Current Mood : Slight guilt for further spending
Spent on dolls and sewing : $9.32
"To he that is given much, much is expected." Many days, that quote scares the lovin' hell out of me...
Another fun day - was up late last night, workin' on the Somewhere That's Green page. Decided to make a ‘recycling dolls' page about the angel doll and PDorrie with the few in-progress photos I had and just went for it. By the time it was done, I started looking around at the website, and dug into that. At 12:46 this morning - yup, 12:46 am ! - I published it all, looked up and yawned. By then, I'd finished the recycling page, completely redid the navigation bar, retitled most of the pages, and went through the old ones, enlarging fonts, switching images, and pruning dead links. Long time coming, that. And I just may make my little goal of having all the ‘Ten Recent Updates' all end in 2008 before 2009 rolls in.
Spent an hour today trying to fix the formatting in the Buying Dolls Online article, and I still couldn't get it completely right. And while it looks OK on Explorer, it's probably a jumbled pile in Firefox. Oh, well. At least it looks better than it did. Not like anyone's gonna read it anyway - it's pretty badly out of date. The formatting just bugged me.
Now, if I could just get off my butt and sew something, that'd be a great update !
But there were other things on today's agenda. Went with Beloved Hubby to his job bids, for company and the promise of breakfast. It took less time than expected, so we hit the junk shop in the town over. Wheee ! I love going there. Grabbed up two bags of various Barbie Happy Meal toys - we're gonna have a well-decorated tree this year ! - including a Pocahontas action figure for LDP Poca. I've been looking for one, and could only find HM toys of her dad and boyfriend. I also got the ‘spinning ballerina' HM Barbie toy that I heard got recalled. Supposedly, the doll could come off and expose a very sharp metal pole. You know me, ever since I heard that, I've kinda wanted one. $2. for both baggies.
Decided to take the risk on a $2. sandwich baggie of Barbie shoes. Ended up with 21 new pairs - and four of those came from my solo shoe box and the baggie ! Coool ! I also added about twelve shoes to the waiting-for-spray-paint ones, and donated at least ten pairs of pink and white sneakers. It got so, when I got more of those matched, they went right into the ‘donations' bag. Just don't need more in either pink or white. Also added about 20 new shoes to the solo shoe Tupperware box.
And two books made new homes here. One is an Elphie-size volume, complete with dust jacket, titled simply Champagne. It's fully readable, with tiny text and itty-bitty images. 130 pages. The other I can bring out when the power goes down again, the pink flyleaves are that bright ! Yup, I shelled $3. for Barbie: Forty Years of Fashion, Fantasy, and Fun by Marco Tosa. It was fun to leaf through, and while it may not cast any fresh light on Babs and co., just having new books in the house is exciting.
Also, I (sigh) bought a length of fabric. Remember the first dress I made Elphie, the second one on her page ? It's quite similar to that - narrow stripes with gold stars - but in deeper shades. Elphie's dress is kind of primary colored, and the new fabric is that, just deeper, richer, darker colors. I'll probably dig up what's left of what I used and compare it to the new stuff. I'm bad and I know it for buying more bloody material, but I could not resist this stuff. At least it's only a twitch over a half a yard, and was only 50c.
So I spent a bit over $9., and even that was showing extreme restraint. I could have really gone nuts in there. There was a Babysitter's Club doll for $3.50, and I always steal their clothes for Crissy when I find ‘em, but her outfit was a t-shirt, shorts, and a chambray overshirt - nothing I can't make m'self. If she'd had her shoes, I'd have bought her anyway. But, no shoes. There was also a blue-legged blonde ‘Wild Styles' doll for $2. I considered for her wild blouse. Until I noted the torn seam and the wires sewn in the seams that enabled it to have such a unique shape. Also found a Starr doll, and a Bubble Princess Snow White, and they had very similar figures. So that was nice to know, even though I didn't buy either.
There was a larger Barbie-size Snow White, too, and she looked as though she could use a better home, but I ultimately decided against it. Her hair was a total nest, and I've had two Snows before, and gave both up years ago. So I decided against #3. Pretty much the same story for the other dolls there. Including the Kimberly, the home-made Cabbage Patch girl, and the Lando Calrissian-like M&C soldier dude. And thread. And fabric, except for that one piece.
Once home - Beloved didn't find anything he wanted, and he was mostly there for me, he's so sweet ! - I sorted through it all... and it's all still here. I got Lindsay Lohan stepping on the #2 Skipper, with LL's props scattered in and out of a buncha HM dolls and shoes, including part of the ‘TV Chef' playset and the Peek-A-Boo Cutie Halloween doll. Barbie's ten-speed is leaning over the candy bucket, and if I move yesterday's soda glass and today's lunch bowl - leftovers, yum ! - I can get to my hairbrush and inhaler. Luckily, I keep the rest of my prescriptions in a plastic Chinese take-out box in a desk drawer. Or I'd never find it in time to take ‘em in this mess !
