mmm, white lace... (only not the lace part)

[thanate]

I think I'm in that mode where I don't actually have anyone around to talk to, and don't feel like going anywhere, so I just post stuff. (Someday I should get one of those phone headset things, so I can call people and knit or something at the same time. Then more of both might get done... anyone have recommendations on where to look for those?)

When I was a kid (high school or so) I totally didn't understand my mother's notion that you should always have two extra spools of white thread and one of black on hand at all times. I used far more black thread than white, not to mention sewing in invariably dark colors.

Today, I just spent the last hour or two cutting out white muslin for a smocked shift for my mother and two shirts for me (eventually replacing, or at least supplementing, the ragamuffin blouse that's falling to pieces) and white silk to make a replacement petticoat to wear under the one that's beginning to shred. And had I been able to go to the goth prom, I probably would have worn mainly white, too... but I'm just weird like that. (and my non-white corset needs re-lacing or even alterations before it will fit around my archaeology-induced stomach muscles.)

Oh, and I also went yardsaling, and am now the proud posessor of one of those foam heads that you see in wig shops, as the girl who owned it had sold the hat she'd been using it to display, and gave it to me after I untangled her bird puppet. Not quite as good as the sultry underwear manequin I was going to get to put in my window at the motel out by AP Hill, but it's a start. I may have to buy it fake eyelashes...

Comments

phone headsets

[stanci.livejournal.com]

I bought mine at Wal-Mart because I'm cheap like that, and it works well enough. Probably not as good as the one, say, Connor has, but it suits needs well enough. And it's good that I have it, because now you'll get in trouble on base for driving and talking on a hand-held phone :-P And probably text messaging, too, while driving.

[troyfish.livejournal.com]

IF I had seen this earlier, I would have given you one of the extra ones I have here so that you could test em out... I'll try to bring them with me sothat you can try it sometime this week.

BEsides, you can't use the one I use most of the time... the others are decent though.

[fishy1.livejournal.com]

i think i have some eyelashes around here that i never use anymore.. prolly in the Recreational Makeup Bin...

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Yay eyelashes! that would be excellent. :)

[skittblink.livejournal.com]

Please relate this underwear manequin story.