Now Playing: "Futurama, Season 3 : A Leela of Her Own"
Current Mood : Springy, not stormy
Another busily happy day.
If you can believe this, do - I've not yet deboxed the Bling Bling Spa I bought Friday ! Haven't had time. But Delancey has a home, so I'm happy.
Beloved Hubby has his office back - the PILs have most of their stuff out of it. However, he doesn't want to build his custom desk, or move the computer in there from my Lab, until he's textured and painted the walls and ceiling. I don't blame him. But the kitchen table's too crowded, too messy, and too close to the litter box for his comfort.
So today, we moved the glass picnic table inside the office. That'll work for a while. Shoot, that table used to be our dining area table ! Anyway, with that, he needed a lamp. I had a desk one that didn't see much use now that the star one is fixed, so I snagged that for him. We also did an office chair shuffle, so I have a ‘new' sewing machine chair. Then he ‘made' an end table out of some wood and an empty five-gallon paint bucket. I gave him free run of the fabric stash, and he selected some black material with gold and copper stripes in it - I'd gotten like six yards of it at a yard sale for $1. - and tucked and wrapped it. The table now looks like a large ottoman, pretty darn good ! So he's all set up.
Dearest Son has his ultimate Indiana Jones Lego set - putting that together took hours. But it's amazing. Pull the golden statue off the altar, and the wall gives way ! Another wall can be raised and lowered with a small gear. The iconic huge boulder is also well-imagined and engineered. It's most impressive.
Sometimes, when I see a particularly well-made toy, and the extra effort really glows, I think back to a scene in Silence of the Lambs. Bug expert friend of Clarice remarks that the moth evidence she presents to him for identification was raised well, it was obvious. ‘Someone loved him,' he says. Someone on the Lego staff truly loves Indy ! It's obvious...
In more doll-related news, I did a silly thing this evening. As is usual for me when my immediate ‘needs' are met (I may have my ‘Midge #2' case next week !!) and there may still be money left over (grin), I think of how to better store and use my Barbie clothes. I hate how I have it now - nearly everything's in zippered plastic bags that used to hold bedding, inside a plastic tote box with a split bottom. Cheap, sure, and I can pull the ‘blouse' bag and the ‘skirt' bag when I need to. But it does take a bit of shuffling, and I always wonder if keeping all those cottons and nylons in sealed plastic bags is such a good idea.
What I'd really like is a cubbyhole-and-basket setup. Beloved Hubby could easily make the frame - and I could easily find baskets to fit. There's just the time involved, mostly because Beloved rarely has any. Purchased ones tend to be small...yet somehow, still expensive. So I'm looking at various plastic shelves and drawers. And hoping that maybe I can find something at a thrift store or yard sale. Heck, I'm even looking at kids' toybox organizers ! When I'm grocery shopping tomorrow, I'll check out those plastic drawer cabinets. How do you store all your stuff ?
I just can't figure out why it's gonna cost $40. to store maybe $30. worth of doll clothes...
Anyway, what I did, stupidly, was go through all said doll clothes. Fewer I have, less space I need, right ? Two hours vanish, and while I'm happy sorting through my wealth of Barbie apparel, there really isn't much I want to get rid of. How much did I decide to ditch ? One dress. Yup. That's it. One dress. (sigh) I really am greedy...
It just hit me how funny it is, that I may soon have ten Barbie cases - nine on display - but I'm having trouble finding a place for all her clothes !
