Mood:
a-okNow Playing: 'The World According to Garp' - VHS bought from rental place
Whoo. Busy day. Got tired of the huge pile of VHS tapes scattered everywhere, and set out to organize it. Two hours later, I was done, and tired ! Eight tapes will go to the next charity that calls for a donation, ten were culled to use for repairs or blanks, and all the 'Disney Clamshells' are in Dearest Son's room. Got all his 'Thomas the Tank Engine' tapes together, too. He had about twelve of those, and most of the animated classics from my younger years.
On seeing the wealth of videotapes in his room, Son exclaimed how happy he was. Looking in his eyes, I could see that he just knew he had the treasures of Midas at his fingertips. I felt much the same way. Just having them all organized differently made them seem new again. Watched two of them tonight.
As predicted, today was too busy to do anything doll-related. But the Velvet patterns are now up on Beth's site. They're smaller icons of the larger pattern images, below, on the same page I listed yesterday. Hopefully next week, I'll be able to send something to her children's charity. I feel vaguely guilty about downloading the four I have without contributing, even though Beth doesn't ask that we do.
On the Crissy group, someone mentioned other patterns for more 'up to date' clothes. While I think you could make darn near anything from any era out of what Beth gave us - nobody says those patterns have to be worked in 70s-vintage polyester - I can understand the interest. Not everyone gets a week of happy evenings out of continually altering a pattern. Several other companies and designs were mentioned, and off I went to eBay, clam-happy. Once I looked at everything listed, I shrugged. Nothing really new, nothing I didn't already have.
But I was rather happy to potentially want something. It's been a while since I did. And since the Crissy patterns have been dropped into my lap for free (darn near), there's one more off the kinda-sorta list. I guess I kind of miss wanting stuff.
Go figure.
