Mood Check : Still outraged.
A man dies opening a door for rabid shoppers on Black Friday. Two more jerks shoot each other to death at a crowded Toys R Us the same day. *&^% all of you, I'm staying home. Ya'll can destroy each other in your own fashion, (extended expletive parade deleted)s.
Yeah, I'm in a bit of a sour mood. Especially since those who believe in ‘the reason for the season' are gonna be preaching at me for the whole of next month, while I'm sure the idiots mentioned above consider themselves cut from the same believer's cloth as the faithful.
I took it out on that unfortunate angel doll, reducing her to stuffing, dress, and assorted pieces in fifteen minutes. The dress only needed minor alterations to fit Princess Dorrie - I removed the gold collar and hemmed the neckline, replaced the wide, overpowering lace cuffs with ribbon from the also-removed bodice bow, and took it in a bit at the back with folds and Velcro closures. Made ugly, clumsy shoes from the doll's satin feet, which took longer and look worse than anything I'd have made from better fabric, but I wanted to use as much of the unfortunate doll as possible. But in less than two hours, PDorrie had a new dress, a wand, lousy shoes, and a lace crown - and I had a doll head with terrible glued-on, unbrushable hair, a pair of hands, muslin legs, a strip of gold fabric and a strip of lace, a bagel-like halo, and a shoebox of stuffing to use on other projects.
Only problem is, I want to use the doll head on something. I'd have to rip off all the crap hair and redo it with yarn or something, and about all I can think of is a hand puppet. It'd reuse the head and hands, and possibly the bagel-halo, but no one here would want it. And I hate to donate less than my best. While her face still bears a slight stain, her eyes are still too pretty to dump in the trash.
(snort) In the days when life itself seems cheapened, I'm worried about 'wasting' a damaged doll. (heavy sigh)
