The Orphans

Here are the orphans. Stella is wearing the yellow slacks she arrived in and a wonderful poncho from Jane.

The Steel Brothers Have Found Romance in Melton East

A week or so before I rescued the AFs from an untimely trip to the land fill, I found miss Lili Caron (far left) at the local Goodwill. She had a ton of Hula type hair that was nasty! As she was only 69 cents, I had to rescue her. I removed the worst of the hair which was full of rubberband melt and gave her a boil wave. She and Maximilliam hit it off right away. Not to be outdone by big brother, Maxim set his sights on Darla Baker, an amiable young blond who arrived in Melton shephearding a pair of young orphan girls. The 3 of them were from a charity thrift store and had been consigned to a box, unwanted by the Bratz-loving girls who freaquented the shop. They are Stella (10" Skipper, ) and Rowena ( Kelly sized doll in a molded riding outfit.) They are awaiting The migration of Meltom proper to find families. I will post a picture of them next.

New Guys, New Clothes

Here are 2 of my new (to me) AFs
On the left is Gregory Whitsett a GI Joe Storm Shadow Cobra Ninja.
In Melton, he is another survivor of the cataclysm that created The Island of Melton.
The mask (molded on in RL) hides disfiguring facial injuries.
Next to him is Maximillian Steel, my 3rd Max Steel. To distinguish him from his brothers, I have aged him a bit.
Back story: son of his father's first marriage, about 17 years older than Maxwell (1st Max Steel in storage in Albuquerque) and 19 years older than Maxim Steel (here in Bonham.) I found a group of 4 AFs thrown out in trash removed from a house that was cleared out subsequent to the eviction of some undesireables in the neighborhood. Gregory and Maximillian both have their right thumbs amputated at the middle joint. Very strange. Max's sweater is from Stelrolo; his pants were madse by me from a fabiic remnant and fabric glue (no sewing machine here yet, sigh.) Gregory is wearing a new Ken outfit. He looks like a ninja cowboy, LOL. I am in deep need of shoes for both of the Max Steels: Ken-sized if anyone has any extras. Also a pr. of shoes for a 10" Skipper. I am pretty broke right now, but could pay later once we get on foodstamps, hopefully this month as I have an appointment this week. I think I sent everyone my new address. Thanks in advance, those poor dolls make me shiver just looking at their bare feet. It is really chilly here, in the 20s at night when I do most of my dolly play.

Here is Mitzi hanging out in the Christmas tree---it is her first Christmas---she wants to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday season from TuMani

All the Best to You

Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year

Jane and the Dolton Gang

Repeats

Well I still haven't got Dolton decorated yet, just no inclination I guess. I never get into the Xmas mood until after the fact for some reason. This is last year's tree from the Heights, which is still sitting here, decorated LOL

Most of our snow (IRL) has melted and it is supposed to rain today, so what's left will disappear. But the weatherman has promised a White Christmas because another storm is approaching.

I'm still crocheting afghans for xmas gifts which of course won't be done, but we are not seeing the recipients until mid January so that gives me some time, yet.

Some of our stores here and in Toronto have decided to stay open 24 hours to allow for more shopping time and hopefully thinner crowds. I think it's a great idea and would definately be shopping in the wee hours if I had gifts to buy.

We are going to friend's places for xmas day and dinner, so I won't even have to cook this year. Which is good since I am working both xmas eve and boxing day (26th). I'm sure there will be people out wanting lottery tickets no matter what the season. I don't know yet if anyone won the $30 million, but I can tell you it wasn't me LOL

I'll be posting some pix from other years on the Dolton Blog.

TuMani news

I was finally able to get some home presents wrapped today as the past couple of weeks have been completely crazy. Last week I worked all week getting ready for our Christmas pageant at church. If three nitwits hadn't thrown away our costumes and backgrounds it would have been much easier. Luckily I was able to save one copy of the pageant itself. I typed and printed one copy of it and Jaime took it to work and made copies and then we laminated the front and back covers and sprial bound the pageant and music together. All our electric candles were also disposed of so I bought little flash lights and passed them out to the audience so they could see the music to sing along. All in all the pageant turned out well---it wasn't perfect but this year "all" children were included instead of just the preacher's two brats. They weren't too happy about not getting to be Mary and Joseph again this year but I picked the Mary and Joseph this year----it was a young couple that had a new baby. Sunday morning when everyone was getting dressed in their costumes it sounded like it was supposed to sound---lots of giggles and complete controlled chaos. After the pageant was over I kept the kids in their costumes long enough for all parents, grandparents, great grandparents and what not to get all the pictures they wanted---they were very pleased. Yesterday Jaime's company had their Christmas office party---it was the first Christmas office party they had every had --Monday I made twelve pounds of fudge to go into holiday tins for some door prizes and then Tuesday I made construction equiptment shaped candy for part of the food platters. She said they had a full house at the party ----there was some food left over so we ended up with leftover "little smokies" , assorted cheese and assorted crackers---we are having party food for supper tonight.

My picture today is of Stacey London and Clinton Kelly from TLC's "What Not to Wear" I think TuMani will have some new residents Christmas, too. Need more coffee.