Long time, no journal?

Naw, not really, but it certainly feels like it. I've been going crazy like you wouldn't believe lately, and it's actually helping a lot of things to be doing so, which is always good.

I got hired on to do the costumes at the High School that ~kellin works at, which I was wary of at first, but am slowly finding out that I'm enjoying it. The show they're doing is "The Boy Friend", and is a cute show, but more importantly, I get to make pretty dresses!

The show is set in the 1920's, but the director didn't want stereotypical flapper dresses - which is fine by me, because if you know me, you know that the words "stereotypical" and myself do not get along well.

I've never had to do a show this big before, though. Anything we did in school was only like 8 renderings, tops, and this has turned into about 30 different renderings (dun forget, my degree was in the production end, with one whole class on design )Luckily, the Director is very cool and laid back - she basically said "whatever you wanna do is fine by me."

So, hopefully I'll post my rough sketches up soon, and then the actual outfits as I get them built. I have to build about 18 pieces, with the aid of the students for some of the tedious work, and I can call in ~MedeaHiasobi if worse comes to worse, but I'm surprisingly not panicking. Yet

I've tried to keep the outfits to a minimum of variations, so I can use the same basic pattern for most of them.

Although, of course, I found some designer dresses from the 20's that I decided to replicate… but they're so pretty!! I couldn't say no…

On a similar topic, my mother ordered me a copy of Madeline Vionette's book for Christmas! I'm so excited - it got here yesterday, and she let me flip through it (she's still insisting on wrapping it up, though~) and I'm so excited to make odd bias dresses!

Business plan writing is at a standstill until I find my old textbook - I can't do much more without some of the information that was in there, about financials especially. But, I'm still holding myself to my goal of having the roughs of it done by February!

So, busy busy here. I'm still procrastinating starting on a big outfit for myself, because I haven't figured out how I'm going to pay my bills for the next few months, so spending is not an option, unfortunately. Maybe after the holidays, I don't know.

In the end, I'm trying not to let much of anything stress me out, because I get sicker when I get upset. It's hard to do, but I'm just keepin' at it, which is about all you can do

If I don't get to spam you with more journals, have a happy holiday, whatever you celebrate! And, don't forget the gingerbread!! *mmm ginger…*

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