It's Pioneer Day here in the great state of Utah. Fireworks will be going off tonight by those who cherish the pioneer history of their state and also by those who just love any reason for fireworks. I myself fall into neither category as being able to see fireworks for some reason just eludes me. I was able to see some fireworks that the neighbors set off late on the 4th, and also about 1 week ago when they were going off obnoxiously late as well as obnoxiously LOUD. They were really nice though. I was kind of hoping we might get some for this weekend as I think tonight or maybe tomorrow might be the last legal day they are allowed here in Ogden. (Though I am also thinking that they weren't legal a couple weeks back when people were still setting them off.) Oh well. Maybe next year, which is what I seeme doomed to keep saying every year.
I meant to blog about my trip last weekend to Salt Lake City, but just never got to it. We left after lunch, drove the hour or so it takes to get there, and then we went to a store I have been dying to go to since we moved to Ogden. I wish it was closer. Crone's Hollow is truly an enchanting little shop. I am planning on leaving a review for the store. I loved the store, though the employee was a little rude and offended one of my party. (She came off as one of those people who likes to shape conversations to make herself look better and more knowledgeable than anyone else. It was a little hard to get her attention if you wanted to ask her anything, and she made you feel annoying for doing so.) After that, we went to Temple Square, and I walked around with the droves of other curious people, and took a few pictures. (I have yet to upload them along with a bunch of other pictures I have taken. My computer took a streak of jamming up whenever I try down loading any pictures from my camera, so I try to down load as infrequently as possible. Lately it's been better, but I still don't trust it.) Salt Lake City is a pretty big city, with quite a few people, but it is actually not as crazy as I had expected. It is chock full of its own bad drivers, but seems to lack a little bit of the mania expressed by the Ogden drivers. (Maybe it was just the down town area we went.)
My new Blythe is finally all fixed up. I worked on her yesterday most of the afternoon, and just got her put back together today. I will be posting a TBL vs. EBL comparison at one point. Seeing the differences in the two was very interesting! She - my EBL - took on a much different look than I had first thought she would. I was having a hard time figuring her out. I think though, I will save this for a separate post.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Friday, July 18, 2014
My new Blythe
My new Blythe is a Disco Boogie Blythe. (My first real Blythe! Yay!!) I got her for a really good deal. In truth the top reason I got her was the price, but I also happen to really like her as well. She kind of stumped me a bit though with exactly what I was going to do with her. Her hair is brown with blonde streaks, and her stock make up is pretty atrocious. She also has more sun kissed skin tone than Lotus by a long shot. But, I love her. I first thought I would call her Desert Skye. I am chained to absolute theme-yness, so of course I have to come up with a theme I love for her. My usual aesthetic is like Lotus - more spooky, or haunting, or whimsical.My original plan with her was to go very neutral to have a much better model for whatever it is I might be making, although I don't know how much I can actually do neutral. I was thinking I would give her eyelids a nice sky treatment (which I don't think I can actually do well enough) and paint her lips peach. Today, though, I changed my mind as she didn't seem right yet. And I want her to be perfect.
Today I think I finally got it right. I am just going with tan and brown for her look. It will still be neutral enough, but also theme-y enough to make me content. I even settled on fabric for her own dress, and now she is coming together perfectly. Her name is still Desert, but instead of Skye, it'll be Sand. So, Dessy Sand. After I am done with all the sewing I am wanting to get finished up today I am going to start sand matting her face. I am more excited about her now than I was when she arrived, and when she arrived I was really excited.
And today, I put another Blythe on layaway! I can get her out next Friday. I am buying Prima Dolly Ginger. She is all fixed up already in my mind, and I seriously doubt she will change at all once she arrives. I won't talk about her now though. Dessy deserves her own post. I will take pictures of her later. (Once Master Chef is over, which I am hardly paying attention to any ways, but I still for some reason want to see who goes home. I really don't like this show.)
Today I think I finally got it right. I am just going with tan and brown for her look. It will still be neutral enough, but also theme-y enough to make me content. I even settled on fabric for her own dress, and now she is coming together perfectly. Her name is still Desert, but instead of Skye, it'll be Sand. So, Dessy Sand. After I am done with all the sewing I am wanting to get finished up today I am going to start sand matting her face. I am more excited about her now than I was when she arrived, and when she arrived I was really excited.
And today, I put another Blythe on layaway! I can get her out next Friday. I am buying Prima Dolly Ginger. She is all fixed up already in my mind, and I seriously doubt she will change at all once she arrives. I won't talk about her now though. Dessy deserves her own post. I will take pictures of her later. (Once Master Chef is over, which I am hardly paying attention to any ways, but I still for some reason want to see who goes home. I really don't like this show.)
Thursday, July 17, 2014
The internet's back!
Yay! And I survived. There was stuff I needed to do, people to contact, but all in all, I survived. It is a relief though to have it back. We were only without it for what, 4 or 5 days? Still felt like a long time. You see, I woke up the morning that this whole thing started to no internet signal. The modem was plugged in, but no lights. I unplugged it, plugged it back in twice, and finally the lights came back on, but no internet signal, and our network wasn't even on the list of available connections. I reset the modem, same result. (This also happened to same day as the one lone cellphone we have in the house died from heat stroke, so we had to find a phone too.) The hope was that since we got this at the Ogden mall, we could simply take it in there, explain what happened and maybe they would exchange it for us. We drove the mall (on one of the hottest days of the summer - 105 degrees O.o) only to find they weren't there. We found out that they moved to Layton Hills mall, about 30 minutes away. That might be doable. Luckily we were able to pull up the Xfinity 1 hour free pass to activate the new cell phone, since, you know, you have to have either the internet or another phone to call to activate it.
Later on that night, I had the fun experience of talking to CenturyLink while she tried this and that to test it to see if the modem was bad or not. (And I had to turn off the fans to be able to hear which meant sitting there sweating bullets.) 30 minutes or so later, it was determined that the modem was bad. I asked her if it would be possible to exchange the bad modem at the mall, and she said it would be fine if they had one with the same serial number. After some conversation back and forth with me telling her where the mall was, and her asking me for the number (which I didn't have) and the zip code for Layton (which I didn't know and couldn't find in the phone book since apparently the Ogden phone books don't list other county or near by city zips like they do in Owensboro), she simply looked it up herself and called them to see if they had what we were looking for. No one answered (it was about 7 or so in the evening) so she gave me the number and told me to call them the next day. And, if they didn't have what we needed, to call her back via her direct phone number which she gave me.
The next day, we found out that they did have 2 modems in stock, but they were no longer in Layton. They had moved to Murray, which is in SLC and way too long of a drive. Next step was to call CenturyLink again to tell them we would need one mailed. After another 20 minute conversation with the same lady going through the same steps we had gone through the night before, she determined again that the modem was bad. I shouldn't have gotten irritated, but I did. It didn't seem to matter to her that we had already gone through this all the night before. I guess though that our account hadn't gotten updated. And I figured that she was just doing her job, and it would really suck to be in customer service, so there was no good reason to not be anything but polite. She was after all, very nice, and while a little hard to understand the thicker her Asian accent got, she was a pleasant employee to deal with. (We have all dealt with those that make calling in about a problem feel like we had just committed a serious crime to which there is no pardon.)
And surprise, surprise, the box appeared today before lunch. :D So now, I can get caught up with all the internet-y type of things I have going on.
Later on that night, I had the fun experience of talking to CenturyLink while she tried this and that to test it to see if the modem was bad or not. (And I had to turn off the fans to be able to hear which meant sitting there sweating bullets.) 30 minutes or so later, it was determined that the modem was bad. I asked her if it would be possible to exchange the bad modem at the mall, and she said it would be fine if they had one with the same serial number. After some conversation back and forth with me telling her where the mall was, and her asking me for the number (which I didn't have) and the zip code for Layton (which I didn't know and couldn't find in the phone book since apparently the Ogden phone books don't list other county or near by city zips like they do in Owensboro), she simply looked it up herself and called them to see if they had what we were looking for. No one answered (it was about 7 or so in the evening) so she gave me the number and told me to call them the next day. And, if they didn't have what we needed, to call her back via her direct phone number which she gave me.
The next day, we found out that they did have 2 modems in stock, but they were no longer in Layton. They had moved to Murray, which is in SLC and way too long of a drive. Next step was to call CenturyLink again to tell them we would need one mailed. After another 20 minute conversation with the same lady going through the same steps we had gone through the night before, she determined again that the modem was bad. I shouldn't have gotten irritated, but I did. It didn't seem to matter to her that we had already gone through this all the night before. I guess though that our account hadn't gotten updated. And I figured that she was just doing her job, and it would really suck to be in customer service, so there was no good reason to not be anything but polite. She was after all, very nice, and while a little hard to understand the thicker her Asian accent got, she was a pleasant employee to deal with. (We have all dealt with those that make calling in about a problem feel like we had just committed a serious crime to which there is no pardon.)
And surprise, surprise, the box appeared today before lunch. :D So now, I can get caught up with all the internet-y type of things I have going on.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
I haven't posted since when?
Wow, it's been awhile! I have had stuff going on since then I could have posted about, but just didn't. Dang, I don't even remember what my last post was about. :/
Well, let's see, what has been going on? Not too much lately, but I am happy to say that my DZ Coral and Eudora are about halfway paid off now. I made the payment on Monday, I think, after getting the payment for 2 commissioned dresses for AG dolls through AG Playthings. Though the purchase was made via my Etsy. I've been in bed all week, so I haven't started on any of the pattern drafting yet. I am hoping to see a different week starting next Monday where I can go back to doing things I want and need to do.
I am very excited to work on the dresses. They are from the Marie-Grace paperdolls, a red floral dress for MG and Cecile's Work Dress. I need to get back to my buyer and let her know something. My plan is to draw out s design to show her to make sure I am understanding the design changes she wants to make them more historically accurate. (She is awesome to work with - she really knows this era of clothing, so I am truly enjoying working with her.) I just haven't felt like doing that either. :(
It's so annoying to have Blythe dresses all finished up and waiting to have pictures taken for my store, but it just isn't happening. I came up with a new pattern last week, and made 2 for my shop. I have 1 more in that style cut out, and one partially sewn. I also have 2 bubble dresses finished sans snaps and plans for more.
I WANT TO FEEL BETTER NOW!!!!
Well, let's see, what has been going on? Not too much lately, but I am happy to say that my DZ Coral and Eudora are about halfway paid off now. I made the payment on Monday, I think, after getting the payment for 2 commissioned dresses for AG dolls through AG Playthings. Though the purchase was made via my Etsy. I've been in bed all week, so I haven't started on any of the pattern drafting yet. I am hoping to see a different week starting next Monday where I can go back to doing things I want and need to do.
I am very excited to work on the dresses. They are from the Marie-Grace paperdolls, a red floral dress for MG and Cecile's Work Dress. I need to get back to my buyer and let her know something. My plan is to draw out s design to show her to make sure I am understanding the design changes she wants to make them more historically accurate. (She is awesome to work with - she really knows this era of clothing, so I am truly enjoying working with her.) I just haven't felt like doing that either. :(
It's so annoying to have Blythe dresses all finished up and waiting to have pictures taken for my store, but it just isn't happening. I came up with a new pattern last week, and made 2 for my shop. I have 1 more in that style cut out, and one partially sewn. I also have 2 bubble dresses finished sans snaps and plans for more.
I WANT TO FEEL BETTER NOW!!!!
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