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Oct. 30th, 2007 03:29 pmwe have an official date to move in to our new house!!! (as long as everything goes according to plan) we get the keys on the 23rd of november, YAY!!! *does happy dance all round the room, startling the puppy* now all we have to do is pack :) and OMG, we have so much stuffs :( and there are so many things to do, i need to make me a list of people to tell, phone, electric, gas etc, i'm tired just thinking about it :)
but now that i feel less jetlagged and a bit more human (and our interwebs is working again) i can tell about our trip to NY. we were only there for 5 days, and we crammed in so much shopping, and lots and lots of walking around :) we didn't do much in the way of touristy things, (we were on the 49th floor, so didn't bother to go up any thing) we did go for a carriage ride through central park, went on the bus down to the staten island ferry to see the statue of liberty, saw the skaters at the rockerfeller centre, went in the trump tower, walked down fifth window shopping, saw a show, (on 42nd street, but not '42nd street' :) went on the ferris wheel in toys r'us, had dinner in the hard rock cafe (the food was amazingly nice) went to the jeckyl and hyde club for dinner (like being in a cheesy horror movie... with food and cocktails!) but mostly we shopped, and shopped! needless to say my favourite shop was the AG shop :)
i bought...3 dolls!!!!! (so hard to chose! i wanted them all!) i only let myself have one now though, the next one i get when we move and the last one for christmas :p my now doll is #28, called rachel, and she and sarah are fast friends already. the new house doll is elizabeth!!! she's sooo pretty, and although they have the same face mold rachel's skin and hair colour make her look very different. the christmas doll is 'mini me' :p #21, she's called maegan, and is my american girl!(my name is megan, the 'me' rhymes with men, her name is maegan, the 'mae' rhymes with hay, she has an american accent in my head)
i also got the curlicue day bed, which was very bad and naughty of me :) but i didn't get the bedding, so i can make them sheets and quilts and things. i already have a bed elizabeth can have, it's like samantha's. the only clothes i got are the ready for fun outfit (it was on sale, and i don't want both my JLYs to have the same meet outfit) and addy's black and white boots, so maegan can dress like me in 1860s stuff :) i also got some mini dolls for charlotte, including mini elizabeth for elizabeth! we also went to build a bear and the build a doll shop (which has another name, can't think what though) and got bags and hats and things. clare was very cynical about it all to start with, and then caved in and bought ivy :D
we had tea there (which was yummy) and we had a personal shopper, it was great, she was so sweet, and really excited that not only were we grown women, but we were from the UK too, and i took the PJs i made for sarah and charlotte along and clare dressed ivy in them while i was choosing who to take home, she was amazed and they're only pjs, i'm glad i didn't take in a hoody, she might have been even worse :p we went at 2 i think, and left when they shut! needless to say i think it was the highlight of my trip, or maybe that and fabric shopping combined :)
omg the fabric shopping!!!! i found silk taffetta for $10 /yd!!! i can't find it in london for less than £40 /mt, so £5 is AY-MAY-ZING!!!! i bought some lovely peachy yellow and white shot for a sacque back and some in an oyster/beige/eau-de-nile colour to make mummy a ball gown when i make over my 1860s stuff for her, and the most amazing pale green and white shot, there wasn't enough for a dress, but i think i can squeeze out a jacket of some kind, if not at least a hat (and a dress for elizabeth!) :) i got some lovely trim perfect for the sacque back, it's tiny flowers like orange sunflowers with tiny green leaves, all made from ribbon, i can't remeber the name for it, but it's absolutely right for the period. i cna't wait to move house and get settled so i can sew again!!! once these ball dresses are done i'll have to pack my sewing stuff all away, we're moving in only a few weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!
but now that i feel less jetlagged and a bit more human (and our interwebs is working again) i can tell about our trip to NY. we were only there for 5 days, and we crammed in so much shopping, and lots and lots of walking around :) we didn't do much in the way of touristy things, (we were on the 49th floor, so didn't bother to go up any thing) we did go for a carriage ride through central park, went on the bus down to the staten island ferry to see the statue of liberty, saw the skaters at the rockerfeller centre, went in the trump tower, walked down fifth window shopping, saw a show, (on 42nd street, but not '42nd street' :) went on the ferris wheel in toys r'us, had dinner in the hard rock cafe (the food was amazingly nice) went to the jeckyl and hyde club for dinner (like being in a cheesy horror movie... with food and cocktails!) but mostly we shopped, and shopped! needless to say my favourite shop was the AG shop :)
i bought...3 dolls!!!!! (so hard to chose! i wanted them all!) i only let myself have one now though, the next one i get when we move and the last one for christmas :p my now doll is #28, called rachel, and she and sarah are fast friends already. the new house doll is elizabeth!!! she's sooo pretty, and although they have the same face mold rachel's skin and hair colour make her look very different. the christmas doll is 'mini me' :p #21, she's called maegan, and is my american girl!(my name is megan, the 'me' rhymes with men, her name is maegan, the 'mae' rhymes with hay, she has an american accent in my head)
i also got the curlicue day bed, which was very bad and naughty of me :) but i didn't get the bedding, so i can make them sheets and quilts and things. i already have a bed elizabeth can have, it's like samantha's. the only clothes i got are the ready for fun outfit (it was on sale, and i don't want both my JLYs to have the same meet outfit) and addy's black and white boots, so maegan can dress like me in 1860s stuff :) i also got some mini dolls for charlotte, including mini elizabeth for elizabeth! we also went to build a bear and the build a doll shop (which has another name, can't think what though) and got bags and hats and things. clare was very cynical about it all to start with, and then caved in and bought ivy :D
we had tea there (which was yummy) and we had a personal shopper, it was great, she was so sweet, and really excited that not only were we grown women, but we were from the UK too, and i took the PJs i made for sarah and charlotte along and clare dressed ivy in them while i was choosing who to take home, she was amazed and they're only pjs, i'm glad i didn't take in a hoody, she might have been even worse :p we went at 2 i think, and left when they shut! needless to say i think it was the highlight of my trip, or maybe that and fabric shopping combined :)
omg the fabric shopping!!!! i found silk taffetta for $10 /yd!!! i can't find it in london for less than £40 /mt, so £5 is AY-MAY-ZING!!!! i bought some lovely peachy yellow and white shot for a sacque back and some in an oyster/beige/eau-de-nile colour to make mummy a ball gown when i make over my 1860s stuff for her, and the most amazing pale green and white shot, there wasn't enough for a dress, but i think i can squeeze out a jacket of some kind, if not at least a hat (and a dress for elizabeth!) :) i got some lovely trim perfect for the sacque back, it's tiny flowers like orange sunflowers with tiny green leaves, all made from ribbon, i can't remeber the name for it, but it's absolutely right for the period. i cna't wait to move house and get settled so i can sew again!!! once these ball dresses are done i'll have to pack my sewing stuff all away, we're moving in only a few weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!
