Current Mood : Surprised and elated !
We were supposed to put the tree up this weekend, but Dearest Son wasn't much in a mood to help me clean up the living room enough to do so, so I've put it off ‘til he's home from school - he'll have lots of time to put away toys then !
I just barely got all the lace tidied up before he was home. I still can't believe how much of that there was. In with it all were several pew bows, but they didn't want them back, so I took them apart. A few more yards of lace, about a half-dozen big silk flowers, some ribbon, and a single bracket was added to the huge pile. I'll have to wash most of the lace, since white glue and hot glue were used to secure the bows. I hope it comes out. If not, I can always cut around it !
The silk roses have a dried appearance, which always seems odd to me. Seems like if you were going for dried flowers, you could use the real thing in most circumstances. But, hey, it's not like I made that choice. I'll add the newly freed fake flowers to an old wreath I've had sitting around. I'd always meant to glue Barbie shoes to it, but never did.
Tonight, I got so bored - well, I had plenty to do, but my lazy excuse was that I didn't wanna start dishes at 9pm - I trawled eBay for ‘Barbie under $5. in the US'. And found something. Flipped to a few other websites to confirm first, but I already knew... and soon, I ‘won' a lot of twelve dolls that included a Little Mermaid 2 "Melody" doll !
This is another of those ‘kinda-sorta' dolls I've wanted for a while. She's kind of rare, and wasn't made for very long. But, as a tie-in to the direct-to-video sequel, a limited TRU-exclusive run of Ariel and Eric's daughter dolls were made by Jakks-Pacific in 2000. Mint-in-box, Melody can command over $200., and loose, over $60. Ya'll know I wasn't about to pay that much in this lifetime ! But still, when one appears, grab it ! The one I won was unidentified in a lot of Barbie and cheap clone Kellys, and was $3. plus shipping. I was the only bidder. Sadly, she didn't have her mermaid tail, her gown, or her shoes but I was happy to see she still had her blouse and bloomers.
The rest of the lot wasn't photographed well either, so I'll have to see what I get when the box arrives. But I'm pretty excited !
