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You may remember, if you have read any of my previous recent posts, that I went to the Dollmarket and got a doll named Marley Wentworth. Now this has led to a few problems for Mom got the exact same doll with, of course, the exact same name. This really isn’t that important but if you pick up a copy of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens what does the first sentence of the story say? “Marley was dead to begin with…” disquieting that is. So for this and other reasons I have yet to think of, I decided that a change was necessary.

I still wanted to keep the initials of M. W. for my doll so I found some long lists of names to drive my eyes berserk and start reading. I carefully considered most names for the space of about half a second, sometimes pausing for five seconds on the names that really caught my attention, Media was one of these as well as Melinda. However, as you might have noticed if you read the title of this post, I did not chose either of those. I chose the name Meliora. Though I’m not certain I think it’s pronounced MEL YOR AH or something like that. I chose the name, you see, for it’s meaning and not necessarily for it’s pronunciation. The name, presumably, is derived from a latin word meaning “Better” and since I want this name to be “better” than Marley I thought it would work. So here are two pictures of Meliora in the dress I made for her earlier today.

Meliora is really nice, even when she was Marley. I played a game with her with my Lord of the Rings Trading Cards today and… I beat her!!! And she didn’t even make that many stupid moves!(unlike Polly had to do last game). I think I’m finally getting my strategy figured out. I completely destroyed her fellowship at site seven. She may get a new dress tomorrow as a reward for being such an excellent loser:)

I’ve been very busy today. This morning I spent most of my time cleaning and organizing my room since I’m going to have company on Saturday. I vacuumed a lot of dust and brought to light parts of my floor that had been buried under for quite some time.

Recently I’ve developed a method for cleaning up my room, or parts of my room at least. I select an area and then put everything movable in that area on top of my bed and then reorganize from there. Here is a picture of what my bed looked like after a picked up nearly everything from the section of floor I was cleaning.

I was rather busy this morning getting that situation in hand. Then I made a dress for Marley, now named Meliora, and after that I forget what I did but I’m sure I did something… This evening we went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant and after we came home I rode my bicycle for over an hour and now I’m tired but I still have a few more things to do on my to do list. Last week I did not use a to do list but this week I’m using one again. I think I still have five things left to check off but as soon as I finish this post I’ll be able to check that off

First off, here is the dress I just finished making today. My brother Andrew was kind enough to take the picture.

I spent most of this morning and afternoon making the dress and taking breaks in-between steps. I’m rather tired now and I don’t feel like writing much however the previous post is nice and long.

Here are some pictures of Marley Wentworth in the dress I made for her Saturday. Since this was the first dress I’d made for her it didn’t exactly turn out perfectly, but it works.

Last night I started watching a very enjoyable movie entitled “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and as I was watching the strange desire came over me to make one of the dresses I saw in the movie for my doll, so I did.

Unfortunately due to the pattern not fitting quite right the outfit doesn’t resemble the one in the movie very much, other than the fact that it is about the right shade of blue. Oh well. At any-rate that was my main accomplishment yesterday beyond writing a page of rough draft on a story. I hope that today I’ll write some more on said rough draft.

However there are two more Kitty outfits I haven’t posted yet though they were made before yesterday.

This outfit has some weaponry to go with it.

And this outfit

Is supposed to be a lovely green ball gown of sorts.

So this is my post for right now. I may post something later, but then again I may not:) Tommorrow I shall probably have a LOT to write about and perhaps some pictures.

Here is a picture of me and several of cousins. I made all of the dresses were wearing in the picture. It’s not the best of pictures as far as showing off the outfits but it works.

Since it is Thrusday I’m currently working on a special project which I’ll probably be posting on here at some point.

She looks very nice doesn’t she? I designed the pattern for the dress too. I did use a Barbie Pattern for a basic idea but I changed it considerably. The original pattern was merely a bodice. The nice thing about doll clothes is that they don’t use much fabric and therefore they cost only a fraction of what a dress sized for me in the same fabric would cost.

So far I’ve been able to keep up with my schedule. The two big things “A whole unit of school” and “Make Something” are now done for today. When I finish History I shall receive another Tiny Kitty Doll as a reward. She has blonde hair so soon she’ll also be modeling my gowns.

And now I’m going to be able to check off, “Write Post” on my list

There is a picture of my sewing machine. It’s a very good one and has served me well.

Every once in a while I print out a weekly checklist of things to do each day and this week I’m trying to do one. I succeeded today and hopefully I’ll be able to keep up with it all week. If I can I will be very happy, and I’ll also be finished with my history:)

As one of the things on my list was “Make something” today I made a new dress for my Tiny Kitty Doll in the same style and fabric as the dress I made last Thursday.

Pretty nice in my opinion the dress is. I have a few other outfits planned so it will be interesting to see how they turn out. Today was quite full.

Today was rather busy and productive. If you observe the previous post you will the story I wrote today. Most of today was spent sewing on a beautiful gown which I finished in time to make a movie with it. I wanted to do a musical and I made up the lyrics and I sung them in front of the camera with the intention of adding instrumentals in the back ground. Unfortunately for the music just as filming ceased I started feeling really sick and I did not feel like adding the instrumentals. So the musical pretty much just has singing without accompaniment. I hope you enjoy it though.

Act One
Act Two
Act Three

Here is a picture of the dress I made today. In my opinion it’s a very nice dress especially when you take into consideration the fact that the total cost of the materials was about $5.00:) It took a couple of hours to make though.