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One Final Time

12/20/2012

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Today I'm working on finishing a "Little Mary" dress for Lonnie. It's the third, and final, doll dress made from Mary's fifth birthday dress. When I made the first one for Hope, there was enough fabric for a second one exactly the same, but then I thought "what's the point of having two identical ones?" and so I made a tiny dress for my smallest girls, being careful to leave enough border prints for one final dress for Lonnie. This dress has the double skirt like the original.
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I brought away Lonnie and Kassia to Charie Wilson's last night. It's so nice to have a doll friend, whose also a skilled faceup artist, living so close by. It's always nice to have a little visit and see everything she's been up to - like her new Dollmore Alexia and Narsha, and Iplehouse Amy, all in their pretty holiday dresses. I always get to see and play with the newest Bo Bergman dolls too, since Charie is one of Bo's main designer/seamstresses. Charie has already sealed Lonnie and Kassia, and hopes to start painting them tonight. Maybe they'll even be ready on the weekend!!  That would be amazing!!  Getting a new doll is great, but then there's always a bit of a let-down because they always come blank, and it's hard to really appreciate a blank doll. I want to see them with a faceup ASAP, but of course that isn't often possible.

It's getting to "crunch time" with Christmas just five days away, and still plenty to be done - like last minute gifts and baking. I don't expect to be able to do much of anything new doll-wise in that time. I had really been in the mood to make a "Queen of the Night" ensemble for my Asa, but I couldn't find the fabric. I looked through the entire blue metallics box three times - and the satins and brocades boxes, but couldn't find it. So, I think I'll just take the time to tie up some loose ends, like make some tights for outfits where I was borrowing them from others, and make a leather bag and sword hilt for Isar, since she was borrowing Narae's. And I bought special bone beads, at a trading post on our fall trip, for a hair-pipe breastplate "necklace" to go with Byuri's "Little Bluebird" Cheyenne ensemble. I was in a hurry in September and borrowed the necklaces from the Pacific Princess ensemble. Each outfit should really have it's own complete set of accessories, should I ever decide to part with them.

There's supposedly a big storm heading this way, and there's a bit of snow in the forecast. I sure hope so, and hope it's not rain AGAIN, otherwise it will be the third, dead, brown Christmas in a row.  Here's hoping for a decent snowfall!!
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