Now Playing: Mystery Science Theater 3000, Season 0 - "SST Deathflight"
Current Mood : anticipation
I think I've worked out about the best way to sew for me. If I select and print the pattern, then cut out and Fray-Check it in the evening, I'm in a real rush to sew the next day. That's about what happened today. Rushed through the morning errands so I could get to the machine to finish the dress I started Tuesday night. It was complete and ready for photos before 11:30am - and that was with taking an hour to make the front strap and bow decoration !
Nice big image on the main page, under the flea market haul photos I'll take down next Friday. I used Meg (the one I bought last weekend, in the flea market photos) to model, and it looked so cute on her, she ended up with it. Y'know, at first, I wasn't sure about Meg. Her face is so angular, so stylized, I wasn't sure if I liked her because she was so unusual, or if I just liked her. I was indifferent about the film - great voices, derivative story. Plus, I was a bit afeared that I'd end up associating her with Fran Drescher - a fine actress (The Nanny) and hilarious comedienne, but her voice scratches at my nerve endings - if I bought her. Nope. I just love her eyes and her almost knowing smile.
That's kinda my problem sometimes, and why my purse strings seem so ridiculously tight so often. I'm reminded of all the dolls I bought new and used, and how many of them ended up redressed and donated. We're not flat-broke and redeeming soda cans from the side of the road poor, but I do have to watch my spending. Especially when I have so much already. I really don't want to repeat my past mistakes. So I rarely buy stuff, and it's only when I get a strong ‘pull' that I open my moth-breeding wallet. Even when it's a used doll for a buck at a flea market, in a nice or even original outfit, with the hair still in the factory set, I don't want to waste resources on a chance. It's often odds on favorite that the doll might end up at GoodWill in a month or three.
Yet somehow I took the chance with Meg. I'm glad I did. She really is lovely. I used the denim that's already made two or three pairs of male doll jeans, Jem's two-piece dress, half of Cali's shorts - and it was only part of a ‘stuff a bag for a buck' deal at a yard sale ! The floral print (perhaps too light to be paired with the denim, but I liked the way it looked) was a chunk of the left front of an Ann Taylor blouse. It was on the final clearance rack - 35c, or 3 for $1 - at one of the three thrift stores close by. I could go broke on that rack, just for fabric. They never have my big butt size on it, but I always find some goodie I can use ! That's why I only go there once or twice a month.
Got all the boxes in the garage broken down today. That clears more space for the pool table and general fun. It's funny how we had a rec room this whole time, but never used it. Tomorrow, I'll drop them off at the recycling bins...that are conveniently next to the GoodWill ! It's all part of my sinister plan !
But for now, it's day's end, and Dearest Son has Friday off. If I wanna sew tomorrow, I gotta get after it tonight, in about 10 minutes. What to sew next...what to sew...
