I worked hard yesterday, although I don't have much to show for it. Darn you wiggly fabrics ( Read more... )

Seriously LJ needs to get their act together - it was down for me again all day today. According to ljstatus (a site I have been having to check way too often lately ( Read more... )

I'm sick ( Read more... )

Dispite a lack of blogging I have made progress with my black & white bustle bodice ( Read more... )

I could just cry. I was really whaling on my Victorian corset tonight - got all but the binding done. Then I discovered that I forgot to order two pieces of boning. TWO LOUSY PIECES. *sob* Of course they are the ones that go right in the center front ( Read more... )

After a two day heat wave, cooling back down for two days and rain today I was hoping my head will get over itself and the now 5 day migraine would end this morning. No luck, it's still there. Moo ( Read more... )

Pannier petticoats are boring. Boring, boring, boring. They also involve math, which is not friendly.

So I sit here, refreshing my friend's page again and again waiting for something to happen. Come on people - I need foufy pretty distraction!

The weather is so strange today! The sun is shining and it is snowing! Not rain, not sleet but snow. Just flurries but in the sunlight it looks like sparkling bits of glass falling to ground. Very pretty if strange ( Read more... )

I checked the silk after 3 hours (snipped, blow-dried ect.). The color was definitely darker, almost the shade of the original test. The bad news is that it turned out a little more blue (less yellow) and so didn’t go with the velvet as well. It looked lighter even though it wasn’t, if that makes any sense. I left the silk in the bath for another 3 ( Read more... )