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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[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.