The One Hundred by Nina Garcia
And I got a new book! (Thank you Mr Beloved, *Mwah Mwah*!) BUT I have to swear off magazines. No buying at the newsagents/shops except for Australian Stitches Magazine and Burda World of Fashion. Even some of the ones I have subscriptions for won’t be renewed. (Quilters Newsletter, Cloth Paper Scissors, and maybe even Quilting Arts – I’m talking ’bout YOU!)
Magazines are to budgets what biscuits are to diets – they kinda creep back in, and all of a sudden they’re making you fat. Yep, magazines make my house look FAT, I hate seeing clutter everywhere! (And after seeing the dietician this morning and not losing anything AGAIN this week, the gingernuts done with, too.)
The illustrations are just superb – Ruben Toledo is a genius! Have a look inside the book here. (I’d scan in more images that I’d like to comment on, but I am SOOOOO clumsy with the new image editing software that’s it’s unbearable. Grumble grumble.)
Ruben Toledo Illustration
Also bought some “suck your tummy in” pants at Big W. (Or for those of us who remember the old ads- “I can’t believe it’s not a GIRDLE!” – well that’s because it bloody well IS!!) Also a couple of HOT PINK T-shirts because they were 2 for $16 – I can’t make them for that. Some poor worker at the #74 Hot-Pink-T-Shirt-Factory-and-Political-Prison-Somewhere-in-China sewed them. Which I feel slightly guilty about, but it’s HARD to be politically correct when you’re a pov! And I’ve only just learned that after years of wanting to wear HOT PINK, it’s actually a good colour on me – wooo hooo!
(and yes, HOT PINK does need all caps – how else do I convey that the colour is not some prissy little baby pink, hmmm?)
And now I really should stop faffing about on the ‘puter and go sew this #*&)@$) zipper that I’ve been procrastinating about for days – once that’s done I can go ask my sewing buddy Sue to help me with the hem!
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I made that promise last Christmas and haven’t bought a single mag all year – except the Textile Fibre Forum which was a subscription bought and paid for and which is about to expire. Yes I too stopped the Quilting Arts and cloth paper scissors and any other related mag that took my fancy. It’s amazing how much one can save without buying magazines and how much they add up to if you were game.
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