Slow sewing

I'm taking a few minutes on a child-less afternoon to post before I head to the swimming-pool. Life is busy and quiet at the same time. Everything is comign along in tiny baby steps.
I'm still working on the justaucorps' lining, adding pieces bit by bit, by hand, which is not very conclusive to fast proress. I just have one sleeve left to do and then it's the dreaded closures, some hem tweaking, and hem. Judging from my current pace, it should take me two or three more months... *sigh* I intend to start workins on something else in parallel, a little 1890s thing for *meeeee* :D
I'd sew much faster if I didn't spend all that time reading books to the kids (does a two-year old ever get bored of having the same book read to him over and over ?), scratching the cats' ears (or calming an epiletci Murphy at night... :/ ), preparing the garden for the winter (my arms are till sore from cutting down the hedges and shovelling the dead leaves) and doing prep-work for the etching studio. Among other things.

I'm trying to blog regularly but the results mainly show up on my french sites, because the costuming content is just a little bare these days. But I have great plans for the coming year - even though I don't plan to go to a lot of big events. I'm a but in a hermit mode right now and tend to go friends-only in real-life :)