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Well. Looks like I won’t be
selling the Disney Princess and Me
Tiana dress. I’ll need it… for my DP&M
Belle doll ! My stipend check from last week’s product test arrived, and I
found one online within my price range (read, dirt cheep !) and she’ll be on
her way to me this weekend ! Her hair’s a mess, her earrings and tiara are
missing, and I have no idea if her shoes are on or off under that ballgown, but
for the price I paid, I’m not worried about it. From what I can tell, she only
had costume-satin slippers anyway, and I can make those as soon as she gets
here. I also have several tiaras she can wear, or a quick trip to Dollar Tree
can get her outfitted (check the party favors section), and I don’t really need
a certificate saying I’m a Disney Princess, too. I mean, when you’re the
Universal Empress, those things are not as impressive as they could otherwise
be. Plus, I have a printer.
To be honest, it didn’t
matter to me which DP&M doll I
got, long as I could afford her – so it was really lucky that it was one of the
three I most wanted ! I got to see the Frozen
ones at TRU yesterday, but…(shudder). Those looked even more weird than the
fashion doll ones. Somebody needs to tell most of the doll manufacturers that
there’s a huge difference between ‘wide eyed’ and ‘bug eyed’, and ‘startled
verging on scared / recoiling’ isn’t the greatest expression for a doll to
permanently have.
With the rest of the check –
told you I was cheep ! – I bought our combined anniversary/ Valentine’s Day
dinner (takeout gyros !) and a few snacks and treats from DTree between what
was left and what was in Checking. Even got a little birthday gift for friend
S., a sweet Webkins robin, fits in your hand, all soft and strokable and
adorable. I told her the legend of the first robin of spring (make a wish on
the first robin you see, if you finish before he or she flies off, your wish will come
true), and said this one would never fly away, so she could wish all year long
! Also, they were out of birthday pigeons. Those always sell out first…
Beloved Hubby gave me a
lovely pink rose, and since I couldn’t find my favorite vase, I made one from a
clean empty glass jar (suitably narrow, it used to hold minced garlic !), the
glass star and oval stones I had left over from a project, and a scrap of red
ribbon to cover the jar threading at the top. Much nicer than anything I saw at
DTree.
Came home and baked the red
velvet cake I’d intended to for the holiday, decided to use two 9-inch cake
pans and give one to M & FIL, and keep the other. Baking is an entirely new
project when your only oven isn’t much bigger than the microwave ! But buying a
new-to-us full size oven from Craigslist is next on our ‘improvements’ list, so…
Hope your Valentines was extra
sweet and very nice !
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