Mood:
irritatedNow Playing: XM 150 - Uncensored Comedy (so I can hear somebody swear besides me !)
Quiet day, coming down off an I-Did-It ! buzz that lasted until I fell asleep. I'm still kinda jazzed about the whole Flight Suit thing. But it's not as wild a high as it was last night. Whew ! Don't think I could have sustained it much longer anyway.
It felt odd, throwing out Prototypes 1-3.1 this morning. Really, there's nothing I can do with them, nothing I can salvage that I'd want. Unless I want to memorialize my failed attempts (and the website's home page is already doing an admirable job of that), it doesn't make much sense to keep 'em. But the pattern's been stored in the computer and I'll soon make more of them. With some good fabric !
For today, though, I took it easy. At least with the doll stuff ! Had a ton of dishes and laundry that needed my attention, just like I do every other Monday. Used up the last of that red fabric to make Leia a gathered skirt, and finished my test run of that altered Fashion Doll Fun blouse. It looks cute as a jacket over the skirt, too ! Maybe I'll add the photo later.
Also bought two packages of scrapbooking 'brads' - remember those usually brass-colored 'buttons' with prongs that fastened papers together ? Well, they make those tiny these days, for crafts. I thought, what if I cut a tiny slit in a doll outfit, treated it carefully with Fray-Check, then inserted the brads as buttons or decor ? If I cut the prong length and either use it with fabric covering it or where there's a facing between prong and doll, there wouldn't be a risk of scratching, and they'd make great buttons ! Cheap, too - the ones I got were at Dollar Tree, 25 to a package. I got the classic black and white sets, but I'll be going back for the other colors. The Fray-Check works fine, and if the prongs are covered, it shouldn't damage the doll. Prongs clip easily, too.
These brads are so tiny - I think they're about the same size as the 1/8" buttons I bought. Darn buttons were half-off, and I still paid $1.20 for only ten of 'em. So 25 for a buck is great. I think you'll be seeing some brads in action soon. And I'll look around the scrabooking sections more often !
Got the last of Dearest Son's school supply list - made W-Mart price match a Target ad and saved us a quick $7. I still don't get why one school's list is fifteen items and $20. while others are ten and $8. , when both schools are in the same county and system administration. I was lucky this year, his was one of the less-extensive ones, and we had half of it already.
Pre-registration for school was such a pain - we never received a document the admin dept. was supposed to have sent us for it. Not that we knew we were supposed to have said document...(sigh) So I get to chase around with this again tomorrow. I swear, they must lie awake at night and figure out how to make this a torture every year. I'm not even gonna get into what happened last year. All I know is, all the cash, supplies, and help I volunteer every year has about been bled out of me.
I think I need to go back and play with Leia some more...
