I know it's not August for a while yet (well, where I am), but...

[hat_plays_sims]

Hokay, official notice. I make dollhouse miniatures for a living, and I have a mini show coming up the first weekend after Labor Day. I really need to switch gears and quit making stuff for Sims and make some stuff I can sell, instead, so...

Now begins Hat's official August sabbatical from Sims 2 Stuff.

Except it's a crappy sabbatical, because a) I can still play if I need a break from sewing, b) I can still download, c) I can post already-completed items, and d) no way am I going to quit socializing. I'm just not going to make any new crap for a month or five weeks. Expect a hair dump and my party-and-games defaults before too long, because I just finished twenty-one hairs and I feel bad not releasing them as soon as I get them photographed and named.

(I also have a doll show to do in November, but I don't need to barnstorm so hard for it.)

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Ehm, what does "hem and face" mean? From the photos it looks like the sleeves were lined, that is, a second layer of fabric on the inside so no fabric edges show.

Excellent thing with the magnet, because it would be a crying shame to have tiny holes (which don't stay tiny) in those amazing dresses.

I can just imagine how you see thrift stores and flee markets with an entirely different eye. The cut of that blouse is atrocious and those earrings are tacky beyond words? Who cares if the fabric is good and the stones in the earrings are small enough to make a beautiful necklace.

> I have more fabric than I'll ever, ever use.

Why, can't imagine what that is like at all. /self-depreciating irony



> I had (still have, actually) a beautifully illustrated storybook and I wanted to go see the movie SO HARD, but Mom wouldn't take me.

That's so horrible when you are a kid and the potentially most awesome movie ever is showing. Weirdly enough, I heard the movie didn't do well in the theaters at all, and then it really turned into a cult classic and still sells great on DVD. I love my DVD, it has such an awesome making off where you see how the juggling of those glass balls is done.

And there's a story book? Look, if you ever, ever have ten minutes with nothing better to do than to scan a few pages and upload them, because now I'm curious as all heck. But really, don't do if it's a bother, you have enough sewing work.

> but I had to wait until I spotted it on VHS for cheap somewhere and went "MOM MOM THIS IS THE MOVIE MOM!" and she was all "What movie?"

I think I had a very similar reaction when finding the VHS by accident. It had been years since I'd have seen the movie but I still remembered it as awesome, and there it was. Mine mine all MINE!

[hat_plays_sims]

The oversleeves are lined, the inner sleeves aren't, but the body of the dress itself is hemmed at the bottom and faced at the top-- you can see the facing showing (deliberately); it's the stuff that looks like cream piping at the neckline. Basically a facing is a partial lining, which saves on fabric but has an annoying tendency to flip up or otherwise look silly.

Also the men's shirt section is an amazing source for high-quality cottons. Just amazing. And I'm not much for actual embroidery, so that purple suit the redheaded dollhouse doll is wearing upthread of here? That was made from a thrift store blouse.

Ah yes, but mine is mostly in lengths your average costumer would consider scraps. *grins*

Labyrinth did do fairly poorly in theatres, but it does so well on DVD they've released three different versions of it-- I recently got the fancy schmancy remastered version, but before that I had the one with the making-of bonus feature. I was astounded to see that Dr. Crusher from Star Trek was their choreographer!

Alas I don't think my scanner is big enough... and the Goblins' Library so far only has the cover scanned (it's the orangey-yellow one, the one with illustrations, not photographs). If I can find some way to hold it open in good light, I might be able to take pictures.