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Tonight I started making my Customhouse replica "Snow White" dress for Ophelia. It doesn't look too bad-- except that my prototype is in an eye-searing fuschia fabric with hot pink ribbon trim. I'm saving my plain muslin to make medieval dresses and Snow White's "rags."

I de-boxed Sleeping Beauty this afternoon-- spent the whole afternoon arranging her and combing her hair. Here's the place from which she came, but, I'm not sure how much longer the page will be there. Anyway, she's even more beautiful than the picture. Her hair is very long and lank. She's huge, almost like a real little person, in my antique rocking chair.

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