Mood:
happyNow Playing: "Man of the Year" - DVD rental from the RedBox
Week's going right quickly along, and I'm happy. It's started raining here again, and that's a downer. Although I do welcome turning off the A/C and opening the windows instead...
Made a neat discovery today. ‘Laura', my Magical DoReMi doll, can wear some Fashion Fever Barbie clothes. They're a bit big on her, but it reminds me of the way ‘chipette' Jeanette (Alvin and the Chipmunks) dressed, and I think it suits Laura as well. In fact, that may be why I like her so much, she strongly resembles Jeanette !
Anyway, here's Laura, wearing the same FF outfit that's shown on a 1966-standard-Barbie-body Cinderella doll a few days ago - the photo with the DTree toilet and sink. If you ask me, it suits her more than it did Cindy !
Made a second, less fun discovery. I was kind of avoiding the Studio for the last week or so. Today I figured out why. It was that laundry basket full of just-washed new-to-me fabric ! I didn't wanna wrestle with storing it, although it was sure fun to rummage through that yard-sale box a couple weekends ago. It was even fun to cheap-serge it. Well, I wanted it, I bought it dirt-cheap...now I gotta store it. So I did. Took about an hour, but now the Studio's nice and clean, and I don't have to worry about it any more. Of course, all this didn't stop me from at least *peeking* into the Mal-Wart fabric section last time I was there. But it did stop me from buying anything else ! Even the markdown doll clothes got passed up, and there was a time... now I have too much fabric and too many patterns to justify buying much. Unless it's for the shoes !
While folding and storing the fabric - there was a lot to go in the ‘holiday/floral prints' crate - I found a scrap of a Halloween remnant I used for a Barbie dress a long time ago. Hmm. Not much there...but it's probably enough to make Laura a little something ! Guess I'd best get her measured for Doll Shop Deluxe soon. I saved her box to hold her original ‘witch' outfit and accessories. May as well continue to use it for her wardrobe ! My doll clothing storage gets a bit more crowded...oh, well. That'll happen when I buy new dolls. I get inspired all over again !
Beloved Hubby came home with a surprise for me - the latest issue of Barbie Collector ! He thought I might like to read it, since there's lots of Midge photos and there's even a pattern inside. Isn't he the sweetest ? Said he wasn't too impressed by Haute Doll - he looked at that, too, while deciding on BC. I'll have a more complete review tomorrow.
For now, I'm gonna go read ! Hope you had a nice surprise sometime today, too !
