Last weekend's Brooklyn Indie Market show was beyond amazing. It was my fourth fashion show of the year and my first show as a committed designer. I even ended up in a photo gallery on the Metromix site as picture number 11! I wasn't credited, but at least I got noticed ( Read more... )

Winding down after the tortilla party. Attendance, including the host, was around seven. The tortillas were well received. A bottle of wine was consumed. Tea was had. And everyone joined in on the conversation. That's about all I ask from a party: good people, good food, and good conversation. That, and I think we have two more people going to the ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I hung out with my younger sister and company in the Finger Lakes. We stayed at my sister's friend's parents' house and had ourselves a grand time of it. Friday night, my sister's friend's dad joined in for a session of Rockband. Then we headed out Saturday to the Fingerlakes Wine Festival. There were so many good wines in one place ( Read more... )

My mind has been rather blank lately. It... Perhaps overfull is a better word ( Read more... )

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That was so fun. I am so tired. Perhaps I'll be able to recap things tomorrow.

I just had to triage my outfits for Trashion. One got downgraded from fancy lighting concept to just lights. The other is getting the duct tape and plastic bag treatment. Also, my hands are hurting from all the chainmail work I did last night.

Oh well. Off to meet with my model.

I woke up this morning and procrastinated for several hours. You see, the electronics portion of my second piece for Trashion has been rather intimidating, not the least because I decided to use a different stamp-sized computer from my previous project. What with being variously sick, tired, and otherwise unable to focus on my costume, this weekend ( Read more... )

I took tomorrow off to make sure I'd have time to finish my 2nd costume for Trashion. I have so much to do that it's not going to feel like a weekend. Heck. I think I'm going to need help with the electronics. It's not that I don't have the resources. It's that my brain has turned into mush, and the most basic operations are eluding me ( Read more... )

That's what my brain feels like right now. I had a lot of little fires to put out today at work. Now I'm struggling to cobble together enough mental energy to test the electronics for the second Trashion outfit. Gah. Brains.