Current Mood : Better.
Busy day - cold one, too. Got the wire shelf rack I mentioned yesterday all cleared off and out of the Lab. Had to do a few on-the-spot repairs to get all the damaged doll clothes into the box I wanted ‘em in, but that's good, too. Ditched a Mal-Wart-style sack full of tiny fabric fragments, and I honestly don't know why I was keeping most of ‘em. Brought a milk crate back into the Lab to hold the midsize pieces, and it's fun to dig through. Doesn't hit my butt, either, so I'm happy.
The rack immediately went back into service down at Beloved Hubby's Shop. It's now a tool catcher, easy for Beloved to move around with him when he's all over the place on a task. He's really cleaned things up down there - and he even made a fireplace out of two steel barrels this week. They make a kit for that. It's actually quite nice in there now. Last year, even with a propane heater, it was too cold to work in there for long, and only at midday. Because of the fireplace, we made a little deal. Since my barely-used fan is perfect for keeping the air moving, he's gonna keep it - and I get that 40s-repro fan I want every year, but never get. It's weird how I'm already a bit excited about this summer...
I also had a small bundle of larger Polly Pocket size dolls, mostly Disney Princess ones I found cheep at yard sales. Past tense. Those are now in the stuffed Donations bag. Last thing on this blue Earth I need is another doll collection ! Never played with ‘em anyway. I'm hoping they get to a kid for Christmas. While I have nearly all of Belle and Ariel's rubbery clothes, I never had a Belle doll. And the Ariel I had wasn't quite the right size. Best to ditch ‘em all.
In Flea Market news, there was one today, and Dearest Son was so excited, hoping we'd get that Barbie mini van he's been wanting for three weeks now. It's at Brenda's, the car set seller. Even though it was stuffed with six dolls, $30. was a bit higher than I wanted to go, and I didn't want any of the dolls. So I proposed to Dearest that I'd offer Brenda the dolls and case culled from my collection, the dolls from the van, and $10. - $7. of which was his chore cash. If she was OK with that, the van was his. If not, we'd see what we could do.
I think Brenda would have been OK with $10., but she seemed pleased with the offer and took us up on it. Dearest proudly handed her his cash, I made up the balance, and the de-dolled van was in the bag, literally. We looked around a bit, but Dearest was too dazed with his find to really pay attention to where I was going, so we cut it short and headed home. He's been happily playing with it all day. And Beloved finished the cubby cabinet he was making for him, so it was proudly parked next to his other favorite cars. Before packing it for his weekend visit with his grandparents.
We're doing a toy clean-out on Sunday, since the cubby takes up space that held a bin fulla toys, but Dearest knows we do this every year before Christmas. And I only encourage him to ditch the broken stuff at the bottom. So he's OK with it.
And once I was all alone, I decided to do a bit of playful photography. My 2010 resolution - figured it out today - is to learn PaintShopPro X and Stitch Era Universal. I cagily left PSPX's owner's manual in the bathroom, where I'm sure to read it. And I'm missing out on a lot of fun stuff by using the old version. Yeah, it's embarrassing, since we bought X earlier this year for its vast functions, I still used PSP 5.3 nearly all of the time. X takes a while to load, and I don't know how to work half of it...blah, bleh, all excuses. So, I'm gonna learn. I'll probably have to print out Stitch Era's manual m'self, it's over 200 pages. I'll make sure to have an extra black ink cartridge ready. But I'm gonna master ‘em both, or at least give it more of a try than I have so far - which is mostly dimly plunking at both programs like a cat at a keyboard. And with about as much understanding.
It's one of our ‘stay home' weekends, but I'm gonna spice it up with home-made tacos ! Hope your weekend is off to a fun start, too !
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