pinny
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I am getting over my cold at last - almost a week now and it’s still hanging on. Yesterday I was at the stage where I thought that I was feeling all better (or near enough) so I went shopping with my sister and our little daughters for a couple of hours and by the end of it I was exhausted! I had to come home to bed for a few hours.
Today I had lots more energy and I’m at the stage where I am very nearly over it - feeling so thankful for my health that I am bursting with ideas and promise and motivation. I still have the coughing quite badly in the morning and overnight but at least during the day I am quite good now. I can’t believe how long this cold is going on for! Last night my husband came home from his four-day interstate trip and then this morning he woke up with aching body, headache, swollen glands and sore throat. Can’t say I don’t share.
Anyway, enough about that, I’m sure you are sick of hearing about my coughs and cold. Today was a good day because I found a vintage dressmaker’s dummy and brought her home with me. She looks a lot like me, though of course she has no head, arms or legs. Emma found this quite funny/creepy/funny.
Years ago I used to do so much sewing for myself and I am remembering how much fun it is, after making a couple of things recently. I have been sewing for the business and the kids for many years now and forgetting to sew for myself. I have been doing a little quiet looking around for a nice body double for a couple of weeks now. I have looked on eBay but this isn’t something that you would want to ship anywhere so it would have to be available locally which cuts down the options.
I also recently priced new ones at Lincraft but the new ones are all plastic and look rickety and flimsy - this old and preloved one has a bit of character and it’s very sturdy. It’s actually made from a thin layer of plaster on the inside, with some padding and then the traditional maroon fabric on the outside. I could see inside it quite easily (once I brushed away the cobwebs and dead daddy-long-legs) and it’s full of metal adjustment levers and things.
I was a teensy bit sad that I had to wind the adjustment things out all the way to make her my size, but hey that’s life after kids. And when I am snacking on chocolate every night then I don’t think I can be blaming anyone but myself. I have to get off the after dinner treats again - I was doing so well and then I fell off the wagon. Would you believe my lovely husband asked me where the knob was to give the mannequin a fuller tummy. Oh ha BLOODY ha. He did at least do the duck and run (laughing a little bit too hard at his own “humour”) after saying it. I gave him The Stare but of course it didn’t have much effect. He is immune to The Stare - could be my smirking and trying not to laugh while doing it that gives me away.
I am not normally the kind of person to give things a name but I thought I should make an exception here. I brainstormed with Emma (3) and the obvious first was… Jenny then Penny then I thought of Pinny. So Pinny she is. I love you Pinny. And I love your flat tummy, it’s just like mine! Oh yes it is.
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Faye Said,
Thursday, May 17, 2007 @ 12:45 am
Now I’m jealous, I want a Pinny too, but I don’t think they build them my size.
Luck you, where did you find her?