Current Mood : Relaxed
Spent on Machine Embroidery Design Sets this week : $12. for twelve sets.
Our parent/teacher meeting went well, and we may end up getting Dearest Son a tutor instead of sending him to Summer School. The environment last year was pretty rowdy, which stressed him out frequently and left him hating school for weeks. And I can't tell that he was enriched by the experience. A tutor could do about the same for him, along with weekly library and PlayPlace McD visits, he should be fairly social for the summer. We'll have to see what a tutor runs, though...
Afterwards, Beloved headed off to work, and Dearest had the day to himself. He happily enjoyed his new Lego ‘Mobile Police Command Center' set, which, to my surprise, is in the Lego Batman game. Exact same set ! I don't know whether to be proud of Dearest for noticing, or upset at Lego for product placement. I guess I can't whine much, because, for some reason, about the time Lego Batman appeared on game shelves, the actual Batman Lego sets had come to the end of their run.
Well, there's not many ways to say ‘I sat on my butt and looked at more machine embroidery designs, downloaded a bunch, played games for free points to ‘buy' more, and ate popcorn with Dearest', especially when that's about all I've done all week. Got five loads of laundry done and in the sun, but they're in big clean piles instead of big dirty ones. Fixed the broken handle on the case I won - really, I'm not much on the case, I wanted one doll dress and a doll from the lot. But since it's here...
I'm remembering making whole ‘apartments' out of our cases back when we were kids. Sure, I'd drag all my dolls' clothes over to wherever we were playing, but once there, the clothes went into a pile - not that they ever stayed hung up on that near-useless bar bracket anyway - and the case became home, with an Aqua Net can cap for seating and a forgotten doily or two from the stash Gramma always made or sent over for rugs. The rugs often doubled as fancy evening wear or capes. Occasional trading-card stickers would sometimes appear as wall art, but explaining why your doll considered CB lingo drawn in crude detail as art was more difficult than finding a TV Guide reprint of the Mona Lisa. For some reason, tape was strictly rationed back in the day - finding a roll of it was rare. So we were as tight with it as our parents. Cigarette stubs, however, were plentiful. We played with those too, but not as part of doll time.
In any case, all our cases were the single ones. Well, Angie had the one that folded down into twin doll beds, but the time her Mom saw my Ken perched on one with Angie's Barbie, seems to be the last memory I have of it. She had a Pepto-pink bedless one just like mine soon after, and that's the only one in my memory past that. Angie's parents were church Deacons, after all... I think her father really wanted to be a minister, but he worked for the State for big cash, and he wasn't giving that up. We never really played much ‘adult' with our dolls - except for Dawn, whose Mom only gave her Skipper and The Sunshine Family, so Skipper was a stripper, and I'm not gonna tell you what Steffie was up to on those long country nights. My Ken was especially freaked out, and didn't like to come out of the case when Dawn was over.
Anyway... so now, I have this big double-doll case. It's really like two singles hinged side-by-side, without a front flap, since they face each other to close. It's too wide to hang on the wall, so I think I'll make a mini-apartment out of it. Maybe finally get that window seat I've always wanted for my dolls - OK, I admit it, I've always wanted one of those big bay-window seats m'self. Hmpft.
PS - Tomorrow is the last DP-theme image, so I have a very special one I've been saving ! Then, I got a lot to take pictures of for here ! Can you believe it's nearly March already ?
