It's a beautiful Friday and a perfectly wonderful May 1st!
I'm thrilled because today I finally finally finnnnallly paid off my car I totaled last July! Now to save up for another one! Woohoo!
Planning an heirloom garden for the first time all myself. I have so many ideas!
I finished a project and ready for the weekend to begin...
Going to lunch with a friend in Mt. Vernon and to the Chalk Walk which I've never been to before. Hope it doesn't rain! {Oops...Maybe I shouldn't say that.}
Also going to a barn dance tomorrow night in the Amanas. I am aching to dance!
*Shape-note singing Saturday morning. *Sewing all afternoon... *Contra dance in the evening! *Come home to sew into the wee hours of the morning. *Sunday, wake up, make toast and coffee. Chill for about an hour or so. *Sew sew sew sew sew non-stop until I thought I was going to die. *Listened to MGMT for about 5 hours straight over and over again. (Freaking love it.) *FINISHED project! *Poured myself a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon (the cheap stuff). *Chilled the heck out. :) *Feels good.
I do hope you all are having a nice weekend. Even though it looks like I'm lounging about, I'm actually working. But I did finish one big project and that makes me feel great. Now to finish the next big project!
I've been on an extreme '30s/Ginger Rogers/Myrna Loy/old movies kick lately {wow I'm such a sap}. Oh and guess what came in the mail yesterday {only I didn't realize it until today}? Major and the Minor, which recently {finally} came out on DVD. Love that movie. A total sappy feel-good movie all the way and I've seen it sooo so many times, but somehow never get tired of it. I watched that today while sewing. Yesterday I put in several Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire movies as well. I love this scene from Follow the Fleet. I guess I'm a total sucker for the 1930s. And oh boy would I love to learn how to dance like that!
The rest of my weekend went splendidly. Nothing too exciting happened. In fact, I don't think I left the house once! Which was a good thing for me. I think I needed a break to clear the mind. Had a few bottles of some good Dutch beer I'd never tried before and lots and lots and lots of good old black and white films playing in the background while I sewed. {There's nothing quite like glorious black and white.}
Yesterday I mostly spent my time making a pattern off of one of my favorite vintage dresses. Then today I made a mock-up of it and only had to make a few minor adjustments. Making patterns off of garments is a lot harder than it looks! At least it took me longer this time than I thought it would. I thought this one would be easy because it's a pretty basic dress. But the dart gave me a few issues. Silly darts. At least everything worked out great and I've already started cutting out the fabric. I'm looking forward to having another summer dress to wear. Unfortunately, didn't get to the black dress yet. I'll have to work on that next weekend. Tomorrow {well technically today} I'm back to work. So much to catch up to, but I really needed that break to sew something a little different for a change. Well I hope everyone else had a satisfactory weekend!
