Mood:
a-okNow Playing: "Sky High" - for Dearest Son, freebie rental from the library.
It's funny to find myself in August. It seemed like July would be around forever. But the circus has to end sometime, or the town'd have to find something to do with all the elephant poo. Where I'm from, there's a competition amongst the average Joe & Jane to get to the gate first the day after, to clean up after the State Fair. Folks find money and prizes and sell the animal leavings to gardeners.
Other metaphors aside, I decided to print off the last pages of the pattern catalog this morning. Turns out, my little project only used about 1/3 of the cartridge. It was well-used before I started, and more than a third remains. So I'm happy I have it all, but a little sad it's all done with. This Big Summer Project only cost about $15., including the library printing. I redid the catalog while putting in the new sheets, freeing up some document protectors, so I only needed about half the package. The big cost was time, of course, but I learned a lot. Mostly about digital image manipulation ! And how ridiculously obsessive I get. I now look at the catalog/photo album and squee with happy. I used to shrug and push it out of the way, while looking for more important stuff.
One other thing I learned was that folks can't seem to get enough of creating ways to dress Barbie up as Scarlett O'Hara (Gone With The Wind) or Marilyn Monroe. I have six different sewing pattern versions of the green ‘Barbecue' dress and four of the white halter dress from Seven Year Itch. Three of the strapless pink gown from ‘Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend' in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, although you can say she's Madonna performing "Material Girl" instead. Somehow, I ended up with a copy of patterns for every.single.gown. Vivien Leigh wore, even if it was for two minutes, on screen in GWTW. I even have patterns for her ‘shimmy' (chemise). You know, the one Rhett knows what she looks like without. It's weird because I have no intention of sewing any of ‘em - well, maybe that super-easy one from a German pattern magazine - but I can't ditch a single one, either. Nor can I stuff ‘em in the Lord Perry folder I use to keep over-complicated patterns out of sight = out of mind, but not deleted. I want ‘em where I can see ‘em, even though I have zero intention of using ‘em. Makes no sense to even me, but there it is.
Ironically, I want to make a halter dress for Elphie. Since she'd be the least likely to actually want something like that ! It'd be gorgeous on her, though, in the right fabric. And goss knows I got plenty of fabric, some of it somewhere just has to be ‘right' ! Sheer numbers, ya know...Maybe this time I can tweak and increase and proportion a Barbie pattern to the right size for Elphaba. Long as it's not pink, she can't really complain !
I'm hoping that I'll get to sew later today. For now, though, I'm gonna re-measure Baby Ariel, see if I can get those pants right this time ! I'm starting to think the narrow tape measure I used has stretched or something.
