23rd. Must shop.

GAH! Here it is the 23rd and there are still gifts to find. Goddam. I’m usually not a last minute shopper, but I think everyone is this year. I read that we had a week less to shop in or something, which would make sense.

My ring stamping scheme failed miserably. In an effort to salvage the rings, I’m going to cut them back apart, hammer them flat, sand as much of the mistakes off as I can, then flip them over, properly hammer the stamps on then solder them back together. So whatever stamping mistakes were still there will be in the inside of the ring and hopefully the flat stamping will take nicely. (Wonder if I need to anneal the metal after all this?)

The small ray of good news is that I can still do the Bubble design with the rings fabricated. I will probably have to abandon the specialty stamping all together and perhaps do etching or something instead.

So, yah, shopping on the 23rd of Dec. And I still have no clear idea of what I’m getting these last minute folks. I’m just glad I got a heads up that some friends got us gifties – we didn’t expect it. Gods. Well, sitting here fretting is not really getting it done, is it? I hope Miss O’Mouthy gets her ass out of bed today. I need to talk to her and I need help with the shopping. Strike that, we’ve decided upon giftcards and we’re DONE. HA! And I shall stay here futzing with my web work. :-)