!

It lacks a lot of detailed painting, but I'm OK with it. Sadly this is not 1:6 scale. More like 1:12 but I'm pretty pleased with this miniature scooter!