Mood:
celebratoryNow Playing: "One More Time" - Daft Punk, on the MP3 player
Whooo-hoooo !!! Break open the champagne and the carpal tunnel wrist braces, I am done ! All the pattern images are scanned, resized, grey-scaled, sharpened, cleaned, posted on a labeled ‘canvas', and saved, even backed up on a CD. Only thing left is printing ‘em all out, but I don't wanna do that until we have another ink cartridge ready to go. I've 65 pages to print out, which I'm sure will kill the cart we have. And probably make a serious dent in the new one, too ! Beloved Hubby says we'll pick one up late next week, so I'm all excited.
Didn't finish until right at 3 this afternoon. Only took about four hours to finish, which included re-scanning a few. While I was darn near overjoyed to be done, I was restless. Went to the Studio - the poster backdrops I sprayed last week needed to be put away. Still intend to affix ‘em to foamcore, but the spray adhesive Beloved got me stinks, and daylight was disappearing fast. Decided that the Dollar Tree cardboard triptych/school project display would make for good temporary storage.
After that, I decided to consolidate the NRFB dolls to a single shelf, instead of a Princess Leia doll shrine (FAO's "Jabba's Prisoner", "Ceremonial Gown", and the slave girl action figure) and a boxed Barbie display (brunette Disco Barbie, altered-box Japanese Barbie, and ‘Enchanted Christmas' Belle). This way, I'd have a free shelf to set up a ‘room' for Elphie and Fiyero. They've been uprooted since the display shelf they sat on fell, tumbling them down four feet on top of the My Size Barbie girls and Baby Chrissy. It was so much fun, trying out different furniture and accessories. Elphie is now reclining on a jewelry-box ‘fainting couch', and Fiyero's keeping her company from an upturned black wire candle holder from Dollar Tree. The table Beloved made has a mirror mounted above it (pushpin and small framed mirror from yard sale) and it's crowded with the matching chair, a laptop, a Sailor Moon Luna figurine, and a few ‘magazines'. I still wanna tweak it some, but I'm sure they're more comfy on the bookshelf than on the display one.
While shuffling around boxed dolls and the Tonner folks, I rediscovered another neglected project. While we were moving our stuff in, Beloved painted ceilings. The Studio had been a nursery, complete with glow-in-the-dark plastic stars and planets up above. As you may guess, I've had lots of these things in my past ! I even poked holes in a set and hand-sewed them to some curtains. Hadn't done anything with these, since the ‘tack' stuff rarely works, and tape works even less. But these were *nice* ones. So I heated up the short pins Mal-Wart uses to attach price tickets to fabric, poked a hole in these, too, and used the pin to hang ‘em on the walls. A soft Sailor Jupiter doll who came from a UFO Catcher game (that's kind of like a crane machine in Japan) holds a spiral galaxy in one gloved hand. When I turned off the light tonight, it looked fantastic ! Even Beloved thought I did a great job with them. He's probably quite glad I didn't want to put them back on the ceiling !
I also redid some floor storage. With the two new VW Beetles, it was getting clumsy underfoot. I already had a red My Scene convertible (TRU), a purple ‘Real Friends' remote control sedan (yard sale), and Elphie's jeep (GoodWill). A bit of shuffling, and now they're together and out of the way. Even now if it looks more like a miniature used car lot than it did yesterday ! A wall-display unit (Dumpster-dived) makes a romantic doll archway, but it's rather big. I mean, Elphie and Fiyero could dance in it ! Or it'd be a neat dinner terrace for some Barbie-size couples. It's now in front of the ‘Swan Lake' castle (yard sale), acting as a sort of ornate gateway. One day, I'll have to use that thing in a photo. As usual, I have the most incredible imagination and the best of creative intentions...and the follow-through of a frozen sloth.
After that, I sorted through some patterns lying around, put up a recycled cup hook for my MP3 player - I lost it a few days ago, and don't wanna tear the place up looking for a matchbox with headphones again - and did some general tidy work. Cheap-serged the 10c strip of blue-with-silver-glitter-stars fabric I bought Thursday, hung up a few print-outs. Now all I need is that 1968 "World of Barbie" white case ! The hunt continues...
Oh, yeah ! Before I shuffled the shelves, I touched it up a bit. The shelves are an inexpensive flat-pack bookcase that Beloved's Uncle gave us. It's pretty battered, but still solid. The faux-woodgrain had peeled up in several places, mostly from taped-up newspaper articles that we removed. It's not so bad, but the peeling revealed the pale pressboard beneath. No way to fix it, but a brown Crayola marker makes the damage less noticeable. Especially if a bit of black marker is dotted in and wiped down. ‘Posters' salvaged from Dollar Tree calendars also hide some minor damage.
So it was a pretty busy, very satisfying Saturday ‘round here. Hope your day was as great !
*Ps - here's a link if you wanna see the 'Real Friends' car. Mine was a buck at a yard sale, but otherwise identical ->
Heckua link, eh ?
