Spring ? Are you kidding ?

It's snowing again. It snowed for the whole afternoon yesterday. Right now, I see a cutrain of heavy snowflakes going down outside of the window. It's even starting to take hold of the ground. The mountains are all gone, and the roofs are slowly turning white. And it's breathtakenly beautiful.

One thing is certain, we won't go visit lady_darkstone today as we thought we might. I'm not driving up into th emountains when it's snowing like tha tint he valley.

Some sense of achievement, at last !

I really need something that bring sme instant gratification those days, problem is : all the projects that HAVE to be done are on the time-consuming side.
But at last, I got one small item done. The 1920s bra is finished !
( Beware ! Boobies-coverage under the cut ! )

It squishes me almost completely flat, as desired, and is relatively comfortable for my sensitive ribcage. It's definitely thicker than a modern bra, so I'm a little more conscious of what I'm wearing. The outside and the binding are poly satin, the inside is white coutil. The ends of the bra and the places where the buttonholes and buttons go have been reinforced with a second layer of coutil.
Please don't pay attention to the variosu pencil marks, I'll have to wash those away ;)

I'm pleased with it, except for one little problem :

The dress isn't hemmed anywhere, so there'd be even more bra peaking out of the neckline. I think I'll add a small fabric band here...

I have found a red glass pearls necklace to go with the dress, but I'll have to find some other shoes. The sole of one of the pretty gray ones I had is cracked... :(

Efficiency record ?

Right after finishing the bra, I realised my lil' brother is coming NEXT SATURDAY. And I need to get cracking on his justeaucorps, so... I dug out the masic draped thing I had and have started shaping the pieces towards a mock-up ! Yay for productivity !

This is not a gratuitous icon post. Not at all. I don't want to watch more One Piece. Not at all.