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Slightly late yard sailing update: This weekend was our church's big spring rummage sale, which Mom is always in charge of and I end up helping out a lot. This year's had about three times the normal amount of junk, because two elderly church members gave all of their leftover things to the sale. (One of them passed away; one of them just moved to a retirement home.)
Anyway our church's sale means I can spend all the time I want picking through the junk and taking home anything I decide I need - we put in a couple twenties' worth of change and have that cover whatever we take.
So, not counting the stuff I pulled out before the sale that came from our house anyway, or what I got from Miss Mary's before the sale, I ended up with:
a lacy jacket for wearing over sleeveless summer dresses;
a teal blue Oleg Cassini skirtsuit that fits me perfectly (and makes me really want a reason to wear it.)
a bright-pink-woven-through-with-other-colors blazer that everybody says makes me look like the Queen of England (score!)
5 very basic cardigans
5 old designer silk scarves
(I usually don't bring home any clothes to speak of except from our church's sales, because going through rummage sale clothes takes forever and is a crapshoot on sizes, plus I don't need any more clothes, so I have to get rid of something every time I bring something home. But the result is that the nicer part of my wardrobe is coming to increasingly resemble, well, the Queen of England's. That is a-ok with me: there's a reason the only fashion blogs still on my reading list are Mad Hattery and An Affordable Wardrobe.)
5 brand-new glass-front document frames exactly the right size for fanart prints.
an antique wooden vegetable crate (I kept telling myself I wasn't allowed to take this unless I had a specific place and use for it, and then I remembered that I'd just been thinking I needed a new file box for this particular shelf, so serendipity!)
A smallish silver-or-silver-plated bowl with a coppery interior and a Wallace silvermark (I have a bad habit of picking up random pieces of cheap but attractive silver to put on my altar shelf. I think it's because of early influence from the Saltash Set.)
An antique aluminum cocktail shaker that also works as a measuring cup (because I've been wanting a tin cup for camping!)
A set of multicolored pigma micron tech pens.
This really interesting non-powered projector-thing that lets you trace things from life directly onto paper with the magic of mirrors.
Two largish pieces of interesting cloth (one to go in the box of sca-materials, one to re-upholster my director's chair.)
A huge bag of tangled-up pieces of scrap embroidery floss (I figure if I'm going to start collecting some kind of craft supplies mostly because I like all the colors, embroidery floss is probably the most harmless.)
The People's Almanac by Wallechinsky and Wallace
Reader's Digest Back to Basics
South Street: A Photographic Guide to NYC's Historic Seaport by Rosebrock and Gillon
A cassette tape that may or may not have something recorded on it.
At prices marked (by other people!) that would have come out to exactly $20, plus whatever the bowl should have been (it had a 10¢ sticker on it but we were all pretty sure that wasn't the intended price, but since the person who priced the kitchenware wasn't there, and the more I look at it the more I think it might be sterling, I have no idea what the price should have been.)
My task for today is to find places to put it all away, and take out the stuff I'm getting rid of in exchange.
Here, have a meme thing, because all of the deep and creative and thoughtful posts I want to do just aren't happening right now:
You're now a Time Lord. The 41st picture in your folder is your companion. The 17th is your arch enemy.
I only have two image folders on this computer that are big enough for this. Using my "interesting or appealing photos of people" folder, I get:
My companions are
and my arch enemy is
.
...I want this episode now. Boris is a Dr. Who villain anyway. He and Hartnell's Doctor would bounce off of each other beautifully and Ian and Barbara could just lounge around in their draperies enjoying the show.
Using my "photoreferences for fanart I may or may not ever finish", I get:
My companion is
and my arch enemies are
.
Um, I'm pretty sure that Theta Sigma vs. The Man is already canon. (I think the lesson here is that I have too many Old Who pictures saved, although if I'd been one off either side I'd have ended up with Cut ya' man vs. the Repentant Magdalen and Betty Grable vs. Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith, which yes please. Also I seem to go for black & white.)
Anyway our church's sale means I can spend all the time I want picking through the junk and taking home anything I decide I need - we put in a couple twenties' worth of change and have that cover whatever we take.
So, not counting the stuff I pulled out before the sale that came from our house anyway, or what I got from Miss Mary's before the sale, I ended up with:
a lacy jacket for wearing over sleeveless summer dresses;
a teal blue Oleg Cassini skirtsuit that fits me perfectly (and makes me really want a reason to wear it.)
a bright-pink-woven-through-with-other-colors blazer that everybody says makes me look like the Queen of England (score!)
5 very basic cardigans
5 old designer silk scarves
(I usually don't bring home any clothes to speak of except from our church's sales, because going through rummage sale clothes takes forever and is a crapshoot on sizes, plus I don't need any more clothes, so I have to get rid of something every time I bring something home. But the result is that the nicer part of my wardrobe is coming to increasingly resemble, well, the Queen of England's. That is a-ok with me: there's a reason the only fashion blogs still on my reading list are Mad Hattery and An Affordable Wardrobe.)
5 brand-new glass-front document frames exactly the right size for fanart prints.
an antique wooden vegetable crate (I kept telling myself I wasn't allowed to take this unless I had a specific place and use for it, and then I remembered that I'd just been thinking I needed a new file box for this particular shelf, so serendipity!)
A smallish silver-or-silver-plated bowl with a coppery interior and a Wallace silvermark (I have a bad habit of picking up random pieces of cheap but attractive silver to put on my altar shelf. I think it's because of early influence from the Saltash Set.)
An antique aluminum cocktail shaker that also works as a measuring cup (because I've been wanting a tin cup for camping!)
A set of multicolored pigma micron tech pens.
This really interesting non-powered projector-thing that lets you trace things from life directly onto paper with the magic of mirrors.
Two largish pieces of interesting cloth (one to go in the box of sca-materials, one to re-upholster my director's chair.)
A huge bag of tangled-up pieces of scrap embroidery floss (I figure if I'm going to start collecting some kind of craft supplies mostly because I like all the colors, embroidery floss is probably the most harmless.)
The People's Almanac by Wallechinsky and Wallace
Reader's Digest Back to Basics
South Street: A Photographic Guide to NYC's Historic Seaport by Rosebrock and Gillon
A cassette tape that may or may not have something recorded on it.
At prices marked (by other people!) that would have come out to exactly $20, plus whatever the bowl should have been (it had a 10¢ sticker on it but we were all pretty sure that wasn't the intended price, but since the person who priced the kitchenware wasn't there, and the more I look at it the more I think it might be sterling, I have no idea what the price should have been.)
My task for today is to find places to put it all away, and take out the stuff I'm getting rid of in exchange.
Here, have a meme thing, because all of the deep and creative and thoughtful posts I want to do just aren't happening right now:
You're now a Time Lord. The 41st picture in your folder is your companion. The 17th is your arch enemy.
I only have two image folders on this computer that are big enough for this. Using my "interesting or appealing photos of people" folder, I get:
My companions are
and my arch enemy is
....I want this episode now. Boris is a Dr. Who villain anyway. He and Hartnell's Doctor would bounce off of each other beautifully and Ian and Barbara could just lounge around in their draperies enjoying the show.
Using my "photoreferences for fanart I may or may not ever finish", I get:
My companion is
and my arch enemies are
.Um, I'm pretty sure that Theta Sigma vs. The Man is already canon. (I think the lesson here is that I have too many Old Who pictures saved, although if I'd been one off either side I'd have ended up with Cut ya' man vs. the Repentant Magdalen and Betty Grable vs. Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith, which yes please. Also I seem to go for black & white.)
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I think my Time Lord life would be awesome!
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