The Story of Stella....

Thought I'd share the story of how I got my latest shelled person with y'all... 

 Her name's Mr.Stella A'tuin and she's a rescue I got her from a Sanctuary the other side of the Country lol some journey that was to go and pick her up! anyway she came to be there 'cos Bonfire Night some horrible human decided to tie her to a Firework and see what would happen...

lucky for her she kept her head and legs in her shell, and that the rocket didn't have enough oomph in it to lift her although in some ways this was a bad thing as when it exploded it was sitting on top of her so the tremors went right through her body and she suffered burn damage to her shell...how evil is that?

I'm told she's kinda famous as her story was told T.V and the sanctuary did ask if I'd be willing to have a film crew come and record her rehoming!

Anyway, here she is enjoying her new home!

Dolls and Me...

I don't remember when I first started collecting dolls, I just know I aways have.

I had my own doll cabinet full of dolls in National Costumes, these I kept out of harms way, and just took them out on occasion and marvelled at their clothing and thought about how different life must be in all those far away countries depicted by the dolls in my collection.

Every time I went somewhere I always had to return with a doll!

Family members also brought many of them back for me...I ended up with well over 100!

That's without the Tiny Tears, Sindy, Barbie, Victoria Plum, Princess Leia and countless other dolls I played with on a daily basis!!

As I've grown up I have lost most of my original collection, but have recently been finding myself unable to resist when I see a doll similar to one I once loved!!

My collection consists of a lot of newly acquired dolls, ones I had and lost, ones I never had but always wanted but also a few of my childhood dolls remain...and they always make me smile!

I've made this site in the hope that others will also feel lifted when looking at my dolls.

Enjoy,

Herbie X

Oh and I discovered something else recently...not as cool as that Jigsaw but still cool ...Check this out!!

http://www.pictosaic.com/

A Cool ass site where you can upload your own pic's and turn them into multi imaged mosaic posters etc...pretty cool huh?

The site is limited to only a few actions that you can perform and there is only 13 types of images which you can click to have made into your image but it produces some cool ass effects... The thing to do is try a few different types of image, coloured backgrounds etc and then upload to make an original masterpiece...and better still no download required!! wooooot I tell ye!

ok here's a sample ...




Oh and another...showing a close up of what you get wooot!




How cool is that? And you can set it so it makes the multi images more visible from far away or your own uploaded image if you prefer....anyway enough of my rantings...go check it out!!!

This is so cool ....

The picture is so small on that style feed thing but hey never fear Herbie's here!!

Check out this cool as jigsaw...

It's called 'The Founding Fathers'

Man I just gotta get me a poster of this wooooot!!!!!!