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No, not a meme. This is actually a serious question. Now that my altar is base coated (not sure how I am going to paint the outside yet), I have decided that I am going to upholster the inside. So, I need batting and fabric - and a staple gun. I have the staple gun part, and can get the batting as soon as I get out to a fabric store, but I'm not really sure what sort of fabric to get. Natural fibre? Patterned? Plain? Bright? Velvet?

Help me out here, guys. What sort of fabric do you think of when you think of me?

Much Love

--Phae

I have been super productive today.  Even though I spent a lot of time online doing ... not much.  I still managed to:

1) Move and organize my image folder (even going so far as to delete about 150 MB worth of them - go me!)
2) Write a little essay (re: rant) about Paganism and tolerance
3) Install both Dreamweaver and Photoshop on my sadly deprived of memory laptop (if I had known how much memory Vista needs to work properly, I probably would have had them put in more).
4) Dug out my new brick of Sculpey and my mask sketches.
5) Grab a rough batch of new smilies and figure out instructions for coding them
6) Figure out what the whole deal with the spellcheck dictionary is
7) Finally quit my stupid grocery store job


Now, I am going to have a quick bath, look for some word puzzles that I can print out, and finish up the part of my novel that I am in the middle of polishing (re: re-writing).  Not too shabby for a lazy Monday ;)

Oh, and I added up the word count for Ella the other day - 48,730 and hopefully only about a third of the story left to write!  Yay me!

--Phae

OH!  and I have to re-pink the hair :P

I never get 'actual' weekends off.  This weekend and next will be special for me :)  Today we went out to visit with my grandparents.  I had missed them a lot more than I thought.  I guess it comes from not having a lot of family left after the badness.  I am even considering getting in touch with my uncle and going down to Washington for a visit.

After breakfast, WD and I went shopping.  New clothes shopping without the requisite guilt that comes from, 'well, I shouldn't be buying myself clothes, I should be getting caught up on this' or 'we really need that' or 'WD needs clothes more than I do'.  Today, I was celebrating.  First week at my new job (which is paid weekly, so yay!), Beltaine coming up and being freed of the shackles of a job that doesn't like me to think.  It was gorgeous today, and I bought two tshirts and two tank tops, and some remnant fabric from the local Walmart (yeah, I went there ... they were there and I didn't want to make a special trip to Coquitlam for fabric remnants).

I need the fabric remnants because I am making myself a cute little boho bag.  I need a purse that is a little bit bigger than the one I have, but not as big as a conventional backpack (and I have yet to find a backpack sized leather backpack, which would really be ideal).  So, I am making one.  It will be a little smaller than a regular backpack, and it will be patches of fabric (sewn together and embroidered with zigzags and spirals and such).  It will close with a drawstring that will also be the shoulder strap.  I am crappy at describing it, lemme see if I can find a pic of the style I am thinking of.

http://www.promopeddler.com/prodpics/prodimgs/66887/7400-23.jpg

This is the style I am shooting for, except that the straps and the drawstring will be one piece.  I am using old clothes that don't fit me anymore, and I still haven't taken to the Sally Ann.  I am keeping a few patches off-white canvas so that I can attach embroidered patches and/or buttons to them (the sort that usually have political stuff to say, but sometimes are funny). 

I found this gorgeous fabric that is green and maroon, and gold with stars and spirals on it in the remnants bin.  Perfect for what I wanted.  It was a little on the expensive side ($8 instead of $3 or $4), but I really liked it, so I bought it.  Got it home to find out that it isn't really just fabric remnants, but it is one of those little unfinished skirts that they use to show off the fabric and dress the mannequins with (in long flowy skirt style).  And it fits me!  I just sewed up the side, and now I have a new skirt for about $8 and two minutes of my time.

This is awesome, but means that I don't have the cool fabric for my bag :(  I guess I will have to head out to the real fabric stores afterall.  I'll post pictures of my bag when it is finished for those interested (and inflict those same pictures on those who aren't ... mwahahaha!).

We also picked up this awesome pork roast when we were in Safeway buying catfood (ie - livers and drumsticks).  It had provolone cheese, spinach and prosciutto inside it, and it was breaded on the outside with Italian seasoning.  Real butcher counters are the BEST EVAR!  SO so tasty.

All in all, I had a damned good Saturday :)

--Phae

Today is photo day, I guess - LOL  Anyway, I have this old Lillith Fair tshirt that I got *way* back in '97, I think?  It was the first year of the Lillith Fair tour.  Today, while clearing off the book tub, I found it again.  And low and behold, it fits me again.

I don't know if I will wear it.  It is really old, and I don't really wear high neck shirts anymore.  I have been thinking for a while about doing something crafty with it.  Maybe cutting out the pieces I want to keep, surging the edges in a really cool colour (and in really tight stitching so that it wraps around) and stitching it onto a new shirt.

But then I thought, what will keep this dilema from coming up again in a few years?  So, I have been thinking maybe a totebag would be the way to go.  Those never really go out of style.  I could probably find a plain organic cotton tote fairly easily.  Put the image on one side and the concert line up on the other.

I haven't really decided yet, and I am fully open to other ideas.


--Phae