Success

The pants I sewed last night fit Brian (yay), so now I'm moving on to sewing the red velvet tunic. I have a pattern to start with but need to edit the collar/neckline to match how its supposed to go. Go here http://www.simplicity.com/index.cfm?cat=4&type=19&sec=0&id=59&startrow=1 and scroll down . . . you'll see a Legolas (4942) based costume for the men's designs and a Galadriel based costume (4940) for the women's designs. Click on these to see the various options for the patterns. I'll be making the first one in Muslin before cutting into the real stuff. After that, I make the blue pleather one which has A DIFFERENT collar/neckline - more muslin. Brian will have the fun of painting the Tree of Gondor onto it . . . detailed painting work is not my forte. Whee, fun.

Feline and Tzizzzizzzizzz (heh, I'm lazy and I can't remember the spelling) came over last night to join us for dinner and crafting. We also subjected them (well, *I* subjected them) to the Triumph the Insult Dog skit with the Star Wars Nerds. Bwahahaha! I even got Feline calling Tziz "a huge nerd". Tee hee! It is much nicer doing sewing projects with other people around, because I'm such a social creature and like to chat while I'm working.

I'll be bringing crafty stuff with me to goffee tonight since I'm going to be working on the things whenever I have free time and I'm not at work or at a club or something. I do not want the prep this year to be as last minute as last year :) On a similar note, I have to try on the bits I have to make sure everything is working OK (like the groupie outfit). I can't wait to see how that Mara Jade looks!

Have a great day everyone! Its almost Friday - hang in there!

Gothic

Here's the book I'm reading now - it appears that it will be a quick one, since its filled with lots of photos and artwork. I missed this show when it was at the ICA years ago. Later Brian and I would go to the Decordova for an exhibit on Monsters, and after making our way through the museum stopped to look through a pile of books they left out relevant to the show. I picked up this one (for the title) and after seeing photos of people we knew in it, and remembering my failed attempts to see the show at the ICA I ordered it from Amazon. I've had it for a couple of years but now - now I'm finally reading it.

One interesting note is that the pages are numbered backwards (starts at 218, so far I've read to page 171). Interesting ideas raised thus far are the definition (or lack thereof) of "evil", the industrial revolution (a favorite historical time period of mine) and the importance of landscape in a gothic story. Its funny too, to see the writer talking about how people are freaking out about the impending millennium (both from a technical standpoint and an apocalyptic one), that goths are starting to get into more industrial music (heh), and that they dress in a lot of black velvet, lace, and dramatic dark makeup. Its copyright 1997, by the way.

My, how things have changed :)

One thing this does serve to do though, is remind me of all the movies I've wanted to see but haven't, or would love to see again. We must get those Netflix movies circulating again . . . we've had the same three since we moved into the house! :)