I sewed and sewed until I literally could no longer feel my fingertips due to pinpricks, no lie. I spent all day today rubbing my fingertips together marvelling at the fact that I felt nothing. I also picked up a bunch of job applications for when I go back to school, seeing how my theatre is all closed and stuff now. D: But that is irrelevant ( Read more... )

WHY DO I UNDERTAKE SO MANY PROJECTS AND THEN ABANDON THEM AFTER I'VE BOUGHT ALL THE STUFF FOR THEM BECAUSE I COME UP WITH NEWER MORE EXCITING PROJECTS?

Planned, not begun
(last) Christmas and birthday presents for Sarah
my ballgown: more petticoats
my ballgown: robe and stomacher

Begun and abandoned
massive subtitling project of awesome
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Check that sexy thing out.


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let's talk ballgown!

These are my pocket hoops:


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So, as some of you may have heard, this summer I'm embarking on an epic sewing project in which I'm going to be making, with the help of my lovely Grandmom, a robe à la française because they are awesome. I haven't gotten a decent start yet, unfortunately, though I do have the patterns from J. P. Ryan all ready to go. While I wait for my Grandmom ( Read more... )

So I saw Dangerous Liaisons for the first time (we read the book in class) and it was epic. But the opening scene, seeing Glenn Close and John Malkovich put on all their awesome 18th century layers... I was, like, squeaking and going "SHIFT! STAYS! PANNIERS OMG PANNIERS! PETTI-FRIKKIN-COATS!" and, you know. I was having some sort of nerdgasm.

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