NO MORE CURTAINS! PLEASE!
In other news it is Danny's birthday today. He's now 24. He's in his final year of college and he's got a tentative job offer for when he graduates. Kids are the biggest crap shoot of all, you really have no idea what you are going to get or how it will turn out in the end. When a kid is born I think every parent deludes themselves thinking their kid is going to be the best, the brightest, have the highest marks in school, excel at everything they try and never ever have a bad day in their entire lives. By the time your kid is heading for the teen years you realize how big a delusion that rally is and laugh at new parents thinking their kid is better than the rest. By the time you kid is 16 it's more like "whew! We made it through the tough yeas without any criminal convictions" and when they graduate somewhere in the middle you think, "we made it through the tough part intact"
So it ended up taking far less time to do the curtains than i thought and now I do not need to go to my Mom's today so all in all this day is turning out okay. And I get the bigger terrarium for Rachel tomorrow, so then that's taken care of too. On Sunday we can do something for Dan for his birthday, like get him a cake and feed him some sort of special dinner. Maybe try again with the duck, last time he was sick with swine flu.
I guess it doesn't make any sense to get the swine flu shot, we've all been exposed and I am quite certain Dave and i both had it. Not as severe as Dan and Heather, but we both had something fitting the description.
And now for something completely gasp-worthy: and epic sewing machine fail:
Yes, someone is using a hair clip as a presser foot. The pin inserted the wrong way is nothing compared to a hair clip presser foot. I can imagine the needle hitting this an breaking the needle, bending the needle shaft shattering the hair clip and sending shards of metal into the bobbin area.
Over at Fashion Incubator there's a challenge posted, draw a 2X rectangle and cut it out. label it #1. Take #1 and trace around it, cut it and label it number 2. Use 2 to trace and cut 3. and so on until you have a stack of with the smallest on top. Yes, there's a trick, a hook, a catch, a twist. I know what it is. See, there SHOULD NOT BE A SMALLEST, they should all be of uniform size. If you do it correctly, and cut off the traced lines, all the pieces should remain the original 2x6. Most people will end up with the pieces creeping up in size with number eight significantly larger than piece one. This challenge is used to illustrate the importance of accurate cutting and tracing in the pattern development stage. Inaccurate tracing and cutting of basic blocks will lead to big headaches in garment development. Most patterns are traced over and over until the final pattern piece shape is arrived at. All those little fractions here and there don't seem like much, but they quickly add up and can screw up the fit to the point where the sleeves are too long, a bodice is too wide across the chest, darts are distorted etc. The lesson of this challenge is that accurate tracing and cutting are essential in all stages of fashion and pattern design. All eight pieces should be the exact same size.
What do i win?
Nothing? A stack of 2x6 rectangles! cool I've always wanted that...it's so whimsicle. That's a buzz phrase on a whole mass of craft blogs, it's like whimsical only spelled wrong and used in the wrong context. It's often spelled in the annoying mix of capital and lower case letters with ascii characters thrown in to confuse people.
Speaking of stupid this is a private message sent to me through a fashion site:
" heyy i read ur msg 2day about the site... 'ugg.gg' .. sorry 2 mither u but i dont kno weva u kno what the boots actually look like and if ther good copy's onli bcoz i orderd a pair and had a bit off trouble with the company bcoz they tried takinn 2 payments out of my bank, plus wen i enterd all my details the page cant up in chinese rytin [ when i translated it into english it said page cant not be displayd] so i panniced... and ound ur msg's on here,! i rang the comany of my bank and they told me that one payment had gon out so i canceld it jus incase they tried 2 take any more money, im jus wonderin weather u kno how long they usually take and what the copys of the boots are like?..."
Some people deserve to be ripped off. Lessee...they charged your account twice, you couldn't get the page to come up correctly, and they still want to know if they will ever get anything and if the counterfeits are any good? Since i can't send this person the message I would like to send I'll will write what I would like to say here: Dear Stupid: I think most people would have figured out by the Chinese contact page that something isn't right. When they continually take money from your bank and never ship anything that's a sign that you are dealing with a scammer. You will not get anything. Ever. Not even a really bad fake ugg. So cut your losses and cut out any contact with this ripoff site! You don't get something for nothing.
What I sent: Hi. You will likely wait and wait and wait and possibly never receive anything. Most parcels from counterfeiters are seized at the border as the international trade of counterfeits is illegal. If you do receive anything they will be poor quality and look nothing like the pictures on the website, which are stolen from UGGS. You are dealing with a scammer. Cut your losses. Block them from taking any further payments from you bank and cancel the order. All sites from China sell poor quality counterfeits. If something seems too good to be true, it is. Inform the Better Business Bureau about you transaction, submit your story to US border patrol on this page: (link to form removed)write to UGGSAustralia on the counterfeit education page found here: (removed for blog post) and (more scam buster contact sites) Do not buy from these sites. They use slave labour and often launder money for criminal gangs. If you want cheap uggs, buy on sale, at a place like Payless, or get EMU or bearpaws, they look similar but aren't as expensive.
There was more...but you get the gist. I doubt that's what this person wanted to hear. I doubt the person can read the big words.
So that's all my mom and dad are coming over and i need to stop! Later!
