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I know I have said this before BUT my dad is completely made of win! ( So much so that he is getting his own tag!!!) He uses tools and power tools to help me with costumes so I can feel like a pretty pretty princess.50 points to whoever can tell me what he's helping me make. And don't cheat and look at the tags! More pics to come!

 The main one I am sure is just my insecurities. I didn't get anything done so all I as wearing was my steampunk and kirtle. Everyone else was in their 'pretty pretty princess' dresses. So I kept catching people pointing and laughing, not that i have EVER had that happen there before, but in my dream it was just like one of the worst high school movies you can think of. Nobody would talk to me, and none of the classes were interesting to me so I spent a lot of time alone in the room. Ugh! that is so disheartening. Maybe working on my loose gown will make me feel better... hopefully.

 Instead of starting early with sewing, I slept in, then took a shower and set my hair in curlers. I am determined to take the next step with my costuming and start working on hair and make-up. For some reason or another the only way to get good at such things is practice. :) So I decided I would start practicing. I won't be able to do to much during the week because I have to keep my hair up and business casual at work, but maybe I can work on a few of the up-dos.
Anyway I should get to sewing. I finished up all the eyelets on one side back opening. All hand done. WOOT!

 Thanks to mandie_rw  eleonoraproject  and aviendiora for their responses. Because of them I didn't lose everything and throw it away. I did cry though. So very frustrating. Thinking I am working on something that is of this challenges quality and to pull such a stupid move. I put a bit of fray check on it and forced myself to continue work on the armhole and then moved on to the eyelets, all the while glaring at this hole. Just in case anyone didn't know. Glaring at it won't fix it... it just continues to mock you.
Finally I forced myself to try and fix it. I had already weighed all the options of adding more trim to hide it. The placement just royaly sucked for any hiding. So I decided to attempt to  whip stitch it closed. Itty bitty stitches that weren't so close they just caused the next string row to come undone. I did a good job... It just looks like a slub in the fabric. To bad there are no other slubs in this fabric. *growl* Hubby says he can't even see it... I am calling the bs card on him....
I am trying to convince myself its okay because it in the side back, which is one of the best places for it to have happened on the bodice... and I will be wearing an over gown that even if I wear it open will still cover it....  But I still feel like a failure of sorts. :( I wish I had time to redo it. But I know how much I still have to do and I want this to be my gala gown for Costume College, so at this point in time I just don't. okay... enough woe is me. I did finish something else before I started working on my costume.

that I don't have to give up my crafter's/sewer title just yet. I have made progress however slow it has been.

 I have finally caught up on lj posts. I guess my blogger should be next. Kirtle is still not hemmed. I ended up going to a Convention with my parents yesterday and then a HUGE out door mall. Today is Father's day and I will be heading over to their house again... so not sure how far I will get today either. Dangit!!!!!!!!!!!! I did get a little more blankwork done though. I will probably bring that over and work on it, if nothing else.

 Getting use to working again has been a little exhausting. Maybe the first paycheck will help things. :) I am official now. I completed the training and got my badge. I am horribly horribly naive about the world. I learned ALOT in the training.
In only slightly more interesting news, I have gotten a bit of sewing done.  I thought I had the drawers for the IRCC done up to the hand sewing and embroidery, but when I tried them on for kicks and giggles the legs where doing an odd twisting thing. I am not sure exactly what I can do to change it but I am going to try making the gussets bigger. I think that will fix the problem. 

 I think if I don't get more than three hours of sleep in one go sometime soon I may just lose my mind.
In other news.... ( Kirtle )
( JOb interview... )