Now Playing: "The Chipmunk Adventure" - my animation-as-art fave, now Dearest Son's, for different reasons.
Current Mood : A tired kind of satisfied
Current Image Notes : This photo shows the final sage-green wall color the best. It was taken to show how a thrift store bear's outfit fit Timey perfectly. You get that photo tomorrow ! I also have an official 'Walk Of Fame' star, thanks to my BFF's 1989 birthday gift, and a silver cardboard star box top spray-painted.
Not really a ‘big day', just a satisfying one with lots of puttering. I got to spend most of it in my Lab, emptying the random bags of stuff, finding places for things in cabinets and cubbyholes that are already pretty packed, and sorting the rest. There's still some drifts of odd miscellany, but it's not much, and I'll have to clean it before I can sew. So that won't be there much longer !
Tomorrow, I get to cheap-serge all the fabric in the yard sale box, get it ready for the ever-present laundry. It'll feel sooo good to sew something, even if it is just zig-zagging. Cleaned up the yard sale plunder from the living room. The porcelain doll who bravely sacrificed her wig for Leia's twin sister also saw her dress get fitted to Growing Up Skipper. It was a bit short on the Teen Skipper body doll I have. Just have to attach snaps, probably while I'm waiting for Dearest Son's bus tomorrow afternoon. Friday I got so bored waiting for him that I cleaned up the yard !
At Beloved Hubby's insistence, I completed the Wall of Awards - basically, I hung up some old diplomas and stuff on a short bare wall in the Lab. I know I should be more proud of my few accomplishments, but frankly, I worked harder to pay off my college degree than I did earning it. The ‘Best Wishes' plaque from my old Army unit has more of a place of honor, along with a honor society parchment, mostly because I darn near worshipped its faculty advisor, Mr. Tuck.
The still-bare wall over the computer will eventually house some artworks various artists have done for me. There's a sketch Hubby did for our first anniversary, a drawing of Shinobu from Steven Bennett - who actually worked on the Urusei Yatsura anime in Japan. I got to know 'Unca Steve' very well in my anime convention days. A nice sketch from a comic artist a friend knew I'd like, and a sketch a co-worker gave me round out my art collection. I gotta wait until the computer desk is moved before I hang 'em.
Also hung up an old, old photo of Shinobu, wearing ‘Suburban Shopper'. Image is so old, it was taken with a fixed-focus 35mm film camera. That meant I had to be 3 feet away from her for the picture to be in focus, so any detail is lost. She's sitting in a tree, with the sky as blue as her dress, her limp buckram hat at a slightly windblown angle on her head. About a month after the photos were printed, we bought our first digital camera - an Olympus, with a then-amazing resolution of 1.8 megapixels. Dearest Son still uses it, although a tumble from the kitchen counter knocked something that obscures about a third of the left side of the shot. But he feels like a big guy, having his own camera, and not a Fisher-Price toy, either !
Anyway, it's been a nice, non-stressful day. I'm still amazed at how well the paint job on the barbecue looks, and it's really rare for me to be this happy over one of my own efforts ! Hope your day was really nice, too.
PS to Michelle - I've been known to apply masking tape over stickers, but in a weird way. I apply it non-sticky side down over the stickers, then cover over that with a strip with the adhesive facing down. In other words, it's sticker -dry side of tape 1-sticky side of tape 1- sticky side of tape 2 - dry side of tape 2. It's kind of hard to explain. Lemme work something up and add it to the page. Pictures often explain things better than words !
