Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Grace's turn to be adorable
I love heading home to visit my cats at lunch!
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
HWSF Library Mural Sneak Peek
Through work, I've spent a large amount of my time over the past month working on a very fun project. The company that I work for (Innovatia) has chosen to spend their charitable efforts updating a library in a local elementary school. This was a very dreary room before teams of folks repainted the walls, painted the bookshelves and updated and added to the book collection. They asked me if I could do a bit of mural work there and I had a lot of fun working on it. The grand opening is Thursday the 22nd and I can't wait to be able to share more of this project after that. In the mean time, here is a peek at a small part of a very large project...
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Steampunk Costume: Bolero Update
Bit by bit, it's starting to come to life... still much more to be done:
While Brenda sewed the body of the bolero together (see the added details?)...
I started to figure out the shape of the cuffs - which will be multi-layered...
Labels: costume, sewing, steampunk
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Steampunk Costume: Starting the Spats
Before anything, Brenda and I needed to mock up a pattern for the spats. We've used some old fabric and have settled on a basic shape (which took a couple of tries to get to)...
Labels: costume, sewing, steampunk
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Steampunk Costume: The Bolero's Beginnings
Brenda and I totally lucked out by finding some great fabric on sale at Fabricville for a mere dollar/meter. My goal was "awesome lining" as I'm a total sucker for that sort of thing. I had worked out a concept sketch of the bolero earlier the other week and Brenda taught me how to convert a concept into an actual pattern. She took on the tough job of adding the buckles etc to the main section while I got started on 420" of box pleats (which, by the way, wound up taking a total of 7 hours to complete, but was totally worth it!)
Labels: costume, sewing, steampunk
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Friday, September 09, 2011
The Basil Thief
I spent some time over the weekend weeding my garden plot (and the paths around it). I still have a few things that need harvesting. Unfortunately one of the things that I regularly stop in for has disappeared. Earlier this week, I popped by to get 5 leaves from each of my two basil plants (one green and one purple) and they had been dug up. Perfect holes with spade marks were left in their place. So frustrating - why would someone do that?
Anyway - the garden is looking better once again now that it's been weeded...
Later this week, I got in to work to find this lovely container with basil and parsley at my desk, thanks to my co-worker Jane. What a thoughtful surprise! You totally rock, Jane! I've decided to keep it at the office so I can enjoy it's smell. When I want a little bit of basil, I just take a few leaves home with me at the end of the work day.
Labels: garden
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Monday, September 05, 2011
Meeting Nicky Epstein
This morning I was happy to have the opportunity to meet the fabulous knitwear designer Nicky Epstein when she came to Saint John (as a stop on her cruise ship tour). She's an inspiration to knitters all over the world!
Labels: knitting
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Hunter being cute
Hunter's new thing is to hop up on my bed as soon as I get out of it in the morning, and curl up just below my pillow. I usually make most of the bed around him and leave him be - then when I go home for lunch, I can finish making my bed. Yes, my cats have me trained well. He was being especially cute this morning.
Labels: cat
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Steampunk Costume: the saga continues
It's a challenge to get a lot done when you can only get together for a few hours each week. Tonight we worked on the goggles and the hat and made a bit of progress with each.
Here's Brenda's wonderful work on the hat:
As for the goggles, we've decided to go with the tops of spice cannisters, held together with screws and bolts and an L-bracket (with a bit of extra bend to it). We fashioned leather sides and straps to it. Next step will be to add some of the embellishments, but at least it's a start that we are happy with...
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