So, I get all worried and check tracking, and it says my package is still supposed to arrive that day, and that it was last recorded at the post office roughly a town over. I figure it just missed sorting and will arrive Tuesday, and start getting ready to go to sleep. (Yes, weird schedule, I know, it constantly changes here.)
And then here comes ANOTHER mail truck. I've never seen USPS run twice in the same day. I don't know if he just got so far and found he'd missed the package or what, I didn't actually manage to catch him. What mattered was what was left in the box:
So, after little details like taking measurements, and chopping off the redundant bits of a neck peg with wire snips:
(no, you really don't need any of that stuff on the top)
I attempted at first to remove the stain on the Monster High girl, only to have the personality/backstory for the doll develop in my head that actually explained why the stain was there. At which point I stopped trying to remove what is now a needed detail. XD I guess it's like when programmers reclassify a bug as a feature...
She's been renamed Meritamen. From what Wiki tells me, the name means 'beloved by Amen', and with Amen being a sun deity and the doll being from a beach set (Gloom Beach Cleo DeNile, according to a bit of websearching) it seemed appropriate (and a lot less steriotypical and punny than the official name).
A new faceup happened before I even went to sleep. I just had to stay up long enough to do it and see how she'd look in all the 'historically accurate' colors - 'cochineal' red for lips, 'ground malachite' for the eyes (and they put it on thick, unlike modern powdery eyeshadows. And the eyeliner used to be made from galena, which is actually a very dark silvery-grey. I used silver and black to mix it specifically. And I redid her eyes in metallics too (bronze and gold).
And here she is in her current spot, on Amber the Pony's back on the 'garden' shelf. Someday, when I have more space and shelves, I'll have to set up a garage for her to work in...
The Jem has a spot too, tho no new name yet. I have plans for her, starting with trying to do something about the torso yellowing. And I did find a dress that sort-of fit for now (though only because the top snap was already broken). While playing around to see what clothes might fit out of what was on hand, I found to my surprise that Liv wigs fit her at least reasonably well:
Yes, the wig still has the peg in for the Liv head, but that just helps it look more like 80's 'big hair'. I'm now slightly torn between my original idea of rooting her with a heat-sensitive color changing 80's giant mullet (think David Bowie in Labryinth, if someone attacked him with purple-to-blue and purple-to-pink hair dye)... and just trying to find a lot of really bright Liv wigs to swap around.
I'll probably still go with rooting tho, since the wigs really only /mostly/ fit.PS: Almost forgot, the little rug looks great in front of the Marionette Box.
... and there are still some debates over who gets the sunglasses. XD
