Francie is the first doll I have bought for myself in ages and ages because of
Everything
And maybe I shouldn’t have but man I love Francie and I love ridiculous mod Barbie stuff and reproductions and more importance being placed on non-white dolls and I just
Really excited they used my beloved trippy World of Barbie house as the design backdrop for the box of the reproduction release of Black Francie!
Girls~~
I accidentally knocked Wild Bunch Francie off of the shelf in the attempt to take this picture and she dropped her camera so now I don’t have any idea where that is. I have her hat in storage, but now I’m going to have to keep an eye out for my cat batting a tiny Polaroid camera around haha
Another thing I need to keep in mind about projects is: Just make the thing you want to make, even if it requires learning on your feet.
I tend to fall in a “prototype trap” a lot, where I have an idea for what I really want to make but am unsure it’ll turn out, so I make a prototype to prove that my idea could work…. and then I have no energy/motivation left to make what I really wanted to make and am stuck with a prototype that may have proven a theory but isn’t exactly what I wanted.
This is a lot like my developing theory of Unwise Sewing–I can save the tests and prototypes for things that are more serious, but I should jump straight into the really weird stuff that I won’t want to make multiple iterations of to get right…in part because there is no “right” to it, there’s just giddy giggling once it’s done, because it is so out of my usual sewing that even “it didn’t turn out exactly like I expected” is still “it turned out ridiculous” and that’s good
