I see topics like this on other doll forums, so I thought, why not start one here (I don't think there's one already)? Doll owners can say some things that sound pretty odd to outsiders, but I think doll sculptors can say some even weirder stuff! I use premier clay to sculpt with, and sometimes I put I put pieces in the oven to speed up drying. So I'll end up saying things like "You can't use the oven, my head's in there!" or "What's in the oven... oh! It's body parts"
XD "It's just a few pairs, but pretty soon I'll need to order LOTS of eyes!" --me, explaining my most recent package to my housemate.
"I have to cut her up so she fits better" Explaining to my god father why im going at my doll with an x-acto blade
"Could you hand me the saw? I need to cut this girl's torso in half." "I decided to go with a smaller size, because the last body didn't fit in the oven." "Well, it's time to crack that skull open!" EDIT I have to say, one thing I like about sculpting is that it helps me relief my sadistic tendencies ;p.
It's become a running joke with my son that whenever I tell him I'm going to work on my doll, he replies with, "Oh, are you going to work on her butt? Because it has a crack in it!"
"I have to cut of her badonkadonks... they are to huge" "I burned a head...." "Chop goes the finger~!" so on and so forth hahaha
Yup the same as above answering the phone and saying I have to call you back I have a head baking in the oven.And a long string of f-bombs when I stabbed myself in the leg to the bone with an exacto knife I was carving out a head with.
Me "I just got my eyes in the mail and now I need to go stick my head in the oven." Husband "Oh honey, it's not that bad is it?"
Friend on Yahoo Messenger: So, what are you wearing? Me: Same old, same old. Jeans, t-shirt, hoodie... Oh, and a respirator.
Gah! Hilarious! I read the first couple over twice, because at first they didn't sound weird to me at all. Something's wrong here.
These are great! Especially the ear one. I sometimes do doll work at my school, so there are lots of things I mutter that get overheard by passers-by... "Usually, when I open up a head..." "These are my new favorite eyeballs." "Would you like to see the inside of her head?" (People always ask to see my dolls' "brains" for some reason...) "God, I hate feet. Feet are terrible..." And my favorite; I often carry around a box with my latest doll project, and there's always someone who doesn't know what I do and asks, "what's in the box?" I usually just say, "body parts", or whatever I've got that day. This is often met with "no, really, what's in the box?" So I either take out whatever I'm working on to show them or explain it. It hasn't gotten old, yet.
"Be careful!There's a hand in the freezer!" I sculpted my latest doll in plasticine and stuck the pieces in the freezer to harden.
"Where'd the other half your head go?" after dropping head cap. "I've got legs on a stick!" Tiny legs with a shish kabab skewer maintaining stringing channels.
"Wait! Don't move! Stay where you are, I dropped one of my eyeballs and I still haven't found it". (the eyeballs I use are about 5mm )
-What are you doing today? -Oh not much, just sawing fingers" (when I attempted to make a jointed hand from a regular hand). -And today? -sanding a butt crack -Why do you have a vulva folder on your computer? -References... -Yeah right... -... And one from a fellow dollmaker who made a cat anthro: "so I tried to put the tail in her butt but it wouldn't fit in the hole" Now reconsider this knowing the tail is slang for penis in French and this conversation occurred in public transportation.
(Working with wax) ...yeah used the heat gun for a little too long and her face melted... she was iratating me so I smashed her face... *ok so maybe I should be a little more careful :p
