OK, lemme say this : Perler
beads are awesome fun ! I was idly messin’ with the Dollar Tree set, waiting
for lunchtime, and I liked the simple design I came up with. You know darn good
and well I wasn’t gonna make the butterfly pictured on the box. It was easy and
kinda mindless, and very easy to jar and have to redo, several times, plus the
beads will leap across the room with no encouragement at all. It’s a bit
telling that this dollar set came with a decent set of plastic tweezers when
none of the name-brand sets did. And I’ll be the first to admit the bead colors
were pretty garish, but I wanted to stay strictly with the cheep knockoff
before I compared it to the name-brand one. I do have to confess, though, that
I misplaced the DTree direction sheet and used the Perler ones, to good
results.
I liked it. It’s versatile,
creative, fun, and easy to get a ‘keeper !’ result - even our ancient iron
melted them fairly well. I’m told the ironing paper is just wax paper,
something Perler sells separately for ridiculous money even with a 40% off
coupon, so I’ll experiment with that and let you know. Universe knows I’ll be
doing this again soon !
I had some beads left, but
used all but one blue and nearly all the purple. And you can see the neat
tweezers and peg board the DTree kit came with. All I supplied was a hot iron
and some ribbon to hang it with. Heck, Timey could have done it herself, it’s a
lot easier than pretending to be a Hasbro Sweet Cookie doll !
Speaking of coupons, I
joined the Jo-Ann’s text contest – sign up, and they text you a link at random,
and the first however many to respond get a gift card, and I guess the rest get
a coupon. I played yesterday and ‘won’ my choice of a 50% off one item or free
shipping with a $35. purchase code – I chose the 50% off, what I got in e-mail
hours later was the free shipping. Oh, well. Glitches happen, and it’s not like
there isn’t a similar coupon in every Jo-Ann’s mailing or on their site every
week. It was kind of fun to play.
Well, tomorrow’s the start
of a big weekend ! I’m turning in early. Happy tomorrow, everyone !
Dear DorrieBelle,
ReplyDeleteI know how you like both Mystery Science Theater and sixth-scale dolls, so I thought you might like to drop by my blog, fashiondollmemoirs.blogspot.com, and see a recently posted photo that attempts to combine the two. The photo features a blond Barbie posing with a Tom Servo figure made from polymer clay. The rest of the blog might not be to your taste. It's one of those doll blogs that's written from the point of view of the dolls themselves, and not the doll collector. I would've just sent you the photo, if I could figure out how. But anyway, feel free to check it out if you have the time.
Signed, Treesa