Now Playing: crappy local radio
Current Mood : a bit sad...'bye, Eclectic Blender.
Quiet stay-at-home day. Dearest Son came home from his grandparents', and immediately claimed the Disney doll and the Statue of Liberty hat-thing. While PDorrie is wearing Disney's shoes in Wednesday's photo, the soles are just too short for her. So I restored them to Dearest's new ‘baby', and thought about sewing similar purple sandals for the Princesses. I remembered, though, that I already had a pair of purple sneakers for them from a long-ago yard sale, plus another pair of glitter-dot former keychain sneakers, in a pinkish purple that'd work with that outfit. Looking around, I noted that one of the Auroras had a pair of purple and gold flats. So, really, they don't need more purple shoes.
Slipped the glitter-dot pair on Dorrie, and thought that we could use underwear. Playmates skirts (ha-ha) the issue by giving most of their Princesses tights, which presumably double as panties. Pocahontas, however, doesn't wear tights, so she had on a pair of undies, but I'm not sure if they're original to her or not. Same with Tinkerbell. This will happen when ya buy used dolls - ya got no clue what's original ! Ariel has a fin and swimsuit, Jasmine wears harem pants, so neither of them got tights or undies, either. So, after I knock out another pair or two of shoes, I'll sew up some. Worked on a pattern today, it just needs testing.
Was a twinge bored, so I looked for something to read online while having lunch. Surprisingly (maybe), Eclectic Blender seems to have folded. I'm a bit surprised, with all their ads and traffic, I figured they were doing well. Hope the owner/mods are OK. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, the ‘all dolls' board was mostly overrun by Fashion Royalty and exclusive, expensive dolls, which ultimately made it a poor cousin to Doll Divas - a site with twice the ads, and FR, all the time. I used to frequent all three, and I'd see the same post on DDivas, then EB, and if it was Barbie related, then it was over on In The Pink. DD and EB often had similar theme days, too, so it was increasingly difficult to tell them apart, just that DD was older, had more traffic, and seemed to be better-run, honestly. While it's always sad to see a chat board go, I guess it was inevitable. It was so much fun there at first, though.
I judt celebrated my birthday today...well more like yesterday now on the 9th. The big 30 under my belt now. Now I can move on and keep on trucking. 
