Sunday, April 16, 2006
Paper, fabric, and other fun things
Angry Chicken has found some wonderful old printable paper dolls.
[NOTE: If you click through to the Printables web site, you'll need to disable JavaScript to do things like, oh, say, add the site to del.icio.us with the Firefox extension or blog it with Performancing--a couple of things that you'd think would be desirable actions by web site visitors--because in a rather pointless effort to keep people from saving images from the site, Printables has disabled right-click. See, it's pointless because all you have to do to get around it is turn off JavaScript in your browser while you're visiting the site. I understand not wanting other people to steal your images, but the right-click disable trick--besides being soooo 1997--just isn't effective, and it keeps people from doing useful, desirable things like easily sharing your site. And since they made it difficult for me, I'm not going to make is easy for them by linking to them here.]
But do go visit angry chicken and look at some of her neat things. Right now I'm fascinated by Tie One On, her monthly challenge and gallery of reader-submitted aprons.
I'm a big apron fan myself. There's hardly anything as useful as an apron: it keeps your clothes clean, a good one has plenty of pockets to put stuff in, and a really good one--say, a nice chiffon hostess apron with plenty of ruffles--makes you look dainty and delightful. I can't resist buying apron patterns every time JoAnn or Hancock's has 99-cent patterns, so I have a lot of apron patterns and a stash of 1930s reproduction fabric (every time I spot some on a clearance table I buy all that's left on the bolt, after the Great Classic Cottons Sellout of 2003, when I passed up these green kittens and they had sold out--in every color--at every store in town when I went back for them). Maybe I'll make one out of the blue birdies I scored for $2 a yard last week!
After all, since I'm a full-time homemaker now, I really need a new apron.
[NOTE: If you click through to the Printables web site, you'll need to disable JavaScript to do things like, oh, say, add the site to del.icio.us with the Firefox extension or blog it with Performancing--a couple of things that you'd think would be desirable actions by web site visitors--because in a rather pointless effort to keep people from saving images from the site, Printables has disabled right-click. See, it's pointless because all you have to do to get around it is turn off JavaScript in your browser while you're visiting the site. I understand not wanting other people to steal your images, but the right-click disable trick--besides being soooo 1997--just isn't effective, and it keeps people from doing useful, desirable things like easily sharing your site. And since they made it difficult for me, I'm not going to make is easy for them by linking to them here.]
But do go visit angry chicken and look at some of her neat things. Right now I'm fascinated by Tie One On, her monthly challenge and gallery of reader-submitted aprons.
I'm a big apron fan myself. There's hardly anything as useful as an apron: it keeps your clothes clean, a good one has plenty of pockets to put stuff in, and a really good one--say, a nice chiffon hostess apron with plenty of ruffles--makes you look dainty and delightful. I can't resist buying apron patterns every time JoAnn or Hancock's has 99-cent patterns, so I have a lot of apron patterns and a stash of 1930s reproduction fabric (every time I spot some on a clearance table I buy all that's left on the bolt, after the Great Classic Cottons Sellout of 2003, when I passed up these green kittens and they had sold out--in every color--at every store in town when I went back for them). Maybe I'll make one out of the blue birdies I scored for $2 a yard last week!
After all, since I'm a full-time homemaker now, I really need a new apron.
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