Now Playing: guilt over not already having BIL's robe sewn...
Current Mood : Harried but happy
Cross-posted today's image to the Barbie message board, because I really hate to give up so easily, and I could be misreading things. And I really want to belong...somewhere, I guess, that isn't my place to begin with. I'd really, really like to be wrong, and I hope I am...but it seems as though this weekend, most of the chatter is about a longing to be at the National Barbie Convention (probably another place I don't belong). I'm sure it's a lot of fun, but when I have this many feelings of being shut out of mainstream collecting over a message board, a Mattel-sponsored convention - where every theme meal and each workshop is a separate fee - would probably blow my inferiority complex sky-high. And I'd feel dirt poor all the time.
I'm still really happy to have found Wedding Midge. You'd think a big fan of hers like me would already have her, but I really restricted myself, in those pre-Dearest Son days, to brunette dolls only, because back then, I didn't want several hundred dolls. Go figure. I could have bought most of the dolls I'd like to have now, brand new, but I didn't wanna go overboard. Well, I'm thoroughly overboard now, and I love it ! Finding this Midge made me realize that. She's still got all her jewelry, and she's wearing her wedding minidress and ‘getaway' jacket she came with. Amazingly enough, I already have Midge's wedding dress overskirt and sleeves, part of a lot bought years ago. It's gonna be a bit of a wrench to remove that veil, it's been there for eighteen years, but it's kinda dirty, and I'm sure Midge would like to wear something new - or at least, new to her !
Found out that the blue dress the blonde Barbie is barely wearing belongs to Princess Courtney, of 12 Dancing Princesses. She's a teen body doll, so it's no wonder it doesn't close all the way on Barbie ! Luckily, I have several smaller bodied dolls. I just have to fix the frayed edges - very few edges on this dress were finished, so they're all darn near fraying ! The doll herself has a bad neck split, so I may try to fix it, for the experience. Then dress and donate her. Wish me luck !
I'm also darn near delirious about my Pocahontas Disney Little Princess doll. I'm so lucky to have found her - and I can't wait to start customizing Dorrie and Molly. But today belongs to BIL's robe, and I gotta get to it. Updates if they're warranted later !
