Stuff found in boxes in the basement

[cupcake_goth]

• Books, books, books, including a signed copy of Cabal by Clive Barker.


• Photos. Some of which will be eventually scanned and shared with you lot.


• Assorted Sanrio goodies.


• Various odd little monster toys.


• Old journals, all of which are going to be burnt. Oh yes, they will be burnt.


• Gothy ephemera such as stickers, magazines, and pictures, which I am probably going to stick in some sort of scrapbook.


• A skull of some sort. Could be a horse, could be a cow.




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When the heck did we get the skull of a large quadruped? WHY did we get a skull of a large quadruped?

Would any of you Seattle-based folk want a large skull? (It might be a reproduction, but I don't think so.) If so, speak up and we'll figure out a way to get it to you. (Sorry, non-Seattle peeps. I don't want to contemplate packaging this thing for mailing anywhere.)

stroppy_baggage is a good, good man for doing this. Because heaven knows *I* wasn't in any rush to rummage through dusty, possibly-spider-hiding boxes. Thank you, sweetie!

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[ex-pennydrea364.livejournal.com]

pics *yay*

[marc17.livejournal.com]

Scrapbooking. Have you ever thought of doing it. I've wanted to do it to have a place to put photos, article, old concert tickets, etc but have troulbe finding proper materials.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know I could find the materials at places like Michael's Crafts or Ben Franklin Crafts. I just don't know how *heavily* I want to get into scrapbooking. I was mostly thinking of getting a couple of those large, black paper photo albums and using paper photo corner to hold things. And adding bat stickers everywhere, just because I could.

It sounds like we need to start planning a goth/industrial scrapbooking party. Which would be very, very amusing.

[deadrose.livejournal.com]

I've been working on this already for a while, slowly gathering things of a reasonable nature, Victorian, gothy, no *cute*. There are some pretty interesting things out there, especially if you cruise the really big online stores that have more selection than physical ones could manage.

If we should have such a gathering and I manage to get there, I'll happily bring some of my stuff, especially my paper embossing stencil set and my ink/rubber stamp embossing powders and heat gun. What I really need to do is spend a long session with a good printer and safe paper, because I have an amazing collection of clip art images, from Japanese embroidery designs to old woodcut illustrations of insane people. My printer is sadly ancient and crochety.

[stroppy-baggage.livejournal.com]

By the way, to give a sense of scale to this clean up, this is day 3 of 4. On Saturday, the 10+ garbage bags, 9 giant plastic bags stuffed with plastic bags, 9 paper bags stuffed with paper bags, 3 large boxes of recycling, and a pile of flattened cardboard 4 foot high will all be going to the dump.



Then I get to vacuum and hepa-filter the fuck out of the basement.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity, once you do get the basement mucked out, then what? Got any plans for the space? Nice little rumpus room with a pool table and wall-to-wall shag carpeting?

::ducks and runs::

[stroppy-baggage.livejournal.com]

For someone who will be in throttling range in just a few short days, you are awfully brave.

As for the basement, it will still be a storage area, but a better organized one with sealable containers, much less dust, much less like a room I'd rather forget.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

I don't know why I'm so lippy these days. Riding the ragged edge of disaster, I guess. Not only will I be in throttling range, but you can also menace me with a mallet. I must have a death wish!

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

You can actually take the plastic and paper bags to most grocery stores and recycle them. I've taken in about half as much as you have and they happily accepted it.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Your belle found the right man. Clutter makes me grit my teeth. By now I'd have taken care of your basement with a jerrycan of petroleum products and a lighter, possibly without taking the stuff out of the basement first.

[caliban1227.livejournal.com]

I'll need to examine said large skull, but I may be interested. After all I may actually be able to make use of it.

[water-of-fire.livejournal.com]

You're a non-spider-hidey person, too? We'll be okay. We'll just take spider-evacuatey people everywhere with us. *shudder!*

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

My arachnophobia is legendary. I. Do not. Like. Spiders. One little bit.

... unless they're very very sparkly, and don't ever move. Then they're okay.

[angldst.livejournal.com]

Be very, very happy you don't have to work in my basement. Yes, I have to sew down here.

*hugs*

-d, surprised to learn that spiders liked the peanut butter with which I'd bated my electronic mousetrap, and found one inside with it's legs shocked off (trust me, I laughed my ass off after I got over the heebeejeebees).

[mahariel.livejournal.com]

If caliban1227 ends up not wanting the skull, I'd be interested.

Mmmmm ... bones...

-Victoria

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

What fun! Like a rummage sale, only everything's free and someone else has picked out all the spiders for you.

[stroppy-baggage.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Remind me not to jump for joy over that last part, m'kay?