Now Playing: "The Goonies" - DVD rental
Current Mood : Tired of chasing the horses out of our front yard (growlmutterwhine)
Now that I've had overnight to think about it, I'm not sorry at all I bought Alice. Aside from a few issues with her dress (more to come), she's a lovely doll with fair skin and pretty eyes. Her ‘Cheshire Cat' pal not only has poseable ‘arms', but a fluffy tail that can also be slightly posed. Cute ! I just wish they'd had more teacups and less ‘unbirthday' cake. I'm gonna hafta find a lotta miniature teacups soon...
Her dress really was a disappointment. Threads everywhere, and not from packing and presentation. Simply uncut threads, including some visible outside the sleeve ! What I couldn't figure out was why her dress was pulled up on the right. You can even see it in yesterday's photo - her left sleeve is much lower than the left. Turns out, sewing the underarm seam caught the trim from the sleeve, hitching the whole dress up on that side. I'm amazed no one caught that. It made getting the dress off her for examination much more difficult than it should have been.
I'm also gonna have to iron that collar down - it won't lie flat - and amazingly, the ribbon at her waist isn't a tie-back apron. The ribbon is the waist. Like the blue costume (read : polyester) satin is so expensive, saving a half inch of it is worthwhile, the bodice and skirt are attached to ribbon, not each other. Wild. Her hosiery bags awfully at her ankles, and doesn't meet at the crotch. Pulling it up to remove the slack is impossible, it's already that tight. While I love the shoes, and they're improved from 2002 Belle's loose ribbon-tie ones, these really are cheaply made. Seriously. I could make these. But I shouldn't whine - the doll and all, including licensing and packaging and everything else, is less than $20. new. And the doll is well-made, even if I got a poor example of the costuming. And I'm here for the doll, ya know !
I've gotta start BIL's robe - he needs it for an upcoming trip in July, and I haven't even washed the fabric, or read the pattern. Been too blasted sick ! So I can't start any new projects, save the catalog scanning, until I get those done. (sigh) There's a test one, then a final. I don't know what I'm gonna say if he wants more. Maybe I'll keep track of how long all this is gonna take me...
