Friday, December 19, 2008

Details, details, details


I am such a details person.

I can have everything vacuumed, lined up in a row, sparkling, but when I am sitting down to tea with a friend, I see a corner with cobwebs. A shelf with an icky outdated, messy display drives me insane the whole time. I wonder if they're noticing .....
I notice corners, shelves, curtains, and such when I visit places. Who cares if it's dusty, as long as it's decorated?

I have been known, in crunch time before guests arrive, to forsake the can of Pledge to sort the dvds by color, hang straggling Christmas cards, Rearrange pictures on the refrigerator. (take down the old ones, and such), Frame new pictures, scrub the kitchen cabinets, clean out that picture that has been sitting behind the bookshelf for years, but is poking out a few inches.....and oh my, there are several other things, and the dust back here is terrible, where is that vacuum cleaner? And on the off chance of them looking too closely, I sometimes scrub the countertop appliances. No matter how many specks are under the table from scrapbooking. Any normal person would be vacuuming and dusting, but me? 

I must make sure the colors are flowing. And once the details are cute, I can think about the big picture of "clean." If I have time. 

There must be some psychological meaning to it. Some quirky insight to my life I must glean from this idiosyncratic bizzarity of mine. But I'll think about it later. 
I have now sat and blogged with the dusting rag in my hand..........

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Odd Things Happen at the Gap......



It should have been a clue, when the old lady in a neckbrace hurried in as fast as her poor old legs would carry her....she needed the logo hoodies. A while later, she hobbled by with a few things in her arms. Having pity on such a feeble creature, I thought I would relieve her of them. But as I turned the corner to help her, what I saw was the dear old woman texting away on her iPhone, and at such speeds....I knew instantly this is how she broke her neck; Probably texting and driving.

I think the hoody was for her. Maybe that ugly sweater was for the grandchild......

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Take Two

The second dress I made out of an old thermal henley...

I couldn't see the pencil so I just pinned the lines

Tiny little darts!

The sleeves are a little long and skinny, but hopefully it will fit size 12m!

My first attempt at upcycling sweaters!

For a family our store is sponsoring this Christmas, I decided to make some dresses for them, and having never made toddler dresses, I started with this tutorial I found on the Audrey Blissful blog.

I started with this square thing of a sweater....


Copied her design and ended up with this...
Goodbye Bobbie Brooks, whoever you may be...
Hello QuiteLovely!

Little button in the back...