Dead and hemmed

I'm sooooo tired... and I could have been in bed much earlier, given how clouded the sky turned in the last half hour *grump* Good side ? That gave me an excuse to stay up, and thus, I got my underskirt done ! Hem and closures included, yay !

Must not think about empire ball gown. Other projects first. Not enough info about empire ball. Must not think about tambour embroidery. No needles yet. Must not skip mind from beaded flapper dress to empire ball gown....

Buttonholes !

Five of them ! Only five more to go ! Yay !

Bustles in Paris

Before I post this on european_cc and elsewhere, I'd like to settle on time and meeting point. As I said in a comment somewhere already, I got in touch with the Louvre, where the security guys said there would be o problem as long as we tell them where the metal bits are.
The Louvre opens at 9am, I'm tempted to vote for meeting under the pyramide at 10am in costume, so as to have some time to get dressed and not have to crawl out of bed to early in the morning. Then I'd say wander through the museum, take our time, after that maybe go eat something somewhere (in costume or not ? I'll probably be carrying my suitcase around with me all day anyway)...
I hope I'll have gotten my exemplaries of La Mode Illustrée so that I can show you something new ;)

How does that sound to you, heileen and de_ravenne ?

ETA : this is assuming de_ravenne is coming on saturday evening, I think you had said so at some point, let us know if it's not the case !

ETA2 : after a good night's sleep, I remembered the Louvre has a lot of room for us to change in, and I'm not sure taking the rER in costume is a good plan. That's for posting late at night after a gaming day...