There’s a certain euphonious delight happening with that title.

Anyway, we are now into the part of the build where I am creating the final dolls. Everything goes much, much faster once I’ve got the patterns created. At the moment I have a pile of body parts on my table waiting for me to assemble them.

You can imagine how long this would have taken if I were cutting out each individual piece with my exacto knife. All eternity. This is part of why I love my bandsaw. To show you how much faster the bandsaw makes this process go, here’s a quick video.

Though I’m using a watercolor block in the video, you don’t have to do that. You can cut out multiples like this by glueing or taping a stack of paper together. Just make sure that the glue is only in the areas that you are planning on discarding.

Gah. So, see that story over in the side bar? “The Bride Replete?” I keep thinking that I’m about 2000 words from the end of the story. And I’ve been thinking that since about word 4000. I’m at 11,664 and still think that I just need about 2000 words to wrap it up.

I know, I know, I can cut later, but gah–I just want the story to be finished. I’m usually pretty good at deciding what length I want a story to be and hitting that length, but this one…this one is kicking my hiney.

Have you ever had one of these monsters?