This week I’m on a big sewing project to make a bunch of new bedding for future dioramas. I wore myself out just trying to cut, iron, and prepare the pillowcases, sheets, comforters, and headboard pieces I’m going to sew later today. I didn’t think a sewing project would be another great physical therapy session, but because I’m a work-a-holic when it comes to… everything, like a dog with a bone, I won’t quit until it gets done. I’ll post photos of the bedding once I’m finished.
This story is just getting more and more interesting since I get to really delve into the lives of all my previous ‘minor’ characters that I never gave a back story to before. You’ll see some of that in this week’s story with Ricardo Reyes, the dead father is back in some flashbacks.
To say it’s been a challenge to find more dolls and action figures to play current characters when they were young for flashbacks is an understatement. There is a HUGE shortage of children and teen dolls and action figures in the market. It’s painfully hard to find child’s heads, bodies, (especially for any race but white), or clothing and I wish that would change because they add so much to my stories. So finding ‘young’ versions of my characters has been challenging and I have to make do with what I can find. I have photos below of the double casting I’ve had to do for several characters to tell their sordid pasts. I’m still waiting for 2 head sculpts that are on backorder for Juan Carlos and Jose Luis Reyes, so I can’t tell yet if they’ll work.
