Spent a hunk of yesterday in the ER--acquired a urinary tract infection on Friday, thought I had it under control but unintentionally exacerbated it with soda on Sunday, and had intermittent but really severe abdominal cramps from Monday on. The advice nurse suggested the ER on Tuesday morning, so I went. They gave me Cipro for the infection and ( Read more... )

...Angelina finally updated her blog.

I hope everyone's Christmas, Hanukkah, and/or Solstice was lovely. Mine was, although it did involve too much food. We had a lovely goose dinner with Tighearnan, Siobhan, David and Max on the 23rd, and most of the household went to Astridhr's on the 25th. I finally sucked it up and went to St. Luke's on ( Read more... )

...with only an extra bite here and there. Wasn't easy, especially since Mela made chestnut stuffing. But I weigh tonight and expect an average (2-2.5 pound) loss. Currently standing at 173 pounds: having lost 44.3, with 33 to go. I got my original wedding ring back on last week. The jeans are loose again, but not yet falling off.

The holiday ( Read more... )

My copy of Patterns of Fashion 4 arrived yesterday--COLOR PICTURES!! 15 SMOCKS!!! DRAWERS!!! It's just in time for my class project, and  means I can start working on my Pentathlon project, too. (Eowyn, she has about nine coifs, so you're going to want this.)

In other news, watched Across the Universe last night, and loved it as only a woman my age ( Read more... )

My thanks to all of you for the thoughtful posts concerning the future of the Company of Clothiers. I've compiled everyone's comments and made some decisions. I thought you'd like to see the (very informal) statistics ( Read more... )

marymontstarted a thread over in her LJ that touched on the declining state of costuming in the kingdom, a topic I'd been brooding over for some months. So I replied with my concerns about the Company of Clothiers, the theoretically-Kingdom-level costuming group I've been nominally running for way too many years now, and asked her to start thinking about ( Read more... )

Just finished Vanity and Vexation (originally published as Lions and Liquorice): Pride and Prejudice in drag and modern dress, and I found it quite funny. Prior to that was Teverton Hall, which was so fluffy and inconsequential it felt like it shouldh't have taken more than an hour to read. Possibly worthwhile if you want to read more Mr. Collins, ( Read more... )

...went to the West for La Prova Dura, and to San Jose for Costume-Con. Both wonderful weekends, each deserving an individual post. We'll see if that happens.

...committed to a Pentathlon entry in needlework  for Team Lyondemere. Right now I'm considering an embroidered camecia.

...bought materials and commenced production on the presentation gifts ( Read more... )

The embroidery on Mari’s tippets went much better once I’d interfaced the ground fabric and put it in a hoop. Got the work done, the tippets constructed, and the lot in the mail by the end of March. Even got Thomas to take pictures, and will post them if he ever sends them to me.

Working steadily but not nearly fast enough on Regencies for Costume ( Read more... )

So, Costume-Con. (This is going to be one of those long, rambly posts.)

Haven't had one on the Left coast in 15 years, give or take. So I haven't been to one in the same amount of time. But hey, planets aligned, political machinations of which I have no need or desire to be aware occurred, San Jose got Costume-Con 26.

Of course we're going. We ( Read more... )