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!