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let's get this vacation started!
Aug. 9th, 2014 09:54 amI have nine whole days off work (counting weekends) in which to make significant progress on the various costuming things that must get done before Dragon Con.
Today's (and possibly tomorrow's) to-do list:
*Eat breakfast
*walk to Shadyside (just over three miles for some nice exercise)
*check out Hey Betty and Eons to see if either of them has the hat or handbag I want for Miss Marple
*break out the dreaded measuring tape and measure myself for patterning purposes (well, the skirt at least)
*dig out ironing board and iron
*cut out skirt pattern pieces
*iron pattern pieces
*iron skirt fabric
*sweep/mop bedroom floor
*pin/cut out skirt pieces
*put skirt together
Getting to the thrift stores and then putting the skirt together are my main goals for this weekend. Currently I'm feeling a bit limp and uninspired to walk the three miles to Shadyside, but I need to get some exercise in during this week that I'm off. I just need a good breakfast, some decaf coffee (the real thing always causes a crash as soon as I start to walk) and a bit of time to gear myself up. All that should take about an hour. Another hour or so to walk to Shadyside and it will be just about time for Hey Betty to open, at noon. It's a plan.
Update: The hat and handbag are now checked off the list, yay! The hat needs some alterations because, as with this entire outfit, it's not quite right but will do with a little work. I found both at Eons, and after I was done there I walked around Shadyside a bit, wandered up one side of Walnut, grabbed lunch at Bruegger's, walked back the other side of Walnut and then up Negley to Squirrel Hill. At that point I decided enough was enough and waited for a bus to take me the rest of the way home. A quick check on Google Earth shows that I walked 5.88 miles so I'd say that was enough exercise for today. Now for a little rest and then I'll have to get back at it.
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*iron pattern pieces
*iron skirt fabric
*sweep/mop bedroom floor
*pin/cut out skirt pieces
*put skirt together
Getting to the thrift stores and then putting the skirt together are my main goals for this weekend. Currently I'm feeling a bit limp and uninspired to walk the three miles to Shadyside, but I need to get some exercise in during this week that I'm off. I just need a good breakfast, some decaf coffee (the real thing always causes a crash as soon as I start to walk) and a bit of time to gear myself up. All that should take about an hour. Another hour or so to walk to Shadyside and it will be just about time for Hey Betty to open, at noon. It's a plan.
Update: The hat and handbag are now checked off the list, yay! The hat needs some alterations because, as with this entire outfit, it's not quite right but will do with a little work. I found both at Eons, and after I was done there I walked around Shadyside a bit, wandered up one side of Walnut, grabbed lunch at Bruegger's, walked back the other side of Walnut and then up Negley to Squirrel Hill. At that point I decided enough was enough and waited for a bus to take me the rest of the way home. A quick check on Google Earth shows that I walked 5.88 miles so I'd say that was enough exercise for today. Now for a little rest and then I'll have to get back at it.
