Reloaded The Bullets

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Once again, it turns out that being an alleged grownup who plays with dolls is helping me at work! Last time it was because I was the World’s Greatest Mannequin Dresser;* this time my experience doing silly photo stories will come in handy. See, the Liberry will be doing a bunch of stuffed animal parties over the next few weeks, in which kids drop off their stuffed animals and the critters have Liberry adventures all night and we take pictures, and then the kids watch the show and we give the animals back and tell the parents they may want to wash the beloved ball of plush before they do anything else.

And, as reigning photostory champion, well, I have volunteered to help make up and photograph silly scenarios. Anyone have any swell ideas?

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Speaking of such things, I got the dolls all set up for XMas! It is too dark to take pictures now, though.

Now only Daja needs an XMas outfit, because I just made one for Loke (and HOT DAMN my sewing skills are getting better) and then somehow wound up with four more for her anyway.** Daja will probably get a shiny over-robe for her current shirt and pants combo, if I ever get my ass in gear enough to make it.

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This may also warrant a trip to Dumb JoAnn’s, which is the little JoAnn’s closest to us. They call these smaller branches the convenience stores, except that Dumb JoAnn’s was recently remodeled into a Terribly Inconvenient Store. You can’t see a damn thing in there anymore, and there is no way for two shoppers to get around each other when they meet in an aisle, and for some reason they’ve started doing the take-a-number thing when they cut fabric and have a huge loudspeaker so they can say “NOW SERVING NUMBER 74” as loudly as possible in a store the size of a 7-11. This is weird, because we could hear people calling just fine. We just can’t get to them, because we are lost in the Unsolvable Craft Shit Labyrinth. I think I caught a glimpse of a Minotaur, trailing pipe cleaners and fabric bolts, with chunks of Sculpey matting rough fake fur, roaming the aisles last time I was there.

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I actually cooked dinner tonight! Tasty rosemary pork with applesauce, whole wheat noodles, and peas. I am totally unmotivated to cook right now, but when I do it is AMAZING.

I have Plans for cooking tomorrow, too. You will get to hear all about it if things go as planned.

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I should be playing Epic Mickey right now, but I DO NOT OWN IT.

Ditto the Donkey Kong Game, which I believe is officially titled OMFG DKC.

Instead I’m all up ons buyin’ Xmas presents for everyone else. Isn’t that just the saddest damn thing you ever heard?

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The cat has fallen in love with my Xmas surprise to myself. (WHAT? I was just trying it out!) I did not expect that at all.


*No, seriously, all the other ladies at the store complimented me on my unsurpassed technique in putting clothes on dummies.

**eBay is friend to children everywhere doll nerds! I just got a huge lot of clothes from the golden days of iDolls FOR CHEAP, yo! I wasn’t even sure that stuff actually existed!

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[willowistari.livejournal.com]

there is no way for two shoppers to get around each other when they meet in an aisle, and for some reason they’ve started doing the take-a-number thing when they cut fabric and have a huge loudspeaker so they can say “NOW SERVING NUMBER 74” as loudly as possible

OMG ours was recently remodeled and this is exactly what it turned into. D:

[bluetara2020.livejournal.com]

I can picture it now, teddy bears and unicorns and at least one dinosaur all gathered together in the place where the books grow trying to find a special surprise for their people, a story to make them smile.

So they travel over the tall book cliffs and on the magical book-mine carts and one of them gets lost, but the rest band together to find them only to realize that they have to rescue them from the dreaded bookwyrm who is trying to eat all the stories so they can't be shared (as opposed to the nice bookworms and wyrms, who are very helpful creatures, really, and will talk about any book you want for a long, long, looong time.) And they are trapped, at least once, by the dreaded overdue fine...

All the time meriting the benefits of this or that story, never finding the perfect one until, at the end, they realize that each person has to find their own story to like but that sharing them later makes for a bit of entertainment and in the meantime they had an ADVENTURE that was pretty nifty because they all get to go home again and tell their stories to their people, who will hug them and tell them that they are the very bravest of beasties with a thumping good story to share.

And dear goodness, I think I need sleep.

[hrhleia.livejournal.com]

Well, these aren't nearly as complete as tara's idea, but I was thinking: scavenger hunt, tea party, hide and seek in the shelves, build a fort out of books, go exploring and map the wilderness (or genre sections, as you will), archeology (find and study the oldest books), use book titles to write a story, find a book that has someone like them as a character, dress up/disguise themselves as each other, play board games, play twister (that'll make for some interesting pictures), discover they're locked in and search for an escape route, slumber party, um, um... yeah, that's all I got.

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Every time you talk about sewing little clothes for dolls, I want to hunt down my American Girl Doll while I'm at home and start knitting her little to-scale sweaters and stuff.

(Granted, this will probably involve lace-weight yarn, 000 needles, and insanity if I ever do, but the urge is there.)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Or, if you're like the countless eBay sellers, you could just use normal-weight yarn and knit giant chunky monstrosities for dolls!

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

I think that would make me die a little inside.

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

I've done it! It came out really good. The scale might be a little off but...




The whole work up and images are here: http://kittikattie.livejournal.com/995741.html#cutid1

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Oooh, gorgeous. This... is not helping my knitting OCD.

[vogtalicious.livejournal.com]

The Liberry adventure for stuffed animals sounds adorable! Wish we could do that here at the Landmark.

What about a Nancy Drew mystery adventure? Someone stole cookies or something, and they have to read to find clues? Ohh, little flashlights and the whatnot?

[piccolo-pirate.livejournal.com]

Chiron Beta Prime is one of the best Christmas songs of all time for making one feel silly and sort of Christmasdrunk.

I'm glad the cat's enjoying herself. :)

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

*Has Kong and Epic*

*loves both*