Current Notes : Here's Scarah !
I can cross ‘knockoff Oxy-10’
off the shopping list – despite its expiry date of ‘06/10’, the old stuff’s
working pretty darn well ! I made a stupid decision a couple years ago to ‘touch
up’ Physical Deaducation Ghoulia’s
lips with a red Sharpie at each corner, in hopes of giving her more of a smile.
It looked great for about a month, then the ink started to spread and sort of
glow, and I’ve barely looked at her since. Even added her to the ‘sale’ box for
a while, before I had second (third ? fifth ?) thoughts.
Decided to try the ole ‘oxy-10’
trick, see if I could save her. Basically, you apply cheap acne meds to a soft
vinyl doll’s face, where the ink is, and it’s considered beneficial to have her
under light, natural or bulb-sourced, until it dries. The acne goop pulls the
ink to the surface, and when it’s dry, it can be rinsed or scraped off, and
applied again until the ink fades. This treatment was popular among Barbie fans
back in the day, when it was also used to eliminate green ear on occasion. As
many swear at it as by it, but I figured saving a doll with a mere a $2.
investment and minimal effort was worth a shot – and that was probably in 2007
or so. For the same bottle to still work in 2013 is pretty amazing. I’ve even
heard of dolls with oxy-10 on them lost to a closet or abandoned, but when the
stuff was washed away, the stain was gone with it. So I had hopes.
It’s faded quite a bit in
less than a week, and I have hopes that by month’s end, Ghoulia will be back to
her old ways and means. I’m only applying it once a day, and parking her on top
of a sewing machine, where the sunlight and lamp bulb can help. Not a lot of
effort, but I’ve already been rewarded, so here’s to treatment !
Wish I was having similar
luck recreating the Etsy dress. I now have no idea how I got it right the first
time, ‘cause nearly all my efforts since then have been dismal failures. Later
tonight, I’m gonna dig like heck in hopes of finding the original pattern, since
that may be where the magic resides – and why I haven’t had any success
recapturing it with just slightly off the mark copies. In case that doesn’t
work, I’ve altered the pattern.
What can I say, I want that
dress ! And I don’t have more fun cash to spend right now. Luckily, I have tons
of paper and fabric !
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