Friday, February 16, 2007

Another New Toy

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My new industrial snap press, which I certainly do not *need* and which caused my husband to comment about the factory aesthetic our home is aquiring (although he's the one who first broached aquiring the Variac, even though I quickly claimed a share of it to slow down my industrial coverstitch machine.)

I spent an hour last night getting to know it and finishing up these:

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which have been sitting around for at least six months waiting for me to hammer snaps on them. They are quick little pantiliners made of two layers of flannel serged together. I am a total convert to "mama cloth" as it is referred to, after choosing cloth diapers for my daughter. The economic reasons and ecological reasons to choose cloth were what interested me in it in the first place, but the aesthetic reasons are why I am such a convert now. I won't go on and on but suffice it to say they are just so much more pleasant to wear than disposable things could be, and they work better for me, much to my surprise.

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