Mood:
happyNow Playing: "Meatballs" - again, Dearest Son's choice.
Quiet day around the house. Well, once I finally got that last Blog entry to post. I have no idea why it does that. Just glad as all heck I use Word, so I didn't have to type it over and over each time Tripod lost it. I was creatively swearing at it for nearly an hour !
Dug out Dearest Son's old kitchen playset, and he had lots of wet, muddy fun cleaning it up. He'll probably play with it for another year or so, off and on, before he's tired of it. Since it's outside, he can play with it any way he likes, without tearing up his room. At this point, I'd rather he play with and wreck it than it rot away, nearly pristine, in the garage.
While he was doing that, I got to sew ! Looks like the new shirt pattern works just fine, it fits and closes in the back. Which is funny - I looked at the pattern and was so happy that it looked about right, I printed it and didn't program in a closure. Just completely forgot to go back and add one. Luckily it was a simple little shirt, so I could draw in a simple fold facing with a ruler and pencil.
Shorts are still a bit baggy, but she can sit and stand, so I'm OK with that pattern, too. It's better than the blue pants, so we have improvement. I'm glad. Shoot, once I make her a dress with sleeves, I've about covered all of the major Doll Shop Deluxe areas I need to check. I'm so happy this isn't gonna be one of those prolonged DSD vs. Me wrestle-fests I'm unfortunately used to. And I've used up a lot of small scraps on this project ! Got in a little photo manipulation practice in, too.
I also used one of the ‘scrapbooking embellishments' I bought yesterday. Printed out a photo of Elphie and Fiyero at the right size, cut it out, attached it to an old business card with a glue-stick, and poof ! Miniature photo frame ! The ‘frame' has little points at each corner, so I bent the top two in to hold the photo. The bottom two are just large enough to stand the frame up ! Yup, it stands unassisted ! And I can change the photo whenever I want. Plus I still have two frames left. Not bad for a buck and some change.
And that was about my day. Hope yours was fun and productive, too !
