A Little late

Rhinoceros Hornbill
Nora Dennis 2007

Yesterday I was just a tad late in posting. I try to post BEFORE midnight in order to keep to the time frame of the newspaper paper doll. Welll...I didn't post until after midnight. I didn't notice this until I glanced at the time. I suppose I could have posted a different paper doll for the 22nd, but decided to leave it and because I'm a couple of days behind, do two posting of paper dolls...one for the 22nd and one for the 23rd. I so enjoy sharing the paper dolls with you and I am hoping that you enjoy downloading them.

I have an update on my testing supplies. The Hub was able to get my prescription filled and I now have test strips for the rest of August and into September. I find testing my blood fascinating. I'm supposed to test once before breakfast, then two hours afterward. The same goes for supper. As I ate my dinner late (I was drawing and always loose track of time when I'm involved in an art project) so have to wait until around 12:30 in the morning (it's 12:19 AM at the moment) to test my blood again. I've also taken my insulin so I'll be interested to see the results. When I tested prior to eating it was 236. The Doctor wants to get it down to between 80 and 120. 

You might have noticed the bird at the left side of the page. He was done in 2007 as a part of Richard Chamberlains birthday card. Everyone in his online fan club (Chamberlainfans) submitted a message to him and they asked me to add the artwork, which I gladly did. He turned 72 that year. I don't remember if the bird was used or not but I do remember creating him to represent one of his fans that lived in the part of the world the hornbill came from. (Sumatra, Malaysia) I found a photo of him on the web to work from but couldn't tell you the name of the site. I did look him up but couldn't find the photo of him in this pose. There is one similar but it's from the front. 

Remember I wondered if there were still covered bridges? Well, thanks to Goggle and Wikipedia I  found out that there are still covered bridges and that Pennsylvania has more of them. (200) And apparently most of the bridges are indeed located on the East Coast.

I finished Best Man to Wed? and am now reading the third and last book in the series Too Wise to Wed? The second book was really good. In fact I was so involved in the story that I did shed a tear or two when Poppy was injured and was calling for James. I won't give any of the plot away except to say that it took Poppy awhile to realize she actually loved James. All of the books can be purchased on Amazon though mine I bout from Ebay.

Today's paper doll is a Jane Arden from August 22, 1937. On this one I actually like all the outfits, especially the one that has the picture hat. I like hats but have always felt I look downright dorky in them. On many of these paper dolls I'm trying to gather one doll and collect all the costumes that go with that dolls particular pose. I'm surprised no one has thought of this themselves. I'd also like to see someone come up with a definitive book on the newspaper paper dolls featuring each of the paper dolls that were presented in the newspapers. The research alone would be mind boggling as there were so many of them.

Anyway, at the moment I'm working on the ones I have in the pose you see to your right. I'm also making a color it yourself version which constitutes me tracing the doll and outfits. A lot of work to be sure but in the end well worth it. I do it because many of you might want to do your own color variations of the costumes and also when I recolor the dolls it makes them easier to print out. AND you get a clearer version of the doll once I've blown them up to 300 dpi.

Since I'm a day late in posting this I am also posting a paper doll featured for August 23, 1936. This one is from one that I bought and scanned myself. No adjusting except perhaps for the brightness/contrast. For some reason my Hubs scanner scans everything very light and I can't seem to get it to scan the actual colors. Nonetheless with a little tweaking in Photoshop, I was able to get it close to the original colors. As a treat, I also scanned it in black and white so those who love to color can render it in their own choice of color scheme.

This was one of my Ebay wins. I bought her (aside from the fact it's Jane Arden) because of her unique post and she has a hula outfit. I can't say how happy I was when I was informed I'd won her. I only wish I had more Jane Arden's. I actually grew up with her image in the newspaper. I'm not old enough to remember this one...she was WAAAAYYYYY before I was even conceived never mind born. My favorites of her outfits is the nautical pantsuit and of course the hula costume. I just realized that the Arden I posted for the 22nd also has a nautical outfit.

While looking for something totally unrelated to this blog, I realized that I had not posted a pinup for the month of August!  So remiss of me! I like the old pinups. One they had clothes on and just SUGGESTED nudity and two I always loved the themes they came up with. This one appeals to me for obvious reasons...it's tropical feel and it reminds me of Hawaii.  The artist is Al Moore.

Matched Pairs N. Dennis '84

And finally my own paper doll design entitled: Matched Pairs. The models were from a paper doll set of Barbie, Ken and Skipper that I owned at the time. I'm not sure which set it was though. I hope to eventually run across it again and add it to my collection. The outfits they are wearing go with their Vacation ensembles. Why I put daffodils on the outfits I have NO idea. I think I will change them to hibiscus flowers or plumeria flowers which are more in keeping with a Hawaiian theme. Even Bird of Paradise flowers...but daffodils?? What was I thinking?!? I also noticed the Donna's (aka Skipper) sandals didn't match DeAnn's. So while I'm revamping the pattern on their outfits I'll give Donna another pair of sandals to match DeAnn's. The guys name, if it's of any interest, is Donald. My sister's name is DeAnn and her husbands name is Donald. Donna wasn't anyone I knew just gave the name to the doll to make it match the others. It needs a background though. I've a notion to put a drawing of Diamond Head behind them.

Well, that is all for today. Until tomorrow (hopefully)...


                                   ALOHA!