Mood:
don't askTopic: grumble grumble
Hello. Not much to say. I felt like crap most of the weekend. Between my monthly visitor and my shoulder finally giving out from all the shoveling, by Sunday I felt rotten. It's not like I plan these things, and really the world and everything going on in it can get along quite well without me for a couple days, especially when I really am not good company --so there isn't any reason for me to torture myself and put of a brave but pained face and go through the motions...and possibly be a total downer to everyone else. Like I said, it's not like I do this on purpose, and I do enough other junk that I think I deserve a bit of leeway when I feel like crap. Unless everyone loves me so much that they would rather have a crappy time with me than a good time without me...seriously, that's the choice, people. And I am allowed to feel like crap and I am allowed to keep my crap feeling from spreading to the rest of the world,. If you think it's downer without me...imagine what kind of bummer it would be with me! So the whole world needs to just deal and get over it and stop thinking that I'm --I dunno --feeling like crap just to be mean to everyone? Others change my plans on me and I don't bitch too much. So if I feel rotten and I cut out of something, there's no malice on my part, it's only because I don't want to spread how crappy I feel.
End of rant.
I'm working on a dress in that plum crepe gabardine. It's a nice style, sort of vintage, a mock wrap bodice and simple straight skirt. I'll post the picture when I have it ready to be scanned. The bodice is a bit of a pain as the pleats need to line up with both the neckline and the bust point. I'm doing something that normally a bad idea, combining draping and drafting in one piece. I'll draft the bodice and fine tune the drapery by draping, so hopefully it will look nice. I'm starting to get into a groove with some of the conceptual sketches I've been doing. I'm not posting those for a while. The plum will be accented by some gold thread scrolling and a few more gold nail-heads.
As much as i usually despise gimmick challenges, last night hershey's challenge on Project Runway was quite fun. The only question was, how could so many take something so bright and happy and childlike turn it into such dreary clothes? The ones in the top all remembered they were working with candy and channeled that spirit into their creations. Christian's reese's wrapper dress was nice but looked a bit too much like Michael's coffee filter dress from the past. I like Gillian's twizzler dress best, even though she was close to a nervous breakdown near the end. And Elisa, quirky little birkenstock wearing hippy chick Elisa...sad to see you go, but your brown dress was a bit too bland.
What's next week? Prom dresses? The judges have a major miss in the prom dress challenge, the winning dress is almost identical t a previous PR challenge winner and almost a copy of one on the front page a popular prom dress web site, OOps!
So that's all for today. I need to take Ben to the dentist. I also need to take both the boys to get their eyes checked. I should get my eyes checked. Now that my thyroid has calmed down my eyes are no longer bulging so that means once again I have astigmatism. Let's see...grave's disease or glasses...I guess I'll take the glasses!.
