Now Playing: Dearest Son, trying to open a slightly stale and sticky Tootsie Roll...
Current Mood : Cheerful
Current Image Notes : Elphie's new nightshirt ! Got it in a lot a few yard sales ago - it's the kind that comes with a girl's matching nightgown. I've come across several, and oddly, most of ‘em were too big for Barbie, but they fit Elphie just great !
The morning light was so pretty on her, I didn't care that the Barbie graphics didn't really show up in the photo.
Not a lot to chat about - I took most of today to clean the Lab. Seems like I'm constantly cleaning it, but it gets messy at the drop of a doll hat ! Kittens knock stuff over, Dearest Son drags in Lego, Beloved Hubby leaves soda cans...and that's not even covering the mess I make cutting fabrics, dragging in new stuff to be stored, trying new patterns, sorting through a parsec or two of fabric looking for one eighth of a yard of one very specific design...then getting distracted by what I wanted to do with this half-yard when I bought it, two years ago...
Add in the ‘snacks at the computer' and ‘unfinished ideas', and you got a small space with a lot packed in, so it's easy for it to go from sparkling to squalid in less than an hour. I got Little Princess doll clothes everywhere, new fabric waiting for its place, artworks never hung, and new dolls that I have no idea where to show ‘em off. So today, I got behind the cubby - kittens knocked over a doll shoe box - and under the computer desk, over by the artworks, and in that ‘dead space' of stuff in one corner. Got all the ribbon I bought this week put away, and got doll shoes sorted, picked up a few props and sewing tidbits, and gathered an unused pattern I still wanna try. Took three hours, and I'm still not quite done, but a vacuum and dusting, and I will be. You can almost walk in here !
Unfortunately, the Lab ate up all my time today, so I didn't get much with my dolls. Tomorrow, I hope to sew another pair of shoes, so I can at least get something on Jasmine and Mulan's feet. Sadly, I haven't found many second-hand shoes that fit them. Most of what I have is what they came in. Glad I'll be able to change that soon !
Swapped out some plastic tubs around the house. Cleaned one from the Shop for Dearest's Thomas toys - amazingly, they all fit in there, and the lid even closed. I need to sneak in there next week and sort out some of the toys. All his toyboxes are overflowing, just like mine ! Exchanged a small toy box for a larger one used to store shoes, and that's better for both. I'm limiting Dearest to one toy box in the living room, so we kinda need a deep one !
The bag of ribbon the lady from the yard sale gave me also had about a dozen barrette ‘blanks' - metal thingies just waiting for decorations. I dumped ‘em in the ‘Doll Hair' box and added that to the ‘projects to learn' list. It grows longer by the day...
