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Poppy + Squishtish tunic = one of my favorite styling combinations!
Joana has sent along a few of her tunics in a new fabric for this year's Integrity Toys Convention. Though I don't have Summer of Love Poppy Parker, I think she'd be a beautiful option for this look!
Tunic: Squishtish, Jewelry by me - both available at the Friday night bazaar
Doll: OOAK British Invasion Poppy Parker (not available)
I have had this incredible lampshade dress, a gift from DollDiva, for quite some time but couldn't find the right model/photo to capture the dress's playfulnes or show my dolls' appreciation for this dear doll collector's generosity. Enter Janay with her playful energy and fall accessories to finally help the photo come together! I really, really hope we see another Janay/Industry line!
Doll: Legacy Janay (Industry /Integrity Toys)
Dress: by DollDiva -- thank you so very much!
Sweater and necklace: Mattel
Boots/Purse: Mizi
I was going to call this image… “My Name Is Not Sharbat Gula…”
She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew
who she was… I was wondering who would make the connection…
My friend pfflyers1 was first…
There’s a giant difference from what I have shot and Steve McCurry’s…
The obvious one is I’m not good enough to carry Steve McCurry’s Lens…
Let alone his tripod…
Did I think about Steve McCurry image when I shot this? Yes…
was I trying to emulate him? Yes… Have I come close? I’ll leave
that up to you… Steve McCurry’s “Afghan Girl" is completely
different… His girl did not cover her face… and she was shot on location…
Maybe the similarities are the feeling of the eyes…
It’s all about controlling the light for me… I wanted my model to
feel as though she was outdoors… with shadows being cast from
trees or a shadow from a doorway… I painted her eyes with light…
that's why they sparkle…
Countess Tatiana Vorotynsky
The main culprit behind the annihilation of a werewolf Corvin clan, this 600 year old vampire nobility has been the mastermind behind many war tactics employed by vampire armies throughout centuries. Always keeping one eye on Erica Corvin, leading an army and expanding the Empire, Countess surely has no time to waste on antics of her spoiled nephew Dimitri whom she was unfortunate enough to have to educate on art of war. Escaping everyday Court drama and Dimitri’s terrible character, she finds refuge in the battlefield and the prospect of killing the last member of the Clan.
Cuxhaven 2018.03.18
Type Chemical carrier
Flag Malta Flag of Malta
IMO 9380415
MMSI 249379000
Callsign 9HQS9
Year Built 2008
Length 131 m
Width 19 m
Draught Avg 6.7 m / ...
Speed Avg/Max 10.8 kn / 17.3 kn
Deadweight 10736 tons
Gross Tonnage 7833 tons
....Or is it pink?
Taken in our garden earlier this spring....
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Etymology
The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire
Cultivation
Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.
Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.
Propagation
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Model: Boudoir Agnes, hair-restyled by me. ❤️❤️❤️
After sending her out for some hair-rerooting, she has been in the shelve for a quite a while until last night, she finally receives that hair treatment she deserved! I love her new look 😍😍😍 I've always wanted a doll with this hairstyle, ponytail and short bang, i even want her bang a bit shorter but i'm afraid i might ruin her whole appearance...😁😁😁
My first ever Elyse....something about this girl told me she was finally the one to join my collection (I've appreciated Elyse but could never find one meant for me). I was overjoyed when this girl changed from a lottery doll to one I didn't have to fight for!
Earrings: Integrity Toys (came with Elyse)
Dress: by Wardrobe4Dolls (etsy)