Decisions...

[koshka_the_cat]

I'm not sure if I want to read, muslin the gala dress bodice, work on the black Regency or go to bed. I don't care if it was a four day week, it was a long week. Is a long week. It's not over yet. Aiee

Comments

[sarahnucci]

what about this one???? http://cgi.ebay.com/Victorian-Garnet-Color-Crystal-Flower-Necklace-Earrings_W0QQitemZ150093271511QQihZ005QQcategoryZ291QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[koshka_the_cat]

Ooh, that's pretty too. And a little more reasonable :)

It would go perfectly with the red/black shot bustle dress if I ever got around to the evening bodice. Which I really should do, it would be so pretty :)

Of course, that would mean finding the leftover silk. But I do seem to remember that I had enough leftover to, at least when paired with black silk, to make another bodice.

This is the for the black dress though, so I want to keep the jewelery black. And I have loads of black beads to make a necklace and bracelets, so I really should be content with those!

[sarahnucci]

I just fell in love with it- and had to share - maybe she has more... I had a real one that looked just like that loaned to me several years ago for a competation. I'm drooling over it.

[koshka_the_cat]

I did put a watch on it :) Because if I go to another ball in LA and just want to make a bodice, I'll need a necklace :)

[torrilin]

Huh, I've got a widow's peak, and my hair takes a center part fine. I've got fine, frizzy, flyaway straight hair that wouldn't take a curl if you paid it. So I tell the hairdresser to cut it for a center part (along with other stern instructions on cut that are required for my sanity).

Then when it comes time to part my hair, I comb/brush it like I'm doing a ponytail. If I want a perfect part, I use a rat tail comb to set up the part. Run the tail through to get the line straight, then use the tines of the comb to spread the line apart. Then recomb my head to "set" the part. If you're doing a center part, use the widow's peak to determine where "center" is.

If you've got hair like mine, having it cut for a center part means that you can use a wide variety of side parts gratis. Why hairdressers do not *tell* you this, I don't know.

[koshka_the_cat]

It's just that when center parted, the widow's peak does weird things, similat to what miss_lottiegirl describes below. No matter what I do, the hair at the front flips out of the part. I basically have a choice of a straight part or a crooked part.

Silly hairdressers--though I always get a center part anyway :)

[miss_lottiegirl]

I have a widow's peak too. It isn't in the center of my fourhead and it drives me nuts! When I part my hair so its in the middle of my widow's peak, I get this little wackly thing where there is this piece that doesn't like to stay back whatever I try to do unless I spray it down.

You Should make a necklace yourself! With those little beaded flowers like the ones on your dress!

[koshka_the_cat]

That's exactly what mine does. It's so annoying! Then add that my hairline besides the widow's peak is very high, it's just weird all over :)

I have loads of the beads I made the flowers with, in bigger sizes too. Each flower was made with 7 beads, 6 5mm beads and one 6mm bead. I'd love to repeat the shape in the necklace, but I'm not quite sure how. I have time to play though :)

Actually, I have an 1858 Godey's that has a bracelet design I might steal some elements of :)