If you haven't noticed, it's s nearly Christmas! We're hard at work doing Christmassy stuff. I've arranged for Santa Claus to bring our kids a play kitchen this year. They already have one made of old moving boxes but 1. It's enormous, so we can't have it out all the time, 2. The Giant Husband made the fridge/pantry and it's awful, but he's proud of it so I can't replace it, and 3. The Giant Baby constantly freaks out that Tiny is going to break it. So I figured, if we get a proper one, I know they're going to use it. I want to make some felt pasta to go with it, but I don't really know if I'm going to get around to it.
Our current play kitchen
The Giant Baby is changing his mind constantly about what he wants. First it was Lego, then Grossery Gang toys, Enchantimals, Shopkins, cars, Ghostbusters toys etc. The first time he changed his mind, I'd just bought Lego for his present, and I panicked. But now he's changed his mind so many times that I'm pretty sure he'll be happy with whatever he gets.
Tiny, meanwhile, has her first dance concert next week. Yeah, you read that right, and yes, it is bizarre but I don't really have a choice. I did not enrol her in dance classes. There are, on the other hand, dance classes in our back room on Mondays. And Tiny has decided she's taking tiny ballet. Nobody else has a say. (Actually she wants to join in the big kids ballet and hip hop too but usually gets kicked out of those.)
My doll collection has had a massive cull. Anything that I don't care about or have no plans of getting out of storage, has gone.
I've also removed Zihu and Paige's face ups. They'll have new identities soon. I want to try doing their face ups with water colours. I don't know how well that will work but I'm better at water colours than pastels, so it's worth a try.
Once the Christmas crazies are over, I will probably take you on a tour of my remaining doll collection. Or at least I plan to. We're on the countdown to the Giant Baby starting kindergarten (Australian kindergarten is the equivalent of US preschool) so I should have more free time to post stuff and do stuff next year. (FORTY-ONE DAYS TO GO! YAY!)
An update on my post office story. They gave me the run around but then agreed to a partial refund. It's not enough to get enough ink to reprint the dolls myself but it IS enough to get them professionally reprinted. Which is ridiculous and proves what I've always said, home printers are a waste of money. (But convenient, if they work, and have ink in them . . . Ugh, ok, they're awful but these days they're pretty much the only way to buy a scanner.)
I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas, or whatever they feel like celebrating.
