Fixing up the doll room
The last few days, I’ve been separating the craft room and doll room. The sewing/knitting/scrapbooking/etc will be moving to the basement where I will have about triple the space. The dolls will stay in that room, making it a 100% doll room. I won’t move them downstairs as the basement has a tendency to flood, and I don’t want them exposed to the moisture.
The doll room is just so tiny that trying to make it multifunctional is an exercise in futility. The lack of space meant I was completing nothing. The picfics were going months between episodes, I still haven’t made my wedding album (2 years in September), and I just got about 15 albums from B’s late father and aunt that have to be restored. I need SPAAACE!! I will take pics when it’s all nice and clean, and I’ll make sure to get one that shows how tiny the room is. Maybe 7 feet wide if that, tiiiiiny.
I’ve also gone through the doll clothing and separated it by who it belongs to. That actually gave me something to do with the boxes. I’m keeping each doll’s wardrobe in the box for that doll (except the boys, just one boy box). It’s also let me know which characters are sorely lacking in the clothing department. The most fleshed out wardrobes belong to Carmilla and Oryx, considering they’re the most fleshed out characters as well so far, I’m not surprised.
Along with all the other characters, I’m putting together a wardrobe for my totally awesome new T2…Principessa! I am so happy I finally got her. I won $700 in a poker tournament, B told me I should definitely buy a doll, and I thought “this is the perfect, and perhaps only opportunity I’ll get to buy her.” For the first time I really utilized a “wanted” style post, and it was answered! I paid regular market for her, but I had the money so I didn’t haggle, I just wanted my girl.
I’m now buying up a bunch of Monster High to steal their shoes. Well, not really. I’m collecting some of the MH girls (because how could I really say no to a readily available, inexpensive vamipire doll?) and trying to purchase just outfits of the girls I’m not actively collecting. Basically, I buy every Draculaura outright because I want a complete Draculaura set. For the others, I try to buy the outfit (I just got Ghoulia’s outfit on ebay) or just the shoes. Last resort, I buy a doll to strip. At the end of this collection, I intend to have one of each doll represented, and every Draculaura. This all discounts Cleo, as I don’t like her. I don’t think a character who’s basically just a regular Egyptian girl is interesting or monstrous enough. Also, the boys. The boys in this line leave much to be desired. Holt looks like a comic book character, and the only single Deuce coming out looks ridiculous. I’ll end up with a Clawd Wolf because he comes in a set with Draculaura. Right now I just have Gloom Beach Draculaura and first wave Frankie (wearing a Fearleading uniform, as her original clothing was stripped for a Dal and my Street has her shoes). I did have more, but I wanted to start over just getting the ones I want (some were straight impulse purchases), so I traded them all to a friend for Catherine, my Bonita.
I’m so glad there are shoe options for T1/T2 dolls. I love Ghoulia’s high-heeled knee high Chuck Taylor look-alikes, Princi is going to look killer in them. I’m glad I just got the outfit for Ghoulia, so I can outright buy her Dead Tired issue with the awesome box of snack food brains. Ah, finally. A playline where the fashion doll is eating brains.
