Mood:
brightNow Playing: "Venture Bros. Season 1" - 'Midlife Chrysalis'
There's a new photo up on the Home page ! Just a fun one I took of Aylene using a bunch of Dollar Tree stuff. Just about everything but she and her shoes came from DTree.
The poster and the foamcore board it's glue-sticked to is DTree. I sprayed it with Krylon Matte Finish ($3. for a whole lasts-forever can at Mal-Wart) so it wouldn't bounce camera flash. The 'wood' floor is self-stick linoleum tiles - ours sells 'em for $9. a box, or $1. for a pack of three. Takes two and a half to cover the long side of another piece of foamcore. The uncovered opposite edge can tuck under the scene you're setting, or get painted or covered with carpet. Or covered with more linoleum, if you like !
Ours has several linoleum patterns, but keep your eye for scale open. There's two other designs I like, one of which will probably end up on the other side of this piece of foamcore. Haven't decided if I'm going with the white faux marble or the jade green faux marble. I like having variety in my flooring ! The leftover half-piece will probably get stuck to a doll stand, for 'instant' photo opportunities. Or I'll let it 'hang around' for a while.
Her chair is a Dollar Tree photo frame. Those sold out fast, and I wish I'd bought more. The star-sprinkled dress is from DTree's "Summer Cruzin' " dolls, and fits her smaller-than-Barbie body well. Her magazine is cut from a subscription card, and her shoes are from a Fashion Fever clothes multipack I bought a few months ago.
Sad thing is, I've had the linoleum and foamcore since March ! Tile was sitting around so long, it started to curve, so I weighted it down with doll clothes boxes. And forgot where it was. Not sure why I didn't use them the day I bought 'em, but at least I finally did.
Helped Beloved Hubby with the lawn mowing - mostly picking up tree branches and wire flags from the gas company. Same gas co. that dug up our front yard in the middle of the rain monsoon, piled the mud around in strange hills and valleys, then left. You should see me push the trash can to the curb, it's almost a comedy routine. Especially when we get more rain and the hills turn back to mud and the valleys become lakes.
Anyway, one of those aggravating 'We Buy Houses' plastic signs had blown off a utility pole, and I snagged it. It'll be a great way to support two more Dollar Tree poster backdrops ! Score ! That's a buck saved since I won't need to buy another piece of foamcore board. It's the little things...
Oh, and Beloved Hubby has the Fourth off ! All right !!
