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Current Mood : LAB REVAMP !
Current Image Notes : This is what the Lab doorway looks like now. Kinda underwhelming, but I liked it. The small white squares at the top of the door are the hangers for the ironing board stored on the other side. There's the spray-painted star pegs, and some nice fabric...and it'll all be gone tomorrow ! Can't wait !
Dearest Son was a bit bored this morning - we're trying to keep him on school hours, since Summer School starts Tuesday - so we ended up going yard saling According to the local paper, there were over 120 sales today. He found tons of Star Wars toys and a Toy Story Mousetrap-like game. I found a lot, too !
The first sale yielded a few fluffy Barbie dresses - they'll go to the dolls I'm donating - and a pair of pink Barbie flats that I'm keeping. I got lotsa dolls who can wear those. And some random Fashion Plates pieces in bright pink. No frame or anything, just the plates. I sort of collect those, so they got scooped up. Also a stair-like cabinet shelf, it's designed to elevate canned goods in the back of pantries. Once it's cleaned well, it'll be a doll staircase, and you knew that was coming ! I was looking at the finger-skateboard stair sets, but I think they're too small for Barbie - so this'll work, and it was just a quarter !
The next sale soon had me staggering under the load. A bag advertised curtains and a duvet (like a featherbed) cover for $5. In a lovely ‘space' theme ! Mine ! When I got it home it was even more ! In addition to the duvet and curtains, there was a dust ruffle and a small lap blanket in the same fabrics. Dearest claimed the blanket for his Star Wars toys, and I draped the duvet cover over the chair in the Lab. I'll be hanging up the new curtains, soon as I get hardware for ‘em. These are tab-tops, and what I have up now - pictured above - doesn't include a dowel or curtain rod. So I'm hoping to score a set tomorrow. Much as I hate to spend $10. to hang up a $5. find, I really like these. Dearest has a new bed (we found it by a Dumpster, and it's nearly new !) that can use the dust ruffle, too ! We just have to hash through the wreckage his room is in again ! Quite a lot for $5. - I can't wait to get the new curtains up !
And I didn't neglect finding more fabric ! Found a ‘stuff a sack for a buck' sale, and proceeded to cram a bag fulla lace ! Next time I wanna try another overlay, I am beyond well-stocked ! The other was bits and pieces, but I got several brand-new thread spools, a lovely silver satin length and some fun blue stripe that looks like old mattress ticking. Figured it'd make a cute ‘Suburban Shopper' clone sometime.
At the last sale of the day - I wore Dearest out ! - he found a VHS of The Love Bug to replace our scratched DVD, and I scored another stuffed animal for 25c. A bit of research reveals that she's ‘Lila', from the Barbie Swan Lake movie. She has a battery compartment, and luckily an on/off switch, but I had to figure out how she worked from eBay ! She's about the right size for a photo or three, and I love her Brietta/Pegasus-like lashes !
All told, we spent about $10. in finds, $2. in soda and bathroom breaks, and probably $5. in gas. It was a great morning, even if I didn't find any dolls. Well, actually, the sale with the Fashion Plates had several tired SuperStar blonde Barbies, but I'm already well-populated with those !
Beloved came home early, and we've just been goofin' around. I'm hoping he goes in late tomorrow, so I can nip out for curtain hardware early ! (selfish, plotting laugh)
