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I began the artistry portion of my wedding dress. I’ve recovered from the fact that the slip doesn’t really fit yet, but I’m okay and even if I have to remake the slip for a third time, I’ll do it and it should be easier after two previous attempts. Blah. Blah. Blah. I’m over it.Continue reading “I know I’m embellishing, but…”

Both parts of the dress are finished! Well, the construction part anyway, I have plenty to do, and one order of business involves hemming both the slip and the overdress. The overdress will be particularly difficult because I’m not sure where to begin. I have to cut off a few inches and then how toContinue reading “It is finished…”

I SEWED! Finally!!! I worked on my dress and pretty much finished attaching the lining to the slip! Whoa! And no mistakes. No using a seam ripper (I have a funny story about that). Nothing. It was seamless, well not really. That’s a little pun for your enjoyment. Yesterday, my daughter and her roommate cameContinue reading “Here’s the good news… and here’s the bad…”

February 13-17: those were the days we had no electricity. We had one of those famous Oregon ice storms and this time it was bad. Like the last time it was bad. And the time before that. The first time I remember a bad ice storm was in 1979 and this one seemed much worse.Continue reading “Excuses, or reasons…”

The past two weeks have been full of well, just stuff. I’m always glad for the weekend, but this weekend especially. Then it flew by in a whir of activity. I got my hair cut, still working toward long-ish hair for the wedding. I particularly like it today — it is straight and has direction.Continue reading “Save the date…”

I am back. I know it seems an age since I wrote anything and it was. I have a couple excuses/reasons why I haven’t written anything in an age. But I’ll get to those in a minute. I will say I made some progress today, even if it was only in my mind. Sometimes, thatContinue reading “Back to it…”

Part of writing to me is the feeling that “Hey! I should write something!” even when I don’t feel like writing about anything in particular. But here we are… So a few days ago I decided sew some seams. I decided to finish sewing the “body” of the overdress. The main part of it isContinue reading “Feeling it…”

I said before that sewing the outer-dress was like sewing air. It was difficult and stressing me out. And I hoped that I was doing everything correctly. Turns out, I wasn’t. I accidentally sewed two pieces together that weren’t supposed to be sewn together. What? How did that happen? Well, it did and boy, wasContinue reading “Sewing air is not the worst thing…”

After Thanksgiving, I decided to give sewing a shot. So much for cleaning up the dining room/sewing room. It’s a mess again. Add to it a couple dozen “pearls,” give or take, and I’ve got some vacuuming to do. Not today though. I’ll keep going. I have a few more seams to go before IContinue reading “Glitter Part II…”

Yesterday was Thanksgiving. It was really the only work I did while at home! I worked Monday and Tuesday, which was like a Monday and Friday. I was off Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. It was much needed. I had cleaned up the house last weekend and then it was heavenly bliss to have a shortContinue reading “Sometimes you just need a break…”