Weekly thingy, embroidery update, and fashion (of sorts).

If you thought the food dish was fancy, LOOK at this ridiculous fountain. In my head it’s glazed pottery but really I’m just happy the silver thread for water worked out so well.

Also this week, I altered a swimsuit! This starts stupidly – I know better, but I got tempted into ordering a swimsuit from RetroStage by both the sale price and the CUTENESS. I went a size up from what the chart said because I’d seen reviews saying the cups were a bit small, and I figured if the tits fit I could work with a looser body.

What came in was definitely big for me (workable) but the boobs were LAUGHABLY small. Just, half the size I need. I checked on their return policy (terrible of course) and took the only option that wouldn’t cost me more money – a whole $9 refund and keeping the suit.

SO. Time to get creative!

My first thought was to pull the structure out of the cups and build a swimsuit-worthy bra into them, but nope, the cups were just too tiny. So now I have a very cute two piece – I cut off and added elastic to the bottom, and then used scrap from the top to decorate that bra. Yaaaaaaay new swimsuit!

Places to buy stuff!

• The Gamecrafter: your home for the new and slightly improved Neurotic Owl Tarot. AND Neurotic Owl’s Faerytale Tarot! https://tgc.link/Faerytaletarot
• TEEPUBLIC: mostly t-shirts, a few other products.  Watch for sales, when shirts drop from $20 to $14!
• REDBUBBLE: Just, I don’t know, a ton of different stuff.  T-shirts are more expensive than Teepublic, but there are a lot more options.
• AMAZON: Home of the Geeky Gals Coloring Book!  Daydreams and Whimsies!  AND NOW, The Neurotic Owl Compendium!
• https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/naralesser
• ETSY: paper dolls, a knitting bag pattern, and a bunch of vintage dolls of various sorts from my collection

Did I miss something?  I think that’s everything.

What’s making me happy this week:

Continuing vacation means I’ve finished all the painting I was wanting to get done around the house – bathroom, kitchen, and all remaining untouched walls in the living area have been redone with semi-gloss, and while I was at it I fixed up the built-in bookcase with fresh paint on the shelves and a cute wallpaper accent. Yay making my home fancy with very little money involved!