I was reading a report that said cats are rather disruptive of their humans' sleep, especially at dawn, when they are most active.
I can personally validate that information, since Scampers sleeps in the bed beside me and wakes me early in the morning when he's ready for his breakfast -- usually between 4 and 5 AM.
Once we're both up, he'll spend the rest of the day helping me out with my projects. Or at least keeping tabs on my whereabouts since I'm where his next meal is coming from.
This magazine will go into DH's stocking come Christmas: he loves doing puzzles, and rumour has it that this unmarked book cost Santa only 50 cents.
One of the machines that I had stored in my friend's warehouse is this beautiful vintage Singer 503, one of the space age inspired "Rocketeers" from the early 1960s.
Unlike its sister machine, the Rocketeer 500, this one has no built-in camstack, but it does have fancy stitch capability, thanks to Singer's interchangeable top hat cams.
It needed a good wipe down and a bit of oil after sitting unused for so long, but that's all it took to get it sewing beautifully. I see t hat it's missing its slide plate, but that's easily remedied.
Once that's done, I'll most likely sew some small projects and then reluctantly list it for sale, since I have another. I'd keep it, but these machines need to be used, and I can't sew on all of them.
If you've ever lost the cap off your tacky glue or your sewing machine oil, you'll know how useful these little doodads are. At only 25 cents for the bag, how could I leave them behind?
This Kam snap plier is missing its anvil, but I'll set it up with one of my alternate anvils for use with other snap sizes, and keep it at the ready in my snap kit.
It set me back only $1.
Many of my vintage sewing machine cases feature buckles like these; on line, assuming you can find them, similar buckles can go for as much as $25 each, potentially adding $50 to the cost of each case (!)
I really lucked out at the thrift store yesterday, and found several packs of 6 buckles for only $3 each, or $1 per pair.
I've been wanting to repair some of the old cases I have here, so these will come in very handy.
