Current Mood : Excited !
Happy New Year’s Eve ! Hope
you have something awesome planned. I’m gonna be home with Dearest Son –
Beloved Hubby’s gotta work, which ranks – playin’ with dolls and watching
movies, which is awesome. We also had take-out for dinner, I got a McRib ! So I’m
happy !
Finally made a decision.
Since I still don’t know why I’m being so drag-butt about opening those new
Deluxe Fashion Packs, I thought I’d make a game out of it. Those Dollar Tree
packs have been sitting around since the month began, so I’m gonna finish
adapting those before I crack into the latest new stuff. After all, it’s hard
to appreciate the stuff you have when new is constantly rolling in. Besides, it’s
more fun to adapt than debox !
So I cracked open the next
pack, the one with the shirt and glitter-dot orange knee-shorts and the purple
glitter-dot tube dress. If the dress had one back seam, instead of two side
seams, I’d take it apart and sew it from scratch – especially after altering
those shorts, more later. Ironically, the top is hemmed, the first dress hem I’ve
seen. Too bad it’s so badly snarled in the back, I’ll probably have to rip out
the whole thing. But that’s tomorrow’s challenge. Today, I worked on the top
and shorts.
The top is a lot like the
striped one on Operetta, cut in the same style and sewn the same way, just with
longer sleeves and a bigger neckline. With the hearts print, it reminded me of
an oversize nightshirt I was once given as a holiday gift, so that’s what I
remade it as, for Robecca. She never had a Dead
Tired version, either. Fray-checked the sleeves, and zig-zagged the raw
bottom edge, several rows. I liked how it looked, so I did the same to the
neckline.
Made a decent pair of
slide-slippers, but because I just made her a pair for swimwear, wanted
something else for her nightie. Dug around in the cavernous MH shoe box and came up with a LIV doll
slipper. I’d bought several accessory packs from TRU’s website when they were
on markdown, and while the shoes mostly fit, they truly don’t. The ‘Movie
Party’ set came with pink slippers, and not much else I could use. The food
was really small, and I was kinda mad at m’self for wasting $1.98 on it when
the slippers didn’t fit either. I mean, I could kinda fudge the LIV skates and
sandals, but not the slippers, which is opposite my usual doll-shoe-swap
experience. So they got buried at the bottom, pushing more fashionable boots,
pumps, and platform heels up into view.
One jumped into my hand
tonight, though, and I wondered. It was pink enough to work with the nightie,
and different enough to not be confused with the high-heel slippers the other DT dolls got. Since soaking
slightly-too-small plastic doll shoes in boiling water helped Ken sandals fit
Deuce, I’ve wondered if it’d work for others. Well, you can only do so much
with available space, but a quick soak did help the LIV slippers fit Robecca. I
no longer regret ‘wasting’ that two bucks !
The orange glitter-dot
shorts….(sigh) No hems, of course, so I was gonna just Fray-Check ‘em and drive
on, but then, the elastic at the waist started to come out. So I had to open
the back seam to get to the elastic to re-sew it…which was easy, because the
entire inseam and front and back seams were also coming apart. Since I already
had them back to pattern cut-outs, I went ahead and sewed hems, then snugged
the fit a bit, while I was at it. I am now satisfied with the shorts. While I
prefer her shirt as a solo nightie, modesty encourages the shorts, so there
they are. Maybe they help keep her hips in top shape while she sleeps or
something. Thinking of adding ribbon straps to the blouse, so it can go
off-shoulder a bit. Hmmm…
While I was finishing that
up, Dearest was doing some custom work of his own. He took the jacket from the ‘Michelle’
doll and fitted it to his Princess Cadence pony. It really looks cute ! And
eliminated the sleeve I ninja-fixed. Ah, well.
Gonna make popcorn and
chill. See ya’ll next year !
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