Current Notes : Shoot. I sat down for a few to get this published and <yawn>...I'm falling asleep !
Rain. Rain all day. I’m sure
the sun’s out there, I just never saw it today. Perfect snoozing weather, so
perfect that if I was still for five minutes, I was dozing off. Fell asleep
twice in my Arena chair, far from the most comfortable seating arrangement in
Chez Insanity, but I did it anyway. The sofa was a sleep trap !
So I tried to stay busy.
Scanned three of the doll magazines and added them to the ‘donate’ pile – but I
kinda chickened out, those three were the ‘light’ ones, with single articles no
longer than five pages. The rest have several articles, or eight-page studies.
Ah, well. How do you eat an elephant ? One bite at a time. Since Ginger-kitty
has slid on the to-be-scanned pile twice today, it won’t be long before I have
it done, just so that that darn cat doesn’t destroy more of my Arena.
Wanted to sew, but not the
Etsy dress or jumpsuit neckline trials again. I remembered how someone on the MH board wanted a doll-size caftan, and figured
that’d be easy. The few I’ve owned have basically been huge tent-dresses with
billowy sleeves, not a lot of complicated sewing. More like a loose version of ‘doll
clothes from a sock’ kind of sewing. Too bad I forgot that caftans, by
definition, are flowing, light, and drapey and need that sort of fabric. Nope,
for my dopey trials, I grabbed that blasted Barbie fabric again, which is stiff
and not drapey at all, and had a nice, fun total fail. I also made the neckline
much too big, which is why it’s folded all funky on Lagoona.
Not that I really mind,
though. It was rather fun to just stitch along, and not care about what I ended
up with. Not sure what I’m going to do with it. I’m actually kind of proud of
it, and the sewing’s good enough to keep, but I can’t imagine any of my dolls
actually wearing it ‘anywhere’. It sort of looks like a spa robe of some sort,
and then again, sort of like a dress when worn with a good belt. I don’t know.
Sometimes it’s enough to make something, get a photo, then let it go and move
on to the next or previous project. That’s probably what’s gonna happen here.
I also wrestled with logging
in to download the new TrueSizer software for embroidery designs sewing. Once I
got that over with, the download was smoother than oiled silk. I used to have
another freebie program for viewing designs, but the company either wanted to
start selling it or stop providing support for it, so they let it die, and I
went to TrueSizer. TSizer is now much more like that late, lamented software,
so I’m happier with it. Should make my eventual return to embroidery a little
less difficult and alien. One day soon…
We also made cookies this
evening, but lest you be impressed, they were just the kind from a pouch that
you add margarine and an egg to. Nothing special, but warm chocolate chip
cookies are very nice to conclude the end of a rainy, sleepy Tuesday with !
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