Current Mood : Unsettled
Spent on Machine Embroidery today : $29.09
I'm in a mood. DFIL's van is down for good, for want of an $18. part. They're gonna hafta haul it away, it isn't moving under its own power ever again. Beloved Hubby took four days off last year, in winter when money's pretty tight for us, to get it running less than a year ago for them. Now it's a paperweight. And guess who's running around trying to get a new vehicle ? If you said DFIL, I'm sorry, please try again.
Last night, we (Beloved, Dearest Son, and m'self) dragged all the way to the butt end of the capital city to look at a cheap truck. I tripped over a jack-stand and skinned my right knee up pretty good. Still don't know how I damaged my knee this much, but didn't tear my pants.
Turned out to be a lousy deal, so there went Friday night. He had to put off work to do some other DFIL running, so he's working this weekend. At this point, between BS over a lousy website points system for intangible items and more of it over a situation we did all we could to avoid, but it's now our problem anyway, I've about had it.
As far as Molly-car goes, Beloved's so tired of car chasing and being up to his elbows in dead motor, we're taking her to a shop and letting someone else fix her. It'll be more expensive, and I'll probably be without a car for a week or two further. But at least something's being done. We're gonna drop her off Monday, and I'll be glad. We're renewing her plate, Monday too - we forgot, since she's been sitting so long !
We got over to the library, and come to find out that the author of the digitizing book is someone I'm familiar with - he's the owner of a site that specializes in very cute, very expensive sets. Like $60. a set expensive, and that's with a $50./month membership in his club ! And he says, right there in the book's first chapter that he can create and digitize between 15 to 30 designs a day. So why are they $20. and up for one design ? Maybe the SiCK site has spoiled me. But I don't see my budget springing for any of that. And, heck, John Deer's book comes with 25 free designs. It may be cheaper to buy his book ($30., but I borrowed this copy !) than buy his patterns !
Oh, and surprisingly, the hoop I ordered Tuesday came in today ! It's exactly what I wanted, fits, and isn't a copy or anything, it's the real deal. And about $7. cheaper that my first order with BrotherMall.com would have been. So that was nice. I also have a bulk order of needles in processing. Even with shipping, I got 200 embroidery needles (half sharp, half ballpoint) delivered for $29. And I get a free sample book of stabilizers ! It works out to about 14c a needle, a marked savings over the 99c per cost of ‘em over at Hancock's. Even on a half-off sale, I got the industry standard for pennies. Some folk advocate tossing a needle out with each new project's end, and the packaging on the new needles say it'll last for about eight stitcheries. I'll probably toss ‘em at five, since I'm using spool thread. Fewer, of course, if they break ! But (knock wood) that hasn't happened yet. And I've plenty of empty prescription bottles to use as needle safes when it's time to ditch ‘em !
