Current Mood : Whimsical- and soooo lucky.
Current Image Notes : Here's the crappy posterboard-and-felt tree I made last weekend - I played with PaintShopPro X2 to erase the desk behind it and add the starfield. That's getting much easier !
I am sooo amazingly lucky ! Beloved Hubby decided to upgrade my computer's memory as an early Christmas present - and the memory arrived today ! As he went to install it - poof ! The power supply flashed blue twice and croaked. Well. Luckily we had a spare from an in-family computer shuffle several months ago, and the motherboard, memory, and hard drives were fine.
Unfortunately, the new memory didn't work with the old memory. Seems my Acer system has an issue with running more than two gigs, and there's nothing that can be done about it on this model. Beloved said if he'd have known that ahead of time, he just would have waited ‘til midyear and bought me a whole new computer ! But the new memory is faster than the old, and he cleared some of his old stuff off this system - she used to be the sole family computer - so she's now purring right along. She even got a complete clean-out, since her fan was randomly making annoyingly loud buzzing noises. And we found what was draining her virtual memory - a slowly goin' South old hard drive I never used. Once that was removed, and a few settings were adjusted, everything hummed, much faster and a lot better !
So while it wasn't precisely the upgrade he wanted to give me, it actually turned out better ! I can probably get at least another two years out of this system, I'm sure. Heck, it'll take me the better part of next year to fully understand PaintShopPro X2 !
Still putting yesterday's haul away. Dearest Son wants one of his toy cars painted, so I'll help Beloved remove all the sticker residue, mask off tires and details, and snag a can of red Fusion this weekend. Hmmm...red Fusion Spray Paint for Plastics... I have grey, cream, and green Fusion. Red...I could use some new red doll seating. Especially the pieces I bought yesterday !
Plus, it's important not to waste materials, ya know. So ‘borrowing' a bit of Dearest's red, once his car is done, shouldn't be too much of a problem...
In the meanwhile, ‘Talk of the Town' is currently resting and drying from her afternoon boil perm. Hopefully I'll have a nice photo of my own home-grown Barbie Basic tomorrow. While the ‘customize a little black dress' is kind of unique, the idea of customizing is far from new. I don't know why there's still this level of excitement over the series. Most of those dolls' face molds I can (and have !) found in yard sales and flea markets.
Yesterday on In The Pink, one guy showed the BB set Mattel sent him, to promote the line, and get his designer touch. I'm sure it's just my jealousy talking, but it seemed kind of braggy to me. It's nice and stuff, but with half the board saying they'll have to gather the fundage for these $22. each dolls, showing how Mattel sent you a doll and all four of the $15. accessory packages just seemed...well, I should just own up to being reminded that most of us are faceless consumers to Mattel, I've never been a golden circle inner, and deal with it.
Anyway, the ten minute computer upgrade took nearly two hours, so I'm late starting dinner. Gotta split - see ya'll tomorrow !
I like your tree! Especially with the starry background. It reminds me of the Christmas trees in the Rudolph Special. 
. We did a tree like that for xmas at my former doll club meetings. We used stick pins and ribbon. It was fun to do. I saw the post on the boards and actually know the guy. Michael wasn't really bragging but he works hard at his craft so it was kind of cool that the Big M thought his skills were up to par to do a shoot for them. Of course I would've loved to get one of those boxes in the mail but with the model of my choosing 
. I have to say I do find the accessory packs rather boring. Most of the things in there I have bought over the years with dolls I've bought.
and go enjoy someone else's post. I also like to post for those that may get no responses. It makes a person feel good to know that some are reading and you're not being ignored 
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