Current Mood : Thrilled !
Spent on sewing misc. : $3.28
Spent on misc. stuff : $ 1.82
Well, today's the start of Dearest's Spring Break. He's home for a week, until Monday March 23rd. Hope we both survive !
I got to have some fun with Molly this morning ! Hit a yard sale/estate sale, and snagged this neat 'Sewing Susan' needle card, a package of never-used hand towels (great for embroidery practice !) for a quarter, a hardback copy of Memoirs of a Geisha for 50c, a softbound vintage photo book of Paris for 25c, and a magnetic trash bag holder for a buck. Looks like it was made from quilted placemats. I'm thinking of using it as a thread catcher near Brody. Right now, I'm using an empty tissue box.
The sale was over by GoodWill, and even though we were just there, I went again. Went ahead and picked up the Disney Princess Junior Monopoly game for a buck, and got a car-shaped new t-shirt for Dearest for 50c. Mostly, I just enjoyed digging and prowling, and taking my time doing so !
From there, I hit Hancock Fabrics, and again, just enjoyed. Got the pirate-map fat quarter, and it was still on sale ! I tell ya, while I love the pre-packaged FQs, I hate paying $2. each for ‘em. So paying $1.19 for this one on sale was nice ! I'm thinking of trying embroidering on ribbons for Dearest's end of school party, and I liked the wide black one for his Bat-cape, so while those 30-yard misc. grab bags of ribbon were half-off, I snagged one. That deep green length I saw in that bag along with the wide black one kinda cinched the deal. Can't go wrong with more green ribbon - and a bunch more to experiment on ! - for a buck.
This'll surprise you - on the half-off shelves were some DPrincess pencil boxes. On markdown, they'd be only $1.50. But I left them there. Couldn't think of a way to use one, much less the two designs they had, so I didn't buy one. Amazing, or an indication of how crowded the lab's getting ? (lol)
Started to feel a sinus headache building, so I brought us in early. Beloved, when he came home for lunch, insisted that I lie down - and the next thing I knew, it was almost 2pm ! Aaargh. But I felt much better. He called at 2:30, to make sure I was awake for the bus. He thinks of everything.
Got tired of moving the pile of wrecked and outgrown pants around, so I started measuring and cutting and picking out inseams. While it would have been nice to repair all four, it ended up taking four pair of ‘em to salvage two. But the two I ended up with - one black and red, the other grey and navy - look good, and Dearest already wants to wear them. And it felt good to get some use out of fabric I couldn't even use for rags, since it's not very absorbent. There wasn't even much left for embroidery practice, but I'll get it stored tomorrow, have it ready.
Beloved said I didn't have to do this ‘extreme mending', that we can clearly afford new clothes for Dearest when he needed ‘em, but I wanted to see if I could do it. And really, I know exactly why I insisted on it. I was reading an article that had a lot of clickable links, all about conserving, reusing, and such. One of the links was about stretching the use on kids' clothes. I read it... and it was all about adding a ruffle to the hems of jeans, adding lace to the bottom of skirts... nothing at all about how to lengthen boys' clothes. Every last tip was about altering girls' clothes.
But the article wasn't about girls wear, specifically - it had a general ‘how to alter kids' clothes' headline. So I have no idea why it neglected boys' wear. Did the author not want to make the effort if the result wasn't gonna be pretty ? Does no one ever need to lengthen boy clothes ? Or are they so tough on clothes it's assumed the clothes will be destroyed and outgrown at the same time ? Well, the four I altered, three were, but I still can get some more use out of ‘em. Does it devalue boys, or girls ? It just ticked me off, no matter if it was an oversight or an on-purpose slur.
It's just like the Midge case. Let me read an article in a doll book about how ‘mere sidekick' Midge doesn't have a special doll case, and I'll own two within a week. Link an article that ignores an entire gender, and I'll bust my bobbins to do it myself, just to prove... something to someone, I don't know...
Beloved's home this weekend, but with all the car shuffling - and Molly's new tires tomorrow morning ! - we won't be on any more wild spending sprees. The DP Jr. Monopoly game turned out to be mostly intact, but I have no idea why the game requires 60 plastic castles in four colors. The board's only half the size of a normal Monopoly game. And while the box says ‘for two to four players', there's eight ‘stands' for the character figures. There was tons of pastel princess money and Chance cards, and eight cardboard Princesses to play with. All I have to do now is go to Hasbro and download the directions. Dearest wants to play while he's home this week.
