Not a whole lot going on here. I feel like I’m really trying to make up for lost time now that I’m feeling better. With Terry’s help, I painted more scissors tonight. I put the final clear coats on two pairs, so they will be dry and ready tomorrow. I decided to start again on the other two that I had previously painted. I found the leftovers of some chameleon paint that we had played with a couple of years ago; it will look like two different colors, depending on the angle of the light on the object and where you are relative to it. We have three different colors, but I chose my two favorites and Terry helped me with the painting. It’s actually a multi-step process. You have to put on several coats of a flat black paint, then build up multiple coats of the color-shifting paint and then end with several coats of a glossy top coat. We got through step two (the color-shifting paint) and will finish with the top coat tomorrow or Thursday. This weekend, I’ll be taking a coveted pair of matte metal Dovo scissors and adding my favorite purple-green chameleon paint to the handles. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
The bottom line is that there are no losers in The Great Scissors Giveaway. Even though I had greater than 20 entrants, everyone will end up with a pair of scissors, one way or another. The ones that I’ve painted may not be perfect, but they will be uniquely me. Hmmmm… if I get good at this, I wonder if I could sell them… Food for thought.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’ll post pictures or scans once they are all finished. Probably this weekend, as I have a game night tomorrow and we’re meeting up with Terry’s dad Thursday night.<\/p>\n
OH! I almost forgot my big news of the day. For those who have seen the photos from CATS the other weekend and those who met me in person, you know that I have VERY long hair. Well, had. \ud83d\ude09 Yes, I finally decided last night that I was fed up with all of this hair and went today to get it cut. I was only going to get 4 inches taken off, so that it still hung below my shoulders, but apparently my stylist had other plans. It’s now layered and shorter than I wanted. A lot shorter. Put it this way, when I say that I want the cut that Jennifer Aniston had on Friends, I don’t mean that you should take off 5 or 6 inches and then keep going, and going, and going. She got a little carried away with the layering. I think she definitely had a vision in mind and it was not shared by me. So, my shortest layer ends around the bottom of my ear and the longest layers end at the shoulder (Cathy<\/a>, think your current haircut but just a tad longer; that’s what I get for envying your easy-to-care-for ‘do!). SHOCK! I’m still getting used to it. Maybe I’ll post a CATS photo and an after photo once I get the hang of working with it for a few days. It feels very strange to not have all of that hair hanging around. I was used to just gathering it up and throwing it over my shoulders to get it out of my face, now it’s right there, all of the time. But, as I told Terry before I went in and he’s been graciously reminding me since, it’s just hair. It grows. Give it a couple of inches and it will be closer to what I had wanted. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n Okay, that’s it for now, I just finished bundling up some more packages to go out tomorrow morning. And I’ve been fighting a headache since we left work, but it was a tough day fighting programming that didn’t seem to want to work how I intended. Plus it’s THAT week of the month, which usually means a migraine that I’d rather not have. So, I should get to bed, as I had a bout of insomnia last night and was unable to get to sleep for quite some time (fussing about my hair, funnily enough; tonight, it might be my mind fussing over it in the opposite direction!).<\/p>\n I’ll try to post tomorrow during the day, since we’ll have game night, probably into the wee hours. I’ll be taking a couple of hours off on Thursday, mostly likely, and working from home.<\/p>\n Tah!<\/p>\n P.S. I claimed another exemption to my 50 Projects Challenge today. I think I may have found the one store on the planet that still has (hopefully!) one of the Lorri Birmingham hardanger tea tray linen kits called Summer Hearts. As Cathy<\/a> probably remembers me lamenting at CATS, they did not have that season in Lorri’s booth and I was quite bummed to find out that she was retiring and what they had there was all she had left. I talked to her during class and she was going to try to hook me up with the chart and the fabric, if she still had some, along with a detailed list of materials and where I could buy them, but I haven’t heard from her yet and the actual kit would be a lot easier! So, cross your fingers that they still have one. I have the other three seasons and the tea tray, so I’m really desperate to round out the set. If this order goes through and I win the two eBay auctions that I’m bidding on, my Lorri Birmingham exemption will be fulfilled and no longer in play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not a whole lot going on here. I feel like I’m really trying to make up for lost time now that I’m feeling better. With Terry’s help, I painted more scissors tonight. I put the final clear coats on two … Continue reading