The dork side

Got to work about 15 minutes ago; just rummaged through my purse to grab my phone so I could find a phone number and ...

I left my phone sitting on the coffee table at the house.

So if you need to get in touch with me this weekend, I'll be in Tucson.

Dork Side, redux

You know you might be loopy from lack of sleep when you have a Steve Miller Band song stuck in your head ...

... and you re-write it from "Big Ol' Jet Airliner" to "Big Old Jed had a Lighthouse".


And also: the word of the day is mondegreen.

The Grumpification of Bertana (i.e. "Help!")

So, I'm working on this tunic (and suddenly, I am annoyed at myself for starting a sentence with "so". There is no winning).

I've stuck on the first set of appliques (black applique on white fabric), and I want to couch around the edges, and I thought it would look both Spiffy and Keen to do so with silver metallic thread.

Now, I have seen the thread/cord/whatever you want to call it before. To describe, it is basically several strands of thread that are wrapped in metallic. It ends up being a little thicker than embroidery floss. I know this stuff is available, but I cannot find it! Granted, I have only looked at three different JoAnn's (one of which is a "superstore") and at two different Michael's, but ... how hard is it to find this stuff?

I've used the gold version before, and we found that at SAS. I don't remember if they had silver, and I haven't been able to get to SAS during their hours.

Any suggestions? I was so sad that I couldn't find it, because that tunic is the main project I brought with me to work on this weekend, and the couching was going to give me a break from the non-stop split-stitch of the embroidered trim (don't ask for logic on how that is a 'break', it just is).