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I pressed the berjeebers out of Pasiphae9's corset prior to posting it, and managed to get a few decent pictures. Admittedly they're on my very messy dining table, but who cares?



( moar pics under the cut. )

This one's the last of the bulk corset project, and whilst it's a relief to have finished, it's kinda sad. What am I going to do with my time? Oh right, fight my never-ending battle with tulle and silk. I should get back to that...

AWAAAAAAAAY.

Hellz yes people. The TARDIS totally owned the delorean. Or however you spell it. Excuse massive lense flare and the general grotty-ness of my bedroom mirror.

( On to corset pictures! )

My nerd/super wizz kid friends have deserted me until tomorrow (working on a promo for shortbread street or something tired them out apparently. Even bribing them with cookies didn't do it....) so no pictures of shiny new corsets for now. Epic sad panda face.

I think I've felt the urge to post cause I haven't had much social interaction in the last few weeks, and all these witty little observations I keep making are going unsaid. Nuuuuu!

For instance; today, my father popped in for lunch and played with the camera on my shiny cell phone (bless you HTC and your awesome touch phones with their pointless joyful keyboards) and I discovered that the fabled day has arrived; My eyes are finally settling on a colour.

And it's not grey! Years and years they'd be grey in dull weather, blue in summer, sometimes green in autumn, and I was so scared they were going to settle down to grey. But no! My eyes are green! Motherflippin green!

This is so thrilling.

And I had a good hair day today.

Man. Awesome day.

Curse you, buttery peanutbutter chocolate chip cookies! You are my only weakness!

Ha! I made it a whole day without touching the sewing machine, idly binding things, or drawing up price sheets!

I. Am. Awesome.

Nevermind the fact that to do this I had to practically chain myself to the computer and exhausted my usual list of doctor who related shizz and "movies I always wanted to watch". Only a few more hours before I go to bed after a full day off.

I also made more peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. And they are good, if a little too sugary.

By talking about the weather.

But seriously. My garage is flooded.

Rain! Rain! RAIN!









Yeap. That was my day. How about yours?

Summer arrived today.

Dammit. Summer means humidity. Which means sweating. I don't actually feel the heat as such (awesome in summer, sucky in winter. When everyone else can get by with a sweater, I need a full winter coat and gloves) but the humidity makes my hands sweaty. Which makes it increasingly difficult to hand sew things. Slippery little buggers that my darning needles are!

Finished Liy's today, joy of joys. Only two left now! I have a tentative meeting set with Elizabeth Whiting for the new years - hopefully she'll employ me, or direct me to someone who will. And I have to email the Beeb about that apprenticeship, that's a good plan.

Urg, I ate too much again today. My dimensionally transcendental stomach is a little fickle and decided to give up right before I ate my last stick of raspberry chocolate licorice. Phooey. I should probably stop eating so much, really. I've finally put enough meat on my bones to give me hips (huzzah, I no longer resemble a beanpole with a 5" waist to hip differential. I mock thee, former figure, with my 32-25-35 figure. Yes beeyatch, I have hips. I'm way to excited by this..... =/ )

ANYWAY. Courtney's coming over next monday, I plan to feed her lasagne and cookies. That girl could use some proper food. I'm not exactly the pinnacle of a good diet, but at least I haven't spent the last year eating two minute noodles and cereal around the clock.

So I'm definitely free until the new years. Send me your projects, friends! =]

^.^

I stress baked. And it was satisfying.

You know those times when you're so stressed you just want to watch movies and stuff your face with chocolate until the problems get bored and fix themselves? I never find the right thing to eat. So I bake. And today, I made peanut butter chocolate chip cookies with a truly sinful amount of butter in them. Not all that much sugar, but hoooooooly hell so much butter.

They. Are. Glorious.

Behold!



Also for anyone interested Liy's in progress photos are uploaded over on the Facebook FanPage, so go squee there while I devour half a pound of butter. Thank you. =]

Strange mental breakdown over. That was weird.

Just so's you know (people who's corsets from the bulk order I'm still working on) here's a handy list of things that may keep me from updating regularly this week

1. I just had a slight mental breakdown. I assume from stress. As in, full blown, I'm fine tralalala BAM sudden onset hardcore tears for ten minutes. Then fine again. This worries me slightly.
2. I'm trying to get all your corsets finished by the end of next week so I can have a week off before starting in earnest on the wedding dress.
3. My brain has turned to mush a bit cause my friends are all *sarcasm* SUPER AWESOME and completely ignoring my existence (except you Hannah =] ) and I'm suffering from really severe cabin fever
4. I can't really think of a four.
5. The speakers on my computer are out so I can't watch Doctor Who while I handsew things. This makes me want to throw things and wish for my old, cheaply replaceable computer purely so I can do this.
6. My mother ordered my christmas presents without telling me, after I told her what I wanted, and then she didn't tell me she was, and I bought them for myself. Now I have to frantically do damage control so I haven't wasted $30 on something I'll be getting for free.
7. My anti-histamine medicine makes me a psychotic bitch. Seriously.

Secondly, because I really like lists:

1. Today I bound up three edges out of four of Liy's corsets
2. Also bound one edge of ladydisillusion 's corset
3. Aaaaaand set an invisible zipper PERFECTLY on my first try. Go me.

Yeap, I'm selling my application corset. I hardly ever wear corsets (and by hardly ever I mean on a bi-annual basis) even in costuming, so it's impractical to have a perfectly good corset taking up space.

( Follow the cut for specs and picspam )

Mmmmm, chocolate and peanut butter with a cup of tea.

I finished these too late in the day and the lighting was crap. I'll post proper pictures over on my business LJ later tomorrow.

First, fun with gimpshop!

Why???? I don't drink! Never touch the stuff. And yet, I wake up at eleven this morning, and feel hungover.

This is a cruel, cruel torment.

However, I did have a guy attempt to chat me up last night, which was lolful.

Courtney's birthday corset!


Don't ask me how many bones there are, I can't remember. Loooooots. All 5mm plastic cable ties, grommeted with the leftover antique steel grommets I used on LolitaOfHameln's corset, which I thought matched rather splendidly. One layer of heavyweight delustered satin in dark lilac, one layer of navy blue cotton drill.

Guts!



And views on a mannequin....

But that day is not today!

Hey everyone! I was woken up rather horribly this morning by someone calling me at half past seven (working at home has made me lazy and I don't get up 'till half eight or nine. I know, it's terrible). My phone has REALLY loud speakers and I leave it on my bed most of the time so the vibration ran through my mattress, which was fuuuun. Also, it was a wrong number. -.-

HOWEVER. I then half slept my way through breakfast and trudged up to check the mail and what did I find?

Silky silky silky goodness! Yup. The nomful dupioni octarine silk for my fifties style wedding gown has arrived, and I'm super pumped. Tomorrow I'm going to buy the cavas interlining, white cotton lining, and cable tie boning for the bust.

For those who don't remember, here's a picture of what the final dress is going to look like.



The back is going to be closed for a more pleasing aesthetic, with the invisible zip being installed at the left side seam (the gown has cap sleeves which will help open up the dress even further). The back will also have a keyhole detail from the neckline to the top of the boned silk bodice, to better show off the awesomeness of the silk.

Silk!


This picture's a bit nasty and grainy, and the silk is darker than in real life by a smidge, but the colour of the silk/lace combination is spot on. The lace is such a lovely pattern. Those little triangles between the fern...curl...things is going to be cut out along the hem to give the lace a bit more dimension and again, show off the pretty pattern.

So first of all uploading photos to LJ is very frustrating. I should get photobucket or something....

Second of all, today I worked on ladydisillusion 's and morrigan191 's corsets. And got quite a bit done considering I lost two hours celebrating the re-birth of my moped (It liiiiiiiives!)





It's coming together nicely. I have the buckles attached at the back, and one of two hook/eye fasteners hand sewn to the front panels (straps are detachable). It's a bit wrinkly in the pictures, which is a combination of a) satin is satan and even when in person it's perfectly smooth the slightest amount of light hitting the weave shows up in pictures, and b) it's not being held taught on a shapely human body yet.



Closeup of the buckle detail from within.



I did some nifty zig zag stitching on the front modesty panel for this one, which pleases me greatly. I do rather like quilting and cording details. The first picture is a pretty good representation of the actual colour of the silk (it's rather hard/infuriating to capture the true colour of shot silks...)



And the shiny shiny delustered satin lining. Nom nom nom.

There'll be another tier and layer after this, but just to get an idea of the volume...

Two posts in a day.

My stomach hurts. I was suddenly inexplicably starving at lunchtime and ate an entire pizza by myself (my stomach is dimensionally transcendental) . Also I bought the wrong brand of feta cheese last week, it SAYS it's goats, but I swear it tastes of icky icky cow and some sort of setting agent - it doesn't have that glorious crumbly feta texture.

AND I finally figured out the basics of circle skirt making this afternoon (yes, yes, I know, making corsets constantly, wants to be a costume maker, can't make a basic circle skirt - I usually knife pleat or gather a yardage cos I'm lazy) but when I cut into my fabric firstly I hadn't folded it over enough times, secondly I brain farted the waist measurement and made one panel my waist size instead of half = less volume and sad panda. THEN I found out the one I'd made had the stripes running horizontally at the front and diagonally at the back, which makes me look like a heffer.

I'm seriously considering never making clothes for myself. Only corsets and costumes. This is epically frustrating. Tomorrow I'm going to go out, buy orange thread, and get myself a few yards of some random fabric from the bargain rack at spotlight in a futile attempt to make myself feel better.

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