Now Playing: Purrrrrrring Velvet
Current Mood : Analysis mode
Current Image Notes : Here's a yard sale '78 Leia, sporting a porcelain doll wig, in front of a magnetic paper doll backdrop. Or, as I like to think of it, 'Leia's security double enjoys a day at Aldera Palace, Alderaan'.
Not much going on today. While sorting and reorganizing things, I discovered that I had plenty of reroot doll hair for the projects I'm forever planning. So I didn't need those Dollar Tree kid wigs I'd bought. Plus, on hearing that they're not colorfast, I was kind of nervous about using them. So I took ‘em back. Sad, that I return things to a store where everything only cost a buck anyway, but I do it about once or twice a year. Got Beloved Hubby and Dearest Son some t-shirts in exchange, though.
Still, it's pretty cheap of me, but nothing new. I once demonstrated the ability to repair an unsprung clothespin using just one hand. Darn clothespins cost 2c each, brand-new. I'm so cheap about stuff like that, yet to spendthrift in other ways....
Like today. I'd heard on a doll page that ‘pivotal' (i.e., bend-wrist) and other Fashion Fever dolls were on sale at Target for $6.77 instead of the usual $9.99. So I trekked over to our local one. Found one I sort-of liked, and searched for a second...because the new ones have a black shoe attached to the packaging, and I wanted a pair of ‘em.
I actually carried these two dolls around before I realized that, while the bend-wrist feature was nice, I didn't really like either doll, or her ping-pong paddle hands, or even the clothes, and had little chance of body-matching them to a head I did like. I kinda prefer keeping original head with original body when I can. When I put ‘Joy' on a good late 70s Ballerina Barbie body to match her pretty BB head, the difference between head/body original to mostly fitting head/belly button body was astounding. So I only head-swap when the original body is wrecked or not right when I get it.
Eventually I clued in that I was, in essence, paying $13.54 (plus tax) for a pair of unremarkable slingback pumps that I probably already had a few dozen times over. So the dolls went back, and after a thorough shop, found a set of magnetic paper dolls with neat backdrops. $13.48. A much better deal ! The dolls are on our fridge, and I hope to use the backdrops soon. The magnetic case went to Dearest Son, who loves his Magnetix toys, and is old enough to not eat ‘em. We told him not to, and why, just in case. I think I got a better deal on the paper dolls than the Fashion Fever ones.
