home again, home again (I've used this before) jiggity jig

Back from Thanksgiving in Juneau...and for once I'm glad to be here. I had an excellent time in town and got the thing I needed like dog food and a safety vest for walking in the dark, but this time it feels like coming home. Yay. I put that (nearly) all on the change of employment. Leaving the market was a very good thing even if it's quitting a job "in this economy" and not seeing the regulars at the market every day. There are a few folks I miss seeing and chatting with, but not many.

This thing died last week. My old bigger-than-a-deck-of-cards ipod sounds like it's in a toilet when I listen in a head set. Maybe I dropped it too many times, or maybe it's a dinosaur but I got a new (orange Nano) one at the dreaded Wal-Mart (thank you Rice) when I was in town. I'm kinda geeky eager to put music on it.

I also got some stiff interfacing to continue the anticipation soup project. I was trying to do it on some lovely soft leather that my friend Lindsey gave me years ago. Too soft...

...but oh so lovely to sew upon. I haven't decided how to transfer these two items to the interfacing. I might cut and paste them or baste the entire piece of lovely leather to the stiffer stuff and just continue from there. I was thinking I didn't care about the teardrop shaped cab, but I like it again when I look at it again. I was hoping to get some dark interfacing, but the mask I did last year was on white that had been painted various shades of green.