I Have Found The Camera!

Have you ever noticed that technology gets all sorts of features that you don't need, but never the one that you do need?  I can change the sound effects my camera makes when I turn it on, take a picture, turn it off, and probably all sorts of other things, but what it doesn't do and the one sound option that I would frankly care about is if it had a little "find me" feature like cordless phones, so when I set the stupid thing down somewhere I would have some help finding it later.  Really, wouldn't that be a helpful feature?

At any rate, since I have the camera, the new finished BSJ:

and lest there be any interruptions in the projects-in-progress-but-not-finished status here, immediately cast on a new scarf:
and even some progress on the new socks for me:
 
So the recuperation is at least sort of productive, even if I am getting a bit stir crazy.   The hip is improving, but I keep tensing up and aggravating my back, which makes me tense up even MORE, so I still can't sit, but I was getting pretty impatient yesterday, so I decided to try a craft I could STAND while doing.  In a book from the library, they had wonderful pictures of ornaments created by gluing fabric onto Styrofoam balls, then adding trim by using a glue gun.  This seamed like a great idea to me, and one hour and a general coating of Styrofoam flakes and glue later:
 
I hate it.  "Smooth the edges down" it said.  "Create big stupid puckers everywhere" is what I actually did.  The trim neither covers up all the puckers NOR the big glue spots I created with the glue gun.  I haven't decided if I'm going to finish it or just rip it apart and start over, but I did decide that the next one could be sewn together, 
which involved sitting, which I forgot I was trying not to do, so this is as far as it got.  Still, even deflated I think it's quite an improvement over the first one.  I got a few more shapes cut out,
and I think they will be pretty cute.  And far easier than the ball-from-hell, even if I do have to wait until I can sew them.........or figure out where to put the sewing machine so I can stand while doing it.  

Comments

Meredith said…
Toni, as usual you are way and I mean way more productive than me.
Happy Halloween,
Meredith
October 31, 2011 at 10:49 AM
RobinH said…
Hmm. We did a bunch of those fabric-and-styrofoam ball ornaments when I was a kid. Not much glue was used, though- mostly pins- you just stuck them into the foam. Did the book give you a pattern for the fabric pieces? They ought to be sort of petal-shaped, to go on a sphere. And six pieces would probably fit with less puckering. You could even snip the edges the way you do seams in sewing to ease the fit.

Love the BSJ!
October 31, 2011 at 12:49 PM
RobinH said…
I should also point out that my camera was hiding in sympathy with yours and as soon as yours emerged, so did mine...
November 1, 2011 at 9:26 AM
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