Current Mood : So very relaxed...
Ever see something in your cabinet, and just know it's your destiny to eat it ? As in, right now ? A can of cherry pie filling triggered that in me today, for some reason. I've moved that can aside a dozen times, but today, it would be devoured !
So I pulled up some cobbler recipes. Went with a super-simple Bisquick one, since I had no idea if 1) my flour was self-rising or regular, it's been a while, or 2) if the baking powder was any good, either. The Bisquick we bought a few weeks ago, so... In short order, there was a cobbler in the oven and I got to spatula scrape what stuck to the sides of the can, which included two cherries. Yummy destiny...cobbler was pretty good, too.
I kept half the ambition I had yesterday - watched two episodes of MST3K, but mostly I goofed off. Had to clean my desk to use the scanner. Wanted a digital copy of the pattern Tabitha sent me so I could print more later, and I'd buried the printer/scanner under a ton of magazines, mail, and papers. At least that's finally taken care of, some of that stuff's been there for weeks. And I have a good scan. I can make gowns whenever I want to now !
And, as you can see from Clawdeen, the pattern makes a lovely gown ! I finally got her photo-shoot done today, Cleo's is tomorrow, and you can have your say on who wore it best Tuesday. Whatever the outcome, I want to make more of these ! Thanks again for the pattern, Tabitha !
But first, I had to clean off the dryer to take photos. Man, every flat surface here is loaded up with junk ! I got serious housework in for me Monday. But at least the kitchen's not a total disaster, and all the MH classmates are seated and re-posed after yesterday's unfortunate pile-up. Lagoona, who's been in her Scream Uniform since we bought it, is really enjoying her pretty Tabitha clothes. She's still in her tub, but there's some fabric and clothes in it now. With her skirt arranged prettily, it looks like she's sitting on a divan instead of in a blue glass bathtub !
About the only MH classmate who's been in an outfit longer than that is DotD Clawdeen, who was still wearing the striped tube dress I knocked out in December, I think. Well, I had her in the Bratz egg chair with Holt, it was hard to get to her for clothing changes. A certain visitor always pulls her out of there, and yesterday was no exception. So I changed seating a bit - now there's only one in the egg chair, mostly because the minky-style pink cushion goes so well with Gloom Beach Clawdeen's purple locks and the cut down Barbie 'summer garden' floral print dress.
Once I got all the MH characters in one place, all seventeen either seated or standing, I noticed that two lacked shoes, and with clothing changes, two more would need different footwear. I'm really bad for having a doll go barefoot when I'm using him or her for fittings. Half the time, I don't even find shoes for them even for photos, mostly because I'm lazy, and finding the 'right' shoes can take 20 minutes ! Buying a huge lot of them from Dollspart a couple months ago has been great - while I haven't even used them all, it's nice to have a selection !
And today, I got to put two of those pair to work for the first time ! A pair of semi-translucent lavender ones got the white glittery sticky-back fun foam inserts, and GB Clawdeen's wearing them. DotD Clawdeen got the clear-with-gold-glitter pair, and I could have used the same white shimmery foam, but the black glitter fun foam looked better. Too bad you can't see them !
I swear, once we have a few bucks again, I'm gonna put some more stuff on eBay, get it sold...and buy more shoes ! I like all the colors I bought back in January, which doesn't leave me any to spray-paint or customize. Reason I'm gonna wait for fundage is because I want to do Buy It Now sales if I can. Since it can take PayPal a week to transfer funds to Checking, and I don't wanna make my customers wait that long for me to ship, I always make sure I have the money for that before I put anything up for sale.
Only problem with that strategy is, when we have money, I don't think to sell my stuff - I think of buying what I want instead !
Well, not a lot else going on, so I'm gonna do a bit more tidy-work (i.e., puttering) in my little sewing oasis-island. Hope your weekend was as fun as my Sunday was !
