I am no longer allowed into Joann’s Fabric store unsupervised. Especially while they’re having a huge sale. You know that it’s a dangerous “omg there’s soooo much here that I want” type of place when I make the supervision-required rule myself.

Anywho, I bought fabric for the living room, kitchen, and bedroom. The kitchen fabric is white with tiny cherries on it, and the rest of the rooms are just solid blues (light blue and dark blue) and white. I’m going to attempt to match up the bedroom curtain’s stripe with the color change on the bedroom wall, which should be interesting to say the least. With any luck I’ll have them all done and hanging up by the time Mom and Brian get back from Florida.

Have I mentioned that I’ve never made curtains before? Thankfully, Eddie seems to have faith in my skills. I think.

I’ve decided to go with red knobs on the doors. I don’t think the yellow and white will be much of a contrast against each other. Plus, red has the added bonus of staying cleaner longer.

I dropped Eddie off at work this morning, and since the highway was jammed heading into the city I decided to walk around the store. I got no less than 4 comments on my homemade dress, and only one of those was from my mother. I walked through the fabric and craft department and found a fuckload of black stretch velvet that I think I could use if it wasn’t too bulky (I didn’t pull it down to really look at other than checking the price), and ended up buying another sheet set - this time in lavender - to make another dress tomorrow. I also picked up some slightly-shiny capri-length leggings, because I’m still a fat chick who doesn’t like her thighs to rub together, and they look pretty snazzy under the dress. Very 80’s.

The car got fixed this morning. Eddie walked up to the gas station shortly after their service center opened and got them to put some new terminals on. Cost us $26, and most of that was labor.

The monkey’s dress is nearly done, and is coming out much better than I imagined it would. The only thing left is to make the sleeves and sew those on, and sew on the loops for the corset back of the bodice. I haven’t decided if I’m going to trim the lower hem of the bodice in addition to the sleeves yet. I also took a nearly full shot of the dress, and another picture of the detail of the gown and peticoat hems.

I left the house this afternoon expecting to need to go out and find some ivory and gold brocade as backup fabric in case I didn’t get the stuff I ordered on Friday. It turned out I bought from the fastest ebay seller around and received it in this morning’s mail, and it’s gorgeous. Even if it does smell slightly like a shower curtain. So I headed out to the fabric store to buy some trimmings for the gown, then headed to Walmart to pick up Eddie. I bought a bundle of fake flowers and some more fabric for a couple of purses - guess what everyone is getting for Christmas this year?

I guess I should go start working on the dress. I’ve got a lot of work to do.

We did some grocery shopping today, enough food to get us through the next week or so. I’ve discovered that I really like the Dannon strawberry-banana smoothies. I picked out some microwavable hot fudge for our ice cream, without realizing that our microwave is very small and the plastic bottle won’t fit in there. Whoops.

Later Eddie dropped me off in a fabric store while he hit the liquer store. I wanted to check out the fabric because I wanted to see my options in case the stuff I got on ebay yesterday doesn’t get here in time. Bride Monkey needs to be done by Thursday night because she needs to get brought to work on Friday for a wedding on Saturday. This means that I need to have the fabric in my hot little hands by Wednesday at the latest, and that would mean that it’s a damned good thing that the pattern has already been worked out for the most part; I still need to figure out the sleeves, but I don’t immagine that it would be incredibly difficult to find some simple pattern similar online. God bless the internet. The only thing that may need to be bought is the trim, but that depends on how full I make the skirt and whether or not I trim the sleeves.

Tomorrow we’ll be going to Mom’s for football and wings. It’s been raining for the past few hours, so I doubt we’ll be going to the flea market. We’ve also got to stop at Walmart to find some soda (it was $5/case at Stop & Shop, which is terrible) and go to Petco to pick up a Kong or two for Pickle to replace the holy keychain, which is ready to be retired. Personally, I think that they look like big red buttplugs, and if real buttplugs weren’t so expensive I’d buy her a couple of rubber ones just for the sheer shock value and hilarity of it all. Up for debate is whether or not she actually comes to Mom’s with us.