Torrefaction

We're going to visit family in Dallas for the weekend so we're planning to road-trip it and spend a day in Memphis on the way. Whee!  Graceland!  Also there's apparently a cool cemetery, so I'll get some photos of that.  And we might stop at The Doll Pedlar in Little Rock, Arkansas as well, so I can check out some Asian Ball-Jointed Dolls in person...I've been looking at pictures of them and they seem very cool, but $500 is a hell of a lot of money.  I want to see how much I like the look & feel of resin because all my current dolls are vinyl (and a couple porcelain).  I'm working on a freelance art thingy in the hopes of pulling together a doll fund so I can eventually get a Korean or Japanese BJD...this one, if possible:

I'm already on the list at my local shop (Gigi's Dolls and Sherri's Teddy Bears, who are awesome despite their old-school website) to get one of the Goodreau dolls when they're available, but I'm getting the less-expensive vinyl version. Gotta start on the more reasonable side of things.

Oh, yeah, in case I never mentioned it?  I'm a doll collector.  I'll include some pics of my little crew in a future post.

Anyway, I guess right now I've got dolls on the brain more than anything else about the trip, but once we get on the road I'll be more focused on Memphis.  If we get on the road...we're having another little family health crisis right now (which is why I'm not in bed yet, despite it being well past my usual bedtime).  Hub and I are both the youngest in our families which means that our parents are all on the far side of 70.  Everyone's doing pretty well, but life is full of the wrong kind of adventure once your liver or knees or whatever aren't on your side any more.   So hopefully we'll get everything sorted and everyone can be comfortable and mobile and so on, and we can take a vacation!