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Dorrie's Doll Diaries
Thursday, 1 November 2007
Don'tcha hate autumn colds ?
Now Playing: Wii something, the guys are playin'.
 

Current Mood : Headachy and slightly ill

Spent on dolls Tuesday : $1.08 

 

Yup - I forgot that I bought another lip gloss shaped like a round ice cream container at Dollar Tree a few days ago. It was still in the bag, so I was lucky I found it before I recycled the bag for trash. I use about two Mal-Wart type sacks for garbage a day, which holds down our bigger bag expenses to about $2. a year. Gotta save where we can, with all my wild doll spending ! And I need to get photos of them for the site.

 

You'd think that, after a week of party planning, I'd lunge to the sewing machine in a fervor, desperate to sew anything. Well, sort of. I got the studio cleaned up, and more stuff put away. Decided to put in a divider for the lace, ribbon, and trim box, as I can't ever find anything in there anymore. Cut a stepped-on piece of foamcore until it fit, and got it all sorted. Why is it that, when everything's loose in the box, it's not nearly full. Put in a quarter-inch piece of board, and I could barely close the thing.

 

Used up the last of the wood-spool thread, cheap-serging the new fabric from the yard sale bag. Now when I need to cheap-serge, I'll just have to go with what I either have plenty of or doubt I'll ever use otherwise. It took me about three years, but I used up all the wood-spool thread. I'll miss those things. Hopefully, I won't be cheap-serging anything, it's not like I need new fabric for anything, ever !

 

Then Beloved Hubby came home early, so I'll have to do the rest of the serging later. We're gonna have an early dinner, and turn in early. I caught Dearest Son's cold, and it's kicking my round rump ! All I really wanna do is sleep !

 

Oh, Michelle - thanks for recommending Dizzy's Place, it sounded like fun. But I couldn't register. No matter which of the eight names or two e-mail addresses I entered, it said 'this user name has been disallowed' every time I tried. The FAQ advised that I contact the owner/admin, but without a login, I couldn't, and I didn't want to go through Christine's website for that.

 

So either the registration is buggy, they don't like my ISP, or maybe something I've said here or on another board (coughPregohack) has garnered me the shunning I probably deserve. Oh, well. A girl gets used to it after 41 years. Don't let it worry ya, though - I'll keep spewing my crap here, at least my only censor is somewhat disengaged !


Posted by dorriebelle at 12:01 AM CDT
Updated: Monday, 2 May 2011 10:55 AM CDT

Saturday, 3 November 2007 - 4:45 AM CDT

Name: "Michelle"
Home Page: http://vincantations.110mb.com

Oh Dorrie I'm sorry I forgot to say that we had some "doll drama" going on with one of our members and she was about to give up on the hobby and we wanted to give her a safe place to go, so now Christine has it where you have to email her first to be allowed on the board. I know its a lot of red tape but it keeps our members drama free.  If you are still interested you can just go to the board, and click on memberlist at the top and then click on the email button next to Christine's name.  That will work even if you aren't registered.  I hope you change you mind and join us.  I know the group would love to see what you do.

 And I know what you mean about a certain board that reminds me of pasta sauce.  I posted there once to introduce myself and not so much of a nibble to say hi.  So I just lurked and it was so much drama over a few hunks of vinyl.  Grown women and men being snarky over who had the better toys.  It just bothered me.  I still lurk over there, but not often.  I can totally understand you wanting to leave that behind you.  And don't worry if you decide not to join us over at Dizzy's Place.  No feelings hurt, just thought I share it with you.   I'll still check your blog and site everyday to see what new things you have come up with.  :-)

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