I'm better

I'm much better today; my stomach is mostly quiet and all that remains of the illness is tiredness. Today will be devoted to clearing up some mistakes I made at work before getting sick and to sleeping. I may take a trip downtown too look for a new pair of leggings, but I'm not sure.

Oh my, they're so good!

I will probably loose whatever respect you had for me, but I adore this band and this song:

And this and this

And I will go see them tomorrow!

What to do?

Having toyed with the idea of giving or throwing away my old 16th century clothes from 2001-2002 that don't fit me anymore I decided that no, I like them too much to do that, I should try to remake them instead. Especially since none of them have been worn more than three time, most of them just once.
So I decided that I should try to remake this dress for the upcoming St. Egon event (which I haven't registered for yet, bad Aleydis!).
It is made in the old, non-period way with separate bodice and skirt so that has to be rectified, but how? I can either take away the back lacing (it's too big so I will take it in somewhere anyway) and make a front opening bodice and keep the open skirt. or I can do this:
( photo )

In which case I still will have to take it in which probably means new lacing holes.

In any case I will have to move trim on the front I think, or have you seen any period examples of this trim placement (it can be anywhere in Europe, but on this style of dress of course).
I've got at least ten metres of that trim so that is no problem.

Aaw!

bracke's new born mini piglets. Adorable is just the beginning.

Sailor dress

I bought a Sailor dress from eBay and yesterday it arrived:

( Peek! )