Rhinestones Everywhere!

[chachachacat]

If you compete, do you find rhinestones all over the place? I do!

Guess where I just found a small purple stone?
Under the keys of my keyboard!!!!





Salsa's catching up with us, folks! We've got to post more!
Go, Ballroomers!

[Laura]

At one point my husband got rather annoyed by the amount of rhinestones, feathers, and glitter everywhere in our house. He said "I know this is the price I pay for being married to a ballroom dancer, but could you PLEASE VACCUME UP ALL THE GLITTER! I'm sick of going to work looking like I just came in from a rave."

He's so cute. I vaccumed everything top to bottom that day. But the rhinestones keep popping up in various places.

[and123]

Yup. I find rhinestones, sequins, beads, and bits of feathers everywhere. It doesn't help that my cats are absolutely entranced with anything that has to do with comp costumes. I'll find them sleeping *on* my costumes, *under* my costumes (whilst on my mannequin), and I've completely lost count of how many times they have DUMPED what I was working on. Never leave anything unattended! Do you know what a P.I.T.A. it is to dig rhinestones out of a plush carpet? I swear it takes years for all of them to migrate out. I sometimes find them stuck to the bottoms of my feet (because I generally go barefoot at home) or in other strange places :shock: How did I get a rhinestone stuck on my butt?!? Oh yeah - rhinestone dumpage on the bed.

Gotta love the fur babies. Actually I used to bring one of them to dance practice. He loved to wander around. Unfortunately one time he had to "go" and took a dump in a nice potted plant in the studio.... :oops:
Melissa

[Laura]

When I've got a dress on the fitting dummy and am stoning it, one of my cats likes to try to climb up the inside of the dress. I usually have to shut her in the kitchen so I can work.

[chachachacat]

When I've got a dress on the fitting dummy and am stoning it, one of my cats likes to try to climb up the inside of the dress. I usually have to shut her in the kitchen so I can work.




:lol: :lol: :lol: Love those fur babies!!!! I don't let mine NEAR my costumes!

On the bottom of my feet is where I usually find them!

[standardgirl]

I keep my dresses in a room, and I keep the door CLOSED all the time!

Otherwise, I can't image what my cats would have done to all my stuff.......crazy little cats....and I have three of them....

[sunderi]

Yep, my pets (5 cats and a dog -- not to mention the horses :wink: ) don't get ANYWHERE near my costumes. Costumes live in a room with the door closed and the pets on the OTHER side. :)

[Twilight_Elena]

Yep, my pets (5 cats and a dog -- not to mention the horses :wink: ) don't get ANYWHERE near my costumes. Costumes live in a room with the door closed and the pets on the OTHER side. :)

I think it's prudent, The horses would most probably be bad for your costumes. :wink: :D :P
Never competed, but I totally understand what you're talking about. Had teh same problem after Mardi Gras - confetti! Everywhere! Mom was in :shock: :shock:

Twilight Elena

[Another Elizabeth]

I know better than to let Cobalt in the same room with my ballgowns - this cat reacts to feathers the way most cats react to catnip. :)

[Laura]

My cat Millie liked to steal boas and run around the house with them. It was really cute -- she's black with white feet and to see her running around with a turquoise boa is quite amusing. She looked very diva-riffic. And then I'd have to vaccume up the feathers. Needless to say, the boas are now in a drawer that she can't get to.

[chachachacat]

My cat Millie liked to steal boas and run around the house with them. It was really cute -- she's black with white feet and to see her running around with a turquoise boa is quite amusing. She looked very diva-riffic. And then I'd have to vaccume up the feathers. Needless to say, the boas are now in a drawer that she can't get to.
That is SO funny!

[ayume]

On the subject of rhinestones, I am wondering: where do you get your rhinestone patterns?

[Laura]

I stone free-hand, but you could try copying applique', embroidery, or counted cross-stitch patterns. Or use simple line drawings, like from a coloring book, or a stencil pattern.

[delamusica]

I vaccumed everything top to bottom that day. But the rhinestones keep popping up in various places.

Rhinestones are truly amazing like that - no matter how many times you vacuum, they still show up days (or weeks or months!) later in your carpet!!

[cocodrilo]

My cats would totally SHRED those gowns, with all the tempting feathers and frills! :twisted:

[Ms_Sunlight]

Rhinestones are truly amazing like that - no matter how many times you vacuum, they still show up days (or weeks or months!) later in your carpet!!

Likewise glitter. You can never get it out of the soft furnishings, and then it transfers back to you. I've lost count of the number of times my husband's complained that he's gone to work and only there realised he's got pink glitter stuck in his sideburns!

[cocodrilo]

Rhinestones are truly amazing like that - no matter how many times you vacuum, they still show up days (or weeks or months!) later in your carpet!!

Likewise glitter. You can never get it out of the soft furnishings, and then it transfers back to you. I've lost count of the number of times my husband's complained that he's gone to work and only there realised he's got pink glitter stuck in his sideburns!
That could be seriously detrimental to the career of a Fortune 500 businessperson! :shock:

[pygmalion]

ROTFL! :lol: :lol:

[ayume]

I stone free-hand...

:shock: I'm always afraid of ruining my dress that way :oops:

But I always work with glitter/stones on hard floor (no carpets!). All I have to do afterwards is just swept everything off.

[Porfirio Landeros]

One day, my foot hurt all day at work, and I thought I must have hurt it dancing...

Turns out I had a rhinestone glued to my heel. I have since found several more in my socks... is this sabotage?

[pygmalion]

LOL. That depends. Do you have cats? :roll: :lol:

[chachachacat]

The Revenge of the Rhinestones

We don't like glue of any kind
Being stuck to our behinds.
We jump and leap
to get away,
We'll find your feet
another day!

[SDsalsaguy]

:lol: :lol:

[cocodrilo]

I once walked around all day on an island in Greece only to return back to the hotel, take off my sneaker and find a dead cockroach in it! :shock:

[delamusica]

I once walked around all day on an island in Greece only to return back to the hotel, take off my sneaker and find a dead cockroach in it! :shock:

oh, ick! :?

[cocodrilo]

I once walked around all day on an island in Greece only to return back to the hotel, take off my sneaker and find a dead cockroach in it! :shock:

oh, ick! :?
Now I safely shake out the footwear before I put it on! (There was an American guy I once knew over here who went around all day with a dead BAT in his shoe! :shock: )

[pygmalion]

:shock: How big was the shoe? :lol:

[Joe]

***, a bat??? Was he just ignoring the lump in his shoe?

[cocodrilo]

Little Japanese bat, the size of a field mouse. Maybe lumpy gym sox so he didn't notice?!

[ayume]

Now I safely shake out the footwear before I put it on! (There was an American guy I once knew over here who went around all day with a dead BAT in his shoe! :shock: )

:shock: How did that bat ended up dead in a shoe? Did the shoe smell?

[pygmalion]

Little Japanese bat, the size of a field mouse. Maybe lumpy gym sox so he didn't notice?!

My mind is blown! A lump the size of a mouse and he didn't notice? Oh my. :lol: :lol:

[DancingMommy]

I once walked around all day on an island in Greece only to return back to the hotel, take off my sneaker and find a dead cockroach in it! :shock:

I had that happen to me at work once. I felt something scratchy inside my boot on my ankle... I guess the roach got trapped on his way out. Luckily I was wearing nylons or I would have been SOOOOO grossed out, lol! It was gross enough as it was.

[sunderi]

One day, my foot hurt all day at work, and I thought I must have hurt it dancing...

Turns out I had a rhinestone glued to my heel. I have since found several more in my socks... is this sabotage?

That happened to me once, too! I assumed, all day long, that I had bruised my foot while running, only to find a stone stuck to my foot when I went to bed! :lol:

[Katarzyna]

I frequently loose a gross or 2 of stones in my house. They show up here and there after a month or so.. my cat, my dog, and my 5 year old sister love playing with them... :D :shock:

[cocodrilo]

I frequently loose a gross or 2 of stones in my house. They show up here and there after a month or so.. my cat, my dog, and my 5 year old sister love playing with them... :D :shock:
Do you ever find rhinestones in the hairballs the cats upchuck? :shock:

[cocodrilo]

Now I safely shake out the footwear before I put it on! (There was an American guy I once knew over here who went around all day with a dead BAT in his shoe! :shock: )

:shock: How did that bat ended up dead in a shoe? Did the shoe smell?
I don't know if bats are attracted to smell but I know they like small, dark places. We sure teased him (about not noticing the bat in his shoe) for quite some time! :lol:

[Katarzyna]

I frequently loose a gross or 2 of stones in my house. They show up here and there after a month or so.. my cat, my dog, and my 5 year old sister love playing with them... :D :shock:
Do you ever find rhinestones in the hairballs the cats upchuck? :shock:
So far no.... I hope it doesn't happen...

Cats and dogs is not that big of a problem. 5 year old sister can get into all my rhinestone hiding places though :shock:

[Laura]

I found feathers in a hairball once...turquoise blue ostrich. Lovely. Not. That's when I decided to reorganize how I stored some of my sewing supplies.