PaperDolls in the Stripe!

Remember The Stripe photoshoot I mentioned in my last PaperDolls process blog? Well here is the published result (available for free in Dublin city). We were REALLY looking forward to seeing the results and wow - they are awesome! Donegal man and photographer Malcolm Mc Gettigan did a super job. We hope to get copies of these photos as the more flexible we get, the better the photos get! Hah! And we are definitely more flexible than way back when the lovely Will Eames worked his magic for our promo shot - the results of which are still awesome. Speaking of - we have blown up some of those images by the young Will Eames and started (slowly) plastering them around town. Look out for my favourites (below)! While I'm scanning stuff, might as well scan a few a these things too. These are bits of my favourites (scanner aint big enough so you'll just have to go look for the real thang). (Also, just noticing my hair is longer...)

ELAINE DOLL the wonderful:

And the two knicks, myself EMILY and KAREN DOLL (there are two pairs of pants in the original - ghah! I've got the mad eye in this one, awesome):

Can't leave out our NIAMH DOLL and the fish-eye Karen Doll again:

Wow this is an adventure.

Rococo: an eye patch.

I don't want the massive stage in An Grianan Theatre to go to waste, so I'm hurriedly composing a new number for Friday night's show... through one eye. This morning I had a nasty entanglement with a freshly sharpened eye-liner pencil and, casting caution to the wind, I forged ahead with the day's aerial training only for the eye-skratchin' to gradually get worse and worse. Finally, I found myself stumbling to my GP, begging the hesitant receptionist to see the doctor while clutching at my eye screaming: "WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO!!!!!??????". Got some eye drops and nifty patches and I'm feeling hopeful that the show can go on as it must! Further, thanks to the help of some of my friends, it shall be very stylish indeed... with optional dodgy eye patch. Think hoop skirts and chocolate with some feather fans thrown in for good measure.

I trust I'm on the mend when I can take posy photos of myself in a wig like this and a dodgy eye patch and still feel relatively positive about my near future.

P.S. BEST POSTER EVER.

Mary in Yellow Towel

Echoing my previous post: an introduction to my preoccupation with Catholic paraphernalia and what myself and Angeline from Avanti Maria! call Catholic Glitch (that terrible but wonderful mixture of catholic guilt and kitch), one of a series of photos I made into posters. If you want one, email me - owlbusyness@gmail.com