Stuff

Current Location: Dad's house, Rio Linda

  We had some trouble with our internet provider, and were on pay-by-the-hour dialup for at least a week and a half.  So I was using the internet as little as possible and now I have some catching up to do.  I intend to backdate those entries as I post them, so that everything will be in chronological order by when it happened, not when I typed it up.  Sorry if this confuses anyone.

  Here's what I did today: more shopping.  Apparently it was a holiday of some sort, so the Goodwills were having 50% off sales on all donated items.  At the first one we went to, I tried on practically every pair of linen pants in the store, having decided it was stupid to try to make every piece of my Halloween costume from scratch in two weeks.  Here's what I ended up with:

The Chinese shirt and giant top hat were impulse buys.  The one will be painted or distressed or something and hopefully sold for Nova Albion, the other is for the party and may look well atop the sarcophagus or a lamp.

Swap Meet

Current Location: Dad's house, Rio Linda

  Today was the first big swap meet for the Sacramento Steampunk Society.  I was a little worried people wouldn't bring much stuff but I guess I shouldn't have been.  I got a whole bunch of new stuff, sold a few things, and somehow ended up with the same amount of money I started with!  Also there is a good chance someone will be ordering a hat from me soon, in which case I will have not only made money but sold a hat, which is what I really wanted from tonight.  Here's what I got:

Digital paintings (the Harry Potter one was a freebie), more free stuff, three shirts, two napkin rings, a cup, and a belt, and MOAR PATTERNS (thank goodness for "use it or lose it"; I am getting buried in the things)!

Stuff I Tried On in Virginia City

Did I get the capitalization right?

Current Location: Dad's house, Rio Linda

Me trying clothes on in the bathroom.

Labor Day Weekend

Current Location: Mom's house, Diamond Springs

  On Saturday, my mom and I went to Placerville to pick up her stained glass dragon which was being repaired.  The glass shop never seems to be open, though, and this weekend was no exception.  However, we were still able to spend some time on Main Street.  We went to the bead shop, where I bought some overpriced filigree and rhinestones, and was talked into a book about making wire jewelry.  Then we went to Placerville Hardware (the oldest continually open hardware store on the West Coast, or something like that).  I was looking for something interesting to make the supports for a pair of geta for next year's Wild Wild East themed Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition.  I didn't have any luck in that, but I did find a pair of suspenders made to look like measuring tape, some cocktail forks I intend to make into hair ornaments for the same event, and some random hardware bits that are going to be turned into more jewelry.  Then we got ice cream.  They had many different kinds of cones, so I decided to try something different than my usual (I like cup cones.  I have been known to eat my way through entire packages of them without any ice cream.).  So I got two scoops of Cookie Dough ice cream on a double-headed cone.  What I didn't realize was that their scoops were GINORMOUS (I hear that's officially a word now), which meant not only was it a little more sugar than I really wanted, but before I got to the cone it was soaked through rather than crunchy.  Also I think I managed to drip ice cream all down the front of my dress (from stomach to floor) without noticing.  Lesson learned!