TheOtherVillainess
Luminous beings we are, not this crude matter.....
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I am finished! Finally! (Or how I finally learned to love The Costume)
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Sept 19,2005
Dmom and Dsis take me to WalMart to spend the gift card they have purchased for me. Since I had recently acquired a lovely 1960's-era sewing machine in very fine condition, I decided I would attempt something that was Way Out Of My League. I would attempt...a costume. And not just ANY costume but a costume similar in fashion to something Liv Tyler wore in LOTR. We bought the material, a forest green light cotton as well as the odds and ends I would need to complete my task. I take take my bag home and think happy thoughts about how lovely I will look in this costume when it's done.
Sept 21, 2005
Work on the costume has begun and it is not as easy as I thought it would be. But still, I am hopeful and full of confidence that even though I cannot sew a lick, I can do this.
Oct 25, 2005 More than a month has passed and I'm not even nearly complete. Not even close. And I've broken all the needles for my sewing machine, so I began sewing the long seams, etc by hand because I am too lazy to go buy more needles. Also too cheap. Little did I know the agony that was in store for me.
Nov 1, 2005 I am having trouble with the side seams and threaten more than once to take my scissors to it. DH takes the half-completed gown and scissors away until I calm down. I swear I will never finish it.
Nov 27,2005 I have decided to take up the project again and begin working on it in fits and starts, putting it away when I get too frustrated.
Jan 21,2006 What with the craziness of the holiday season, I put the gown away for nearly 2 mos before I started working on it again.
Feb 19, 2006 I am now nearly 3/4 of the way done with it. Yay.
April 19,2006 I finally get around to completeing the gown and begin work on a cloak to go with it.
April 21,2006 I add the finishing touches to the cloak and go swooping around the house in it, feeling very superhero-y.
TOV
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Sept 19,2005
Dmom and Dsis take me to WalMart to spend the gift card they have purchased for me. Since I had recently acquired a lovely 1960's-era sewing machine in very fine condition, I decided I would attempt something that was Way Out Of My League. I would attempt...a costume. And not just ANY costume but a costume similar in fashion to something Liv Tyler wore in LOTR. We bought the material, a forest green light cotton as well as the odds and ends I would need to complete my task. I take take my bag home and think happy thoughts about how lovely I will look in this costume when it's done.
Sept 21, 2005
Work on the costume has begun and it is not as easy as I thought it would be. But still, I am hopeful and full of confidence that even though I cannot sew a lick, I can do this.
Oct 25, 2005 More than a month has passed and I'm not even nearly complete. Not even close. And I've broken all the needles for my sewing machine, so I began sewing the long seams, etc by hand because I am too lazy to go buy more needles. Also too cheap. Little did I know the agony that was in store for me.
Nov 1, 2005 I am having trouble with the side seams and threaten more than once to take my scissors to it. DH takes the half-completed gown and scissors away until I calm down. I swear I will never finish it.
Nov 27,2005 I have decided to take up the project again and begin working on it in fits and starts, putting it away when I get too frustrated.
Jan 21,2006 What with the craziness of the holiday season, I put the gown away for nearly 2 mos before I started working on it again.
Feb 19, 2006 I am now nearly 3/4 of the way done with it. Yay.
April 19,2006 I finally get around to completeing the gown and begin work on a cloak to go with it.
April 21,2006 I add the finishing touches to the cloak and go swooping around the house in it, feeling very superhero-y.
TOV
