Monthly Archives: June 2013

Today has been pretty relax compared to yesterday!  Nothing exciting.  Tomorrow Eric and I are going to the Star Wars: Imagination Meets Science exhibit at the State Museum.  I need to do some up close and personal research with the actual costumes used for the movies.  I will have quite a bit to write about tomorrow.  I will probably end up doing a separate post for the exhibit from my regular daily post.  Until then I will be sewing up muslins for Eric’s Sith costume to check for fit and possibly start a dress for myself.

I  hope you, my lovely readers, are having a good day!  Today has been okay for me!  I have a bit of odds and ends that I need to take care of in my post today.

First, if you have not started following me through Bloglovin’ please do so before Monday!  I don’t want to loose you all when Google Reader disappears.

Second, I realized that I had not done a June giveaway.  Fail on my part.  I will just have to make up for it in July.

Third, I still have not posted a review on my dress from almost two weeks ago.  I will try to get some pictures of just that dress on me tomorrow to write a review of it.

Now that summer is finally here I decided it was time to bring out the Sierra Mist dress!  I actually have enough of this fabric left that I could make another one if someone would like one or I could make a swimsuit and still have some after that.  Hmmm…decisions decisions.  Well, at least it is not one that I have to make today!

I am excited about tomorrows outfit because it will be a sponsor day!  Yay!  I really like the theme behind tomorrows too.  I have another sponsor day coming later in the week too!  Probably on Saturday or Sunday.  Not sure yet as I am not sure of all the details.  I am excited to be doing two sponsor days this week though.

Remember you too can be a sponsor by donating at least $10.00 to our adoption fund.  Just click on the secure PayPal button or the Go Fund Me widget on the right hand sidebar.  You will get that totally awesome sponsor badge and get to pick my theme for a day.  If your theme is lobsters,  I will wear some form of lobster awesomeness!  So what are you waiting for?  Go ahead and give me a crazy theme!

Today is a sewing and laundry day.  I have neglected the laundry for far too long and must attend to it today.    On the up side, it made me realize I have a lot of clothes.  I think I will be going through them soon and figuring out what I can part with to put in the adoption garage sale that I have yet to plan.  I really need to get on that.  Sewing wise, I am working on Eric’s Star Wars costume.  I have already drafted and made the pants last month.  I am semi-drafting an undershirt pattern today since the pattern only has a dickey under the tunic.  The costume snob in me cannot handle a dickey.  I just cannot do that, it’s like costume cheating.  I am using the dickey pattern and drafting the shirt around it.  That way I still get the correct angles for the neckline plus the benefit of having a full shirt.  I will try to take some pictures as I do this and, hopefully, some of the finished undershirt with the pants I drafted.  For now a storm is rolling in so I am going to get as much done as I can just in case the power goes out.

I must say, I am loving today’s look!  I made this skirt last night on a whim.  I have been wanting to draft a simple elastic waist skirt for months now but finally did it last night.  It took me all of 5 minutes to draft and 30 minutes to sew.  I used 2 remnants that were each 3/4 yard.  I got them last week from Jo-Ann’s for $4.19 a piece.  All in all $8.38 + 35 minutes was totally worth it for a new skirt.  I have a few more of these that I want to make and at least one of them will include pockets.  I am even thinking a dress based off of the overall look of today’s outfit needs to happen for next year.

On another note, I told Eric I am starting a new game.  Do you watch How I Met Your Mother?  Awesome, me too!  Remember that episode where Marshall invents a new game, Was I drunk or a kid?  I know so funny! Well my new game is going to be called Did I make or buy this.  Eric has been saying lately that he cannot tell anymore if my new clothes are things that came from the store or my sewing room.  Which, I guess is a good thing right?

I forgot to mention some stats about yesterday’s Captain America costume.  I used a total of 3 1/2yards of fabric.  Only 1/2 yard was from the stash and it was white scuba that I used to line the bodice.  The other 3 yards were what I got from work specifically for this.  The pattern for the dress was drafted by me too.  I can’t say that I will ever make another version of this dress, but it was still fun to draft this one.