Now Playing: "The Simpsons Movie " - we forgot to return it !
Current Mood : Slight relief that it's nearly over !
Well, the serious holiday crush is in earnest. Most of our snow burned off, except where skeletal trees and shadows still hide it from the bright sun.
And here's the final ‘Disney Christmas Princess' image. This was on the packaging itself, the three girls basically cut/pasted together like that. See if you can spot what I had to alter. The pricing mark was like many from Dollar General - it was actually printed on the thing, not a sticker. It came from the whatever factory with the price printed on it already. I wonder how a company negotiates a thing like that.
Not a lot going on - I finished cleaning the Lab, so it's ready for whatever project I dig out next. Found another pair of men's pants to cut up, so I got that done. I kind of enjoy scissoring men's dress slacks. There's the equivalent of yards of doll fabric there, and suiting material almost always looks nice. It's often fairly thin, and keeps crisp, too. Men, I've found, can be quite picky about non-jean-type clothing, so there's lots available used. Cheap, not too badly stained, and thin enough to sew for dolls ? Score !
I usually find at least one button on the right rear pocket, and sometimes, I scavenge the zipper, too. Not often. It's kind of funny, but I tend to save it if it's a YKK zipper. Those are supposedly the industry's best, although that's not why I save those and not the Talon's. It's not even the color that drives me to keep this one and not that one. I go through all the work of saving a YKK zipper - and it can take about 15 minutes to free one - because the first zippers in Barbie clothes, back in '59, were YKK's.
You can also learn a lot about sewing by taking a discarded garment apart. I had no idea men's zippers were about five layers of lining and material thick. Or that most hook/eye arrangements are actually bolted into the waistband, not sewn in. There's also numerous layers in a waistband, too. Since I can forget if this pair of cut-up pants are polyester but this pair's part wool, I usually save the garment care label, and re-sew it onto a hem or somewhere. I was using pins, but got stabbed once.
Oh, and I've read elsewhere that the Speed Racer set is due out in March, not April. But I've noticed that the stuff I like always tends to run late ! One doll shop's price listed is $40., which isn't bad. Like Michelle, I love Trixie's short hair, and ole Speed's lookin' pretty hot. Looks like they're using the ‘Model Muse' body for Trix, which kinda ranks for me, but I can either 1)get used to it or 2)rebody. I've never bought a Model doll, so I may like it after a while. Or find a donor body. Long as the face and hair look good, I have options. Speed seems poseable- his arms are bent, not the ramrod straight of many male dolls, so I have hopes...
And speaking of hopes, I'm a bit disappointed in Mal-Wart. Remember when we went out Saturday ? Of course, we ended up in the toy section, and bought a few extra Christmas bits for Dearest. Forgot to tell you that the Lego Y-wing we bought back in Oct/Nov was $20. The one on shelves Friday was $30. ! Same exact toy ! It wasn't a ne plus ultra collector edition now with these new aspects. Nope, it was the same exact model, even the same number. I couldn't believe it. It's not that popular a toy, and isn't coveted by many fans...so I have no idea why it went up $10. in a month. We noticed a few other toys had experienced a similar price jump, for no discernable reason. I hope that when M&FIL bought it last week, they paid $20., not $30. ! Yeah, Dearest has two Y-Wings this Christmas. Oh, well. We'll refer to it as the fleet, and hope he enjoys both.
Still, that really is lame of Mal-Wart. They did something similar with a Cars toy last year - the mountain racetrack set was $30. but sold out for all of November, but when they got some in, it was suddenly $40. - luckily, I had a TRU ad to price match it back to $30., but I was plenty ticked at the time. Lesson here is : if you're gonna buy from a place that advertises ‘The more you save, the more Christmas you can give', make sure you do your shopping in November ! Then you really can save - by merely avoiding holiday gouging.
