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Last Saturday i spent hours on Amazon and YouTube learning about clip on hair extensions and then bought a gazillion, mostly for my niece's 14th birthday but also for me. For E-- a whole rainbow of colors, plus tinsel, plus something that i thought was close to her hair color -- and was spot on! -- and high lights for her hair color. When we gave it to her on Wednesday, she was so very very delighted. I have many colors and some tinsel, too.
I wish my scalp was happier and less miserable with skin conditions.
Does it say something about my tolerance for itching that a cluster of five poison ivy blisters does not itch? Or is it that the mystery bug bites have taken all the itch in my system? Ugh, all the itch.
Today i shopped for my brother and his wife and my other niece. I've getting them each a mesh zip up bag, a phone mount that is supposed to work on planes particularly well, and these straps that are sold as baby toy tethers but, you know, could tether other things for adults. I don't know if the gift will make sense. The few airplane seat organizers i found were almost OK or way more than i meant to spend.
I'm shipping it to Singapore. So there's that.
I'd gone down a rabbit hole looking at notebooks and stickers yesterday, to the extent of making a chart with notebook size dimensions. Dear Amazon, your search is BLEEPED. I've decided i am going to try A6 sized saddle stitched notebooks to replace the trifold 3x5 cards (9x5, technically) i've been scrawling on during work. I was also looking at stickers yesterday and saw a whole book of FEELINGS and i thought that would be great for young niece S--- who might benefit from naming feelings? Although she may just stick the stickers everywhere. She is an impulsive child.
So i was looking for some binder bands like are used to put together traveler's notebooks and could not find any appropriate for A6. So now i am buying 100 m of ten different colored elastic cords and crimps. And i'm buying lamination sheets to make my own covers.
Traveler's notebooks are seem to have some of the flexibility of filofax and ring binders, but also the straight forwardness of having things bound. One gets these small saddle stitched bound notebooks and uses elastics to bind them together inside a very simple cover. Of course the tactile intense thing is getting a gorgeous leather cover that takes on a patina with use: maybe i will use them enough to want to do that someday.
For now, i realized i had some 10x8 botanical photos i did years ago (before moving here). I've cut them down to a size that will work to make a cover for A6 notebooks, and lined them with some gorgeous 12"x12" "scrap booking" paper with which i made pockets: one for me, one for my niece S--. When the lamination sheets get here, those will protect the photo and the edges somewhat.
I've little eyelet punches with metal reinforcements i bought AEONS ago -- i will see if those will work with the elastic. I'll lace up the bindings. Then i'll slip our notebooks in and, voila, weird gift from the aunties.
That's kept me busy most of this rainy day. I can't believe it's after 8 pm. I haven't really done paper things since i moved here.
I wish i knew where the box of pretty washi tape went.
Meanwhile, plants were supposed to arrive on Wednesday. They have been put on the wrong truck, they have been forgotten, and then some third thing happened. I called today, and the person said they would try to track them down so they get shipped on Monday. POOR PLANTS. The warehouse is not climate controlled. We've had warm days. Fie.
I wish my scalp was happier and less miserable with skin conditions.
Does it say something about my tolerance for itching that a cluster of five poison ivy blisters does not itch? Or is it that the mystery bug bites have taken all the itch in my system? Ugh, all the itch.
Today i shopped for my brother and his wife and my other niece. I've getting them each a mesh zip up bag, a phone mount that is supposed to work on planes particularly well, and these straps that are sold as baby toy tethers but, you know, could tether other things for adults. I don't know if the gift will make sense. The few airplane seat organizers i found were almost OK or way more than i meant to spend.
I'm shipping it to Singapore. So there's that.
I'd gone down a rabbit hole looking at notebooks and stickers yesterday, to the extent of making a chart with notebook size dimensions. Dear Amazon, your search is BLEEPED. I've decided i am going to try A6 sized saddle stitched notebooks to replace the trifold 3x5 cards (9x5, technically) i've been scrawling on during work. I was also looking at stickers yesterday and saw a whole book of FEELINGS and i thought that would be great for young niece S--- who might benefit from naming feelings? Although she may just stick the stickers everywhere. She is an impulsive child.
So i was looking for some binder bands like are used to put together traveler's notebooks and could not find any appropriate for A6. So now i am buying 100 m of ten different colored elastic cords and crimps. And i'm buying lamination sheets to make my own covers.
Traveler's notebooks are seem to have some of the flexibility of filofax and ring binders, but also the straight forwardness of having things bound. One gets these small saddle stitched bound notebooks and uses elastics to bind them together inside a very simple cover. Of course the tactile intense thing is getting a gorgeous leather cover that takes on a patina with use: maybe i will use them enough to want to do that someday.
For now, i realized i had some 10x8 botanical photos i did years ago (before moving here). I've cut them down to a size that will work to make a cover for A6 notebooks, and lined them with some gorgeous 12"x12" "scrap booking" paper with which i made pockets: one for me, one for my niece S--. When the lamination sheets get here, those will protect the photo and the edges somewhat.
I've little eyelet punches with metal reinforcements i bought AEONS ago -- i will see if those will work with the elastic. I'll lace up the bindings. Then i'll slip our notebooks in and, voila, weird gift from the aunties.
That's kept me busy most of this rainy day. I can't believe it's after 8 pm. I haven't really done paper things since i moved here.
I wish i knew where the box of pretty washi tape went.
Meanwhile, plants were supposed to arrive on Wednesday. They have been put on the wrong truck, they have been forgotten, and then some third thing happened. I called today, and the person said they would try to track them down so they get shipped on Monday. POOR PLANTS. The warehouse is not climate controlled. We've had warm days. Fie.