only two and a half weeks!

till I go on vacation! I'm a little excited about this. We are going on a cruise to Alaska which is something I have always wanted to do the only thing I'm sad about is that the hubby has to stay behind but I'm traveling pretty much for free. not much else going on here we got a kitten who thinks that my feet are delicious and I'm still working on weight loss and we just got the nes today that we are gonna have to change chiropractors =( not happy about that. oh well. not much else going on here just waiting for school to start in the fall toodles.

ugh

Hello again i have nothing to say, brain is frizzled talk more later

up to my elbows in dough

and not the green kind although I suppose I could make it green if I wanted to...anyways i'm baking a crap-ton of tasty bread and cultivating some wild yeasts did you know that the commercially available yeast is a single strain (called a monoculture) that is cultivated on a massive scale and that this specific strain of yeast can be traced to the Nile river basin. There's also some hypothesis that some of the wheat sensitive people out there arent really sensitive to the wheat but are sensitive to the commercial strain of yeast.

ye gods I've been busy

Well hello again intarwebs...

It's been awhile. I have been a busy little bee got lots and lots done. the corset is done, both skirts are done save closures (one box pleated one cartridge pleated) , 2 aprons are done (those are hand sewn) two coifs (one in Linen one in silk) the silk coif is covered in hand couched gold cording and lined to protect the silk and the pieces for my chemise have been torn out and ironed.
I found out that my sister in law had my old households so I need to re-do the skirt pleating and I need a new bodice (luckily I have plenty of exra fabric to do that with) I also need to bind the botton of the household skirt with black cotton and the silk underskirt with brocade I need my new bodice pattern which will be used for a new household bodice a bodice from the blue silk and a bodice outta the brocade (note to self more canvas will be needed) I also need to mock up two sets of sleeves for the brocade and one for the households and I need to source black cotton velveteen for the overgown I'm also considering a doublet bodice for the brocade skirt (I have 17 yards of the stuff and its 60 inches wide). so in a more orderly fashion the things that still need to be done before faire
Chemise
2 bodices (households and brocade)
bind two skirts (silk and households)
repleat household skirt
sleeves for households
Mockup sleeves for brocade (prolly open sleeves)
Final sleeves for brocade
closures for brocade skirts
More ribbon for bodice lacing

ok so thats all for now from this happy corner of the universe much to do and stuff signing off bye-bye intarwebs

Pleh

Still sick, my youngest sister-in-law just left to move to Maine and I'm hungry. Oh well life moves on.
so the plan today is to get the corset cut out of the red canvas so I can start the boning channels I may wait till thursday and take it to my MIL's house so i can use her machine (It's much faster) it feels right on my body so I'm just gonna run with it and we'll see. Anywho not much else going on around here so I'll sign off for now. oh and i finally got piccies of all my prettys I'll post as soon as I can locate my camera's usb cord.

Bad illness is bad

Yup, I woke up this morning and sounded like a dude with a hefty smoking habit, I was all grainy voiced and I think I scared the bunny =P so I have gotten approximately nothing done today on my corset I spent most of the day sleeping and drinking hot things trying to melt the guk that has colonized my vocal cords.
I did however get the patterning done last night so that parts done at least W00T!

that is all

Ironing

Pleh! I know it's supposed to help with fabric cutting and all that but I've never enjoyed doing it. Methinks I need an ergonomic ironing board or something cuz my back hates me after I iron.
in other news cotton canvas that's been sloppily folded on a hanger in a closet for three-odd years and then washed and dried on hot does NOT iron easily. I think I have something like 3 and a half yards of canvas so I should have enough for two bodices and a corset.
Now I have to go dig out my bias tape maker and get started on bias strips for my bodice edging and the strips on my overskirt I also need to locate some cheap black fabric (I should have some lying around someplace) to make bias for my households I think I'll also put a black guard on the bottom of my household skirt this time around I also think I'll be needing around 3 yards of white linen for aprons, a coif and some cleaning/polishing cloths for faire
I already have almost everything that I need to start sewing...I do need to borrow the snips from the hubbys parents to round the ends of the cable ties and their tape measure.
I also sent an e-mail to my GM asking her to let me know what we are gonna do about the fabric for the households. hopefully she isn't too busy and can let me know in another couple days.
It's just been rainrainrain here (not that I'm complaining or anything, we REALLY need it) so I haven't been able to take pics of my fabric so as soon as this storm moves out I'll get on that.
ok Me over and out (gotta go pick up the laundry)

Weaknesses...

I has them.

I love my husband!! I really do he makes me feel better when I'm sad and he's the best kisser EVER! but when he goes to the store and calls me to make sure he didn't forget anything and I say that I wouldn't mind a little chocolate I wish he wouldn't bring home a bag of peanut butter M&M's. Those things are friggin CRACK! I swear I can't eat less than a half bag before I can force myself to relinquish them, 's not really his fault though I have no (and I mean NO) willpower where those things are concerned, I gotta work on that.
in other news I have a zit or ingrown hair under my left boob right where my bra sits and it's uncomfortable!
I'm off to SF tomorrow with my sister in law and her fiancee (whee). Dunno what I'ma do there but I hope we won't be there for too long, I think I might take a book.
And in news that falls under the stupid klutzy heading I discovered today that if you manage to cut yourself slicing a bagel then go take a nap! mmmmm poppy seed and onion bagel
Ok so I think I'ma go sleepy-bye now go drool on this website I know I do! http://www.sempstress.org/index.shtml check out her resources page she has some funny stories and she makes some absolutely fabulous dresses! I love the German one it's delicious!! ok excess exlaimation points off night night intarwebs

Pretty Shiny Things

I has a fabric and it pleases me!

Well if you want to get technical I have three fabrics...a bunch of us guildies went down to LA this weekend and if you know LA you know that the garment district is pure fabric Mecca!!! LOVE!Now when I go to LA usually I have some idea of what I'm looking for and that certainly was the case this time (It's my story and I'll tell it any way I want) I went down there looking for velvet and brocade. Let's just say it didn't work quite the way I was hoping. anyone who knows me knows that I like sapphire blue and other dark jewel tones I think that these look the best with my complexion (I have a complexion like milk I am the original whitie!! I can blind people with my forearms in direct sunlight!) and my hair (little bit darker than strawberry blonde). So I was in LA looking for dark blue it's my favorite color.
Weeeeeeell life doesnt always work out the way we expect I went down there for the same sappire blue that I has before and what I ended up with was a brocade of robins egg blue and old gold! So not my usual thing but sooooooo shiny. I wouldn't have picked it for myself but when three of my guildies plus the guild mistress tell you that it looks GOOD and you should GET IT because you'll look WONDERFUL you should listen so I got what was left on the bolt (17 yards, you can never have too much pretty) and to be perfectly honest I wasn't in love with it at first...and then I saw it in direct sunlight OMG FABULOUS!!! according to our esteemed GM it'll make me look younger that tiffed me a bit I mean I'm twenty-freakin-six, not exactly ancient over here and then I realized what she ment and that the blueberry made me look OLD (the blueberry was my last court dress it was just blue and I never had time to spruce it up so it was never more than the blueberry) this will be freakin awesome!! and with 17 yards I'll have plenty. I just hope that my sewing skills are up to the task. Well really it's just the fitting I'll have problems with, sewing and I get along ok as long as I I take my time about it. Especially skirts I can do skirts like nobodys business. it's the bodice part I have problems with. The whole tight fitting part and I don't really get along too well and I have a wierd body type I'm swaybacked and shortwaisted (Combo FTW).
SO I mentioned three fabrics and so far I've only talked about the one I know well I have two others I have a blue silk for my underskirt and a white poplin for the chemise (I know but I cant afford linen fine enough for a noble chemise it's expensive yo!) the poplin does a pretty good job of simulating linen. the blue is actually a cross weave (or at least that's what it looks like) of blue and green. It has a wonderful green tint, very yummy
Ok so I've rambled long enough I'll see if I can get some pictures of my prettys and I'll post them as soon as I figure out how.
As a side note I have the most awesome husband ever Love that man!!!

Hello Intarwebs

So this is the intro-post, I dread these because I never know quite what to say and so I always come off as being sort of retarded (no offense meant to the mentally deficient in the audience). so I guess the only thing to do is to lay out my views on life, the universe, and everything.
I'm 5'7" and 272 pounds (not really interested in your assessment of my looks, my husband thinks I'm a sexy beast) I have red hair and blue eyes. I live with my husband and bunny. I'm working on my fitness and the main reason for this blog is so that I'll have a place to put my sucesses. Because the three people that are likely to read this have a need to know.
I'm also learning to sew I'm a participant in a rennisance re-enactment guild their website is here --->www.royalwhiteeagle.com I love these people and our Guild mistress is one of the coolest people that you'd ever hope to meet. I'm a college student attending ARC, I'm pre-nursing.
My purpose to this blog is twofold I want to document my weight loss progress and I want a place to diarize the dresses I'm going to make for faire this year
I've recently lost 12 pounds thanks to an emergency appendectomy so I'm on a roll and as the Lord is my witness I'll be continuing that streak.