Ban on strapless dresses at eighth-grade dance in N.J. causes furor, debate
Another win for rape culture. This is disgusting.
I like to make stuff.
Amazing.
this is the most incredible post I have ever seen.
This is pretty cool.
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Ahh, that's awesome! Tumblr won't let me see the link :((
I just googled her name and Michael Pollan. She didn’t know she was a meme, so that’s kinda funny.
She lives here in Princeton and her daughter is a friend of my daughter (ProfessorSpork- Leah. I don’t know if you know Leah online or irl. Or from HP cons. Or as Tonks in the blue wig in The Final Battle. Which I was in too. Anyway)
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Cosette.
I used a doily to make her collar! If I remember correctly, this is a Belle doll from Beauty and the Beast.
There will be much more extreme doll transformations to come!
The Les Miz Doll Project
I have always been a big fan of Les Miserables. I have seen it 3 times on Broadway. My younger daughter Leah was not old enough the first time we saw it. So in 1996, when she was 6, we took her to the production that starred Ricky Martin as Marius.
As all good geeks do, she became rather obsessed with the show, and wanted to “play” Les Miz with her dolls. Since I had recently completed a doll project in her kindergarten class (those pics later…), I set about to create the cast of Les Miz in dolls.
I had many Barbies, and other types of dolls going back to the early ’60s in my possession. I don’t know much about clothing design or pattern making, but I figured it out. Copious amounts of fabric remnants, doll hair and glue gun glue later, I did it.
Every cast member from Jean Valjean to “Lovely Ladies” is represented.
I will start posting the dolls with their counterpart cast member pictures. Some of these pictures are from the internet, some from our souvenir brochure.
This is an exercise in a mother’s devotion, obsession, and perfectionism.
NEWTOWN: CHANGING THE SKYLINE OF TRAGEDY
Fantine “I Dreamed a Dream”
I tried to copy her dress exactly. Every production has slightly different costumes, but this is the one that I felt could be best reproduced.Maybe I should have toned down Barbie’s blue eye shadow!
The Les Miz Doll Project
I have always been a big fan of Les Miserables. I have seen it 3 times on Broadway. My younger daughter Leah was not old enough the first time we saw it. So in 1996, when she was 6, we took her to the production that starred Ricky Martin as Marius.
As all good geeks do, she became rather obsessed with the show, and wanted to “play” Les Miz with her dolls. Since I had recently completed a doll project in her kindergarten class (those pics later…), I set about to create the cast of Les Miz in dolls.
I had many Barbies, and other types of dolls going back to the early ’60s in my possession. I don’t know much about clothing design or pattern making, but I figured it out. Copious amounts of fabric remnants, doll hair and glue gun glue later, I did it.
Every cast member from Jean Valjean to “Lovely Ladies” is represented.
I will start posting the dolls with their counterpart cast member pictures. Some of these pictures are from the internet, some from our souvenir brochure.
This is an exercise in a mother’s devotion, obsession, and perfectionism.
The Les Miz Doll Project
I have always been a big fan of Les Miserables. I have seen it 3 times on Broadway. My younger daughter Leah was not old enough the first time we saw it. So in 1996, when she was 6, we took her to the production that starred Ricky Martin as Marius.
As all good geeks do, she became rather obsessed with the show, and wanted to “play” Les Miz with her dolls. Since I had recently completed a doll project in her kindergarten class (those pics later…), I set about to create the cast of Les Miz in dolls.
I had many Barbies, and other types of dolls going back to the early ’60s in my possession. I don’t know much about clothing design or pattern making, but I figured it out. Copious amounts of fabric remnants, doll hair and glue gun glue later, I did it.
Every cast member from Jean Valjean to “Lovely Ladies” is represented.
I will start posting the dolls with their counterpart cast member pictures. Some of these pictures are from the internet, some from our souvenir brochure.
This is an exercise in a mother’s devotion, obsession, and perfectionism.
Timely reblog of Les Miz dolls upcoming.
How many parents will now look at a Christmas tree, knowing their child will not be there on Christmas morning to open the presents lovingly purchased and wrapped and hidden?
All I can think right now is how many moms have Christmas present hidden all over their house and were told this morning that their child is dead. How many of them will now look at a Christmas tree, knowing their child will not be there on Christmas morning to open the presents lovingly purchased and wrapped and hidden? How many of these parents struggled for years to get pregnant, and now their kid, because of some lunatic with an easily accessible gun, is dead? How many grandparents who waited for 30 years to have a grandchild, have plane tickets booked for the Holidays, and now need to change those plans and come up earlier to bury their grandchild.
And then the residual trauma. How many of these families will survive? How many of them will be driven to divorce by the trauma. How many of the siblings will never, ever be the same? I talked to my mom on the phone, and she is just inconsolable and simply can not watch the coverage. She’s worried the parents will kill themselves. This shooter and his easily accessed guns did not just kill 27 people. He ruined thousands of lives. And let’s not forget about the first responders. I don’t care how tough of a cop or a fireman you are, you will never be the same. We’ll have dozens of people with PTSD, leading to alcoholism and drug abuse and family problems.
It’s just so god damned awful, it is hard to comprehend. Yet the same fucking assholes who enable this kind of stuff are now going to tell us all that now is not the time to talk about gun control (lest we “politicize it”) and that we need more guns to keep this from happening again.
This.
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This Is Not Jewish: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Hanukkah (But Now Don't Have to Ask)
Dearest tumblr, it is now the time of year when the majority of Americans engage in their time-honored holiday traditions: decorating trees, buying presents, and questioning Jews about Hanukkah. In the interests of efficiency, I have gathered the most common questions Jews hear about Hanukkah to…
