News of the day

I am sorry not to have posted the last few days but I wasn't exactly feeling all to well.  Then you throw in that this last weekend was my crash weekend you begin to understand slightly why I didn't blog.  When I wasn't sleeping, I was studying.  I think I made up some of the sleep I have lost in the last two weeks,  I was just so utterly exhausted.

Sunday afternoon was my big night as I got pinned as an initiate to Phi Sigma Phi the honor's fraternity.  It was the whole highlight of my whole week.  I stood there slightly crying as I took the oath of secrecy and brotherhood.  It made all the work during the Spring Semester feel so worth while.  Keep your fingers crossed as I am running for the position of President and Vice President of our Class in the fraternity.  Voting I believe is this Sunday.

Needless to say I got no sewing done on the Women of History outfit done and I know I am going to pushed into some real overtime to try to get it done on time.  If I could just not feel so tired.  It may not end till the end of the semester, because of all the pending work.

Mrs Carr at Kent asked me to participate in an upcoming Coat Challenge in October.  We will be designing a Cotton Sateen Coat inspired by Jackie Kennedy Onassis.  Not only designing the coat but also a print that will be put on the fabric.  I was thrilled to be asked so I said YES!

Well for now that is it, so thank you for this time we had together.

News of the day

Well thankfully I took the time to finally sit down and cut out the majority of the patterns for the Mary Todd Lincoln inspired/recreation dress for the Famous Women Fashion Show in October.  Going to work my head off to get it the way I want it to look but in all honesty I know I can and, more than likely will, do it.

In a way this may be the dress that brings back some of my self confidence.  I also moved all of the doll boxes out of the sewing room closet  andinto the Oz room closet. My fashion books and magazines are now on the shelf in that closet.  It will need an additional brace I think to hold the weight.  Will have to ask my dad about it when he is out again. Moving those books freed up some shelf space in my sewing room.

I found a clothing rod to put in the closet to hang my own creations plus the few vintage/antique pieces I do not want to cut up.  Maybe now I can slowly buy more antque clothing I find intersting and worth having.  Of course you all can send me stuff at least 60 years old or more for the small but growing collection.  I would be indebted forever. I am especially interested in antique men's clothing and women's 1930's and before as well as couture of course.

If you didn't catch Marth Stewart last night on Hallmark, you kids missed one hell of a show. It was"The Women in Fashion" and the interviews, the clothes and the insight was simply wonderful.  If they re-run it you kids need to watch it.  Then today on her daytime show Martha had the entire hour about fashion, it was love for me!  It did bring up this whole idea, for me anyway, why is it you never hardly see antique men's clothing in antique store or malls or even shows for sale?  Pickings are slim kids, maybe these men wore their clothes out.   Maybe there is no interest in antique men's clothing.  I wonder. What all do you think. 

My big passion right now would be vintage bowties. There is something about a man in a bowtie and frankly believe it or not I don't own one. Maybe it should be on my wish list.  Well anyway, I am glad we had this time together.  Till next time.

I can't believe this is post 501, where does the time go?  Somehow you all have been reading along, changes and all from those early days of doom and gloom that the posts where to the postings about Wizard of Oz and collecting to now fashion.  You my readers have been faithful and somehow readership just keeps soaring.  Maybe I have hit on something, maybe I am so frank, so honest, so open people are intrigued by what I will say next. Maybe it is because I talk about fashion or things that intrest me.  Maybe its becasue as Sally Field said "You like me, you really like me."  I would love to know what it is that makes you come back reading.

This weekend believe it or not was spent doing nothing more than homework.  The whole damn freaking weekend, but in all reality I know it will pay off in the end. Maybe I will make the Dean's List again this semester, maybe somebody will notice how hard I am working and how very desperately I want this more than life itself.

Maybe it will pay off in my intership when the time comes, or pay off when I go to study abroad or when I leave for the work force because people will see how dedicated I am and how badly I want it.  Facebook asks the question in some online quizzes about the people you know if they would sell everything to get successful.  The answer for me is a very simple YES! No doubt in my mind, no regret, no questions.  You get tired of being nobody.  You get tired of feeling like yo haven't made a difference.  You get tired of feeling lonely.  You get tired of not being what you want and need to be for yourself.  If so many people can do it why can't I?

I think for me the answer is I need to get more focused on how I spend alot of my time.  So many hours a day for homework, so many hours a day to write which I love and so many an hours a day to sew which for me is breathing.  To create IS LIFE, without it there is literally nothing!  Brutal isn't it?  It though is the truth and I am beginning to understand it.

I am going to go out on a limb and say at the moment I feel very desperately alone.  In the near month back in school my family has not called once to see how I am. To see how things are going in school.  To see if I am alright.  It grows tiring.  I feel like I have to "pull teeth" almost to get any response and I am tired of it beyond words.  I want people involved in my life because they want to be.  I want people to know what I am doing because they want to know.  I need somehow to know I am needed in someway and that i make the difference.  Sounds desperate doesn't it?  I guess it is, but it is the raw truth.

I have this huge project with the "Women of History Fashion Show" that I HAVE to start tomorrow or I will never get it done. I need to finish homework that is due Wednesday and frankly I need to get back to myself into the habit of meditating daily and doing yoga daily somehow.  Like I have said before and I will say it again I feel like so much of time is wasted.  How all do you feel about the time you have?  I would love knowing I am not alone.

Well until next time kids I am so glad we had this time together and I hope you have been enjoying the new mood boards I have been posting.