Cheery, cheery, cheery
Reading Girl Genius never fails to give me a boost of cheeryness.
I like the comic, I like the books, I like the audiobooks. It's just win, win, win with Girl Genius.
Teddy
I like the comic, I like the books, I like the audiobooks. It's just win, win, win with Girl Genius.
Teddy
Nice idea but lacking in the execution...
Someone on a doll list posted a link to a UK based company that are starting up a line of historical girl books and dolls (I know American Girl have already done it, but they don't sell outside the US and thedolls are all very US-centric).
Thinking what a good idea it is, I went to the website (http://www.agirlforalltime.com/) for a look - they're starting with a Tudor girl....
I haven't read the books, so I don't know how accurate or not they are, if the dolls clothes are any indications, it'll be more Hollywood than Historical.
EDITED TO ADD: There is an excerpt from the Tudor girl's story on the website: http://www.agirlforalltime.com/exc…
I realize that they probably felt a need to simplify because of production costs and the dolls being children's toys etc, but even so - simplifying from an accurate basis would have produced better results.... and surely it's cheaper to produce something with fewer details than producing something where most of the elaborate extras are inacurate, and unnecessary anyway.
The Tudor doll basic outfit:
http://www.agirlforalltime.com/upl…
http://www.agirlforalltime.com/upl…
In a bulky fabric like that surely it's easier (cheaper?) to produce it without 2 unnecessary seams on the front of the bodice and have it sit smoothly. Making it a one-piece gown with seperate underskirt would be more accurate, wouldn't be any more expensive, and would offer the opportunity to change out the uinderskirt for variations in the outfit (perhaps with some undersleeves as they don't include any... And that awful straight-up-from-the-head attempt at a french hood.
The only good thing is the doll doens't have a fringe so is at least capable of a reasonably period hairstyle.
Masked ball outfit:
http://www.agirlforalltime.com/upl…
Hollywood... need I say more.
Shift (marketed as a "night shift")
http://www.agirlforalltime.com/upl…
http://www.agirlforalltime.com/upl…
Look at those oh-so-Victorian ruffles!
They plan to do Elizabethan, Restoration, Georgian, Victorian, and WWII dolls as well....
I ssupose I should be grateful - after all, if they'd done it well, I'd probably want to start collecting the dolls myself, doing it badly has potentially saved me a lot of money.
Teddy
Thinking what a good idea it is, I went to the website (http://www.agirlforalltime.com/) for a look - they're starting with a Tudor girl....
I haven't read the books, so I don't know how accurate or not they are, if the dolls clothes are any indications, it'll be more Hollywood than Historical.
EDITED TO ADD: There is an excerpt from the Tudor girl's story on the website: http://www.agirlforalltime.com/exc…
I realize that they probably felt a need to simplify because of production costs and the dolls being children's toys etc, but even so - simplifying from an accurate basis would have produced better results.... and surely it's cheaper to produce something with fewer details than producing something where most of the elaborate extras are inacurate, and unnecessary anyway.
The Tudor doll basic outfit:
http://www.agirlforalltime.com/upl…
http://www.agirlforalltime.com/upl…
In a bulky fabric like that surely it's easier (cheaper?) to produce it without 2 unnecessary seams on the front of the bodice and have it sit smoothly. Making it a one-piece gown with seperate underskirt would be more accurate, wouldn't be any more expensive, and would offer the opportunity to change out the uinderskirt for variations in the outfit (perhaps with some undersleeves as they don't include any... And that awful straight-up-from-the-head attempt at a french hood.
The only good thing is the doll doens't have a fringe so is at least capable of a reasonably period hairstyle.
Masked ball outfit:
http://www.agirlforalltime.com/upl…
Hollywood... need I say more.
Shift (marketed as a "night shift")
http://www.agirlforalltime.com/upl…
http://www.agirlforalltime.com/upl…
Look at those oh-so-Victorian ruffles!
They plan to do Elizabethan, Restoration, Georgian, Victorian, and WWII dolls as well....
I ssupose I should be grateful - after all, if they'd done it well, I'd probably want to start collecting the dolls myself, doing it badly has potentially saved me a lot of money.
Teddy
Copied from both eleyan and la_marquise_de_
Hmmm..... Well, looking at my default icon, I can see where that might be somewhat accurate.
Costumers/crafters get together SUNDAY 1st February
Since Lissa (
oreouk) thought to put a reminder on the costumeuk community, I'd better put one here (blatantly coppied and pasted, with minor tweaks from Lissa's post).
Sunday 1st February 2009 is the date and Flis is the host
12 Sheppard Way
Rickmansworth
Hertfordshire
WD3 7NJ
Please reply here, or let me know by 'phone if you are going to turn up so he can let Flis know and she can have an idea of how many of us to expect... or let Flis know direct (and /or contact her for directions) by calling her on 01923 770984.
It's the usual arrangement, assemble at Flis's from mid-morning, bring yourself, your costume/craft project(s) to work on and your lunch, and we'll while away the rest of the day crafting and costuming in company.
oreouk) thought to put a reminder on the costumeuk community, I'd better put one here (blatantly coppied and pasted, with minor tweaks from Lissa's post).Sunday 1st February 2009 is the date and Flis is the host
12 Sheppard Way
Rickmansworth
Hertfordshire
WD3 7NJ
Please reply here, or let me know by 'phone if you are going to turn up so he can let Flis know and she can have an idea of how many of us to expect... or let Flis know direct (and /or contact her for directions) by calling her on 01923 770984.
It's the usual arrangement, assemble at Flis's from mid-morning, bring yourself, your costume/craft project(s) to work on and your lunch, and we'll while away the rest of the day crafting and costuming in company.
In appreciation of authors
It occurred to me that I have a lot to be grateful to authors for.
People who devote large chunks of their lives to writing and getting those writings, be they fact or fiction, published.
Factual works sharing their research, skills and knowledge with a wider community, works of fiction sharing the products of their imagination.
I read a lot - I am seldom without a book of some sort about my person, I find journey's, particularly on public transport, almost unbearable without something with me to read - even if I don't get the chance to read it because I'm sewing, or chatting to a fellow traveler or whatever, the journey is more bearable for the simple knowledge that I have something with me that I can read should the need or opportunity arise.
I would just like to take this opportunity of saying how much I appreciate the hard work that the authors put into creating these pieces of writing for me and my fellow readers to enjoy.
It is hard work, often underpaid (or even unpaid) and unappreciated work. Work that I know I couldn't do, and then the struggle to find a publisher to enable the work to reach a wider audience.
So, to anyone who happens to read my LJ who is an author, my sincere thanks.
People who devote large chunks of their lives to writing and getting those writings, be they fact or fiction, published.
Factual works sharing their research, skills and knowledge with a wider community, works of fiction sharing the products of their imagination.
I read a lot - I am seldom without a book of some sort about my person, I find journey's, particularly on public transport, almost unbearable without something with me to read - even if I don't get the chance to read it because I'm sewing, or chatting to a fellow traveler or whatever, the journey is more bearable for the simple knowledge that I have something with me that I can read should the need or opportunity arise.
I would just like to take this opportunity of saying how much I appreciate the hard work that the authors put into creating these pieces of writing for me and my fellow readers to enjoy.
It is hard work, often underpaid (or even unpaid) and unappreciated work. Work that I know I couldn't do, and then the struggle to find a publisher to enable the work to reach a wider audience.
So, to anyone who happens to read my LJ who is an author, my sincere thanks.
Back to California...
So, Thursday morning, Tom and I walk 'round to the local Post Office, procure one of their self assembly crates (the biggest size) some mailing address labels and a roll of parcel tape and head back tot he house to finish our packing.
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It was somewhere around then that I knew the convention had begun
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It was somewhere around then that I knew the convention had begun
Home again, home again thingumy wotsit.
Back home safe and sound from San Fransisco.
Costume Con was fab and fun and tiring and followed immediately by ten hour flight back to Heathrow , cab journey home from airport etc.
Determined to stay up until as close to "usual" bedtime as possible in order to give body clock best chance of adjusting to UK time before I get up at six in the morning to return to work tomorrow, but that will mean I've been awake for around 30 hours before I finally go to bed (I can seldom sleep while traveling unless I'm very ill, and a small and noisy child in the row behind was kicking the back of my seat and/or throwing things over the top for large parts of the overnight flight)
Proper updateyness about the fun of the con will follow - but probably not until after I have tackled the inevitable mountain of backlog that will have built-up at work in my absence...
This probably means that my catching up on my friendslist posts since last Wednesday/Thursday will be spotty and sporadic (if it exists at all)
Teddy
Costume Con was fab and fun and tiring and followed immediately by ten hour flight back to Heathrow , cab journey home from airport etc.
Determined to stay up until as close to "usual" bedtime as possible in order to give body clock best chance of adjusting to UK time before I get up at six in the morning to return to work tomorrow, but that will mean I've been awake for around 30 hours before I finally go to bed (I can seldom sleep while traveling unless I'm very ill, and a small and noisy child in the row behind was kicking the back of my seat and/or throwing things over the top for large parts of the overnight flight)
Proper updateyness about the fun of the con will follow - but probably not until after I have tackled the inevitable mountain of backlog that will have built-up at work in my absence...
This probably means that my catching up on my friendslist posts since last Wednesday/Thursday will be spotty and sporadic (if it exists at all)
Teddy