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11 hours of frenzied sewing later, I have finished the top of the Elizabethan tutu, minus the right sleeve and the two shoulder rolls. I am having mixed feelings about this top. The sleeves keep falling down. I am blessed with extremely broad shoulders, and big trapezius muscles (the ones that go diagonally down from [...]
Today I did a 45-mile bike ride and then finished sewing the bodice of the peacock-feather tutu. I also made the body of the skirt, which will be gold organza covered with peacock feathers. The in-progress piece now looks like this: I’m still debating what to do about the peacock feathers. The group on the [...]
This week has been hell at work – I’ve been under the gun all week working on sales proposals. Not what I expected when I took the job, but then, virtually nothing I’ve been doing at this job is what I expected. That’s a good thing, actually – everything is novel and interesting. I thrive [...]
I reached my $6000 fundraising goal on Monday night! with the final donation coming from a pair of friends who were visiting from India. I had been chatting with them (catching up from the last year) and mentioned that I was only $50 from my goal. Lena got up, went into the back room, and [...]
After several more hours of work, I’m almost done with the green scale feathers: I’m a little miffed that the beauty of the feathers doesn’t show through. It gives you an idea of how it looks, but minus the excitement – in reality the feathers are beautifully iridescent green, not flat green-brown as they appear [...]
