New Halloween Item!

This happy little baby witch is ready to fly into your home this Halloween. With his hand-painted hair, little hat and cape this 10 1/2(not including hat) doll this doll is a must for your Hallow's Eve season.He is Available for $15.00 on Etsy

Halloween Witch Doll

This is the first of several holiday themed items I will be posting in my shop over the next few months

Handmade OOAK Sailor Moon Doll

Fighting Evil by Moonlight
Winning Love by Daylight
She is the one named Sailor Moon!

Pretty Soldier of Love and Justice its Sailor Moon! The gorgeous  18 inch handmade champion of the moon is ready to join you in the fight for love and beauty!

She is available for $35.00 on Etsy:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/77622289/handmade-ooak-sailor-moon-doll

Sales, Christmas, Commissions and Sailor Moon

Alright so I just finished my last two Sailor Moon dolls for awhile(though I will be continuing to work on the Outer Senshi yukata dolls in my spare time) and will be posting pictures soon. Afterwards I will be working on Seasonal Items for Halloween, Christmas and possibly Thanksgiving. There will be sale in my Etsy and Zibbit shops for the month of December. All Items will be $5.00 off as well as reduced shipping rates for commision items. 

So be sure to scope out any of my dolls you might want to scoop up or commission. 

ETSY:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/LeahSharone?ref=si_shop


ZIBBET:
http://www.zibbet.com/SharoneDolls


TUMBLR:
http://sharonedolls.tumblr.com/


TWITTER:
http://twitter.com/#!/SharoneDolls

First Commission! :D

Well I just finished my first commission. The doll was Pippi Longstocking crafted for my good friend Maria Digrazia. The shape of the head is a little off but I think there might be something off with either the pattern or the instruction because I have no idea what I did wrong. Her hair and clothes turned out famously. Having her braids stick out was just a simple matter of weaving a pipe-cleaner into her braids.

See the picture:
http://leah-sharone.deviantart.com/art/Pippi-Longstocking-Doll-207700191

Hullo again.

So here's what up, I'm going to try and post here more frequently and most of my blogging will probably center around my dolls for now. To that end I have several bits here, first my etsy shop:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/LeahSharone?ref=si_shop

And my shop's facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sharone-Dolls/158623414194171

I'm hoping to post more here soon, but until then. Good bye! :D

Death Note Film 1 Review

When reading the manga the main characters of L and Light always struck me as very mechanical and slightly dull. Well rounded characters(for me at least) are ones with rich backstory and inner lives. They are able to give the illusion of having lives beyond the story presented. L and Light don't have those traits. I know very little about Light beyond what I see in the story. I know he's psychotic and has a god-complex but I don't know why. He's cold calculating and manipulative. The perfect machine. The same goes for L, in fact it does more so. I know absolutely nothing about L beyond his efforts to apprehend Light. And his 'quirkiness' is just that. It never gives his character any real depth and actually make him more of a novelty than a fully realized character.

Its because of the seemingly mechanical nature of these characters I was hoping that a live-action film would in some ways flesh them out. Good actors after all need to come up with motivation so they can play a scene well. Unfortunetly this doesn't happen. The only actor who mangaes to give some life to his character is the actor who played L. But even he is hampered by trying to stay loyal to the characters cartoony habits and mannerisms which tend to come across as forced and unnatural. A pity. Because this is only the first film the character of Misa is also not completely explored. Sad because she really is my favorite character in the series besides Ryuk. Misa is insane, but we understand that insanity. We know her motivations and how she thinks. She also has a life outside the series unlike the other characters. Ryuk unfortunetly still doesn't get the screen time he deserves. He is a god of death. An amoral force looking down on us poor humans for amusement. He could have been used to add a certain irony and humor to L and Light's actions but unfortunetly never is.

While I don't think Death-Note is a bad film or a bad series. It is flawed and its greatest asset is its wide distribution which exposed it to audiences and readers who perhaps are perhaps unfamiliar with the themes presented. Though it would be foolish of me to deny its (modern) Gothic charm and the amusing cat and mouse between L and Light. It will never come to life to me because of its characters.

I may still watch the second film and my opinions may change depending on how its told but in the end Death-Note the film is just like the series: a mechanical and hollow story.