Current Mood : Whimsical
Spent on Sewing/Crafts today : $6.57
Spent on Disney Princess décor : $4.30
Lazy but fun day. I still have Barbie on my mind, but there's lots of other stuff going on, so...
Beloved Hubby and I talked, and we've decided about Christmas this year for Dearest Son. He's getting his own computer ! Wow. We're gonna upgrade to a new desktop and allocate the laptop to Dearest, mostly because he loves it so. And we found a fantastic deal on a new desktop ! If tomorrow's Craigslist sale goes through, we'll probably do it all afterwards - getting the new one, cleaning up the laptop, etc. We could put it away for Dec. 25, but why ? Dearest will see the new computer, and wonder where the laptop went ! When a gift is this big, and it's ready, why not celebrate early ? He'll still have smaller stuff to open on C-day, and most of it has already been purchased !
I had a small surprise in the mailbox - my ‘Specially Hand Made By Dorrie' labels had arrived ! Only 24 days after I mailed ‘em off. All 48 of ‘em were fanned out in the plastic baggie. Wow. I have like 66 of ‘em now. Guess it's time to start using them !
Hit a yard sale this morning, just for fun. Circled the block once I observed a Parking Enforcement vehicle tagging a car parked on the corner of a curb. I wasn't gonna take the chance of being too close to the stop sign, so I tried again further back. Snagged a bucket-style hat made of heart-shaped lace and interfacing for 50c, once I figured the stitching would be easy to remove. It was really pretty lace ! Also found a pair of shelf-lining rolls I hope to use soon, and a huge box of ancient sewing notions for five bucks.
The box was so much fun to go through. I now have a copy of Singer Sewing Skills, dated 1955, a Grit catalog of patterns from 1979, simply called Fashions to Sew, and Adventures in Conversation, a sales brochure for the Ethel Cotton Conversation Course, which bears a 1963 copyright. So I have some awesome reading ahead of me ! There were vintage patterns, all too small for me, but pure eye candy to look at, and a buncha handmade patterns on cardboard and paper. I'll have to study ‘em to figure out what they make.
There were gallon-size bags of buttons, most still on their cards, of zippers still in packaging, of bias tape, rick-rack, and ribbon. Some of the last were never opened, and still bore price stickers that read ‘3 for 25c' ! And a huge bag of ‘Aunt Martha' design transfers, for embroidery. I wonder if they still work...
From there, I visited Dollar Tree, and scarfed up a buncha Disney Princess stuff. Two different sets of window clings, the two best of the four designs of DP wrapping paper... I indulged me. But it took a few minutes to find rolls that were well-printed. Some were so off, the paper looked out of focus ! Got a pretty pair of white socks with gold snowflakes to make a new Elphie sweater, and a soup mug close enough to match the two I got at a yard sale this spring. I like for us to have matching bowls ! I also grabbed a set of wire star ornaments, just the size I want the school project ones to be, and a garlic and sea salt grinder for Beloved - he loves garlic. We'll see how well it grinds later !
