Current Mood : A bit spinny-headed
Don't ask me why I do the weird stuff I do. I can't even explain it to m'self, much less Beloved Hubby, although he accepts my bizarre tangents. And I went on an odd, obsessive one for no real reason this morning.
I now check the daily feed of One Pretty Thing, since Craft's blog is still into electronic clothing, gluten/sugar/dairy free recipes, ‘cheap' IKEA storage (that's still worth more that what I'd use it to contain), and more stuff to do with your video iPod (which I don't have). Today, there was a link to ‘mini file folders' that looked cute, so I copy/paste/printed them. Hmf. Too big for Barbie, but would probably work for Elphie and Fiyero. I liked the ‘sticker tabs', it's a nice touch. Here's a link -> http://triciarennea.blogspot.com/2010/02/mini-file-folders.html
I figured I could scale them to the size I wanted...when it hit me. There's an entire website devoted to paper miniatures in various scales, including sixth-scale for Barbie, Jim's Printable Minis ! http://www.printmini.com/printables/pp.shtml , on the off chance you haven't found it years ago. I did another copy/paste/print...and they were huge ! I mean, these could store Barbie's X-rays. I was kinda surprised, since other things I've printed from the site were in scale. Hrmf.
Well, time to have my own fun with scale ! I did a quick bit of math - folders in human-scale hold standard 8.5 x 11-inch sheets of paper. Dividing that by six (since Barbie is roughly 1/6 the size of a person) gives me about a 1.4 inch wide by 1.8 long page. To hold that, a folder would need to be about three inches tall, folded in half. When I entered that, the length went to 1.9 inches, which sounds about right. I deleted the color - I can use some of the hundreds of colored papers I have already - and did a few print runs. Only problem with some of the papers is that there's writing on one side that'll show on the tab part. A swipe or two of White-Out fixed that, and gave it a professional look.
So, in short (too late !) I spent an hour this morning scaling and printing and cutting and saving, because I was suddenly obsessed with creating in-scale Barbie file folders. (sigh) I am so weird...but I have plenty of doll-size folders now !
In only slightly obsessive news, Sandy / Kira arrived today - and she's perfect ! I'd figured, back when I first got the ‘I wanna Kira doll !' bug, that any blonde Barbie would do. Until I saw the Grease dolls. Then I really really wanted a Sandy, especially since the hair and face were just perfect for Kira. Only problem is, I couldn't find one. The few we got at Big Lots were the secondary characters, and $20. even on markdown was kinda high. On eBay, with shipping, she was even more expensive. So I leapt when I found her nude on Robin's ‘for sale' listing on In The Pink. And she's here, you get her photo tomorrow. Sometime this week, I gotta study her costumes, for reference. And watch Xanadu a dozen or so times !
With so much going on, I was a bit hyped-up, so I cleaned my closet. Including the craft storage areas I've so often delayed working on. Went through the fabrics stored for ‘me clothes', donated six of those and added eight more fabric pieces that Aunt S. gave me. Many of the Aunt S. ‘keepers' fit in the newly emptied spaces, so now I only have half a crate to find storage for, instead of an overflowing one. I also freed up space for Dearest Son's home-schooling supplies in the hall closet, re-folded the sheets and blankets and got them stored neatly in their space - it'd gone terribly messy in there - and found a spot for Kenny.
If that wasn't enough, I also went through my clothes and donated about ten blouses that either didn't really fit or I just didn't like, but had been holding on to anyway. It's funny how much better it is to have a closet with everything that fits and I like than it is to have stuff I'm always pushing aside. I have no idea why I kept some of that stuff for so long.
Beloved Hubby came home and asked if there'd been an inspirational Hoarders marathon - nope, yesterday's was an already-recorded repeat. Plus, if I was gonna get everything I wanted to do done, there wasn't time for TV. He started doing the same to his closet, to free up space for his AirSoft equipment. I cut up most of his discards for rags or embroidery experiments, and added a string of buttons to the jar. The rest - a jacket, two shirts, and a sweater - got added to the three bags of donations waiting for me to load ‘em up, move ‘em out.
Didn't get to the dishes, though, because all this gave me a roaring headache, and I passed out in my computer chair for over an hour. Headache's still there, but it's been blunted. Dearest is now working on the mushy brakes on BIL's car, so we may grab a quick dinner when that's done. I still have a lot to do in our bedroom - the area around my closet's a mess of trash and emptied boxes - but right now, I need to relax a bit. Moving my melon head around still makes it swim, which is no fun for anybody.
