Mood:
chillin'Now Playing: XM 80s - 'Bang a Gong', Power Station
...but it's a good kind of hurt, the kind that's temporary, and was earned doing something fun. Just spent an hour and some more cleaning all the sixth-scale (i.e., Barbie size) dolls. The dust on Naru and Neffy was pretty thick, I noticed, so today, I cleaned everybody. Shelves, too. Last time I did that, I think, was the time Dearest Son got a hold of the cornstarch powder and applied it liberally to all my dolls !
And I embarassedly (is that a word ?) redressed a few who were still in their issue clothing. Five of my seventeen male dolls were sadly neglected, especially considering that I haven't bought a new doll in that size in over a year. So, while I was cleaning, I was dressing, too !
Why the male dolls ? Well, unlike the over-abundance of second-hand Barbies, it's pretty rare to find used male dolls in good shape. So most of mine were bought new on markdown , or were bought off eBay, in pristine but no-box-cheap. And often, there's not a lot to change them into ! For every hundred fashion doll dresses, there's maybe one male outfit. It was this lack that got me into sewing - but women's fashions are almost always more interesting to sew ! So only Fiyero's benefitted, and that's because he arrived nekkid and I was too broke to buy him stuff.
So today, First Issue Happy Family Alan (2 for 1 TRU sale), First Year Cali Guy Ken ($5.), Ken as Shaggy from Scooby Doo (50c at a yard sale), and Stars 'n Stripes Army Ken ($6. shipped, off eBay) got new clothes. Generation Guy Blaine (First Issue, $4. off eBay) remains in his cool disco outfit, because I like it.
Got a few surprises, too - Alan's t-shirt and the one on top of it are separate pieces - it was hard to tell, as packaging threads still held them together, and Mattel's notorious for making two-piece outfits one piece. Cali Guy Ken doesn't have the molded brief hips - he's just like the Ken I remember as a kid. With 'the bump'. You know what I'm saying. Once the gunk got rinsed out of his hair, that odd cowlick of hair smoothed down, and he had jeans instead of those rust-colored corduroys, Shaggy didn't look nearly so goofy. While Army Ken was a used-only-once headmold on a standard 1991 Ken body, he somehow looked more buff than Cali Guy and the other Ken guys.
It was satisfying to get everyone cleaned up. I really enjoyed it, and I could swear, I was seeing them all over again. Switched them around, being careful to keep couples together, but trying to give everyone 'someone new to talk to' ! I know it's silly. But it's also fun !
Also redid a bit of the Barbie page. You'll be seeing more updates there, now that everyone's clean and ready for their close-ups ! I also have to get everyone redressed for Fall - I don't like my dolls catching colds or getting overheated !
For now, though, it's dinnertime, and I still have to cook it. See ya tomorrow !
