luxe

so here is some of my score. the fabric and some other odds and ends i didn’t show. yes, there was more. a lot of this stuff will be listed on my etsy store to-morrow.

i also found some fantastic vintage sewing books that are actually really great and have wonderful illustrations. i am assuming that they belonged to the same person.

i got some sewing done today, i will take photos, soon. i swear. in one of the sewing books i have, i think the sew what! skirt book, there was a little blurb about using bias tape to finish a waistband if you didn’t want to actually sew a waistband. i did that today (i used the dual fold 1/2 bias tape) and it works so well and looks so nice and polished. i also did my third hidden zipper and it went well. fancy, eh? i had made a pattern for a skirt and somehow managed to make it incredibly enormous, like twice as big as me. i dunno if i did the math wrong or if i was bloated and did the math wrong or what, but i only figured out how off it was after i put in the zipper. sigh.

after all of that, our friend jason and his adorable girlfriend came over and we made some digiorno pizzas (waaaaay better than delivery. you wouldn’t mistake it for delivery because it ROCKS) and then got italian ice (for you locals, the meadows has italian ice now. passion fruit. yum!), and they had a flavor called…wait for it…get the kids away from the computer, this is really vulgar…DIRTY TURTLE. how sick is that?? so creepy. and worse yet, jake and jason both ate it! ewwwwww! he needs to rinse out with bleach if he wants to kiss me. jake, i mean, not jason. we had a nice time. i sewed a hem whilst chatting. we ate outside on the back porch and i let peeps out onto the grass because she had been crying all evening. she loves to eat grass, she must need greens, i guess. she is like a little weedwacker. she heads straight for the long grass that the mower misses and eats and eats and eats. billy goat peeps. i took photos which i will load up to-morrow. we had a really nice time.

i am really happy with my hair. i feel like i can do lots of things with it and before, i really felt like my hair had no style at all. when it was short it had a specific style and i could do things with it, but for a while it was just blah. thanks tammy!

oh, another quick mention, dharmatrading.com sells a product called reduran that removes dyes, ink, grease and i now found out…hair dye, from your hands. it is amazing. you all know that i hate to wear gloves if i don’t need to, and i personally think that acid dyes are not a big deal in their liquid form. anyway, this stuff totally takes the dye off of my hands. jason’s girlfriend is a hair stylist and had hair dye on her hands and said that nothing gets it out and i gave her some of this to try and it worked. she couldn’t believe it. it doesn’t have harsh chemicals in it, i don’t know how it works, but the link i put in here has a video of it in action. it is a must have for anyone who does messy stuff that stains you. even dyeing hair. i wish i had this when i used to use vegetable dyes on my hair. ah well.

i had other things i wanted to chat about but i am really sleepy. shhhhnore!

i am not sure if i posted this or not, but i am planning to do a batt/roving of the month club and a sock yarn of the month club, also. there aren’t many slots left already, so please let me know if you are interested. i will be sending it out in the update email.

oh, and my brother josh wrote the newest vampirella comic which is out in comic stores now. pretty cool, eh?

i don’t feel like drawing, i am sooo tired, but i need to. everyday. no. matter. what. such a hard life i lead. ha.

xo
n.