Current Mood : Happily tired
Spent on dolls today : $ 2.75
Spent on Nostalgia : $5.25
Spent on embroidery : $1.23
Spent on stationery : $2.16
Spent on misc. : 30c
Current Image Notes : I finished the bags !Outslept most of my tummyache, but I had weird dreams, and frankly, was afraid of food for most of the day. I still felt nauseous, and didn't wanna chance eating my way to ill again. So by the time I was done with everything here, I was pretty lightheaded. Thank Everything for buttered crackers !
Ooookay. Brody's malfunctioning original hoop is fixed, but in the most confusing way possible. At least it only cost $1.23 for two sets. I also got to hit Dollar Tree, the flea market, and two yard sales, but most of what I bought were toys. Toys I used to have at one point, that I now have again ! Including another identical one that I sold on eBay for some nice cash !
Back to the hoop. Ace Hardware was very nice, and the floor manager soon established that I was dealing with a metric screw set. The ones they had, unfortunately weren't thumb-screws, but would need a screwdriver to set. I got locking nuts this time, thinking that might work better, and snagged two sets of screws and nuts, just in case. I even made sure they fit in the hoop, since I had it with me.
After all the shopping fun, which you'll hear about paragraph after next, I got home and decided to try one out. Um. That locking screw is a major pain ! To get it even close to tension took about five minutes of dedicated screwdriver time. But it held. Just for kicks, I decided to try the new locking nut with the old, original thumbscrew. And discovered that I'd left that part at Ace. (*&^. Got the replacement thumbscrew Brother sent, and Wow. I could barely get the nut on the thing. I began to wonder if, when I went back to get the screw I left, if I should get the non-locking type, too.
But then, I discovered that the old, original nut worked absolutely perfectly with the new screws ! They still slid all over the old thumb-screws, but worked like magic with the Ace ones. Go figure. I'm seriously considering going to Lowe's, to see if they have that kind of nut, since Ace doesn't. But anyway. I now have two options for that hoop - the all-new screw and nut set, or the old nut on the new screw. It may become three if the non-locking type work with the old screw. In any case, I doubt I'll have much trouble with tension on the original hoop anymore. With my luck, I'll probably just break it outright on the next project ! (knocking furiously on wood with non-typing hand)
Since Dollar Tree was next-door, I popped in for the new shower curtain - yup, the kittens have attacked our current one - and a set of sunglasses for Beloved Hubby. Also picked up some Wall-E ring pops for Dearest Son, and snagged a set of Ariel stickers - they also have Tinkerbell, Superman, High School Musical, and Hannah Montana - the kind that are six pages of small stickers. Well, more like two pages that repeat three times ! And a nice package of computer stationery. Forty sheets with stars around the border.
The first yard sale is at a house I've been to twice prior. At least she finally sold the Disney Princess wallpaper border, I was actually considering it for a brief time. Scored some random Barbie ‘fashion plates' type plates, no frame or anything, and a Madame Alexander Happy Meal doll. Their dresses can be removed and altered for Kelly-size dolls, and I was wondering if they could also fit those Musical DP dolls, they're about six inches tall...Yes ! It takes a small bit of alteration - snugging it up in the back - but it's easily done. You'll probably get a photo of that next week. Thirty cents total.
The flea market was about as close to nothing as I've ever seen. But I did find a pretty SuperStar Barbie in a great 80s-style jumpsuit, along with an Avon Barbie's spring dress I wanna alter and the hooded cable sweater that went to ‘So Excellent Earrings' Cali Girl Summer. Not bad for $2.
At the last yard sale, I shelled out $6., mostly on toys again. I got an as-close-to-new as I've ever seen set of vintage Fashion Plates, box and all, for $3. ! It looks as though it's never been used, although the papers also in there show that it was. But it's got the directions, the pencils, the pencil box, all the tiles, everything ! I'll probably seal this up in a bag and put it up for sale next weekend.
I also scored two small vases - we have many lovely flowers, and the few vases we have are huge. I'm hoping they still look nice so I can take a vase to Dearest Son's teacher Monday. And I was silly, bought a cute plastic tiara I enjoying wearing. I plan to customize it soon with some stars I have sitting around the house. I also found a Rhythm Dancer, worn but in good shape. It's basically a toy version of a gymnastics ribbon, I had one in the late 80s as therapy for my broken arm. Mine got left behind in a move, so I was thrilled to find another authentic one. Need to iron the ribbon itself, but I can also easily make my own. Squeeee !
And, for some reason, I also bought the bag of Badge-A-Minit pinback button supplies. They didn't have the press, but they had the rings and circle cutter, and dozens of pinbacks, so I splurged the $2. on ‘em. When I asked about the press, they said they just hammered on the rings ! We'll see how that works next week. I'll be stunned if that works better than the press - but from what I already know about Badge- A-Minit products, I shouldn't be one whit surprised. I also claimed a toddler Cinderella doll for a quarter or so.
Oh, and the Disney fonts I won on eBay arrived. Very nice, even though the CD was shipped unprotected in a cheap cardboard envelope, no sleeve at all. The disc had some surface scratches, but it loaded up fine, so... hm. where's the PES format ? I looked back at the auction page. Yup. Says ‘PES' is included on a multi-format disc. E-mailed the seller, who told me that, since PES was the most widely used format, it wasn't given a subheading, it was stored in the main directory. Okay. Sure enough, that's where it was, but there was no indication that they'd treat PES any differently than DST or PCS.
At least the other formats were sort of organized, the PES ones were two files of six sixes all jumbled together. And while ‘1 in the file name means it's the one inch size' makes sense, a 4 description, meaning quarter inch, is less obvious. About ten characters in the half-inch size, 5, were suddenly labeled 3, and the rest were listed as 5 again. All in all, the organization on the disk was lacking, and the shipping was bare-bones. Of the $3. I paid, maybe 25c went to the envelope and .65 went for the stamp. That was all. Oh, well. Long as it stitches out OK tomorrow, I shouldn't whine, right ?
DFIL loved his Betty Boop bag, and wants to see what other designs are available. It'll be interesting to see which ones he likes versus what I think he'd like.
Well, tomorrow's a busy day. I found the thumb-screw I took to Ace in a shopping bag, so I don't have to return there, but I probably will. I wanna see how the non-locking nuts work. I also wanna work out some of those Disney fonts. And pound hell out of some Badge-A-Minit pins !
I love it when a day is full of potential...
