Monthly Archives: June 2009

I was pretty stressed out today, and didn’t get much done at work, but I think I’m getting over the shock.  No matter how many times I get laid off, or how obviously it was coming, it’s still a tremendous life change, even if it’s a temporary one.  It’s not as bad as it was [...]

Well, the work situation has resolved itself – the company announced layoffs today, and I’m one of them.  This was not a surprise to me – I’d been expecting it for at least a week now – so in a way, I’m actually pretty happy.  I do not deal AT ALL well with sitting around [...]

I woke up this morning feeling much less stressed (amazing what a good night’s sleep will do for you), and immediately dove into the dress muslin.  It took a fair amount of sewing, since I had to put in boning, do a lining, make a casing for elastic in the sleeves, etc.  but I managed [...]

I spent most of this evening in a most unglamorous activity: I made myself a crinoline.  9 yards of netting gathered and attached to 3 yards of netting gathered and attached to an organza underskirt.  I loathe gathering, I don’t like working with netting, and I really didn’t want to make a crinoline, but it [...]