tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45987065179558682112024-03-13T02:42:04.265-07:00IndelibleMouseCrafty things and untutored musingsTemporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-76691795905013912862015-09-13T19:58:00.001-07:002015-09-14T10:44:14.786-07:00Vintage Vinyl Glamour DollsI don't set out to find 20+ inch dolls from the 1950's. I prefer to work with dolls 8 to 12 inches. Still, I have ended up the owner of more than one tall lady doll.
My first Revlon was an 18-inch pity buy. She was in the window of a 2nd hand store for months. I recognized her. I could afford her. The fact that she was in original clothing and nearly pristine dolls in original clothing left me Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-19841589132181570042015-09-13T19:37:00.001-07:002015-09-22T07:23:00.223-07:00Shoes for high heeled dolls
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Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-44877901913196515002014-06-20T17:34:00.000-07:002014-06-20T17:34:04.482-07:00Projects in ProgressThere was a week or more between painting most of the bathroom ceiling and edging it. Edging, you see, required climbing ladders. It should have meant opening all the cupboard doors to make sure that no cats got shut into the room with me, because climbing down to let out a yowling furry ping pong ball is perilous. A white ceiling makes the tan less obnoxious. And I mind the Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-88856511874175532992014-04-12T19:29:00.003-07:002014-04-12T19:29:51.195-07:00Outdoors at Tanglewood
East Texas is sunny, bright, and soggy. I'm a bit daunted by
nearly 2 acres. I tried several online landscaping programs and
determined that I should continue to do as I've always done: find out
what the indigenous plants are, beg some, and buy some.
There
was a brick flowerbox near the front door when we bought the house. My
mother hated it. Research said we could Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-85981888205192330532013-12-15T21:47:00.000-08:002013-12-15T21:47:34.479-08:00Incremental Progress
Everything
takes eons. I checked online for hardware to reinstall 40-year
old premium Kirsch traverse rods. The online search is not
entirely satisfactory. I can have brackets for everything else,
or all kinds of rods, but not what I ask for. In the end it was
simpler to drive to the store and buy a different rod.
Draperies
for those sliding glass doors will be remade from Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-38466480896083670992013-11-17T13:15:00.002-08:002013-11-17T13:23:23.356-08:00What Longview Means To Me
1.
Everything I need is packed in a box behind stacks of other boxes.
2. By the time I find what I need, I've either lost the
energy to use the tool, or have forgotten why I needed it.3.
Tile cleaners frequently leave soap scum behind. Pure rubbing alcohol
doesn't remove all of it. Using a razor scraper gets most of it.4.
I do not need all the clothing I own. I intend to sew more of it. So
Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-43842721493247569252013-11-17T13:03:00.002-08:002013-11-18T16:03:04.952-08:00Are We There Yet?
My possessions got here 2 days before I did. They were stashed in the garage and shed with malice aforethought. All detailed contents labels are hidden. Nothing is where is ought to be. My shoes are still missing.
On the bright side, all computer pieces landed in the same room, a room without a lot of boxes. The laptops are fine anywhere in the house. The Tower demands direct hookup. WeTemporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-83433125189679033152013-09-29T09:04:00.000-07:002013-09-29T12:47:46.971-07:00Perilous Paint Mixing<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Lowe's clearance shade
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I have a love/hate relationship with quilting. I love the
way it looks. I love the way stitching patterns transform a plain fabric
sandwich. I hate the prep work required to keep the sandwich layers in place, and I'm not all that fond of planning things out to the inch. My rules for patchwork are that I should already have 90 percent of the fabrics I need, and that the pattern be no more Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-65524788759942630072013-05-04T17:41:00.002-07:002013-05-04T20:21:01.216-07:00The Forty Box Trick<!--[if !mso]>
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extra dolls on eBay. It is what is known as a learning experience.
Questions arise that don't seem to be answered Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-70738404022225923442013-03-04T11:28:00.000-08:002013-03-07T21:16:34.167-08:00Knowing Nothing about Pop Music
Until
Christmas, I had precisely 3 music CD's (Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, and Marie-Lynn
Hammond), some LPs bought before I got married, and tapes the
former partner cringed at. Married, I never had to buy music because the partner acquired it the way some people breathe: in large gulps.
It was obviously time to buy more. I started with CD's from
the dollar table at 2nd & Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-48155085557192380152013-01-25T17:39:00.001-08:002013-01-26T16:12:02.424-08:00Happy Cookie<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Last Monday night I took a friend to the emergency room,
from which we were released 3 1/2 hours
later. The friend is healing well with only bruises. She appears more shaken by
the knowledge that she cannot, at 70-something, simply keep forging ahead full tilt until the job is done. She has to
take breaks; she has to learn to stop when tired.
This is something I learned at 40.&Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-20112146797840168712012-08-20T13:39:00.001-07:002012-08-20T13:45:52.700-07:00She Really Liked It
PHOTO BY MARTHA HARDCASTLE GUTHRIE
I've been the strange one for so long that when someone DOES share my taste, it's a shock. I figured I'd have this flower brooch around forever, as a mascot at shows. It was a little bit of home to look at when I felt swamped by tides of humanity. I was floored when a woman picked it up, didn't read the price sticker, and insisted she had to have Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-85229846503944375012012-08-09T21:27:00.000-07:002012-08-11T13:01:37.789-07:00Testing, Testing
Newsprint necklaces
I've been sorting and consolidating my jewelry supplies, taking short breaks to test
things to see if I should keep them or toss them.
A Creativity for Kids paper bead rolling kit was a keep, if
only for the nifty little bead rolling tool. It is so much easier than rolling
the paper around a toothpick. OTOH, my hand cut strips from the newspaper made
Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-18709917895745076552012-07-24T16:10:00.002-07:002012-08-11T13:03:22.668-07:00Paper Bead Mania
Currently I am obsessed
by paper beads. I can't make just one. All I have to do is mark two edges of a sheet of
paper off in 1/2 inch increments and make triangles. The triangles get rolled around cocktail skewers and dotted periodically with glue. I use Elmer's. Some people use glue sticks. In any case, it can be done while on the phone, reading Facebook, waiting for the water to boil.
Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598706517955868211.post-9961126296989396822012-07-08T10:55:00.002-07:002012-08-11T13:04:37.024-07:00Shorts /Adjusted Expectations
Planning before sewing is probably a good thing, but leaving
room for adjustment is more important. I have acquired the habit of buying less fabric than the pattern calls for when I have a
specific pattern in mind (I'm short and can do that), and more than is needed for generic things. For
instance, 1 1/2 yards is enough for a skirt or pair of shorts for folks up to size 14. I bought 4 Temporary Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623590072078411952noreply@blogger.com