New Project Alert!!!! Simplicity 1250

I have decided to make my X-mas dress this year. I wasn't going to until I stumbled on accident across a 1950s pattern reprint from simplicity and instantly fell in love. but I walked away from purchasing it immediately because I wanted to make sure that it was what I wanted. After 2 weeks away from it I knew that it was the perfect pattern from the way I couldn't stop talking about it.

In those 2 weeks I spent a lot of time discussing colors with my manager in the costume shop as well as one of my co-workers because for once in my life I was not a fan of the red and black look that they had on the packaging. I went into Joanns with so many different ideas, but in my mind I was set in getting some sort of emerald green fabric. so i searched and searched with my friend emily and did not come across one bolt of darker toned fabric. The initial plan was no longer an option and I was a little sad, but then we found the perfect fabric. A deep red iridescent taffeta. it is STUNNING. as the jacket we search for a while and found a beautiful silvery gray lace. Then with my luck I managed to get a great price on the fabric and i am thrilled to make this.

HOWEVER, just looking at the pattern I am mildly timid. I'm very much a pattern girl, I've worked with some harder patterns but it's something about this one that I just feel like I'm really going to need to take my time with. Though it could be that I'm just intimidated my the fact that Taffeta is a pricey fabric than I normally work with.

It is finals week so I will have quite a bit of free time on my hands so between packing all of my stuff up and my last 2 days at work i should be able to get it done.

The End of an Era

So today marks the beginning of the end, Many of you are going to read this post and say "oh it's just another soon to be college graduate reaching the end of her college career telling a sob story" but for me it isn't. It is something completely different whether you believe me or not. today begins the end, the end of all ends (to put some drama into the words).

I understand that no one want to read this post so for those of you who aren't interested feel free to move along, I just needed to make note. But today is the point where everyone begins to get ready to say goodbye. I'm in a theatre fraternity, Theta Alpha Phi, it's a dying/dead theatre fraternity...but it's my home. about a week ago (give or take) we switched to Alpha Psi Omega, new beginnings, ya know? Well traditions stick with a group. Fall masque is hard. fall masque is a time of celebration of beginnings. It's a time to bring new and old and make our family stronger in the theatre world. But while we celebrate these beginnings we always take a step to say goodbye.

our tradition is 80s music. We have special dances to these songs, we pass them on from generation to generation. They've made they're way through. At the end of the night, the last song, American Pie. We're a very sentimental group. the graduating seniors are along in the middle of the circle. tonight...it was just me. it was strange at first, i mean i knew it was going to happen, but it still felt foreign. up until now it all seemed so far away, it felt like i had time. geez, I'm writing this like my life is ending. but a section of it feels like it is.

So like tradition, I said some goodbyes. but it's still really surreal. especially because in this community if i need someone i can drive less than 2 miles down the road and I'm able to talk it out with someone. in two weeks I'll be home...I don't have friends there. I don't know where to go when it's 2 AM and I'm unable to sleep. I don't know who I can call up and tell them I need someone to get lunch with. in 2 weeks everything i have known for 4.5 years will be gone. everything. they always tell you that college is the best time of your life. they never tell you how badly it hurts to leave.