Mood:
don't askTopic: grumble grumble
I have a headache. Not as bad as when I post George Costanza as a dark jedi headache, but one makes me feel pissed off at the world. I'll try not to be too negative.
I was trying to pull a sewing book out of my bookshelf yesterday when all the books came falling out. Time to clean up the shelf! Books should all be standing upright and not at contradictory angles, or so I've heard. I have quite a few books, some new, many from the many old book stores downtown Kitchener. Some of the old ones at the Book Exchange are hardly old at all. So I went through all my books, arranged them into categories: sewing reference basic, sewing reference advanced, design idea source books, fashion history, pattern making, knitting, beading and jewelery design, and general crafts. I put aside a few books that I want to take to the book exchange.
I then noticed there were some cookbook in the shelf. I went through these also, tossing out a few. Seriously, if i haven't made anything from the book in the twenty years I've had it...I'm not now. And one book got tossed because the pages were all stuck together. It was one of my older favourites, it had plenty of very thrifty recipes that were made for young children in the preschool and toddler age group. I had a few old books, none quite so bad that they belonged in the gallery of regrettable food, but none with anything I'd want to make. The worst recipe combined two types of Heinz relishes into a coating for baking fish, recommended for people who don't like the fishy taste of fish, cause the taste of sugar and vinegar is sooo much more appealing! (I accidentally typed "appalling"!)
In the end, four cookbooks were trashed and four sewing books will be going to the exchange. two of the books are quilting books because at one time i though about making a quilt, then thought that it was a totally bad idea. I prefer making clothes. I don't even like making pillows or curtains, I prefer clothing.
ANd that's all for today. I need more coffee, then I'm going to find a cool dark place and hide for the rest of the day, or at least until my headache is gone. And i'll answer the sewing questions tomorrow. Not here, over there.
