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Holiday stuff
Dec. 16th, 2008 08:56 pmOkay, most of my holiday cards went out yesterday; the few British and Canadian ones went out last week. Received ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
novaraven, luv_blindly, and blackmarth’s cards so far. Thanks! :-D
Our tree is up and I finished my shopping for friends but still have one gift to make. Employee gifts have to be ordered tonight. I’d assumed we weren’t doing them this year with the rough economy but my father finally brought it up a few days ago and we’re going to barely make the shipping deadlines without paying extra. >_>;
As usual, I’m not sure what to do about my impossible-to-shop-for family. I’m wondering about getting my parents a meat grinder. They were looking for one at the mall the other day but we only found a grinding attachment for a stand mixer we don’t have and one model of meat grinder which was out of stock. My mother doesn’t trust ground meat so she has always bought cuts of meat and chopped them up herself but it’s a lot of extra work.
Not much new to talk about cosplay-wise. The fairy costume hasn’t been worked on and I’ve been meaning to start Ekaterina but haven’t gotten beyond cutting out some corset pattern pieces.
There’s sort of a funny story about that actually… I’d seen cable ties recommended for corsets in place of featherweight boning on cosplay.com and I asked my father about where to get long cable ties a few weeks back although I didn’t mention what I was using them for. He said he was going to check a place he normally orders supplies for the store from but I wasn’t in a big hurry and assumed he’d forgotten about it. Last week he brought me a package of cable ties that were about 2 mm thick and half an inch wide and asked me if that would work. Overkill for a corset, I think. XD; I asked him to send it back and picked out a more suitable size from the company’s website.
I think I need new veil fabric, too. I bought a piece of sheer black that was on sale at JoAnn’s the other weekend. I can see okay out of it when it’s draped over my hat. But it seems to be too opaque for someone else to really see under it while Ekatarina’s face and mask should still be somewhat visible under the veil.
novaraven, luv_blindly, and blackmarth’s cards so far. Thanks! :-DOur tree is up and I finished my shopping for friends but still have one gift to make. Employee gifts have to be ordered tonight. I’d assumed we weren’t doing them this year with the rough economy but my father finally brought it up a few days ago and we’re going to barely make the shipping deadlines without paying extra. >_>;
As usual, I’m not sure what to do about my impossible-to-shop-for family. I’m wondering about getting my parents a meat grinder. They were looking for one at the mall the other day but we only found a grinding attachment for a stand mixer we don’t have and one model of meat grinder which was out of stock. My mother doesn’t trust ground meat so she has always bought cuts of meat and chopped them up herself but it’s a lot of extra work.
Not much new to talk about cosplay-wise. The fairy costume hasn’t been worked on and I’ve been meaning to start Ekaterina but haven’t gotten beyond cutting out some corset pattern pieces.
There’s sort of a funny story about that actually… I’d seen cable ties recommended for corsets in place of featherweight boning on cosplay.com and I asked my father about where to get long cable ties a few weeks back although I didn’t mention what I was using them for. He said he was going to check a place he normally orders supplies for the store from but I wasn’t in a big hurry and assumed he’d forgotten about it. Last week he brought me a package of cable ties that were about 2 mm thick and half an inch wide and asked me if that would work. Overkill for a corset, I think. XD; I asked him to send it back and picked out a more suitable size from the company’s website.
I think I need new veil fabric, too. I bought a piece of sheer black that was on sale at JoAnn’s the other weekend. I can see okay out of it when it’s draped over my hat. But it seems to be too opaque for someone else to really see under it while Ekatarina’s face and mask should still be somewhat visible under the veil.
