Current Mood : Giggly.
Look what I found on my cake
this morning ! Fake goatees ! These are gonna be so much fun to play with…
The cake is delicious –
chocolate with white whipped cream cheese frosting, decorated with
strawberries. Beloved Hubby has excellent taste ! I also got a beautiful card
from him and Dearest Son, I’ll share that with you later. When I don’t like to
expect a birthday week every year (last thing I wanna be is entitled !), it’s
always so sweet when Beloved arranges one for me !
Otherwise, it was
shoe-scrubbing day ! I got the pair of black Deuce Scaris shoes I bought dirt-cheap off eBay in the mail today, and
set to work removing the green snake design from the vamp. Plain black shoes
are much more versatile ! I also removed the blue dots from Abbey’s purple Home Ick boots. Still not sold on those
yet, but I can always ditch ‘em later if it ends up that I don’t use them.
I also did a hand-swap.
Occasionally, I get a good idea from message boards, it’s the only reason I
subscribe to ‘em still. Signal to noise ratio isn’t often favorable, at least
for what I consider ‘signal’. In any case, someone was looking for a set of
Cleo hands, or, lacking that, a wrecked Cleo doll she could salvage the hands
from. Wanted to use them on her Howleen. You could do that ? I knew Cleo and
Clawdeen couldn’t trade, their skin tones were waay off from each other. But
Howleen…was it a close enough match, and the pegs would fit ? I confess, the
one thing I didn’t like about my Dance
Class Howleen was her claw hands, even though they were very soft, they
made my ‘pink and pretty’ girl look semi-feral. Well, here’s a Cleo I wasn’t
gonna keep…and it’s almost perfect. Home
Ick Cleo even has those ‘slim’ hands I first saw on her Gloom Beach version, and those’d suit
Howleen very well. They’re a bit glossy on Howleen’s ‘matte’ arms, but they otherwise
look natural and nice, and I like ‘em. I’ll have to get you a photo, because
Cleo with ‘snatchy’ hands looks awful.
I also finally got all the
doll boxes – from Abigail Bloodgood on – scanned, cut up, repurposed, and
stored. I save the clear plastic ‘windows’ for pattern templates, but I still
have to go through what I have and what I want before I make cuts. Luckily,
this stuff stores flat until then, but those boxes were piled up in the way !
Only hangup is that I love the box liner from Bloodgood & Nightmare, and it
makes a good backdrop, it’s just hard to store. Hmm…yes. It’ll break down and
store flat, too. So I can keep it – yaaay !
Now that I can get to my
sewing machine, and I can move it around to where I need it, it’s about time to
sew again ! Got plenty of new dolls to sew for, too !
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