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We had a very nice New Year’s
Day. FIL made biscuits for breakfast, I made New Orleans Red Beans with the
ham-bone and some extra ham (we’d picked the bone pretty clean, I gotta
remember to save some of the next ham early), next to traditional black eyed peas
and cornbread on the side. Since that’s a good all-day serve-yourself meal,
that’s about all the work I did. Well, that and about an hour’s worth of
dishes. What can I say, I decided to leave my sloth in 2013. Hopefully 2014
will be a ‘get it done’ kind of year.
DMIL called it a New Years’
Feast, and hopes I can do it again all year long and next New Year’s. It really
did come out well, even if the cornbread came out more like corn cake, and took
ten minutes longer to bake than it should have. Really good with butter,
though.
Honestly, I mostly cooked
the beans to get the ham-bone out of the fridge. Friday, our former and FIL’s
current dog, got it when I was done. Maybe the Universe will note that I was awesome
today, even made Friday happy, so it’ll reward me in a few weeks. Come on,
Karma, I want a Slo Mo doll !
Otherwise, it was much like
Christmas – we all lazed around and did whatever lazy things we wanted. In
between dishes and cooking, I watched two more Netflix episodes of Princess Jellyfish, an absolutely
adorable anime. Kind of like a caste clash propped up against a Japanese
version of Bosom Buddies. There’s
even a doll otaku in it ! The ‘Three Kingdoms’ girl is getting on my nerves,
though. Dearest Son is online shopping for his upcoming birthday, and Beloved
Hubby’s researching getting back into crafting guitars again. No satellite TV –
we’re late with the bill – but it’s not like anyone was watching it. If DMIL
& FIL hadn’t signed a two year contract that’s only six months down, I’d
cancel it tomorrow. I’ve developed a real hatred for all forms of cable TV.
I even got to sew a bit.
Wanted to try that Russian coat pattern again, have ever since I noticed the
translation ‘Can be made with felt’. Maybe that’s why my initial effort fit so
poorly, I used much thinner cotton. Of course, I had to get it right (or at
least close enough to ‘right’ to keep !) first, but then the wonder challenged
me. So today, I dug out the light blue felt I bought for the abandoned HooDude
project, mostly because I was too lazy to change the white thread out of the
sewing machine – and I was out of white felt – and got going. About 45 minutes
later, I knew it wasn’t the choice of fabric. It came out nice, but still much
too big on a standard ghoul body. Ah, well. If I want to use felt on the next MH version, I’ll have to widen the
sleeves. These were hard enough to turn right side out, even after trimming the
seam allowances, and of course, the MH ones
are even narrower.
I was wondering which
Barbie-scale doll would want a new blue jacket when I decided to try it on the
blue-haired Midnight Magic doll,
Crystal. Still a bit big, but after the addition of another quarter-inch seam
up the back, it was nearly right. That seemed odd, until I looked at the
pattern again. I’d used the one that I’d already altered to avoid the back seam,
the one for Barbie. Not the unchanged original Russian one. Sleeves still
slightly too long, and I can take a bit more out of the back, but, hey, now I
have a Midnight Magic pattern ! It looks
better not quite closed in front due to an uneven front hem, so now it’s a
cardigan. Stitched a fake hem along the bottom edge and called it done. I want
to make Crystal some pants to go with it – her issue shiny blue shorts look
silly with a cardigan – so I’ll get photos tomorrow.
Not bad for the first day of
the new year. I cooked, cleaned, sewed, read, was online, slept, ate well, and
was warm the whole time. May not seem really special, but I am grateful for all
these things.
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