Current Mood : Weary
Current Image Notes : Here's the playline 'Shopping Barbie', with all the stuff I wanna keep - the dress form, her shoes, and her coffee cup - removed. Gonna give it away on In The Pink, as a way of paying back Joanne for all the goodies she sent me !
Dearest Son was pretty sick yesterday, so we kept him home today. I still had to get up at near-normal time to call Transportation, so our bus driver would know, but all I ever got - even five minutes before the bus was due - was an answering machine. So of course, good ole #50 sat out there for several minutes before I noticed and waved them on. Kinda defeats the purpose of calling Transportation. (sigh)
But with a bit of cough syrup, he was soon feeling much better. By mid-afternoon, he was pretty much back to normal, so we went out for a bit, to find a particular Clone Wars figure he wanted. Never found it, though. It wasn't at Target, Mal-Wart, or TRU. I'm gonna be out and about tomorrow, so if we don't find it, we'll order it. Only problem is, even from Hasbro.com, it'll be $15. with shipping. Oh, well. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do... At least it isn't super-rare or something, so we don't have to shell out $30. or more to some mean old toy speculator.
I did manage a quick run through Big Lots - ours still ranks. After all the searching, Dearest chose a General Grievous figure to fight with Anakin Skywalker, and I snagged a Disney Princess Halloween-themed ‘Pencil Favor Set' for $2. I now have four erasers, four sheets of six stickers, and four pencils, all with various Princesses in their signature outfits, enhanced with masks, fans, and baskets of goodies. You know what a total sucker I am for that stuff.
Since I spent most of yesterday cleaning the kitchen and washing dishes, I was pretty tired today. And with Dearest home, I didn't get much done. At least the clean ones are put away, and the kitchen was clean enough to cook in. I made Dearest a deal - in the evening, while he's picking up toys, I'll clean up the kitchen after dinner. Since I normally figure his tidy-work takes about a half-hour, I'll have a good opportunity to keep the kitchen a bit cleaner.
After he crashed and Beloved was absorbed in an episode of Burn NoticeTop Gear, I decided to hang out in the Lab. It seems like it's been a month since I was last in there. And I had a lot to put away. I finally bought the ‘dress form' Barbie, and gave away the doll on In The Pink, and I had several yard-sale dolls and several more from my ITP win from Joanne to put away, along with a bag of fabric scraps I'd scored from the thrift store yesterday. and then
(sigh) I'm a fabric-holic ! I'm powerless in the face of cheap material ! And this $1.99 bag of it was choice ! Tiny green dots on white, and tiny white dots on dark green pieces, some velvet and satin scraps, a strip of velour zebra-print, a lovely quarter-yard of white-on-white eyelet fabric - there was more, but oh, all but the large flannel print was so pretty ! Surprisingly, no star-prints. The flannel's going to be re-donated, and some of the teddy-bear print is going back. I'm gonna cut away some of the paper-bag brown with navy dots to keep, and donate the bear border.
Oh, and holiday heads-up - if you're thinking of easy gifts to make, McCall's has one for the ubiquitous Snuggie ! Yeah, it's a backwards robe, or a blanket with sleeves, but if it's easier to use a pattern the first time, why not ? Especially when you can snag it for a buck during one sale or another. It's McCalls 5970, and it offers a kids and an adult size. It'll take four yards of 60" wide fleece to make the biggest one, and you won't have to settle for the often lurid colors the official Snuggies tend to come in. According to the pattern envelope, it's easy and only takes an hour and a single measurement. Hancock Fabrics'll have McCall's on 99c sale for four days starting 09/17.