hello good peoples

Seasonal allergies can DIAF. I took a benedryl last night before bed and this morning my eyes are still itching like crazy, it's driving me mad. Anyway. Let's talk sewing since that's the first thing in my pics for today. Last Monday I got home from work to a happy mail day! Star Trek TNG uniform pattern! WOO White knit for jedi Leia! But I wasn't super stoked about the ...

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ummmmmmmmm

my brain's not working today. Let's start with fabric I bought in Atlanta. New Crait Leia fabric. This was the most expensive stuff I bought. Liked how it has that tinge of a browner-grey in some lights and desaturated grey in others. It's got a texture that looked fairly close to the close-ups of the cape. It's not exact, again, but it'll be a step in the right direction. I ...

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Snap back to reality

UGH We're home. Don't really want to be LOL Because Disney World was fantastic as always. Even though by day 7 we were EXHAUSTED and ready to be home, I still would rather be there of course LMAO. SO! Let's start at the beginning. Chase and I both took half days off work Friday. I got home and got the house ready, started getting luggage into the kitchen. Chase got home ...

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this week is a test of patience

Well this weekend was weird. To start off with, last night, I woke up in the middle of the night totally confused. We have a clock in our bedroom that shines the time up onto the ceiling. We haven't changed it since daylight savings so it's been an hour behind. I woke up at one point and was like "it was 3AM last time I woke up why is it 3...

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killing it (gently)

GUESS . WHO . FINISHED . THE . JACKET . LAST . NIGHT ! Well ok it's not 100% finished I still have to do the button holes and buttons and steam it but the worst is over. Well, the worst of the jacket. I still have the terrifying pants to START ON. But before I get into all that let's do the usual rewind back into last week. Even though most of what was happening last week ...

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it’s a disney hype post

So I went in to find a pic from the December trip to Disney World Ash and I took.... and discovered Ash had dumped all the photopass photos in my account! Of course I'm currently super hyped for our upcoming trip, so getting to comb thru all these right now is just doubling my hype. Here's a few highlights. The very rare train station photo that does not include kids ...

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I forgot it was monday

I nearly forgot it was Monday and time to make my weekly post! So last week I took a break from working on Chase's suit - we'd gotten the fabric ordered and it was scheduled to arrive Wednesday, so I took that time to do something fun before diving back into the horror that is men's tailoring. First set was some Avengers ears! Originally I was going to do a ...

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its monday again

So last week - I think it was Wednesday night - I had a complete and utter breakdown over the pants of Chase's suit, cried a little bit, and threw the mockup in the trash. The suit pattern I'm using - do you know how many pattern pieces are in the pants alone? About 25. The front pockets are 6 pieces each. 12 pieces all together just for the pockets. WTF. It was ...

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a thousand rainy days since we first met

It's been raining like crazy here the past couple of weeks. Which means it's been migraine city as the weather shifts back and forth. This weekend was rather uneventful. I mostly worked on Chase's suit since I was waiting on the new fabric for recutting the top of my dress. New fabric came in Friday but I was on a good roll with the suit so I didn't pause to ...

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i am ready for orlando

Another month & a half til vacation but I'm ready to go now. The past few days have been nuts, I'm tired of cold weather, and I want a vacation! Valentine's Day night, Chase cooked soup for dinner; he found a copycat recipe of Le Cellier's beer cheese soup and made it. Last time we tried this it made a HUUUUUGE amount and it wasn't great. But this time it ...

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