Design on a Dime Food Stamp

Our new apartment has a pathetic, little bathroom. I went right to work sewing a matching curtain and sink skirt set to liven it up. My sewing machine is calld a Singer IZEK, which means the stitch controls are actually programmed on a Gameboy game, and the Gameboy hooks up to the sewing machine.

My husband put the game away for me from a place I knew where it was, so I wouldn't lose it, and lost it, so the project was on hold for awhile until he found the game. While we were waiting, I had all the materials I needed-thread, fabric, and velcro to hang the sink skirt up on the sink. The kids got hold of the velcro, and one day while I was looking under the couch for something, I saw the roll of velcro there. I figured "oh good, now I know where it is" and left it there. If it was hidden, so know one else should have been inclined to bother it, and I knew where it was for future reference. I am not one to store things under the couch, I just really did not have a free hand at that moment to put it away-away.
My hubby found the Gameboy game, so I proceeded to finish the sink skirt. When it was all done, and I was ready to hang it up. I looked under the couch, and the velcro was gone! I called my husband and asked if he saw it.

"Yeah," he said"I put it with your sewing stuff."

My sewing stuff! Who would have thunk!There he goes again, disturbing the careful balance of my sewing things! I plunge into one of my sewing boxes, and there it is! I proceeded to take it out of the package and start to unroll it-there is only one side! I look at the package and it says on the bottom along with "SELF STICK!" "HOOK ONLY!"
Hook only? Wha? Why would anyone want that? Was this like some kind of mortification task? "I could use this velcro if I had the other side, but since I don't, I'll stare at it, let it annoy me, and offer it up!"I know, there are probably lots of uses for hook only, but right at that moment, I could care less.

After all that nonsense and finally finishing the darn thing, I wanted it up.I knew if I didn't put it up, I ran the risk of my husband putting it away. I did the next best thing-got out my husband's wide roll of masking tape, made lots of donuts and taped the stupid thing on until I got velcro the next day.

Rosey Posey's reply to this was "Mom, that looks nice, but taping it on-that's so ghetto."

Yep.