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Dorrie's Doll Diaries
Monday, 1 June 2009
Tutors tutoring...

 

Current Mood : Tired !

 

Ever since Brody's arrived, my saved Blogs and Musings aren't on the ‘recent items' part of my Windows Vista Experience very often. I usually downloaded and edited so many designs and images of designs each day, the stuff I wrote and saved got pushed off minutes after I last saved it - there were designs coming in, fast and furious ! Now, finally, that seems to be slowing down. In fact, if it weren't for the one-letter-a-day alphabet freebies over at CuteEmbroidery.com, I probably wouldn't be saving off more than three a day. I don't tour the freebie sites like I used to, don't click on every site I come across, and don't hunt as much. Whenever I have occasion to look around, I'm invariably reminded that I have much the same already, and there's not much use in buying more. It'd be like buying more thread !

 

Hm. Who'd have thought I'd reach Full Saturation this early in the game ? I think having to fight so hard for so long for the SewRed design kinda took the fun out of it a bit. I still don't understand the folks with over ten thousand designs - not files, actual designs ! - who still prowl for more. I probably have about three thousand, and I feel stuffed, almost bloated.

 

Made the mistake of totaling up all the ancillary costs of my latest hobby. Between thread, stabilizers, designs, needles, and spare hoops, and who knows what else, we've already spent more on the extras than we did for Brody (the embroidery sewing machine) ! And I do things on the extreme cheap, according to SiCK forum members. I'm just hoping the stash of everything lasts a while, and was a good investment. I'm still all excited about the FSL victory yesterday, since that means I'll soon be able to try those FSL Barbie shoes designs I bought months ago.

 

But one success does not a complete understanding make. I wanna get some more experience under my burgeoning belt before I go after the complicated stuff. I also have tons of unfinished business, including eight large-size semi-nude dolls that need to find new clothes before they can move on to new homes. So I think I'll work on that this week.

 

Began tutoring Dearest Son today, and we did pretty well. He read for 20 minutes aloud, we worked on time-telling with analog clocks for another 20 minutes, and I pulled up a third-grade spelling list from a website, and we worked on it for a half-hour. For Art, he got to cut up a falling-apart Disney book and make a story collage. Not bad, I think. Beloved still wants to hire a tutor, but I think that ship has sailed, so I'm gonna do what I can. And Dearest's working with me - heck, he'd do darn near anything to keep from going to Summer School this year. So I got that going for me.

 

Since it doesn't leave me much housework or ‘me' time, I have to get a bit better organized to make the most of the time I get. I confess, I wasn't terribly well-prepared today. But I can take what I learned and improve tomorrow.

 

Got the last Barbie case hung up. If I find another, I'll have to take a hanging one down. They're packed in tight - and the new one isn't quite where I'd like it, but it'll do. When it's not so hot and I'm not so sweaty, I may redo it. For now, it's off the floor, so I'm happy. Once I get the last of the donations dolls dressed and moved out, I'll be even happier. I'll be back to near-optimum floor space !

 

Otherwise, the first Monday of Summer Vacation '09 went well. Beloved's friend is over again, so I'm Lab-bound as soon as I've posted. Hope your Monday was as educational as mine !


Posted by dorriebelle at 9:03 PM CDT
Updated: Tuesday, 3 May 2011 11:25 AM CDT

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