Santa brought the girls Precious Day dolls from Goetz and we want to comb their hair. I read reviews and they are mixed about the wire wig brush. What do you use, how easy is it & where did you get it?
I bought a wire brush from Sally's Beauty Supply, I think it was about $4. Always spray the hair before brushing it too. I also got the girls the salon set from AG on Cyber Monday for $5 and it included a cape, curlers, bobbi pins, and a little AG brush. It was a great deal!!! I like to use the little brush from AG, just because I like the way it fits my hand, but there is no difference in the way it works from the Sally one. I've heard that some people can find the wire brushes in the pet section of
Walmart too, but I haven't seen any at ours.
I think it's easy to brush the hair, but make sure when your kids or their friends are brushing that they aren't just ripping through it! I try to teach the girls to brush the doll's hair like I do theirs, start at the bottom and work your way up.
Well, that was a very long answer about doll hair, wasn't it!
I'm so very blah... Just officially got the word I will be going down to Part time starting tomorrow.
I currently am Salary position, sick days, Holidays, personal days... and vacation.
Now I'm going to be hourly... without insurance
I'm sorry about that! That is not good.
So I bought fabric and matching bows last year

and finally got around to making Lily's S'mores Vida. She wore it to school yesterday and it turns out their theme this week is snowmen!
It has a lot of butt buttons (you know, like butt ruffles?) but she insists they don't annoy her when she sits on them. :
SOOOOO cute Jeanne!!!! When you said something about the butt buttons, I couldn't figure out why you had buttons going down the back of a Vida!! I get it now!
Lily is looking awfully grown up these days! I LOVE the s'mores vida and the matching bows and the butt buttons! (Plus, butt buttons is just fun to say.)
Seeing that s'mores fabric reminds me of my most favoritest dessert recipe ever!
Indoor S'mores
12 graham crackers
1 bag MILK chocolate chips
about 1/2 bag mini marshmallows
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup REAL butter (do not use margarine - it just doesn't turn out well)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1) Preheat oven to 350
2) Arrange crackers on a well-greased cookie sheet (if you have extra space on your cookie sheet, you can fold up some foil around the edges to make a "lip" right next to the crackers so the sauce will stay on your crackers and not run all over the place.)
3) Spread chocolate chips over the crackers, then marshmallows.
4) For sauce, combine brown sugar, butter and vanilla in a sauce pan over medium heat, stirring frequently until mixture thickens and bubbles at edges. Pour over crackers.
5) Bake about 10 minutes until marshmallows are just slightly browned.
Be forewarned: these are extremely dangerous! Also, don't make these and take them to a family or work function unless you want to make them for every function from here on out - I learned that the hard way! If I ever bring something different, I get in trouble!
OOOH!!! I have a potluck to go to tonight, I wonder if I will have time to run to the store to get stuff for this. It sounds so good!
I am
finally getting around to posting our trip report from our October trip. Darla made to many cute things to not post a report. Anyway I want to give credit where credit is due. Soooooooooo are you ready for another exciting game of "Name that Case."
Who was Case'd.....
ME!!!!!!!!!! ME!!!!!!!!! ME!!!!!!!!!!! ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ME!!!!!!!!!!! It's MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And my buddy Livndisney!!!!!!! We make a good pair!!!
Marah made a Mulan for her daughter, but she cased LivnDisney
I'm so thrilled someone cased that outfit!!! It is one of my favorites!
Darla, you did a fantastic job on these!!!!


Cathy (twob4him) was cased on the Jasmine
NOOOOOO!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOO!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!
(smilies not working for me today, but put a winky one here, cause I'm just teasing you!)
Switched to IE just so I could get the smilies to work!
Didn't Teresa make that Jasmine first for her neice? Both outfits are so cute!
YES!!! I made it for Casey first with that material. I made a top (and skirt) for Arminda in this style, then for a Wish I combined them together and made this one. (well, not this one, but the one Darla cased)
I was thinking it was Teresa also. We saw it on a Big Give. There was Jasmine for one of the girls and Ariel in her pink on land dress. Darla made an Ariel print dress on that give.
You were right! This was the Give I made the Jasmine and Ariel in her pink dress too.
Can you tell I'm just tickled to death that DARLA Cased ME!?!!! I'm honored!
She is so cute and so is the dress, I just love the colors in it, well done
I have a Big Give question. To give some background I have startd a Small Give here in BC Canada. I run a family daycare and one of the parents works for MAW BC Yukon and she heard about the Big Gives from this board. She knew I was on these boards too and also that I am part of a Quilting/craft group so she asked if I might like to do something similar to the Big Gives. Of course I said yes, but because we do not have many ladies who sew outfits we are doing more autograph books, eye spy bags, journals, crayon roll-ups, etc. I want to start doing MAW matchin t-shirts for the whole family going on the trip but the mom who works for MAW is worried about using the Mickey hat stick people and the WDW logo on the shirt because of copyright laws. Has anyone had this worry, is there any experience with this being a problem? Thank you for reading this, it wasn't meant to be so long.
Christine
There will be no problems at all. People have been making shirts with Disney designs for personal use for a long time and no one has ever gotten into trouble for it.
It turned out great!
Enjoy the Florida frost pictures with our neighbor's dolphin mailbox in the background!
Steph!!!!! That is fabulous!!!! When I saw the picture I was wondering where you bought such a cute coat!! That is really great, I love it!!!
And, I still get a kick out of that mailbox!!!
Try to stay warm!!!!
UPDATE on my dad.
After a very drama filed day Wednesday we found out yesterday from the oncologist they believe they got all the cancer and he will need chemo and radiation. It has not spreed but it is a very aggressive kind of brain cancer. So they are treating it aggressively. His recovery from brain surgery is wonderful he is talking so much better almost back to normal! He still needs OT which may start today but the improvements are great. So we still have a fight but he will win! He has to! So please continue to pray for him.
This is so good to hear!