Current Mood : Hopeful.
Current Image Notes : Was noodling around with Barbie logos in PaintShopPro when I decided I wanted to do one for her 50th this year. This is what I ended up with. Oh, well.
I'm not entirely sure where today went. Seems like I turned around, and Sunday was gone. Well, that happens.
Beloved Hubby left fairly early for work, so I moved a few displaced items in the garage and got Molly-car moved in. She'll be protected from the sun and the birds and tree sap until we can work on her. At least I feel like I haven't completely neglected her.
It was so nice outside, I did a load of laundry and hung it outside on the clothesline. It dried just fine, only needed some dryer fluffing and lint removal for 10 minutes. It's hard to believe it was 40 degrees yesterday and 67 today - with mid-70s expected tomorrow. In January ! Meanwhile, the South is getting socked in with snow. It hardly makes any sense. So all I can do is enjoy what we got when we got it !
Found an interesting craft on Craigslist - a keychain that slides over the wrist. It's basically a strip of webbing with ribbon sewn to it for decoration, finished into the shape of a loop. It sounds simple enough, but there's two variations. One has a piece of hardware to finish it that makes it a very easy, very quick craft. But the hardware tends to run a buck each - plus shipping. The other has a large D-ring instead, but I can't find a tutorial for those. Can find folks willing to sell me the directions for $5., but...
I was kind of thinking these would be excellent crafts for next year's school Christmas gifts. I already have quite a bit of webbing in three colors, mostly from yard sale craft batches, and let's not even get into all the ribbon I have. Heck, I could use fabric instead of ribbon, or even some of the ton of lace I got. And if I needed more webbing, it's certainly cheap enough. But that hardware really singes my bottom line. That costs more than the price per unit of the last two years of gifts combined - and then doubled !
So I've been trying to figure out the D-ring directions, and I think I may have it. It's just that the way I think it goes would make it quite thick to sew through, and I'm not sure if my machine can handle it. In any case, if I figure it out, I'll make a tutorial of my own. It's ridiculous to pay so much for a piece of base metal you may not really even need.
