sewing, musicals, doll collecting
Oct. 8th, 2008 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newmoonstarI have been so pathetically remiss in my sewing lately. I haven't even started a new project since the 1838 doll dress sleeve fiasco. This really must be rectified. Perhaps the polka dot 1950's doll dress? Or finishing my medieval dress.
But finding time to sew has been impossible lately, since I've been much too busy reading every book I can find about Broadway musicals, in my search for more obscure and interesting cast albums to listen to. The only problem is, if they're really obscure, they're really hard to find. And forget finding any cast albums for English shows here in the states. And some shows that look terribly interesting, such as One Touch of Venus or Lady in the Dark are too old to have had cast albums. So the odyssey continues...
And my eternal battle to keep my Barbie doll collection down to a manageable size is again losing ground. I'm afraid I've been bitten by the Silkstone bug of late. I've now acquired the The Interview, and The Usherette, which is seriously gorgeous, and looks a bit like Vivien Leigh, to my mind. I just adore the careers series, I wish the rest of them weren't all foreign exclusives; but I suppose I should be glad they are, otherwise I would probably buy them all. I did, however, put my foot down, and turned down a shiny new Preferably Pink Barbie for $25. (Tell me I did the right thing!) But my doll cabinet is full, and it's come to the point where I'm now going to have to sell or give away some old dolls each time I buy new ones! But to be perfectly honest, it's long past time for me to let go of Gymnast Barbie, so this is probably a good thing!
But finding time to sew has been impossible lately, since I've been much too busy reading every book I can find about Broadway musicals, in my search for more obscure and interesting cast albums to listen to. The only problem is, if they're really obscure, they're really hard to find. And forget finding any cast albums for English shows here in the states. And some shows that look terribly interesting, such as One Touch of Venus or Lady in the Dark are too old to have had cast albums. So the odyssey continues...
And my eternal battle to keep my Barbie doll collection down to a manageable size is again losing ground. I'm afraid I've been bitten by the Silkstone bug of late. I've now acquired the The Interview, and The Usherette, which is seriously gorgeous, and looks a bit like Vivien Leigh, to my mind. I just adore the careers series, I wish the rest of them weren't all foreign exclusives; but I suppose I should be glad they are, otherwise I would probably buy them all. I did, however, put my foot down, and turned down a shiny new Preferably Pink Barbie for $25. (Tell me I did the right thing!) But my doll cabinet is full, and it's come to the point where I'm now going to have to sell or give away some old dolls each time I buy new ones! But to be perfectly honest, it's long past time for me to let go of Gymnast Barbie, so this is probably a good thing!
