A no-no

As usual, I've been a little bad this pay period.  I bought a Living Dead Doll and a LUV doll (spoilers!), and I also fell in love with the doll Miss Emily is using as her new...well, now that Lina is getting married Emily needed a new nude model, one that could do body comparisons without worrying about upsetting a significant other.  The new model, Petra, is a Barbie Signature Looks #20 with straight red hair and a lovely, moody face.  I wanted that head, but I didn't want to rip Miss Emily off yet again, so I picked Barbie Looks #16 from the color block wave.

My first Signature Looks doll!  These Signature Looks are fun because their faces are serious, but they're not out-and-out nasty like those of some Integrity dolls.  Seriously, I'd like to slap Eugenia Perrin-Frost, and I wouldn't mind taking a swing at Agnes Von Weiss either.  Admittedly Andra (named after her head mold) doesn't look the happiest either; she wears an expression that looks a little like I felt the day I bought her, January 30th.

Without going into too much detail, I'd had an altercation with a patron at the library that day and I was just...oh, not even mad, just OVER IT.  In certain lights Andra also looks OVER IT.  I wouldn't want to mess with this little doll if she were human...but I'd still pitch her out of the library if she got a 'tude with me, LOL.

Despite being thick Andra can do everything that Cassandra and Isolde can.  I don't do much with Isolde because I don't want to mess her lolita dress up, but she can move with the best of 'em.  Andra can too.  Her elbows were extremely stiff fresh out of the box, but she's loosening up.

Shucks, I wish I could move like that!  Being big is no excuse anymore.  But then again Andra has no sciatic nerves to get injured or inflamed...AND I'VE GOT TWO!!!  Only one is inflamed, but still...sigh, I know I'm not the only one, and I couldn't do some of these moves even at my most limber period in life.

Sciatica or no, the grace with which these curvy dolls "move" makes me feel like a hippopotamus, and not a curvaceous, well-dressed hippopotamus like Ms. Heavenly Hippo is.  Mind y'all, I like hippos, but I don't wanna feel like one.  That said, I love Made to Move Barbies, especially these curvy ones because they don't feel as fragile.  It bums me a little that the Fashionistas don't have those bodies, but then the Fashionistas wouldn't cost what they do if they did have Made to Move bodies.  The Fashionistas WERE jointed at one time, far back before some modern-day Barbie fans were alive (2011, LOL), but they're not jointed anymore and...WELL THAT'S ALRIGHT, THEN!!!  Now...just between y'all, me, and the cocoanut tree, I don't like Andra's outfit much, largely because of those shorts.  I'm not a big fan of shorts unless I'm sleeping in them.  Indeed, of all the color block ensembles, I think Andra's is the weakest...well, maybe it ties with that one Ken's pink and purple getup.  That's kinda...ewwww.  Kinda like Calvin in orange sunglasses.

No time like the present to hop on Etsy...no, no, NO, BAD MOON!!!  I see a bad moon rising...heck, I AM a bad moon rising!  But no, I said that I need to behave myself with my money, and behave myself I shall!  Andra will have to rock those homely shorts for awhile, but she's Barbie so she can.  Besides, I do have a couple'a things that I bought before stepping back from Etsy, things that are specifically for curvy Barbie, but y'all will have to wait awhile to see them.

Cheers,
RagingMoon1987