#SNAPSTAR Green Stand, and Barbie Comparison Photos

Boy, November really got away from me. I've been trying to get my Vitamin D intake and light box use at the right balance, and there were just too many days where I wasn't up to doing as much as I did during the summer. The BTEG family has also been busy with other things, including making six homemade pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving, but I'll talk about that after the doll stuff.

In the comments of my previous post, Rachael asked if the green stand would work with other dolls. I promised her I'd check the stand with one of my Cu-Poche dolls and let her know. I didn't think it would take so long, Rachael!

Looking at the two stands, you wouldn't think a doll could use both, would you? However, note that both stands have a round peg at the end, and that they are close in size.

Yes, my Cinderella Cu-Poche can actually use the green stand! Now, the green peg is very close to being bigger than the hole in the Cu-Poche back, so it's not a perfect fit, and thus the doll can fall off the green peg very easily. Then again, I haven't done a lot of photography with the white stand yet, so maybe Cu-Poche dolls don't stay on those that well, either.

Since the green stand does work with Cinderella, you know what I had to do.

I green-screened her onto a beach on my beloved Lake Erie, from a picture I took a few years back.

Here's some other examples of green screens I have done. These two are from last Christmas.

 I put Poppy skating into this picture of me taken on the ice many years ago.

And here are Madeline and one of her friends driving down a snowy road.

Lastly, here's a picture from the first chapter of my storyline, which I really need to get back to. I had to dress Hunter in clothes other than his customary green top, which would have disappeared right along with their green background. I do have blue screen capabilities too, but not a nice blue backdrop, at the moment.

Also in the comments, Dana asked if the #SNAPSTAR body could be used with a Petite Fashionista. Unfortunately, the answer is no. Dawn is very much shorter than the Petite Fashionista and the Skipper body, which I threw in for further comparison.

If you'd like to hear about the BTEG family Thanksgiving, continue below the fold.

The entirety of our Thanksgiving cooking consisted of those six homemade pies. Not that they didn't take a lot of time. Making homemade pumpkin pie filling involves scooping out the seeds from pie pumpkins cut in half, wrapping the pumpkin pieces in foil and baking them, scraping out the innards after the pumpkins were done baking, then mixing up the innards with sugar, evaporated milk and seasonings, pouring that mixture into a pre-made pie crust (making pie crust is not easy, so we didn't do that part) and baking the pies.

This year for the actual Thanksgiving meal, we treated ourselves to the Thanksgiving buffet at the 100th Bomb Group Restaurant, right next to Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Although I believe there are other restaurants with a similar WWII theme at other airports around the country, this restaurant was founded by an actual member of the 100th Bomb Group, who flew during WWII.

The main look of the outside is suppose to invoke French chateau, with various WWII touches around the building.

There is all kinds of information about the 100th Bomb Group, and other important people and places from WWII, around the restaurant.

Reservations are required, and since service runs from morning to mid-afternoon, if you come in later, you're seated wherever a table has become free. We were lucky enough this year to get the coveted seating right next to the window, where you can see the airport the best. The tables are at different levels, though, to try to give everyone a good view.

I didn't think there would be much activity at the airport, since it was Thanksgiving Day, but apparently people were still traveling quite a bit. About every ten to fifteen minutes we would see a plane taking off

or landing.

The buffet itself was wonderful. There was breakfast food as well as Thanksgiving dinner food, with a salad buffet, seafood, and all different kinds of desserts.

There was even a child's height buffet table, with food like macaroni and cheese, and smiley face tater tots. And of course a kid's table wouldn't be complete without trampled food on the floor.

Although I had to wait to take this picture, while a man most likely in his 60s at the youngest, filled his plate from this table. I guess if you like macaroni and cheese and smiley face tater tots, that was the buffet for you. For myself, the main part of my meal was two pieces of prime rib. Much yummier to me than turkey.

I think I'm settling into a productive winter routine, so my blogging should be more regular. I already have the edited photos ready for my next post, but really wanted to put this one up first, since I had promised two people I would check on things for them. I do want to get a Christmas doll diorama set up. On top of the usual holiday things, Mr. BTEG and the Dancer and I are currently re-arranging furniture in our house, and even swapping room designations around, so that's keeping me busy too. I've really missed blogging, though, so I need to keep that a priority!