Mood:
celebratoryNow Playing: quiet house at midnight...
Busy, busy day. Had to run to the bank, get Dearest Son registered for school (i.e., fill in the same paperwork I've done for the last three years), turn in library books and videos, do the grocery shopping and mail some bills. Whew ! About the only housework I got done was putting last night's dishes away.
Got to go to Dollar Tree - scored three new t-shirts for Dearest Son, and a set of pencil sharpeners and a lip gloss for me. I ordinarily wouldn't mention the sharpeners and gloss, but they're perfectly doll-sized ! The pencil sharpeners - there's six in the package - look like little fire extinguishers. They fit as well in Elphie's scale as in Barbie's. They do a pretty good job on pencils, too. The lip gloss comes in a round container, like Ben & Jerry's - ice cream for the family in sixth-scale, a largish single-serving for Elphie. They had various ‘flavors', but the "Gelato" kid didn't have ‘LIP GLOSS' written big and loud on the front of the container. So soon, Elphie's gonna have some Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream, and if it's still too hot, she always has a fire extinguisher handy. She's got four of ‘em...
The other two went to Dearest Son. I'll probably stash one in the office desk drawer, it really did do well on the two half-ground-down pencils in the holder. Three fake fire extinguishers are enough for the doll contingent !
Picked up the latest décor element for the Studio. It's a fuzzy white cube that changes color and pulses with whatever music source is plugged into it. Yup, it's a funky speaker. I was amazed at the brightness of the colors and how good it sounded. Works with anything with a mini headphone jack, which is just about any electronic device these days. It was on markdown at our Mal-Wart, $5. down from $12-something. Wanted it because, while I adore the MP3 player Beloved Hubby got me, sometimes I don't want to use the headphones. The cheap speaker from Dollar Tree was beyond suckage. This one was quite nice, especially for the cash. It also came in pink and purple, but you know me, I'll almost always go for white, given the choice.
Dearest Son was already asleep when I finished ‘Macaroni', the Not-Perfect Penguin. His name sort of came to me when I had to fix several sewing blunders. I think he came out kinda cute. Only took about two hours, start to finish, and used less than a good handful of cotton balls for stuffing. His photo uses some yard-sale fabric pinned to my sewing chair as a backdrop !
After I took photos, I nudged Macaroni into Son's hand. His fingers curled around him, and, even in his sleep, he loosely hugged him. I think he'll like his surprise when he wakes up tomorrow ! They looked so cute, I took pictures of them together, too.
I'm working on a story to go with him, that I can type up and print out for him. I think I'll redo his pupils, they don't seem dark enough. While Macaroni isn't quite what I had in my imagination to begin with, he's still quite cute, at least to me, and I'm happy. Just hope Son likes him !
And that was my day. Whew ! I should be in bed, it's gonna feel sooo good !
