Current Mood : Pleasantly tired
Current Image Notes : Y'know when a CD-burn screws up, and ya say ya 'burned a coaster'...?
Spent on embroidery designs : $10.00
(sigh) I know, I know. I have zero business spending more money on embroidery when I haven't been near Brody in two months but... well, there was a great sale on some new ones I really wanted, and I get $5. in free designs in December from this purchase. If I spend another $18. between now and Nov. 30th, I'll get another $5. in freebies, but I can't imagine anything else I could possibly want !
And honestly, I just wanted a little luxury. Don't want any more dolls or doll clothes or doll anything, really, and everything I need in sewing I already have, for the next twenty or thirty...decades. This was all I could think of, and I got $34. worth of designs for $10., so at least it was a cheap splurge. I am so blasted pathetic sometimes...
But, I at least got off my butt and spent some quality time in the Lab. Hey, it was either that or clean house - yuck ! Moved around a couple cases and hung up the new Ken one, adjusted the nails supporting it, so it'd hang evenly with the others, and moved the ‘Quick Curl Boutique / Shinobu's Sewing Room' case to another wall, where I can get to it easily. The generic ‘shopping mall' playset case came down, and will probably get donated. Or added to the ‘trade' bag. Unfortunately, the next Flea Market isn't until Nov. 20th.
I then got all the new fabric together, and bagged up all the loose clothes and props. Past time for me to get all those put away. I was re-hanging a dress-form print when I saw the pile of embroidery stitch-outs, and I had an idea. I backed up my embroidery designs yesterday, but it took two tries - the first one glitched, so I had to do it again. I was using the faulty CD as a drink cover, since we had the doors open for nice weather, and flies had flown in with the breeze. Fly in a drink = beyond ick.
What if I covered the coaster with one of the stitch-outs ? It'd use two surplus items at once, and it'd still be useful. Selected a trial of my name in the Star Wars font I'd downloaded, and spray-glued it to the disc, then cut it out and tucked it around, gluing it to the back. Not bad ! The stitch-out was done on a crappy polyester remnant, but if I used some of the cotton tests, it'd be a great absorbent coaster, and it'd use up all those leftover CDs we all end up with. I tucked that idea aside, at least until the glue on the back dried. I admit, this first effort is pretty crappy-lookin' on the back.
If I can figure out how to cut ‘em without them snapping - or requiring bench-mounted tools - I could have tons of fun with this !
I moved the milk crate of fabric scraps to hang the Ken case, and discovered I liked the way it looked. So the rest of the afternoon was dedicated to emptying the crate. Finally created a size criteria of scrap fabric - before, all bits and pieces were in one large box or the bin behind the sewing machine. Now there's (a) bits only big enough for appliqué, (b) small pieces large enough to make a doll skirt or blouse, or an embroidery test stitch-out, and (c) anything larger. The scrap bin behind the sewing machine got emptied too - now the ‘a' bits are in there, the ‘b' pieces are under them in another shelf I cleared out, and all the ‘c' remnants got rolled up and added to the fabric bin. Whew ! It was a long job, but it freed up a lot of cluttered Lab space, so I'm happy.
Beloved Hubby was busy, too. He replaced her fuel pump and hoses, and Bonnie-truck works again ! He got some help from Friend and Dearest Son, too. (sigh) Remember a few months ago, when Beloved busted butt to help Friend buy a car ? Well, Friend's car broke a belt. Friend drove it anyway, knowing full well about the snapped belt. Whole car seized up (duh !), so he parked it off the road where it died. Car's not there any more. I am praying to all that is holy that Beloved doesn't offer to let Friend borrow Bonnie-truck again. Shoot, longest Bonnie-truck's ever been home was the last couple months, only because she was broken. I don't think either of us has driven her more than a dozen times since we bought her this spring.
And we're back on normal school-schedule. Dearest's in the tub, and as soon as Beloved's in, there's the eternal ‘what's fer dinner' question. A lot going on that we're not focusing on right now, and much as I hate to sound like a head-in-the-sand ostrich, way things are lately, I'm not dealing with anything I don't have to right this minute !
