I work with several disabled individuals and some of the nail salons I have taken them to have left us feeling rushed or like we didn't quite get the best quality work. Does anyone have recommendations for salons that regularly perform quality services for individuals with disabilities?
I started getting garment bags for my hanging organizers a while ago. I absolutely love that these are transparent, and protect the items while still letting them be seen. As I get more organizers, I do plan to get individual garment bags for each. I also figured this would make moving easier, plus they keep the cat from messing with the stuff hanging from the bottom of them. These bags are 54" long. The garment rack I plan to replace with a slightly smaller one here soon, because it is too big for what I need. I hoping to get a gold one that will add some more of that classic AG historical feel to it.
I started this project and then had to wait to get more yarn to finish it. I absolutely love how the fringe turned out, it looks incredible. This is crochet but I am quite positive the AG version is knit.
Basic guidelines for experienced crocheters who may be curious:
The body of the blanket is just SC BLO. I made it a rectangle, but it can be any size.
The fringe is from a YouTube tutorial, I made it to the length I needed (actually longer and then I just carefully undid the trim from the beginning, but I'm sure you could avoid that if you counted stitches) and then surface slip stitched it onto the short edge of the blanket.
I have no idea why one of the ends is so crooked, but this has taken me long enough to complete and I'm not fixing it.
Corinne's teal blanket from her bedroom set also has a similar construction method but again, it is also knit rather than crochet.
I have SO. MANY. DOGS. from AG. AG is notorious for having a bit of a dog overload problem. There are of course some characters with cats, Kirsten, Rebecca, Marisol, Isabelle, technically Lea if you count her bobcat. However, the majority of the AG pets are and almost always have been dogs. So as you can imagine, when you have Molly's dog, Emily's dog, MaryEllen/Lindsey's dog (scooter is shared custody between the two), Meatloaf the bulldog, Kaya's dog, Marie-Grace's dog, Melody's dog, plus a few of the truly me dogs and probably some I for sure am missing (ope- Luciana's robot dog too, if that counts), you start to get tired of all the dogs.
So, a year or two ago I decided, intentionally, no more doll sized dogs. Not forever (or, I guess, furrever hehehe....), because of course if I had the space I would own every AG item, as most of us probably would. However, I simply do not need any more doll sized dogs. Honestly, 90% of my AG pets have been just in a box for a while because they don't even get set up in the dollhouse super often.
I just wanted to share this here to show that, even if you're collecting, some items don't have to be things you seek out, it is okay to limit the buying of certain items for your collection in accordance with your collecting style.