Mood:
happyNow Playing: my guys, snoring. And crickets.
We slept in - really late ! - so I didn't get out until after lunch. Got to hit a few yard sales before it started to rain. Didn't find anything, but that's not always the point ! Also got a parking space I was waiting for taken, and a woman who's time is clearly more valuable than mine saw me heading for a grocery store register and dashed in front of me. I had four things, she had a cartload. Ah, well. I prefer to let karma deal more with folks than getting mad at petty stuff like that these days. Not worth my time or limited energy. Let's face it, they and their gods know what they did. Not my place to say or do anything.
Hit the fabric store - after a near-orgy of touching and feeling fabric, I bought a stretch corduroy striped remnant, a green fat quarter with Japanese lettering, some blue glittery knit fabric, and some black cotton with a small grey-brown fan print. Also eight sets of markdown buttons. Most are stars, but two special ones will end up on the sewing machine cover. One says ‘I (heart) me' and the other reads ‘don't hate me Because i'm flawless'. The one that says ‘I have nothing to wear' will probably get sewn to a jacket.
My little splurge was less than $8. - not bad when each button set was originally $3.90 ! No way I'd have paid that much, so the 25c they were marked down to was more my speed ! Love those star buttons, too. I about bought all they had of ‘em.
Thrift stores yielded woodworking magazines for Beloved Hubby, brand-new underwear for Dearest Son, and some sort of My Little Pony miniature playset for me. You may remember that I have a huge Barbie castle I bought for near-pennies at a yard sale - it was missing a tower that turns. Ordinarily I'd just ignore it, but the housing shows and looks bad. I've had various plans to replace the tower, ranging from buying a replacement from Mattel ($20. ! Forget it !), to making one from a cardboard grits container (it fits perfectly). I was also considering getting a Rapunzel tower playset off eBay, but shipping scuttled that plan. About the only one that fit the budget was the grits can. Well, I saw the MLP playset and thought it was cute. It's shaped like a tower, not all pink, with a little seat inside. Hmmm...50c. Worth a shot ! And if it doesn't work - haven't had time to play with it yet - I still have that grits box to work with !
I've been watching a new anime series on YouTube, Princess Tutu. Now I wanna make ballet-like gowns and such. One of the characters had an interesting line - ‘There is happiness for those who accept their fate. There is glory for those who defy it'. Hmm. I wonder which I'm doing ! Probably ‘accepting', but glory is such a nebulous thing... I really enjoy being happy.
Tomorrow I hope to sew something. Not sure what yet !
