Rabbit Style News

I absolutely love the Halloween creme pumpkins, the ones similar to candy corn and often sold in the “harvest mix” bags of Halloween-specific orange-colored candies.  Tomorrow I will buy a few bags to hoard over the coming months.  I will refrain from eating them all at once, because my objective of buying and eating creme pumpkins for half-price runs contradictory to my objective of trimming down just little bit more (just a few pounds, no need for anyone to worry) and there must be a way to combine these goals without ruining anything.

I finished the tester purse today and I am pleased with the result although there are a few changes I need to make on the next, actual purse.  The top flap does not line up correctly with the body of the purse because I did not mark the seam allowance lines and apparently sewed them at different widths.  Using Corn Flakes box cardboard worked well rather than chipboard, whatever that is, to give it structure, and the button size is perfect with the frog closure.  It took several hours to make, and I expect the next one to be quicker and smoother, especially if I enlist the help of Boyfriend for the menial tasks like cutting out fabric and ironing on fusible interfacing.  I took the clutch with me to Jason’s Deli for dinner and it looked great, especially from a distance, and not at all like something that an unskilled person threw together in crafts class at summer camp as I had feared.

Great success!

I went shopping today with Boyfriend as we do almost every Sunday on the way home from the gym.  Fresh raspberries were on sale for $1 per 6 oz. package (usual price: $4) so I bought six containers of them.  I have eaten three of them already and it turns out that raspberries are kinda acidic after awhile.  My tummy burns and yet I keep eating them.  Because they are delicious.

We see pretty much the same few cashiers every time we go to the store and when we got to the cash register the clerk said, “Ooh, let’s see who’s going to pay more today?”  We split up our food so that I pay for what I’m going to eat, like the raspberries, and he pays for what he wants, and we split the shared items.  Most of the time it’s pretty even - today I paid only $7 more.  If we were married I would want us to have third, shared bank account that we would use for shared expenses like food, rent, utility bills, etc.  Just like Suze Orman, the resident financial expert for O magazine, recommends, we would each contribute to the shared account so that we each paid for mutual expenses in proportion to our income.  For example, if I made 65% of our combined monthly income, I would contribute 65% of the money in the shared account.  I’m happy with our current 50/50 method of splitting up expenses, although our incomes are relatively comparable so it wouldn’t be much of an issue anyway.

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So I went back to Joann Fabrics after work today and bought two and a half yards of the ruby and black brocade material that I was craving yesterday.  It was on sale for 40% off and I really wanted it.  I’m not sure what I’ll do with it though - 2.5 yards is probably not enough to make a long fancy dress, and it’s way too much for a simple handbag.  Maybe a corset type top, or a sleek skirt, or perhaps just a pillow or two?  I’ve been told that one can never have too many decorative pillows. 

Two young men approached the cutting counter with a bolt of ivory muslin and asked for 10 feet of the material.  The employee appeared startled and then muttered “ten feet, ten feet….” while alternating between staring in concentration at the yardstick and looking around with a lost expression.  “Three and a third,” I suggested helpfully, before instantly feeling like a nosy know-it-all.  “I wish I had showed up,” she said, although whether she meant to math class or mentally to work this evening wasn’t clear, and didn’t lessen my feelings of sheepishness.  That’s the line I don’t seem very good at walking: being smart vs smartypants, and knowing a lot vs being a know-it-all. 

Just today two people at work were having a discussion as I walked by and one said, “Let’s ask her!  She knows a lot of things”, to which I replied “I know things!  Ask me!”  Again, probably need some work on the social etiquette right about there.  I was in fact able to help them with their question, at least: what is the difference between an ipod and an mp3 player?

Today’s lesson for you, dear reader (to quote Miss Manners): it is customary to request your lengths of fabric using yards as the unit of measurument, not feet.