I’d been eyeing the new Casio Exilim for ages and finally caved and ordered it on Saturday. This morning I woke up, stumbled out of my room, and there it was waiting for me outside my door. Anyway, the point is I can take decent pictures of costumes now. Huzzah!…
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I start on Halloween costumes ridiculously early.
I somehow managed to get the bodice right on the first try. This literally never happens. The headband took me about ten minutes to make. I literally just took a thick plastic headband and attacked it with thick red ribbon and a glue gun. There was minor stitching on the…
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Buttons!
Dammit, it’s 2am. So much for getting to bed early. In other news, I finally attached the stomacher to the bodice (I got tired of poking myself in eight places every time I tried it on) and put in button snap closures on the other side. The sleeves are still…
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Embroidering with crochet thread.
Why doesn’t Walmart sell embroidery floss? The one near my house sells a huge variety of crochet thread (which I find pretty useful for embroidering actually) but they don’t have a single color of embroidery floss. I stopped by there today in the hopes of finding something champagne-colored to use…
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My weekend goes from wednesday to friday.
My current work schedule allows me one entire day off, and my work week runs from Saturday to Tuesday. It’s interesting, to say the least. The point of that otherwise useless statement is that I get to spend all evening working on my current project: Elizabeth Swann’s wedding dress! Cue…