WFMW: Doll Resue Mission

While I read Rocks In My Dryer every day in my Bloglines, I don't often jump into the whole WFMW linky love.

Not that I'm against shameless self-promotion, bloggy-style; no, I'm all for self-promotion. And for the use of the word bloggy.

I've simply been too busy during the past several weeks with life, blogging here like a maniac, and counting the screaming meltdowns of my toddler to think up any great tips worth sharing with you fine mommyfolk.

That is, until my almost seven-year-old daughter stomped down to breakfast this morning, her arms crossed and nostrils flaring, clutching this (one of her most prized possessions):

Yes, that is an American Girl Doll, the "Just Like Me" doll she received on her birthday last summer as a joint gift from us, her aunt, and her G'ma.

Unfortunately, said doll is now the innocent victim of a Random Toddler Inking.

What Sir Screamsalot's tattoo vision might have been, I cannot say. I can report that Princess Pinky's rage might well have boiled-over into a retaliatory Sibling-On-Sibling Thumping had I not had the presence of mind to race to the computer and get a-Googling.

This is what Google told me to grab from my medicine cabinet:

Shocking, isn't it?

I mean, I'm pushing thirty-five and I'm still waging war against occasional acne breakouts. I shouldn't complain; at least all my hormones are still functioning as they should.

But I digress; the site I found via Google was loaded with tips from doll restoration experts. All of them recommended the same thing: apply a thick coating of any acne medicine that contains 10% Benzoyl Peroxide, then sit the doll's (or GI Joe, if that's your thing) affected area in direct sunlight.

I loaded up her arm:

Then left her by the window in my bedroom all morning to work on her tan.

After lunch, I washed her arm clean and this is what it now looks like:

You can still see a very faint line on her arm, but the improvement is amazing.

Dolly is currently undergoing her second tattoo removal treatment; the doll restoration experts said that really dark inks can take up to ten treatments with Benzoyl Peroxide to fully remove the stain.

Princess Pinky was thrilled to see her fave doll's skin returned to near perfection.

And I, dear mommyfolk, am ever so thankful for Google; otherwise, this post may have titled: How to Keep Your Seven-Year-Old from Selling Her Baby Brother on eBay.

Google - it so Works for Me!

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WM