Oh joy, oh rapture......

[gwendolyngrey]

It has been a Good Day. In fact, it has been a pretty good couple of days. In fact, life is simply wonderful! Divine! Okay, last night I didn't have any homework (psyc doesn't count) so I snatched a golden opportunity and spend all evening bonding with my sewing machine and I now have a Packing Skirt!!!! I don't have pictures of it though because the only way I could get any is with my sister's camara phone and she's out, but this brings me to my second bit of good fortune. My dad just ordered and bought a digital camara!!! It sounds really nice from what he said. 5.-something megapixels. This means that once it arrives I won't have to wait months to get pics of my costumes. In fact, I'll even be able to take progress pictures! 'Tis very cool. I don't feel like cutting, but this next bit will probably only interest rvqavalon and indeed is addressed to her: I was figuring out my schedual of classes for next year and I made a wonderful discovery. GVSU doesn't offer one costume class, it has two! There's Costume Construction offered in the fall, and Costume Design in the winter with a prereq of costume construction! I've managed to arrange my schedual to be able to take both, but I can't actually sign up for classes until April 1st, which sucks.And because it might be ages and ages before we actually arrange to meet, I'll tell you (and the world)about my Grand Plan. I want to start a mostly historic costume society at Grand Valley, with the main goal to be aiding each other in the researching and creating of accurate costumes from history and from movies. One wouldn't have to have much sewing experience to join, I want to spread the costume love. I've had a LOT of people tell me they'd love to join such a group, but I'd need someone else with realsewing experience and a machine (lol) to help me give the group some solid ground and backbone. So you interested?

Comments

[ktlovely.livejournal.com]

TWO?! AHAHAHAAAA! Although, really...I probably wouldn't enjoy costume design as much as construction. I like making things, but I'm no good at making them up.

April first? Ick...I get to register on...Friday, I think. The 25th. Since, apparently, I'm a sophomore, not a freshman. :-O

I think a costuming society sounds like a great idea. I would love to help you get it off the ground. However, I don't know how much time I'm going to be having on my hands from now on. I'm taking fifteen credits or more from now on, I think, since I would like to graduate as early as possible. Historical and movie, you say? So basically a research-based costuming group, then? (That's the best kind!!) We definitely have to meet and talk about this stuff more!!

[idlewild-grey.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! And don't worry about lots of credits, I'll be taking at least 15 per semester myself, that's one reason why I hoped you'd be interested, that way we could sort of share the load so to speak. But I don't think it would take an enormous amount of time, and it would probably look good on a resume being an officer of a student oranization. I'm quite excited about the whole thing and have been planning it out almost since last semester began. But there are so many smallish things we have to discuss!

Lol, costume design would be good for you! A much better way to improve your mind than, oh, algebra for instance! Since it's a proper class with real times and everything, I'm thinking it's meant to teach you how to effectively make things up. Anyway, any class with the word 'costume' in it sounds like fun to me!!!

[ktlovely.livejournal.com]

But...but...I'm actually good at algebra! ;D (It isn't my favorite thing ever, but I did get really comfortable doing it in Calculus last year. Now, Calc on the other hand...ew. Yuck.)

I'll have to consider the costume design class, since I have all my major requirement classes pretty much planned out and they don't come anywhere near the amount of credits you need to graduate at this place. So I'm basically padding out my schedule with stuff that sounds halway bearable so I can hike my credits up there. :P

I'd love to help you get a costuming group going. You've probably thought of this already, but think of all the lovely wide open spaces on campus that they might let us use to spread out and cloth in. I know I've contemplated going in and comandeering a library table more than once. Even if I don't have a ton of time to actually make things with a group, I'd be willing to make myself available to answer questions and help with sewing machine mechanics and stuff. We so definitely have to meet and talk about this...:)