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My weekend

It’s been a teensy bit busy around here but I’ve managed to squeeze in some fun stuff.

My roommates and I did Secret Santa a few nights ago and it was a great success! We had some infused vodka drinks and chocolate kisses and squeed over our new toys.

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My one roomie and I got each other as Secret Santas, and then the other two got each other as well, which worked out strangely nicely. I bought an octopus ring a while in an attempt to fulfill my dream of always wearing tons of rings (I have no idea why) and she remembered and bought my octopus an owl friend.


(Excuse the wrinkles, I clearly need to learn to moisturize..)

She also got me this adorable little guy to put my rings on. 🙂 There was also a flower ring that hadn’t come in the mail yet and I forgot to snap a photo of it. Whoops!

I couldn’t resist squeezing in at least one Christmas knit so I made her a pair of fancy mittens. Knitting beads in was surprisingly simple! (I used the dental floss method, which cracked my dental school boyfriend up.)

Andd then we went to see the Hobbitses, which pretty much means I sobbed into my sleeve for three hours. (I may have mentioned that I was the weird girl in high school who wore elf ears to school and Lord of the Rings is the reason I learned to sew.)

Tonight I will *hopefully* finish up my last paper and then in the wee hours of tomorrow morning (read: 4am) I will be traipsing bleary-eyed off to the airport to go home for a few weeks! Hopefully once I’m settled I’ll be able to start posting more regularly.

In other news, I’m usually great at packing light but right now I love all my clothes and I’m having such a hard time not packing everything! Someone please explain to me why eight dresses and six pairs of shoes is overkill for a two week trip.

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Sewing > paper-writing

Today I decided that my productivity levels were going to be directly correlated with my adorbableness level.

Or something.

I wonder if I could just hand in some handmade dresses instead of a 10-15pg paper.

Probably not for a class on counseling children and adolescents.

Hrm.

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(Yes, I made the sweatshirt last night during a study break that accidentally ended up being three times as long as I had planned. Whoops. And yes, I will do an actual detailed post on it in the very near future.)

Ok, now back to work!

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The countdown is on

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In two weeks this hellish semester, also known as the black hole of endless papers, will be over and I’ll have six glorious weeks off! I’ve been making a mental list of all of the things I want to do when I recover my sanity.

1) Make a latch hook rug. I’ve been dying to do one of these for ages and seeing the one on A Beautiful Mess recently rekindled that desire.

2) Experiment with attempting to make a blazer. I’ve never made one before and for some reason it just sounds daunting. We’ll see how this goes. And yes, this is directly related to the New Girl marathon I had the other day.

3) Make a schmancy tote bag. Also something I’ve never sewn before. Less daunting though. Andd now I’ve jinxed it. Poo.

4) Finish Seester’s Christmas present. From last year. -whoops-

5) Spin ALL the yarn so I can work on my almost-entirely-from-scratch sweater.

6) FINALLY take photos of the two dresses I made recently so I can post them.

December 17th. Freedom! Thirteen days to go.

In the meantime, the roomies and I have started putting up Christmas decorations!

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Insta-update

     

1. I took a day off life last week and made a new dress! It’s not quite finished but I’m absolutely smitten it.

2. Boyfriend are both from the west coast so my roomie’s family took us in for Thanksgiving. They have an amazing gorgeous house right on an amazing gorgeous lake and it’s pretty much impossible to do anything there but stare.

3. New glasses! I’m so in love. I’ve worn glasses in public maybe five times since I got glasses when I was nine, and I’ve been wearing these everywhere for a straight week. 

4. Had to stop on the way home for a quick jumping photo, of course. Wish my necklace hadn’t hit me in the face though.

5. Roomie and I took a study break this evening to pot some basil she sprouted last week. Lookit the baby basils!

6. Andd this is what my life is going to look like for the next three weeks. 

 

Welp, the next several weeks are going to be brutal. School finishes on the 11th (technically we have class on the 17th too), and between and then I have eleven papers to write. ELEVEN. I did the math, it’s 51 pages minimum.

Excuse me as a crawl into a fetal position and cry.

On the bright side, it’s supposed to snow on Tuesday!

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving!

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More peter pan love.

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This was actually the first version of Burda 7739 that I made but I haven’t actually worn it yet. I really should. I think I’m just so infatuated by the turquoise version.

I decided to add a Peter Pan collar to this one because Peter Pan collars make me lusty, but there’s something off about it. I think I might need to make it smaller. Or something.

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As much as I was (and still am!!) super excited for it to snow, I was kind of sad when it started getting colder and I had to stop making summer dresses. But lately I’ve been super into making all kinds of winter dresses to wear with sweater tights and legwarmers and boots! In fact I’m taking a trip to the fabric store sometime this weekend to pick up some wool fabric for another dress. I can’t decide if I want another solid color or if I want to try a plaid.

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Hmm maybe both!

Stay warm, guys! <3

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