The Best Christmas pageant EVER..Begins..Part l

 Barbietown's Best Christmas Pageant EVER! has begun. Fortunately for us, Mrs. Greene has kept her sanity in the midst of intense rehearsals. However, like the perfectionist she is, she could not resist adding a few 'touches' here and there to the pageant festivities...so that is why this will be part l of the pageant. Miss Charlotte's kindergarden class is performing in costume and decided to sing 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing'....but first, let's have a look at the crowd who has assembled for the first part of the Pageant.

This is certainly a better crowd than the church expected! Mrs. Greene was thrilled and posed for us with a tired smile on her face while listening to the little angels sing. Even the Baroness was there!

The little ones, all decked out in santa outfits, soldier suits, and dressed as a christmas tree and a gingerbread girl, sang their hearts out in front of the small tree. (you cannot tell but the trees have lights on them, lit.) It was a good thing the audience wanted to hear more, as the cast of the Nativity scene to come was having some mishaps...

 

It appears Baby Steven who is to be the main character, was having a diaper change backstage, and a couple of the Wise Men are caught in traffic...luckily, the kindergarden class is holding the audience's interest for Part l.

 

Some more shots of the audience...Since nothing was left but standing room only, Natalie decided to sit from her car and listen to the music and singing, spell bound.

Let's see what's going on in Barbietown....for those dolls who didn't plan on attending the pageant !

 

It appears some of the ladies have decided to go shopping for their heart's desire at the boutique...Silver & Gold, Silver & Gold...remember that song?

 

 

After a long day at the school working as both principle and librarian, Mr. Giles stops by the bakery for a cup of coffee and a donut. He doesn't notice that the shop keeper at the counter was closing...

 

 

Santa, collecting for the Salvation Army, stops Prince William and congratulates him & his lovely wife, the Duchess, on their good news of the Duchess expecting! (Shhh..Prince William and his wife, Kate have stolen away from the hysteria to be alone in a small vacation spot on the Baroness' estate...)

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And so, that is the end of Part l on the Pageant. The three new kindergardeners are the Christmas Chelseas from Target that I purchased today-- they were $4.74 instead of 4.99, saved a few cents but I really needed them. Also, Barbie Basics items are on sale as well-at $7.84! I felt a little guilty spending this after just spending some more money on Ebay to bring home a doll who will be 'Pa' Ingalls for my LHOTP dioramas as well as an actual Johnny West wagon...I know Ebay loves me!

I plan to --note the word- plan here-- plan to sew the other two Wise Men costumes so the Pageant can be performed, On the target date- Christmas Eve, if at all possible. Around here, Holidays are never set in stone so that may be dooming myself....lol...Remember meeting S.I.S. Darren in our first blog post about the pageant? Well I hope to work on his costume first. This gives me an excellent excuse for de-boxing Johnny Depp out of that pirate outfit and box!

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Oh and Happy Friday! By the way, if any of you believe the world is still supposed to end, and you collect Barbie- or Jason Wu Fashion Royalty, please feel free to deposit your dolls, props, OOAK dolls, Holy Grail dolls, to me for safe keeping....I will have plenty of room to keep them safe..wink...wink..

 

 

~Lisa

 

Holiday preparations in the dollhouse...

There are alot of preparations going on in the One Sixth Scale dollhouse. ...The Baroness is out shopping for her family & the household, and some of the occupants of the dollhouse are putting the lights on the Christmas tree, while the dining room has been revamped downstairs. The workers are gone after laying the marble floors, and the furniture has been arranged. Lucia the maid is now busy polishing the silver and getting things ready for the big Thanksgiving meal. The parlor is still having furniture moved about to accomadate all of the guests. Here are some of the photos of Vanessa & Robert putting the lights on the tree....

As  you can see, the plastic storage bins have been brought down from the attic and the lights and the wooden Christmas garland have been strung....now where is that tree skirt??

Vanessa carefully arranged teh wooden garland, before deciding on what ornaments to hang. Robert, of course, loved helping Vanessa with the lights...
The dining room preparations for Thanksgiving are coming along. Barbietown is busy with all of its holiday decorating...no pictures of Barbietown yet, as the workmen have not finished hanging garland, applying lights and hanging wreaths...

 

The room still lacks pictures, and of course, a Christmas tree in the corner, and tons of food. (Lucia and the butler & cook are preparing the food and all of those mundane holiday meal preparations, for the guests to celebrate on Thanksgiving. The Baroness & her cousin Lady Agatha have quite a guest list prepared!

Enjoy the pics!