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chillin'Topic: I can has topik?
BBBBBRRRRR! It's cold again. Time to bring out my fur lined thong, that always gives me that little extra boost of warmth on these cold winter mornings.
So I might be making a bunch of balloons so a bunch of children can have balloon heads. Last year I turned a bunch of little girls into flamingos. Who know what i might do next year... I might also be designing the costumes for the lead dancers, too, and possibly for the modern and jazz dance groups. The dance recital is "the Wizard of Oz" so there are farm hands, hot air balloons, dorothy, monkeys, lollipop kid munchkins...and all need to be cheap and easy to make, especially since some mommies don't sew. Yikes! This will be fun.
It's been such a long long time, and I thought I would never ever see another, but out of the blue with no advance warning Something Awful brings us a long awaited update to the much loved Fashion Swat. This edition features very ugly knitted items from germany. The site is apparently a fetish site, or a health site...I'm not certain. The good people of something awful don't care, they just want to point out how hideously ugly these items are. Too many wookie suits.
Tomorrow is leap day, an extra day. Why does it have to be in February, the most miserable month of the year? Why couldn't it be in July? Or June? Or May? No...they had to put it in February and make the month even longer! Don't let those 28 little day on the calender fool you: February is the lllloooonnngggeesstttt month of the year. June is the shortest, and it wouldn't matter if february had ten days and june had forty, june would still be far too short and February would still be far too long.
On leap day you are supposed to do something that you otherwise wouldn't do; take a leap into the unknown as it were. It a day to make the first move, to make expiation for something, to start fresh, to start something new or to make amends for the past and to start a new future. I dunno about any of that, but I used to go to Len's and buy all new sewing notions like hand sewing needles and straight pins and other tools. Pins and needles get dull and bent and they can rust too, so every four years i would dump all the old bent pins and replace them. There are a few rituals in wicca and older witchcraft traditions that require old bent pins and needles. They can be used in atonement rituals and forgiveness rituals, especially if both are difficult to give and/or receive. Many require broken things such as glass, mirrors, dishes and bent and broken pins and needles to be placed in a glass jar and then buried in the ground. This will be difficult as the ground is frozen. It still might be a nice idea and bury the jar in the snow, then in the ground when the snow melts.
So what else? No much. I began both the dress form cover and I began draping the purple bengaline into a nice top. Part of me thinks this should be a bubble, but most of me knows I hate bubble shapes. The dress form will take a while as the fit has to be absolutely perfect, like a second skin. I also want to make arms and maybe one leg. Then I can fit everything on the form, and I don't have to constantly try things on a thousand times while I'm making stuff. Now I'll only ned to try things on a hundred times!
Oh yes, my favourite sewing machine store, KW Sewing Machines -is moving out of Conestoga Mall and into Fredrick Street mall. This is fabulous news as there's an excellent art supply store in the mall. And it's been quite apparent for some time that they had outgrown the old location, the store was bursting at the seams, sewing machine boxes were stacked on the floor, buttons were everywhere...and I know they wanted to carry more notions and supplies. I guess I'll be making more frequent trips to the new location! (And best of all...it's only a short walk to the big Factory Shoe Warehouse, a great place to blow one's budget on far too many pairs of shoes and boots.)
And that's all for today. Later!
