Paint the world in fabric

Guess What!

I got a new job! And not just any new job...as of next week I'm leaving McDonald's for good to work at Field's Fabrics. Squee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be working at a fabric store!!!!! This seems almost too good to be true. Yesterday seemed too good to be true.

Yesterday I had to get up dark and early (I say dark because the sun wasn't up yet...ugh) to get to school for my 8am painting class. Normally I'm not a morning person, but the prof brought in donuts and I had coffee and I did really well in class. Seriously, I was totally in the painting groove, and I ending up loving my painting and what's better, the professor really liked it too. So. A very good start. Then I headed over to the costume shop where I sewed ruffs for an hour or so before having to go to my intro illustration class where critique ended early and we sat around and talked about random stuff for a bit before getting out half an hour early. Even better. I had an interview at the fabric store next, where they seemed so impressed by my sewing experience that the 'interview' mainly consisted of them asking me when I was available to start and to explain the schedual to me. I left in a really good mood and went back to the costume shop where I spent another two hours making bumrolls and petting kittens (a girl there was pet-sitting and brought the most adorable kitten into the shop) and whatnot before going home. It doesn't sound like a terribly exiting day, but everything went just how I'd wanted it to, and my hair was behaving wonderfully and I was wearing my favorite skirt and the weather was lovely. But that's not all!!!

When I got home I found a package waiting for me. My aunt recently moved from Scotland to Northern Ireland, and while going through all her stuff she found what she called "a bunch of old lace" which she sent to me. I opened the package to find masses of antique lace dating from about the 1880's to 1920! And the most exiting bit of all (which I could be vastly mistaken on since I don't know much about the era) was a lace cap with a ribbon, handsewn, which to me looks like the style worn in the 1860's! As I said, I might be wrong, and I need to get pictures of it to show to you ladies who know more about that than I do. And at the bottom of the package was a pair of nearly elbow length cream colored kid gloves. I almost died. It was glorious.