Current Mood : Still thrilled !
Spent on mugs and material : $3.39
As briefly mentioned yesterday, I made Beloved Hubby something, finally ! Long ago, we found an ‘Evil Genius' shirt made from a black t-shirt with white iron-on letters at a yard sale. Beloved was instantly taken with it, so it came home with us. Over the last couple of years, the cheap iron-ons have been deteriorating, so now it's a cryptic, shredded-plastic shirt more than a declaration/warning. He'd really liked the shirt, so I set out to make him a newer one, that wouldn't shred in the wash.
Thanks to Alphabet Xpress, it was easy. He liked the architect-like font, so we used it. And in less than a half hour, we had a shirt... with sooo many errors ! I'd forgotten to change the needle from a sharp to a ballpoint. I didn't have the design low enough, and my hooping puckered a bit. I also forgot to change the stitches back to ‘satin' which would have been much easier to read. I was showing off all the fill designs to him, and it was on ‘snakeskin' when I saved it, and, of course, ported it into Brody's memory.
But there's always more shirts to make. I already have his next one ready. It's the Man's Prayer from Red Green : ‘I'm a man/But I can change/If I have to/I guess.' He wanted me to put it on any ole shirt of his, but I don't know what'll happen if the needle hits a paint chip - and most of his shirts are loaded with paint spatters. So I'm gonna snag another new one when I do groceries, and surprise him later this week.
Dearest Son's busdriver and bus monitor get surprised tomorrow. Their jars are all done and are waiting by the door. I hate to give them out before school's over, but every year, someone's called in on the last day, and I'm not takin' the chance this year. Hope they like them.
I've earned enough points on the SiCK site for another free set, but heck. Not sure what I want there. Or anywhere, really. I was all set to join another site for a month of downloads, but I really wanna concentrate my efforts on getting that Alphabet Xpress program instead. Maybe later.
It kinda hit me today, when I dropped one of the bags of trash I was hauling to the Dumpster. One of the horses was in there, too, so I had to get it cleaned up before she got curious. So as I dug packing peanuts out of wet earth and meadow muffins, I thought to myself, ‘Darn it, I am gonna do something nice for myself for all this butt-bustin' housework !'. But then, I couldn't think of a thing I wanted that I didn't already have in my greedy sights. It's a weird sort of feeling to have everything you want - and know it.
Still, when we all went to Hobby Lobby today, I bought a remnant of blue fabric with silver-glittery stars on it, and two VBS mugs. Turns out, they're pretty well made to be 87c at full retail !
And on Memorial Day, we each took a bit of time to think and reflect, and be thankful, for all we had and all we were was due to much sacrifice by people we'd never know.
