{"id":1108,"date":"2007-01-23T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2007-01-23T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T12:31:00","slug":"panic-in-the-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"Panic in the bedroom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more Night fright, naked toys, and forgetful merchants.  We've got pics of live nude dollz dollz dollz!--><\/p>\n<p>Our daughter is usually up at 6am, ready to kick me out of bed, climb into the warm spot I leave, and get up five minutes later to face the day.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, however, after I&#8217;d hit the snooze button about 20 times I realized that it was after 7am and I was still snug in my bed.  This sounds like a good thing, but it&#8217;s not.  Emily was still asleep in her room and the school bell rings at 7:30.<\/p>\n<p>I got up and knocked on her door.  No dice.  The hubby flicked on the lights in the hall and knocked again, saying, &#8220;Emily!  It&#8217;s time to get up!&#8221;  Nothing.  Since our daughter locks her door most nights, we couldn&#8217;t just walk in.  So my husband went and got a small screwdriver and loudly jimmied the lock, then opened the door, saying, &#8220;Emily, time to get up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emily jumped out of bed and ran to me in the hall, shouting, &#8220;MomMomMom!!&#8221; in a panic.  So I held her for a while and we went into my bed to lie down together for a few minutes.  Poor Steve felt awful.  He didn&#8217;t mean to scare her, but that&#8217;s what happened, and her morning was wrecked.  She didn&#8217;t want to eat any breakfast, and she just wanted to curl up in my computer chair &#8211; she usually goes for Steve&#8217;s &#8211; while we got her ready.  We took her up to school, where we had to sign her in at the office because she was a few minutes late.  She didn&#8217;t get upset or cry, but she was very quiet and listless the whole morning.  I think anybody would have a hard time readjusting to the day after a start like that.  I hope she does okay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/knittingmisc\/dollnaked.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/knittingmisc\/dollnaked.jpg\" border=\"2\" height=\"250\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><\/a>In happier news, I put hair on the doll and attached her head.  Voila!  She is naked, but whole.  I gave Emily a couple of options for hair, and she chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straw.com\/cpy\/cottonchenille-samples.html\">cotton chenille<\/a>.  It feels very soft and fuzzy and gives the hair as a whole a good thickness because each strand grabs the others.  So far, it&#8217;s not tangly.  We can always braid it if it&#8217;s an issue.<\/p>\n<p>The belly button is off center and the neck flops back a bit.  Both of these could be corrected, but I&#8217;m not sure I will.  Part of the pleasure of a handmade item is that it&#8217;s imperfect.  We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Emily was too sleepy to do much more than blink at it as she sighed heavily at the weight of the world this morning, but I expect it&#8217;ll have a name soon.  Now she needs her clothes.<br \/>\n<br clear=all><br \/>\nIn Dragonrealms, I decided that I wanted to bring out an older merchant.  The interesting thing about doing this is that if it&#8217;s been <i>too<\/i> long, there&#8217;s a certain disconnect there.  I had a great idea for an item, then when I was taking stock, I realized I&#8217;d already made the item several years ago.  Well, at least I know now it was a good seller.  I&#8217;m going to go over inventory and update what needs updating and put it out.  There&#8217;s at least one new thing I want to add that makes me snicker every time I think about it.  Heh.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, more Jayne hat knitting.  When the kiddo&#8217;s in school, I try to finish one a day if possible.  Today, it&#8217;ll be possible.  Slowly but surely, I&#8217;m knocking that wait time down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}