Here is a very interesting article with some lovely fabrics being released in October. I see several I like, but two I will have to get.

Yesterday I went to lunch with adammaker and had some pretty tasty pecan streusel pancakes. The result wasn't quite what I'd expected but still yummy and the company was good. We talked over the job thing, but I'm afraid we're of similar minds at the moment and beyond the act of sharing, it didn't change the situation for either of us ( Read more... )

This week hasn't turned out as relaxing as I'd hoped. I mean, I'm sitting here in one of my favourite satin gowns and should be feeling happy and excited as it's a gorgeously cool morning with sunlight dappling the leaves on the balcony and some plans for this afternoon. But the plans are half busy work, which seems more pointless as time passes ( Read more... )

I went out to lunch today; a Friday splurge in case the weekend doesn't pan out. (Dancing didn't last night, although with the weather and all it was perfectly ok.) So I'm stepping into the Expedition, lifting my skirts like a proper lady, and damned if the skirt isn't too full that I don't lift enough skirts and put my heel through it. A three ( Read more... )

It hardly seems like my day off was only a week ago, six days at that. In the interim all of that energy and zest seems to have fled and I'm scrabbling to find more. Some stomach virus has hold of me again, and surely that accounts for much. The concepts of change I've been working toward lately seem to be out of my hands at the moment, and that ( Read more... )

I spent over an hour with my hands in the guts of a sewing machine last night. I must have disassembled and replaced the shuttle assembly a dozen times or more, yet I can't get past three stitches before the machine is fouled again. I hate sewing. I really do not enjoy it, but I also don't want to put it away without finishing a couple of ( Read more... )