green_martha

Lady Darkstone has named 2011 "the year of crap". Because small annoyances of no life-threatening nature tend to crop up with alarming regularity. Explaining how, for example, my website is now on its fourth version since January (and a lot emptier) - my Mom had a hard time grasping that no, there wasn't one particular reason like repeated failure of one single item behind this. Just lot of small crap.
So right now, tonight, I discovered that my website is once again broken (it happens regularly when you have a geek coding around on it. Except said geek hasn't been coding around on it lately. So : NOT normal). And then the scanner did "rbtbrtbrtbrbtbrtbrtbrt" and refused to scan more than one fifth of a page. Not normal either. I kinda suspect it didn't like me flopping it over onto old books rather than the opposite.
Well, the books aren't replacable, the scanner is. The website, though its precise current status remains unknown, is fixable - in the broader meaning of the word : I can make it again if necessary. So there's a pile of small crap again but dammit, I'm not going to let it get me down. Of course both things annoy me to no end and keep me awake. I used that awake time to get most of the work done on colouring the birth announcement card. Now I need to let the picture rest until I have some daylight to adjust some things but really, I'm quite happy with how it turned out, and getting it to a "mostly done" state has lifted a huge weight from my shoulders.

I have a lot of other things to post about, like some late teens/early 1920s costuming plans, or the 18th century extant gowns, but I'd want to post pictures and right now, I can't. besides, I'm starting to finally get tired enought o go to sleep, and my feet are complaining that I've sat on my chair for too long. Just a short note : if any of you happen to be near Lyon between now and September, there's a great costume exbhition there.

I have decided to take until the end of June off from work. And today I've signed up for two art classes that will take me until then - nude drawing and engraving. Something I've wanted to do for ages but never could with my work schedule. Cross fingers for me that everything goes as planned !

Man, your Costume Con pictures make me drool all over my keyboard, you gals are seriously AMAZING ! I didn't take the time yet to browse through all of them, but you're just sooo gorgeous ! Wow !

I also want to apologize for posting so little sewing content lately. Costume content will obviously wait until I can fit into a corset again, and pregnancy sewing isn't nearly as addictive. Right now I'm back in full graphic art mode. I'll post about it here, as well as on Flickr and Serpentaires. Sewing content will come, too, only right now I'm feeling very unmotivated to go inside where the sewign machine is and would rather draw tarot arcanas in the sun in the garden. Did I mention how much I love this place ? I love this place !

We're working on the wedding decoration with mady_darkstone. The room is full of all kind of weird creatures, which we'll soon cut out of cardboard and then cover with coloured paper.
Proof !

I've been working a lot with my pencils lately. And I don't plan to stop anyday soon. There will be sewing - after all, I have a wedding dress and a mother-of-the-bride outfit to make, plus a few things here and there. But right now my desk is busy with the wedding invitations, and when the watercolor is making me TOO crazy I just doodle some new sketch.

A little sneak peak of the inside...

The skirt

Must add darts, waistband, closures and hem.

The painting

Must think about exact color combination.

The sun's back now, but we had quite some rain lately. Being unable to go outside and too tired or busy to sew, I spent some quality time with my sketchpad.

A lovely lady from our gaming week. Pilot pens are my friends !


And a little fellow who loves pouring rain. Image a bit manipulated with the Gimp to make the pencil lines more visible. I'm still debating as to how to finish him, I'm not sure I want to ink him, and watercolor is out of the question on this paper...

In house news, I'm *finally* done with the picture frames. It was long, and my hands still hurt from the polishing (revamping the house is definitely more taxing on my body than I thought it'd be... ach well...), but I'm happy with the result. I'll try to talk the Home Geek into putting the frames up today. That is, after he's done upgrading the thumbnail generating script in my gallery to my desires. *sigh of content* Having a Home Geek at home is certainly a good thing. And and excellent reason to not ever learn how to code.

I have a few more projects on my plate. lady_darkstone's belated wedding present, ou save-the-date cards, and my mom's suit. We'll see which gets the first pick ! It's the first day in, I thnk a MONTH where we don't have something planned and where I can be a lazy bum in my pyjamas for a few hours, let's enjoy that !

It seems I brought my pink mp3 player back form the dead. or maybe it's just the plug I tried to charge it on at work that sent it into coma. Woot !

I'm not sure it really shows, but I have made some ( beading progress )

I've sketched a lot of this and that, too. I was so annoyed of not getting anything good done... Tonight I have a feeling like maybe my pencil is my friend again...
( Sharing this cat's narghile was a BAD idea... )