Credit to Tudor Tailor- a great book you should buy, that may be a little advanced sewing-wise, but very interesting historical research on Essex wills & effigies. About the “plain townswoman”:
This figure comes from a painting showing people under attack in Paris in 1572. It offers a rare glimpse of a citizen in incomplete dress. [...]
So I have a week to make a lower-middle class woman’s Tudor costume. I spend the weekend reading about it out of town, on MOnday I do real paid work (girl has to eat!) and then, Tuesday go and buy the fabric and start cutting it out. I’m a piece-by-piece worker, mostly finish the bodice, [...]
Note, I wanted it to look like this:
Well, done toa degree- the wicker boxes were for the old paint job, which looked like this:
So I just need to add some accents & stuff. Going to use an old vintagey wallpaper behind la toilette (or so that’s the plan, if I have enough energy on [...]
Finally got to a chore I’ve been meaning to do for 3 years. Painting my bathroom- that’s the color up there. And fixing the scars of two failed toilet paper dispensers. I also have been staring at the same painting flaws in that room- former paint is brick- little strays outside the lines onto the [...]
Working on a cross-over dress with lining. w00t! Crafts, as a newly unemployed, fill the void somewhat. Or at least postpones the inevitable job-searching! BTW I’m free for lunches.
When I was 16, I wanted to be a seamstress. I thought my life would be perfect if i got a small Victorian in downtown San Jose [...]
I love these kind of skull caps. It’s a riff on the 1920s style cloche (French for bell) hats. Funny to think this was a feminist icon for so long, when now it seems fuddy duddy (Thoroughly Modern Millie and Bernice Bobs Her Hair). The modern (or poor, in its time perhaps) variant is knit [...]
I’m doing two totally new- to me- things this week. Joined Facebook, and I’m going to the Renaissance Faire. Two friends of mine responded to this newness with: “Facebook- why?” Ren Faire: “omg you are desperate for geeky guys.” What I read into those comments is that there is some supposition that neither [...]
My friend Gavin has started his own blog. He’s one I wrote about in, “Kiwi-isms.” Posts to check out on his:
- Stubbies. The voice is my new crush Jemaine from “Flight of the Conchords” (Move over Baron Davis!).
My sister made me a wallet, and the fabric is tiny matryushki, that is the plural word [...]
retweet- @jowyang great article on the bozo feature http://tinyurl.com/5ua2no
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Shared an image: Car rolling downhill
Wednesday at 16:33
doing research on SD beaches and getting some new-to-town errands done, like, Home Depot! w00t
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