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gwendolyngreyHaven't posted much recently, obviously.
I think I've been composing entries inside my head as life happens, and since I've ordered everything into neat little sentences once, it seems kind of redundant to do it again... even if my lovely paragraphical synopsis' never really existed on paper. Or in type. I'm tired of trying to fit references for the real world into cyber speech. A screen is not a page, no matter how often we call it that. And I don't believe that typing is really writing... it's recording words that we compose, but we don't actually write them out. Punching buttons isn't the same thing... a pity it's so much more efficient.
Katie Jacobs came over for a sewing day today, and we both got a lot done. I really sewed this time (last time we had a "sewing day" we went out to see a movie, and then I drew while she cut stuff out slowly and reluctantly) and feel very productive. I sewed the boning channels on my 18th cen stays, boned the thing (which was really fun... I used the same reeds as I had for my effigy corset, and had nearly as much fun inserting them into the channels for this set of stays as I did for that) and cut out the silk top layer. I just have to sew the pieces together, sew the binding, and add grommets. Yes, you heard me. Grommets. I have decided that these are the Easy Button Stays, and as such am not going to take the time to hand bind eyelets... I did that for the effigy stays, and I figure that since I know how to do it already, it's a conscious decision and therefore justifiable. I'm not keen on the whole making undergarments thing anyway. If I was fabulously wealthy, I would totally pay someone else to do it for me. But, as it is, making stays is an unavoidable step that I HAVE to take before making a dress. The dress, of course, being the reason behind it all.
Spring Break is now more than half over, and I've been hovering oddly between relaxing and enjoying myself and working like a house elf trying to catch up on homework. It doesn't feel much like a break when I have lists of papers to write, and drawings to draw, and schools to contact, and people to email, and work to be... worked. I don't even think I'll be able to see a movie, which is something I DID want to do over break.
And have I mentioned what I bad student I've been this semester? It's a good thing break did come along (even though it's not the height of entertainment) because I was quite ready to just sort of give up on the whole academia thing.
On a completely unrelated topic, I went to the mall yesterday with Rebekah, and bought myself some things I've been needing. I ended up spending more money than I should have, but I didn't get anything frivolous, so I refuse to feel guilty about any of it. I ended up with a new pair of shoes (for spring, which, by the way, should at least PRETEND to be coming soon) because the ones I've worn for the past couple years are falling apart. I won't lie, I didn't go for the super cheap shoes, but they are amazingly cute (yes, I said "cute"... it applies, I won't apologize to myself or humanity) flat Mary Jane style canvas shoes, black with rainbow colored stars. And I got a pair of skinny jeans, a top that was simply too perfect to NOT buy, a new bra, and suspenders. As a closing note, I think the suspenders were every bit as essential as the shoes.
I think I've been composing entries inside my head as life happens, and since I've ordered everything into neat little sentences once, it seems kind of redundant to do it again... even if my lovely paragraphical synopsis' never really existed on paper. Or in type. I'm tired of trying to fit references for the real world into cyber speech. A screen is not a page, no matter how often we call it that. And I don't believe that typing is really writing... it's recording words that we compose, but we don't actually write them out. Punching buttons isn't the same thing... a pity it's so much more efficient.
Katie Jacobs came over for a sewing day today, and we both got a lot done. I really sewed this time (last time we had a "sewing day" we went out to see a movie, and then I drew while she cut stuff out slowly and reluctantly) and feel very productive. I sewed the boning channels on my 18th cen stays, boned the thing (which was really fun... I used the same reeds as I had for my effigy corset, and had nearly as much fun inserting them into the channels for this set of stays as I did for that) and cut out the silk top layer. I just have to sew the pieces together, sew the binding, and add grommets. Yes, you heard me. Grommets. I have decided that these are the Easy Button Stays, and as such am not going to take the time to hand bind eyelets... I did that for the effigy stays, and I figure that since I know how to do it already, it's a conscious decision and therefore justifiable. I'm not keen on the whole making undergarments thing anyway. If I was fabulously wealthy, I would totally pay someone else to do it for me. But, as it is, making stays is an unavoidable step that I HAVE to take before making a dress. The dress, of course, being the reason behind it all.
Spring Break is now more than half over, and I've been hovering oddly between relaxing and enjoying myself and working like a house elf trying to catch up on homework. It doesn't feel much like a break when I have lists of papers to write, and drawings to draw, and schools to contact, and people to email, and work to be... worked. I don't even think I'll be able to see a movie, which is something I DID want to do over break.
And have I mentioned what I bad student I've been this semester? It's a good thing break did come along (even though it's not the height of entertainment) because I was quite ready to just sort of give up on the whole academia thing.
On a completely unrelated topic, I went to the mall yesterday with Rebekah, and bought myself some things I've been needing. I ended up spending more money than I should have, but I didn't get anything frivolous, so I refuse to feel guilty about any of it. I ended up with a new pair of shoes (for spring, which, by the way, should at least PRETEND to be coming soon) because the ones I've worn for the past couple years are falling apart. I won't lie, I didn't go for the super cheap shoes, but they are amazingly cute (yes, I said "cute"... it applies, I won't apologize to myself or humanity) flat Mary Jane style canvas shoes, black with rainbow colored stars. And I got a pair of skinny jeans, a top that was simply too perfect to NOT buy, a new bra, and suspenders. As a closing note, I think the suspenders were every bit as essential as the shoes.
