Now Playing: another ambulance going by...(hope for the occupant)
Current Mood : Kinda ill
Current Image Notes :
Believe it or not, these are the only decent images of "Kira's" main costume I can find online, after at least an hour's search. And only one got resized smaller ! I'm gonna hafta watch Xanadu a few dozen times to get the LDP costume right. It helps, though, that she wears about six different ‘shepherdess' dresses throughout the film... and that they're very, very simple outfits.
The recent Broadway 'revival' has about put me off this project. The few bits I found on YouTube, where the stars appeared on various talk shows, were horrible. I'm a huge fan of cheese, no one can deny that, but my arteries and brain can't process the logs they were passing off !
Not feeling too good today. I mostly lazed around, sewed a pair of panties for the DPrincess dolls - boy, were those tiny ! They fit OK, but to me, those were ‘bikinis', not hip-huggers ! Modified them back to waist-high regular. Last thing my dolls need to be wearing is thongs !
Kinda missed my yard-sale haunts, even though I had such a good time Thursday. I still haven't even opened the Island Princess playset. Do you ever do that - buy something, but delay opening it ? I think mine's a holdover from when I was a kid, I rarely opened new stuff right away, especially if it was from a big holiday. I'd slowly ration it all out, so the fun would last longer. When I got older, especially as money was pretty tight, I'd occasionally buy something and take it back later - I either needed the money or decided against another ‘frivolous' purchase. It's lead to the fact that I rarely buy anything new these days, and when I do, it's after weeks of study, planning, and thought.
I just don't wanna be one of those people on the boards. Who have one post of dolls and misc. for sale due to personal issues...but later post images of the $$$ newest exclusive he/she just bought. It was worst on the spaghetti sauce page - seems like the more expensive the dolls, the worse it got - but I'm seeing it now more frequently. Sure, I buy the wrong stuff sometimes, and I'll cling to it even knowing I don't really want it anymore, far longer than I should. But when I flub a buy, it's normally under $10., because I really quiz myself on doll purchases for more than that.
Now, everyone's entitled to do whatever they want with whatever money they have, it's none of my business. But when folks are lookin' for sympathy and envy on the same day, I kinda have to back off slowly. It's a lot harder to regret buying a Fashion Fever doll - not a huge investment, and worse case, you paid $10. for a trendy doll outfit, max. But a $200. exclusive-but-I-hate-it doll is kinda harder to just eat the losses on. Especially when everyone else who just loooooved the prototype photos hates theirs, too.
Well, enough on that. If I felt better, I'd crack into the playset, but I'm just not into it. Showed Beloved Hubby my latest sewing successes while they were still on the Aurora doll who'll become Xanadu's Kira. Beloved said that, if I can sew up boots, he can make me little wheels with axels on a small platform (that part's called a plate on an ice or roller skate) in his Shop, paint ‘em whatever color I want, and then glue the boot and plate together. Isn't he sweet ? He was suitably impressed with Beast - but I think he was glad when Beast moved into the Lab instead of staying in the living room. Imagine not expecting to see something that large on the sofa late one night !
