I'm so happy and excited! You'd think I got a pony, or ice cream, or $179 million. What do I have that is causing such joy? I got an eyelet and snap tool.
Oh, yes! Now you understand. It's like the Bedazzler* I never had. It came with a handful of eyelets and snaps. I tested it right away. It's like heaven. It totally works! Amazing, really. I love it when things work right, since they so rarely do**.
I bought it to put snaps in my purses. It's a more polished look than the sew-in snaps, although I will still use the sew-ins from time to time. I may need to design something that calls for
pearl button snaps, because my super duper tool can install them, too. Oh! Too cute! I didn't think I'd use the eyelets at all, but that first test-eyelet got me hooked!
We went out to dinner right after I bought it and I just kept talking about all the things that have eyelets in them and all the things that might be better served by being eyelet-ed. Poor Andrew had to endure my eyelet babble all through dinner. Luckily, I had the good sense to not ask everyone, as I walked down the street, "Can I put an eyelet in that for you?" even though I was thinking it.
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notes
* I clearly remember being 15 and seeing the Bedazzler commercials on TV and wanting one so badly. Not having a Bedazzler was, at the time, a humiliating reminder of just how uncool I was. I recently saw a commercial for the Bedazzler re-release. The thing is only $20! Was it more than that when I was 15? I could have made twenty dollars mowing a lawn or babysitting a couple times. Apparently I was too busy feeling sorry for myself to be a can-do girl and secure my very own Bedazzler. Sure, they only send you a handful of studs and 4 or 5 rhinestones, so it would have become money pit once I got my be-dazzle on, but a little hard work never hurt anyone.
** Not only do I never expect anything to work as advertised, but I never believe anything customer service reps tell me, either. In our family, we have something called two-tard-verification. No offence to tards, who, on the whole, are much more competent than customer service reps. :) Ideally, I always get stuff in writing, but if I can't, I always call customer service until I get at least two reps who say the same thing. Sadly, this sometimes takes more than two calls. For things that involve large sums of money, the rule is three-tard-verification, because sometimes two just isn't enough.
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