Jarred musings...

Current Mood : Still sleepy, which borders on unbelievable

 

Spent on sewing : $1.97, for thread

 

Kind of another bust day. Didn't get much done, but slept quite a bit. Woke up with my eyes streaming and itchy, so I took a half-dose of allergy medicine - which knocked me off my butt and into bed for a good part of the morning. I hate to think what would've happened if I'd downed two capsules !

 

At least I got the groceries shopped. I was surprised to find a small selection of embroidery thread at our Mal-Wart's fabric section, but the color I most wanted (a skin color) wasn't there. Found a similar shade in spool thread - the good stuff ! - and got it instead. I'm sure I'll be at Hancock Fabrics sooner or later, but just in case, I wanted to have the color ready.

 

And, as you can see from today's image, I didn't get any real work on the ‘Teacher of the Year' project. This is simply a print-out of what I did with the font editor yesterday. At least I finally got it to the right size and in proportions that I like. If it stitches out OK, I'll add a few hand-sewn stars to it, for a bit of glitz !

 

Oh, and Michelle - I didn't think up this neat Mason candy jar project. Someone gave a quart-sized one to my Mother decades and centuries ago. It had the prettiest cross-stitch Easter bunny design ! I was so intrigued by it that I begged her to teach me cross-stitch, and that Christmas, I bought a dozen ‘quilt' patterned jelly canning jars, a package of Aida, and some cheap floss and needles. I panicked when the ribbon eyelet lace was sold out a week before school let out for the holidays, but I found some other lace instead. Darn near everyone I knew got a candy jar that year, filled with holiday-foiled Hershey's Kisses. I was lucky Mother already had a few tons of photocopied cross-stitch patterns ! Those little ‘dollar' mini-kits with the plastic frames fit the jars, too. Ask me how I know ! (grin)

 

The ones that year were pretty basic, but as I improved, so did the designs. Most of my school friends got a ‘refill kit' that Spring - jellybeans and new rabbit cross-stitch pieces. Birthdays brought miniature candy bars, fresh lace, and initials. I got quite a bit out of those little jars ! And you always return to the classics...

 

So feel free to use the idea. It sure isn't mine, but it's too good to keep to m'self. I guess I've known about it for so long, I forgot that not everyone may have seen the same thing in the last ten, fifteen years. Actually, at the last pre-holiday craft fair I went to, someone was doing something similar, but instead of a design under the lid, they just pinking-sheared some calico and snugged it over the jar lid, then screwed the collar on over it and tied a ribbon around. It was pretty, but I like mine better !

 

And it occurred to me that I have some IEP papers from Dearest Son's meetings that she's signed. I'm sure I can get her correct initial off those. Just have to get this part done first !

 

He came home saying he had to read for 20 minutes tonight. So he did - a rather poorly-written Disney storybook version of Beauty and the Beast : The Enchanted Christmas. One sentence = a paragraph, and it's laden with words like 'unforgivably' and 'problematic'. Call me an old stick, but I think  even storybooks written to be read to kids should at least be able to be read by kids. 

 

I was also able to tell him that DizStore had updated his Wall-E figurine set's shipping information, and it should be here Thursday. He's so excited ! And the kids loved the 'BnL' button I made for him after he went to bed last night. I'd love to embroider that particular Wall-E fictional logo, too, but I had to settle for download / resize / print. They're doing some sort of theme week - Monday was pajama day, yesterday was 'crazy hat' day. We don't have much loopy headgear (amazing, when you think of how nutz his mother is !), so I made buttons for his fave hat instead. 

 

I'm giving serious thought to trying on a night-cap, m'self...