Now Playing: nothin' really.
Current Mood : Quiet
Current Image Notes : Here's an image of the animated Kira, just for kicks. Amazingly, images from Don Bluth's animated Xanadu sequence are much easier to find online !
Beloved Hubby is home today - he's not feeling too well, either. So we let him rest, and I did grocery and bill runs. Glad that's all over with. Today and tomorrow are registration days for school, so I can't let tomorrow go by like today did, without getting that done.
Not sure where today went. I didn't do much housework, and putting groceries away didn't take that long. Idly poked around and found a new free Barbie pattern that looks nice - http://tinyurl.com/5ageur. It's a blog - images of the dress are allll the way at the bottom, so keep scrolling. Lotsa photos, and the pattern's linked, as a PDF file. Haven't sewn it yet m'self, but it seems fairly easy, and ya can't beat the price ! There's also tutorials and patterns for pencil pouches, make-up bags, and sewing machine thread-catchers. All free !
From there, I decided to clean up my bookmarks. Ended up over at cutupandkeep.net, a kind of neo-hippie/hipster site with crafts made from junk and bits and pieces. While most of the stuff displayed is too young for me, I almost always get an idea or two I can recast for my elder stateswoman age. This link'll take you right to the ‘Dolls' section, with pictures of projects completed and tutorials for others. Their ‘doll sweater from socks' may be easier to follow, and it has set-in sleeves instead of my bizarre version. Worth checking out, in any case.
Anyway, here's the "Dolls" section - http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/category/toys/plushies_and_friends/dolls
I poked around the ‘All' tab, to see more. It's on the upper left side of the page. Tonight, I mastered ‘Nautical Paper Stars', so there's little shaped stars all over the desk. Hint : If you try that tutorial, click the pictures to enlarge them, and do what's shown instead of what's described. To me, some of the directions are a bit off. I thought ‘the bottom' meant the edge we just folded, not the open-edge right side, so it took me a few minutes. I only got it right when I rigorously compared my effort to her photos. And I could only see most of the detail when I clicked on ‘em.
The lab'd gotten cluttered over the weekend, with the new playset and last week's goodies still somewhat scattered around. And the DPrincess dolls had fallen over on each other. So I got all that straightened out, and did a bit of housework. So I had a pretty nice day, even if I don't know where it went !
