No, not the rodents. More like 'shit'. A new glass tabletop would cost me about 375 euros. I find that a bit expensive, especially considering that I got the table for 15 euros at a flea market. I might as well buy a new table for that money, except that I like the mermaid.

So, now I'm browsing around at Marktplaats to see if there's someone there who offers a tabletop (or even complete table....) of glass for less than 375 euros. And yes, they do. But the one I've tried to contact is on vacation in America until the 7th of August, and I'd rather have my table complete on the 1st of August. I also found someone else who is offering a tabletop without a picture and that one's fro free if you come and get it. It would be so very nice if Matthijs could pick up that tabletop next Saturday, because he would already be in Almere. However, the guy did not yet answer his phone, so I sent him a mail. Fingers crossed that he isn't on vacation.
Of course I could settle for my birthday for just a regular plank on top of the mermaid and go collect the glass tabletop later...

Went to Het Goed as well, but they didn't have a glass tabletop at the time. They did have wooden tabletops and the woman at the counter told me that when they have it, it should be at the 'parts' section of the store, where I already looked. So meh. Still, my run to that shop was not completely useless. I found a wooden bowl and spoon, the video (yes, videocassette, not dvd) of 'Finding Neverland' with Johnny Depp and the best: the first Dutch translation of Hans Christian Anderssen fairy tales and stories. It's a big, old looking and smelling book. The cover is hanging loose and it is written in 'old' Dutch (Nederlandsch, 'bekeeren' etc.) It cost me 17,50 but it's fairy tales and it is old so yay!

Got some tent supplies as well this Saturday: a hammer for the tent pegs, some hook-cords (instead of rubbers) and 20 meter of 3mm cotton rope. The carpet-supports for our upgrade are still not finished. I found the courage to glue and cut them but now they appear to be too stiff for the purpose we had in mind.
We want to use them as tops for the broomsticks, connected to the tent. So the broomsticks will push up the tent and stay in place. The supports look like this: [__o__] (with a top line...). The 'o' is the hole in which the broomstick will rest. However, we want to make a little bag with a slit in the middle to put the support in. That way we could remove them again when we don't need them. For that, however, the support needs to bend to get into the bag, and that won't happen. Three layers of carpet and glue is too much to bend. The only way it will bend is the wrong way. So now we are considering making them square and just permanently attaching them to the tent.

I finished my pixel project of Melisse this weekend. Lina was already finished but I kept postponing working on Melisse because she had so much one-color parts which are very boring to do. But now it is finished, and this will probably be the last pixel-work for me. Started on a new coat as well. At the end of winter I bought myself a coat pattern and some lovely purple fabric and yellow fleece lining for a winter coat. To make sure that it will fit me I'm now making a mockup out of cheaper cotton. I'll probably paint the cotton one in yellow and red (tie and dye) and make it an autumn coat when it turns out the way I like it. And then I'll start on my winter coat. The autumn coat has a collar, contrary to my summer jacket, and so it might even be useful.

Well, here's another workweek. (Hear me cheer...) Back to work.

Edit: while spell-checking this document and waking Matthijs from his after-larp-sleep I got called back by the guy from Almere. Matthijs could probably pick up the tabletop next Saturday! It's smaller than the original, but that leaves us more room to walk. W00t!