Hey friends! Sorry it's been a while since I've posted. I've been trying to get organized, still in the process of it actually, but I am making progress. So those of you who have been following me for a longgggggg time know I've been trying to open a shop for a very long time now. YEARSSSSSS actually. Well, it looks like 2015 is going to be my year. I'm going to go into business with my mom, and maybe my sister, but either way this shop is opening this year. I was having issues trying to decide what I wanted to sell and what I wanted to do with my shop, but I've finally decided to go back to my original plan and sell handmade clothes for Blythe, which was my original plan yearsssss ago. I want to start with Blythe and like-size dolls and expand from there to other dolls, eventually doing face-ups of dolls, and then hopefully one day making my own doll. From there I'd like to build an empire to for dolls, toys, crafting in general, but first baby steps.
So now that I've figured out what the first step is, deciding on sewing for Blythe dolls, I need to start getting organized to officially open shop. I'm so disorganized right now, after the whole Christmas sewing thing I've let my craft area just sit in rambles. yep, almost three months of neglect. So it's time to get on track and back to it. I'm starting to focus on getting healthier so I can work harder on my shop and other ventures I am planning. But as my friend Kenny keeps reminding, hey Kenny, baby steps. So what I did today was my first baby step. I bought a doll. Eeeeeeeeeee!!!
I currently have an Ashton-Drake Galleries Blythe that sadly has the frizzy hair, a Blybe that is super cute but not the real thing, and I have now officially order an "almost" legit Blythe doll. She's technically made from Blythe parts, but not a doll that actually exists. Yes, I got a factory doll, but she was so beautiful I had to, and she was a decent price for a nude doll too. I know with factory dolls you aren't sure what you are getting, so I am going to be hopeful that she will be beautiful and will only need slight surface touch-ups if any. I don't want to think of names for her yet because she's two weeks off from being officially mine, but Poppy keeps popping into my mind. Here are the pictures I nabbed from the Ebay sale page. They only sold two others like her, so the odds of me seeing many people with my girl are slim. Have a look.
The hair is what caught my eye. I love this combination of pink, orange, and yellow. I love the dress she is wearing and will have to try to recreate it for her. I'm just not sure on a name for her yet. But I really wanted her in case my main girl's hair proved to be a problem. I would reroot her my main girl, but she has a scalp that needs to be fully replaced, and I may do that in the future, but I want to keep her original. So I am just give her permanent buns on her head and just call it a day with her. Her hair kind of reminds me of mine with the frizz and I just feel like I shouldn't try to get rid of her hair just as I would not get rid of mine. So I will bun it up, make it cute, and keep on keeping on. My other girl's hair is fine, which is shocking for a cheap doll, and she will be in pictures as well. Then I have a Pullip my friend Xander bought for me, hi Xander, and I have a vintage Skipper that I rescued from the bottom of a thrift store doll random toy table that I plan to make into a boy Blythe one day, but for now I will use her to sell Blythe clothes as well, just need to finish rerooting her, she needs some tlc. I need to see about fixing her neck rips. Watch, I'll fix her up and can't bring myself to change her into a boy Blythe. *sigh* Oh well, it will be nice to promote Vintage Skipper clothes too.
So I have 5ish models, still need to get Skip ready to go and wait two weeks for my new girl, and need to bun my main girl's hair, and I'll be ready to go. I already know the theme I kind of want to stay around, but I won't force myself to stay in it, because I may change my mind what I want. I kind of want to go Mod and vintage with clothing, because I love that style of clothing, but I may want to change things up and do something lolita, so I will just keep things open on that.
So that means you can expect to see me here more posting. I hadn't been here much before because so many posts talked about my ex and would come up as suggestions when I would check to make sure my blog post posted properly for you guys to read. I didn't know if I could handle that and was really playing with the idea of deleting every post but my very first post on the blog so I'd still know when I created the blog. But then I decided against it. I've been in contact with my ex and it has helped me realize that he's just a crap person and will always be one and I am starting to become numb to his BS. So I am not going to destroy all the hard work I've done over the years because of him, I'm just going to move on. It's a part of my past and it's what made me what I am today. So I am ready to jump back in here and share what I've been up to. I want to share the things I made for Christmas, I want to share some things I've recently been working on, I want to share my plans and bounce ideas off of you, and I just really want to reconnect with you guys. So here's to trying again. This is the year of facing my fears and doing the things I've been wanting to do. So far so good, I can't wait to see what the rest of this year is going to bring. :-) I'll talk to you again soon friends, take care, bye for now.
So I don't know when it actually
happened, but I've become obsessed with big-headed dolls. I don't
know why, honestly, I just like the look of them. They are so odd
looking, but so fun to play with. It's almost like their heads are
big enough for hats with details and their bodies are small enough to
pull of cute. So you mix the two together and you have the perfect
odd and funny combination.
So I am still searching around Zibbet and finding so much interesting stuff. I could truly go broke looking at some of this stuff. LOL! Ok so for those who don’t know, Zibbet is a handmade marketplace out of Australia that is a lot like Etsy and Artfire, only better. LOL! It kind of combines the sleekness of Etsy with the cool seller features of Artfire. It’s slowly rising in fame, and some people hope it will take over the handmade marketplace. I kind of hope it doesn’t get too big so it won’t have to turn to shifty procedures like Etsy and Artfire have.
But one of the things on the site I love is the vintage section. I love snooping through and seeing what treasures people have found, especially the toys they have found. My friend came across one such toy item ,in Modred Vintage on Zibbet, that I wish I could buy. But at the price it is I wouldn’t want to open it, and truly, what’s the fun in that. LOL! Have a look.
A Barbie pack from the late 70s to early 80s. My friend said she had that pack and still has the wicker-like bag. I used to love these packs when I was a kid. I mean sure dolls were cool, but it was the clothing and accessories that made them.
As a kid I would have loved this pack. The possibilities would have been endless with it. All the fashion combinations I could have made. Nowadays packs like this don’t interest me much unless they have awesome shoes in it or cute and usable accessories. *sigh* Oh to be young again where the imagination could take you anywhere and a scrap of fabric was either a beautiful evening gown or a kick ass toga. *shrugs* Oh well. But I just had to share this item with you. If you are interested in it, it’s currently for sale for $16.20 at Modred Vintage. I’d love it myself, but I’d want to take it out, not sure if it’s for nostalgia or because I’d really want to use the stuff…that wicker-like bag seems really cool.
And I am off again. I need to work on my Nano. I think if I really give it a couple of hours of hard work I could knock it out in a day or two, or at least get the needed 50k to win. Wish me luck. Talk to you all soon. Be good until then. Bye for now.
So today I was talking to my boyfriend “A”, still need to see if he’s ok with me saying his name online, anywho, I was talking to him about dinner he had tonight. He had Ropa Vieja. My first response was “Uh, what?”. Then after a good giggle he spelled it out for me. The picture on Wikipedia is not what he had, so I went in search of other pictures. This is what I found.
So today I was wondering what I should talk about and then it hit me. What was my very first doll? Well to the best of my knowledge my very first doll was one my mom saw in a Sears catalog while we were living in Germany due to my dad being in the military and stationed there for a few years. She saw this doll and had to have her for me. So she ordered her all the way from the States to have sent to Germany.
Ok, so I haven't gone to the movies recently, but I did recently watch some movies. The following movies I watched in the past week a couple of months ago during the week of January 4th...man I shouldn't let drafts get so old. Anyway, these movies are mostly old ones that I had never seen before. So here go the reviews!
The first movie I watched was "Fiddler on the Roof" I had heard this was a great classic movie, and I have to agree, it was. Now I must warn you, this movie is LONGGGG. Over 3 hours I believe. So get comfy with this one. It's so worth the watch. The story centers on the life of a Jewish man named Tevye. Tevye is very much about his family traditions, but as times are quickly changing, he finds himself having to be a bit lenient on his traditions to please his family and in the end please himself.
I love how this man loves to break down the fourth wall. It's never just you alone in the room watching this movie. Oh no. Tevye makes sure you are included in on the fun. LOL! He talks out his problems with you to help him come to a conclusion. The decision making of course always starts with TRADITION! Get used to that. No, literally. He yells it several times throughout the movie.
Tevye and his family are poor, but he gets by and doesn't complain...much. He does have a song and dance about what his life would be like if he were a rich man, but that's about the extent of it.
Now, the fiddler part. I'm going to nab a part from Wiki that better explains it. I loved the fiddler because of the symbolism he stood for. He was in the very final scene of the movie to remind Tevye as well as us that no matter where we go, we still face the same issues in life but we just need to do our best to deal with it and keep carrying on. The following is how the Wiki describes it.
The film begins with Tevye explaining to the audience that what keeps the Jews of Anatevka going is the balance they achieve through following their ancient traditions. He also explains that the lot of the Jews in Russia is as precarious as a fiddler on a roof: trying to eke out a pleasant tune, while not breaking their necks. The fiddler appears throughout the film as a metaphoric reminder of the Jews' ever-present fears and danger.
Just before the closing credits, Tevye spots the fiddler and motions to him to come along, and the film ends with the fiddler following Tevye down the road, playing the "Tradition" theme.
Now the music from the movie was amazing. Beautiful songs that you fall in love with honestly. They songs themselves told the story and made you feel for the characters.
All-in-all, the movie is a very touching and also intense movie about life and prejudice and how it effects those that are the subject of it. Very good movie. On a scale of one to ten, one being worse and ten being best, I give this movie a 10.
This movie is another great movie. Though not nearly as long as Fiddler, this movie still has a lot of story in with plenty of comedy. The movie is basically about how the company that makes a silent film series called "The Dueling Cavalier" is faced with the reality that silent films are a thing of the past and movies with sound, talkies, are the new rage. However, they have one tiny problem. The leading lady of their films makes scratching on a chalkboard sound like sweet music when she talks. Uh oh. What do they do now?
Well the star of their series, Don Lockwood, meets a young lady by the name of Kathy Selden when he unexpectedly jumps into her car to escape a mob of fans. They don't hit things off on the right foot, but he can't get her out of his mind. He moans about "the one that got away" to his best pal Cosmo Brown, who I think is the real cutie of the show. Cosmo does the music for the silent movies and has worked along side Don since they were kids. He vows to help Don find his leading lady, that is until she walked into set that day for a job. She gets the job but turns it down once she sees Don is involved. A few songs and dances are involved over the next part, but the three become friends after it all. It was then that Cosmo discovers the solution to their problem with leading lady Lina Lamont's "lovely" voice. Can anyone say voice over? A few more songs and dances happen, some conflict, and the story ends happily as most movies from that time did.
This movie was a nice lighthearted movie that made you smile, laugh, and maybe even swoon a little over the cuties in the movie. I give this movie on a scale of 1 to 10 with one being worse and 10 being best a 9. It was a very interesting movie with great music, great dancing, and an interesting plot. The plot was very overdone back in those times, but still a very nicely pulled off plot. The reason I gave it a 9 is because some of the songs are very drawn out and very slowly. Kind of made the story a big sluggish in pace. But other than that I loved the movie.
Can't find an embed link on any of the videos, so you will have to go to the video on YouTube. Click here to watch "Make'em Laugh" sung by Cosmo.
The next movie I watched was "For Me and My Gal". It's about a guy and gal vaudeville act. They are trying so hard to get their act into the Palace Theater on Broadway. When it finally happens, the guy, Harry Palmer, gets drafted into the Army to go fight in World War I. But Harry just can't miss this opportunity. Him and his gal pal, Jo Hayden, worked to hard to give up now. In order to get out of the draft Harry figures out a plan to hurt himself and disfigure himself. On the way to tell Jo that they can still do the Palace Theater gig Jo gets a telegram telling her that her only brother and only sibling died in the war. Crying her heart out Harry comes to tell her "the good news". When Jo figures out what he did she ends the act right there. Harry sees what a mess he made of things and tries to fix unsuccessfully until one night an opportunity presents itself and he takes it. It ends very happily and the two live happily ever after.
This movie is a very cute musical with a lighthearted story. It had it's sad moments but for the most part it was a cheery story that's sure to make you smile. On a scale of one to ten with one being worse and ten being best I give it an 8. The movie was very good, just not 10 good. It had it's sluggish slow parts and sometimes the plot felt holey, but for the most part a very good movie.
The next movie I watched was "Julie and Julia". I know, woo hoo a modern movie! ;-) I had wanted to see this movie since last year when it came out two days before my birthday. But of course I wasn't feeling well due to the tummy so I missed out. Also no one wanted to see it with me and going to the movies alone just plan sucks. So I waited until I got a chance to see it. It was so worth the wait.
Can I just say they picked the two perfect actresses to play Julie and Julia. I love them both and they just told the story perfectly. Love, love, love, love, love! Ok so the story is pretty simple. Julie is a striving writer. She works at a heartbreaking and sometimes heart-wrenching job answering phone calls from and for victims of 9/11. She finds herself in a rut. Unable to get published and working in a job that is killing her spirit. It's then that her husband suggests she get a hobby. She thinks about it and finds out one of her friends has a popular blog. she feels she could blog and blogging would make her a writer. But what does she blog about? Her hubby gives her suggestions and she finally comes up with the idea to blog about cooking since she loves it so much and it takes her away from her daily troubles. She decides to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". Enter Julia's side of the story.
Julia is with her husband in Paris. He's there on business and she's just...well...there. She doesn't have a hobby or anything. She tries to decide what she could do. She tries several things but they just don't click. It's not until she noticed that she loved french food and eating that she decided to learn how to cook french cuisine. Yum. She starts off at a ladies school and finds that she is not challenged enough so she goes to the male school. I believe it was military men learning how to cook. She learns to become fearless in her cooking and begins to learn what she coveted most, the art of french cooking. After her classes she meets some lovely ladies who are trying to create what Julia wanted, a simple English french cooking cookbook. But the publishers did not think it was clear cut enough and Julia stepped in to help them. She "dumbed down" the book and made it perfect for the English speaking audience.
The two ladies' stories are interwoven together throughout the movie and they moved back and forth seamlessly. It ends happily with Julia getting her book published and Julie reaching her goal and going to the Smithsonian to see Julia's actual kitchen, leaving her a keepsake...a stick of butter. *tear*
Loved this movie. The only sad part was Julia saw what Julie was doing as a joke and was turned off by her. So Julie never got to meet Julia, but she had her Julia in her head and was happy with that. She still loved Julia through it all and that made it all better. :-)
On a scale of one to ten with one being worse and ten being best I give this movie a 10. Sweet movie, with great actresses and actors, and a seamless transition. It's a must watch.
No embed video links so you will have to go to YouTube to see a video of the movie. Click here to see a clip of Julie and Julia. Bon Appetit!
The final and I think the best movie I watched in this particular week was "Bringing Up Baby". This movie is CRAZY. It stars Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. This movie was one of those that was way before it's time. It was not well accepted and critics said Katherine Hepburn was horrible at comedy and slapstick. I so disagree. Katherine Hepburn did wonderful in this movie. I laughed my rear off at this movie. And Cary Grant was perfect too. The two worked perfectly off their delivery.
So what's the cra-cra movie about? At first it's about Cary Grant's character David Huxley is a paleontologist that for several years has been trying to put together the skeleton of a Brontosaurus, but he is sadly missing one piece of it. At the beginning of the story he happily learns from his fiancee it was found in a dig and it was on the way to him. With that problem off his shoulders her had his looming nuptials as well as a golfing appointment with the man who could donate a million dollars to his museum. When he makes his appointment on the golf course this is where he makes the unfortunate acquaintance of one Miss Susan Vance, Katherine Hepburn's character. This is where all of David's troubles started. She ruined his golf game and stole his car, along with him. Gotta watch the movie to understand that last part.
After recouping from the golf disaster, David arranges a dinner to meet again with his hopeful donator. Only one problem. He once again runs into Susan who once again manages to cause him trouble. She continues to cause her trouble until the end of the evening where David hoped he had seen the last of her. Nope. He gets a call from Susan the next day who explains that she has a baby leopard in her apartment. Enter Baby. From this point on Susan and David go through one crazy mishap after another from trying to get Baby to a much safer place, to losing the coveted Brontosaurus bone back from a dog, to getting arrested, to ending the day on a good note after surviving an encounter with a leopard that just happened to not Baby and very wild. In the end Susan and David end up happy but not without one more mishap on Susan's behalf. Very funny stuff in this movie and it's sad it didn't do well in it's time. It severely affect Hepburn's career as well as the director of the film. Very sad. But I guess better late than never. This movie is loved by many now and is definitely at the top of my list.
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being worse and 10 being best I give this movie a 10. It purely a classic movie and so funny it will have you in giggling at all the crazy stuff these two characters go through. Katherine Hepburn reminds me so much of Parker Posey in this movie, especially from Party Girl.
Well that is my long-winded post on the movies I watched several months ago and actually MEANT to post about, but got lazy and didn't. *sigh* I so need to keep on the ball more with these posts. Oh well, better late than never. Wait, that's the second time I've said that in this post. Yep, time to close this post. Bye for now kids.
Ok, so I'm sure we all know what the Sears Wishbook is. For those of you who don't know what it is, you can either click on the link or continue to read for what is sure to not even skim the top of this massively wonderful book. At least that's how I saw it as when I was a kid.
The Sears Wishbook was this massive 300+ pages, catalog that had everything in it from clothing, to toys, and from what my mom said back in the day you could get pets like birds and dogs from it. How cool is that? Of course now the Sears Wishbook is nothing compared to what it used to be and has undergone some changes over the years, but back in the day as a kid you loved to see that "wishbook" show up at your house. Not only did it signal Christmas was on the way but it also meant you got to look at all the toys out there and start scheming ways to convince your parents or Santa to get which toy was your must have for the year.
Now my brother and I knew better to ask for something from the catalog because "Santa doesn't buy from Sears and we'd have to wait to see what he brought us.", but in looking through some of the catalogs I saw that perhaps Santa did buy from the Sears Wishbook because I sure had a lot of those items as a kid. I thought I'd show you all some of them. Feel free to click on the pictures to be taken to my Flickr so you can see them full size. Let's get started with the stroll down Memory Lane, shall we? :-)
So this first picture has the much coveted Day to Night Barbie. I remember playing with her as a child. I thought her clothes flipping to make her day look a night look was just so "cutting-edge". I really think I got her because my mom liked her a lot. She was the only thing I got from the Day to Night, but it was enough for me. She had her briefcase and purse as well as her accessories. I could pretend Barbie went off to work. I made her a makeshift desk and she was set. I don't remember if she had a boyfriend or if she was just a successful single gal. But since most of my gals share boyfriends I'm sure she had a lad to take her out to dinner. I keep thinking of Mr. Heart being her boyfriend from time to time since I did have two of them. But I could be wrong. I didn't have nearly enough guys to go around so she may have dated them all. LOL! I mean heck, she was a successful business woman, she could afford to date around until she found Mr. Right. :-D
This next picture I wanted to focus on the pool. I had the pool, the floating chairs in it, all of the dolls pictured, and a table similar to the one in the background. I only have Skipper left out of all that which of course is so sad, but she keeps my memories alive and that's the important thing. :-) I don't know why exactly I had the pool since most of the time I had to use it empty. LOL! I could only put water in it when I was in the kitchen or outside. Which was "ok", but you couldn't bring all your doll stuff with you to the kitchen and limited what you could play. I mean you'd have to constantly stay at the pool. There was no dipping in the pool and then going back inside to watch tv or have dinner. Nope, you had to stay at the pool the whole time. :-( No fun. So the pool was mostly used empty so I could have variety and hey, at least I didn't have to wait for my dolls to dry before I could use them again. :-) For some reason while thinking about that pool, I have a vivid memory of opening it up and seeing a black spider walking around in the folds of it. Now I am terrified of spiders and was more so when I was a child. I'm sure there was a lot of screaming as I toss the pool and ran for my life. And I'm sure the spider skittered away and mom couldn't find it and thus ended a lovely day of doll play because you know I couldn't relax being in a room with a spider ready to pounce at any moment. LOL! Ahhh, the good old days. :-D
This next picture shows you the Maxie Gym/Locker room I mentioned in a previous post. If you squint you can see some of the accessories and how it was set up. I forgot that there were two hoops in the set. But now I remember them. I wasn't sure what they were for as a child and I would do weird things like try to use them as a headband on the dolls with coarse hair that would hold it in place. I believe it sat on Maxie and Jem's heads perfectly because they were pretty big. If you also squint harder you can see a shower curtain in between the vanity and the workout bench. That curtain was a pain to keep attached and the hoop it was hooked to was a pain too. Of course the chair to the vanity was flimsy and would topple over if you didn't place the doll just right on it. But for the most part the set was cool and like I said, made a perfect jail cell. :-D LOL!
Oh this next one I loved. I remember my mom taking it out of the box and putting it together for me. I believe it was a birthday present. It wasn't Christmas and since these wishbooks came out in September and my birthday is in August I'm sure the toy was out already then. Bottom right-hand corner. The hospital set. Oh I so LOVED this set. I used it and used it often. I constantly had poor dolly souls ending up in the hospital. They were either having a baby or they broke their arm...which got to go into the cool cast which sadly isn't pictured. This set was just so cool. It had the bed with the table you could put over it like in real hospitals. There was a slim closet that the Barbie is blocking that you could put something in. I guess since you weren't expected to stay long you didn't have to put much in there. There were books and meals that didn't look to yummy, so I guess it was pretty realistic back then. ;-) There were doctor tools like a microscope and other small things that fit into the white doctor bag. There were the toiletries that were in almost every set back in they day with tissue, hairspray, hairbrush, comb, mirror, and this circular box that the lid came off of. Ok, I never knew what that circular box was for. If any of you know what I'm talking about could you fill me in on what they were. They weren't a hat box. Were they jewelry boxes? Powder boxes? I don't know and it's always had me scratching my head about it. So if you want to fill an old gal in please do. I'd be every so thankful. :-) But yeah, in all, the set was pretty cool and I'd say the coolest one I owned as a child. You could pack everything up into the box and take it with you. Which I never did take it anywhere but my room, but having the opportunity to do so was neat. :-D
Upper left-hand corner. California Barbie. I had her and Midge, which IMHO was the best doll out of the set. I loved her red hair and her clothes and I loved how Midge's clothes matched up with Barbie's and vice verse. Though I seldom mixed their clothes up, I did it from time to time to give them a fresh new look. LOL! These two gals were the only ones from the set I had. I would have loved to have had all of them, but I loved my gals and they were the popular ones. Ok, so those of you out there who had these dolls, do you remember the blue plastic record that came with the Barbie? I believe the song was called "Living Doll" and it was sung by the Beach Boys. Oh gosh, when I was a kid, and my mom taught me how to play the record properly...by placing a penny on the record to give it some weight, I played that song over and over and over again. The song is still in my head to this day. I believe the record is all I have left from my gals. Midge's head broke off from play and while my mom glued her back on it just wasn't the same. So off she went to Good Will. :-( But the record is still in the same condition I got it as a child. Isn't it weird how looking at some of your childhood stuff, it's almost like time hasn't passed at all and you're still that little innocent kid playing with your dolls? Yeah. :-) Ok, so I did a quick search for the record and found a snippet of the song. If you have RealPlayer you can listen to it. And if don't have RealPlayer, it's a free download that you can easily uninstall afterward if you don't want to keep the program. Go to this website and you will see a button that says "Hear Here". Click on it and you will download the RealPlayer file and then just click on that and you can hear the snippet. Tell me what you think of it. It seems that while it says it was by the Beach Boys that actually only one of them worked on the song. Hummm, interesting.
But then there's that one thing that always got away. Along with the Maxie Lifeguard Stand I wanted so badly as a child, there was one more thing I just had to have and never got. I still remembered it vividly in my mind and you can imagine how shocked I was when I saw it on this website. I was excited I could share with you guys. :-)
Let's focus on the bottom of the page. This little brown box held a treasure trove of goodies that I have wanted since the day I saw it. Even to this day I could remember the items in the box and wanted that so badly when I was kid. I could just picture playing that Barbie when to college and all the stuff she'd bring for her dorm room. Granted I had most of this stuff already, but it just wasn't the same as having this set. I can't remember if I asked for this set or not, but if I didn't I wish I had. I might have had a chance to own it. I am wondering if these would have worked with Barbie since the set is not made by Mattel. I would assume so, but you know how some clothes could be just a hair off in size and then you have a useless outfit. So maybe there's a reason I didn't get this set after all. LOL! But I had to share about "the one that got away" for giggles. :-)
If you are interested in seeing if you can find some of your childhood treasures in the Wishbooks I looked at, you can find some pages of the wishbooks on Flickr by searching for Sears Wishbook or you can click here to be taken to the website I used. Happy hunting and I hope you find something that makes you smile and takes you back. :-)
Well that's all for this post. It's seriously time for me to take a posting break since I didn't take the one I said I was from my last post. Will post more a bit later on today. Talk to you soon. Bye for now. :-)
So, since Fab Girl Barbie couldn't be rebodied, I decided to give her body to my vintage Tracey doll. I think its a great fit, and I love getting to play with her gain. I took some pictures of her to show her off. Warning, this may not be safe for work. A bit of doll nudity follows.
So excited about her liberation, Tracey takes to taunting poor Cutie about losing her flexible body and having to settle for Tracey's old one. :-D
Shall we dance?
So exciting to see how she can hold another doll. Granted its weird to see her holding a nude and headless body, but you understand what I mean. ;-)
Aww, look at Cutie being a trooper and accepting defeat. :-)
I eventually want to touch up Tracey's makeup. Her lips have slight rub marks. But I want to find the right peachy color. I may try to mix some. Fingers crossed. As for now, if its too bad I will adjust it digitally. So I hope you enjoyed seeing my new Fashionista. :-) Bye for now guys.
So I finally got the last of the Fashionista Barbies...Fashionista Ken. :-) He's been a long wait to get, but I finally picked him up at Target last week. he was the last one on the shelf.
I couldn't wait to get him home to take him out. I opened him while sitting outside of the post office waiting for my mom to mail something off. I simply love him and his whole look.
I had to name him. So thinking about him and the kind of stories I was going to put him in, I decided on a cheesy soap opera-ish name. Ladies and gents, meet Stone. :-) He is Cloe's brother, first done of Robert Dolton - creator of Dollywood and Dolton Studios.
So now I have all the Fashionistas plus one hybrid and one gal on a altered pivotal body. Loves it. I eventually want to get a few more Fashionistas for body swaps, but I will also be looking into other bodies and other dolls to join my stories, so I am not jumping at any more Fashionistas for right now. Unless of course they come out with darker complexions, then I may take a peek. For now I am happy and am ready to move on with the doll hobby.
I can't wait to share with you the story that's been floating around in my head for years. Stay tuned for that. Bye for now. :-)
So the year before last, someone bought me a doll as a weight loss incentive and I lost the weight and obtained the doll. But around the holidays I put the weight back on. So this year I have been given another weight loss incentive, but this time the amount I have to lose is a lot more, my own choice. So I won't get these dolls until the end of the year I'm sure, but it will be worth it when I finally reach the weight I am going for. Here's what I am becoming a loser for.
AA Jewel Secrets Barbie:
I had this doll as a child and loved her. But she was donated once my sister and I were done playing with dolls. I always regretted it and was happy to find her for sale for a decent price. Now she's mine again...well...almost mine. :-)
Next is Jewel Secrets Ken:
This next one I thought was interesting. The Ken on the package either looks like a senior citizen or her looks confused or constipated. LOL! Its very odd how weird the picture looks.
So those are my incentives to lose weight. A good amount of weight at that. But the prize I will get will be worth it. :-)
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