Spent on Doll Clothes : $1.
After having the doors open to the outside nearly all week, to ‘blow out the winter', with the heat off, we awoke to two inches of snow on the ground. 63 degrees yesterday, and snow today. How insane can the weather get ? It's mostly melted already, and the streets look wet, but not icy, since it's already in the mid-thirties.
Beloved Hubby woke me up with pancakes ! How sweet. I got to watch a couple reruns of ‘Magic's Biggest Secrets Revealed' with the Masked Magician - I love those. If you didn't get to see ‘em on original run, the premise is a Masked Magician runs through numerous classic and favorite illusions, to the chagrin of other illusionists, who stick to the Magician's Code - a working magician never reveals the Art of Magic's secrets, or how a trick works, lest he or she wish to risk the wrath of the others. Kinda silly, if you ask me, since even Houdini wrote books detailing his secrets, both before and after his death, via ‘ghost writers' (giggle) granted the permission and information. It seems to me more of a ‘protect your job' thing than a ‘protect the Art' one.
Anyway, after three or four specials, the Magician revealed himself, basically saying that with advances in film effects and video games, Magic was getting lost in the shuffle, and Magicians were relying on tired old tricks instead of creating new ones. At least with this series, people talked about Magic again. I learned that, far from mere eye candy, the assistants are well-trained, versatile men and women who truly support the show. After watching an episode or two, I have to keep myself from sweeping gestures and high-kicking through the house for several days.
In between my little chorus line exercises, I decided to go ahead and cut Odette's hair, since it was cut to her chin only on one side, with the back and opposite side left original. It really looked odd. I damped it down, and used a rubber band to wrap her hair around her neck, then tugged it up until the cut edges were just barely under the rubber band still. Cut as close to the band as possible, in hopes it'd be even, then let her relax and dry. We'll see how it looks tomorrow.
I was surprised to see there was a flea market at the Fairgrounds this weekend, since the usual Craigslist ad wasn't up. Not much there, and I really shouldn't have been surprised. I did spend a dollar - on a vintage striped knit top identical to the one in Barbie's Resort Set (#963), but in red instead of blue, and an 80s turquoise mini-dress with pink triangles applied to it. Even though I found out it's 1983's Fashion Fun #4808, "Right In Step", and it was shown with matching pink cowboy boots, sold separately, I'll probably still peel the pink triangles off.
But ya'll know me, I'm more into the vintage striped shirt. Shape-wise, it's identical to what's pictured on a Bubblecut in today's image. Filthy, with one shoulder unstitched - thread still attached - but without any picks or real damage. It's soaking in my takeout tub ‘washer', awaiting a few more shake-up cycles before it's out to dry and then, in for repairs. It has that cool vintage tag and everything.
With everything I scored yesterday and today, I actually bowed out of Dearest Son's promised trip to TRU. He really wanted it to be a ‘guy thing' with his Daddy, and I was OK with that. Beloved was kind of tired anyway, and if I went, I'd be in the doll section for ten minutes, minimum. So, while my guys were gone, I raided Dearest's former Star Wars toybox - now there's a bit of everything in there - in search of the missing parts to his former Galactic Heroes Millennium Falcon (that's mine now). Found the cockpit canopy and the satellite dish, the two pieces I was hoping for most. Poor ship looked naked without them !
Still missing the quad guns up top and the boarding ramp, but I can probably ask Dearest to find ‘em for me for a couple more Deloreans. But even if they're never found, I'm OK with how it looks now. Later this week, I'll dig the Han and Leia figures that go with it out of my jewelry box memory drawer and pose them on the shelf under the Falcon. That makes me happy.
