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Dorrie's Doll Diaries
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Kitty Sunday !
Now Playing: another car alarm at the 7-11...

 

Current Mood : quiet peace

Current Image Notes : This is 'Onyx', and he/she already has a home. In fact, I need to remind his/her owners that they can pick him/her up at their convenience. Great attitude, beautiful eyes, and a little round belly. I'd keep him with DC if I could ! 

Aaaah...the best part of the weekend. Finding places to store all the new and new-to-us stuff that's in the house now. We had a minor toss-and-sort last week, and a box of odd leather scraps got forgotten in the hallway. I'd bought a bag of ‘em years ago, dirt cheap, intending to somehow thin the pieces down and soften ‘em up enough to use ‘em for doll clothes and accessories. Now I know better - well, at least, I realize I probably won't be able to do crap with these stiff, hard chunks. Microfiber UltraSuede looks much better, is easier to sew, comes in dozens of colors, and it's cheaper, too ! About all we've done with any of the leather bits was to add several as cushioning in a box of ammunition Beloved Hubby mailed off - we labeled them as ‘fully customizable all-leather targets', as a joke. And believe me, shipping small handgun ammo is an adventure all on its own !

 

Anyway. House is trashed from me being sick and kittens and Dearest Son home all day, digging into things from curiosity. The leather scraps were soon all over the hallway. But sometimes, it's good to have things in disarray. Ya get to look at them all over, maybe in a new way. While storing them in the box that Snow White arrived in yesterday, it occurred to me that one piece in particular was about the size of a mouse pad. And I've been needing a new one - but I didn't like the Dollar Tree cheapies, the $4. ones at Mal-Wart weren't much of an improvement, and I wasn't gonna pay $12. for one of Best Buy's deluxe models. I'd been toying with using Stitch Witchery to iron a pretty new cover onto the old one, but hadn't done it yet. Cutting leather was much easier ! Less than a minute later, the old mouse pad was in the laundry, and my new leather one graced the desk. And the rest of it's in my closet, next to the ‘Big Box of Crap Crafts'. Heck, by not buying a new M-W one, I've saved the price of the leather to begin with !

 

Beloved had a nice weekend - between his birthday and Father's Day, I made sure he had all the time he wanted to do whatever he wanted. Evidently, he really wanted to read and sleep ! He upgraded the memory on his laptop, and got the new cell phone he's been wanting - and upgraded the memory on it, too. We bought a few used movies and watched those together on the sofa, which was extra-nice.

 

I found a place to store all my new stationery, and found some unused Cars Christmas cards, so Dearest has more play stationery. Even found a box for his desk to hold it in.  I'm gonna get him a tape dispenser during tomorrow's grocery run. The kids clothes that're soon to be future doll fabric got stuffed into the ‘new' basket of material, and the clock's on my sewing table. Found out about 3am this morning that the alarm function works !

 

Kittens are into everything. I bet I close the CD lid on the boom box five times a day. I'm gonna miss them when they're gone, but I'm getting tired of the ankle attacks and doll commando raids right now.


Posted by dorriebelle at 12:01 AM CDT
Updated: Monday, 2 May 2011 4:31 PM CDT

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