We won in the garbage room lottery

On sunday we packed down all the christmas stuff, changed curtains, table-cloths etc. Then we took apart the christmas tree, with the help of a saw and the cutter I use to cut brass sheets, steel boning etc, and put it in a plastic sack and carried it down to the garbage room. Every house owner who lets flats in Sweden is required to arrange for somewhere for the tenants to throw away large stuff; like furniture and big cardboard boxes. Those who own smaller houses usually rent a container twice a year or so, but in larger blocks like ours there's a special room for bulk refuse. And that's where you put your tree.
It is also a place where you can find interesting stuff. This time it was a perfectly working panasonic stereo with CD and cassette player. Since it was larger and better than ours Rickard took it with him. And this started an interesting chain of moving around things. Our old stereo was moved to the big girls' room, replacing my old CD/cassette player that was getting pretty old and tired. The new stereo was too big to have where we had the old one, so it replaced the old very cheap plastic "cube" stereo that I had gotten when I separated from my ex, and who's only virtue was that it had a record player. The speakers were sooo bad. It was cheap and not very good already when it was bought in the 80s. The CD and cassette player hadn't worked for at least seven years. This stereo as well as my old CD/cassette player were then carried down to the garbage room.

So now both we and the girls have much better stereos. What we do need is to find a new record player. Hard, but not impossible.

Costuming resolution for 2007

I have decided that year I will only sew Fun Stuff.
OK, I will need to make tons of medieval clothes for my three growing girls before we go to Visby Medieval week and there are also some things that need to be fixed on the pavilion. I also want to make my husband a new 16th century, outfit, the current on is no good, so that we can wear the same time period.
But for me I will only sew things that I want to make, regardless if I have somewhere to wear them or not. I have all the mundane skirts any woman could need, and quite a few more, and I Do Not Need More Medieval/Renaissance Garb! I have maybe 30 outfits (I don't dare to count), some of them worn only once, so I really think I should wear some of them again. I will make some small things; like a partlet, a forepart or a pair of sleeves, or a new hat, but I don't need any more tunics/dresses/gowns. Or shifts or veils.
So I will make mostly other periods I think. I will not make a list of what I plan to do, since the whole point is to make whatever I feel like (without succumbing to CADD, I plan to finish the costumes). But I will make list of things that I feel like doing. In no particular order:

* Cotton print empire dress and another bonnet, possibly the jockey model, or one with a brim with gathered fabric.

* New 16th c "working kirtle"

* scarf and lace edge for cap for my folk costume

* Something more from the 18th century, probably a cotton print jacket to wear with a skirt I already have. And a smaller lace cap.

* My Hedvig-outift. It's from a children's TV-programme from the 70s. I can't find a picture, but it's a tartan knee-length trouser skirt that also covers the torso and has braces. It also has a cardigan in knit, but with big puffy sleeves to the elbow, the lower sleeves are knit, and a sailor collar in tartan.

* Something from the New Ideas Quarterly that jenthompson webbed recently. Something with checks I think, maybe the one on plate six, or twenty-five.

The last two are itching most now.