In the middle of a storm.

They do say it's gong to be stormy for a few days..but I was referring to the mind storm in my head right now. There's so so many thing flying around and wanting to be figured out and made up...if only I had all the time in the world.

 I have done some things that I will tell you all about when I feel less tired..and more focused..but right now all I can think of is my slightly odd adoration of Love Death and Paris. Probably brought on by my new favourite song: Quand vous mourrez de nos amours by Rufus Wainwright. (Notice how I am trying to pretend it's new and not at all deeply rooted in my personality long before I ever heard this song.) For some reason old pictures of people have always fascinated me, not despite, but because they have all been dead for a long time. Maybe it's my past lives talking..but there's just something safe and familiar about it. 

Anyways..This days happy place is Montmartre..because never did I feel more like I could be a piece of the same puzzle.

..and because love really is the greatest thing you'll ever know.

Dance Dance!

 Why?

..it's 1 am and this just made me laugh so hard I fell of the chair, that's why!

The corset wearers _or_"It's part of our artistic lifestyle!"

..the last one is something I said a lot last weekend..and plan to use a lot more..sometimes you just need a short way to shut someone up. It's all part of the philosophy "either you get it, or you just don't". 

..but obviously, the seamstress in me also see the silhouettes of the 1860's, 1880's & 1900..sort of.

But mostly I just want to say..corsets are awesome! whether you're a pseudo-Victorian or just feel like being eccentric at a party. Either way, this one's for my girlfriends..there's no one I'd rather mock porn with <3

Trying things out..!

Just some things I'm trying out..

After having finished my Victorian outfit I thought I'd try my newly successful pattern on something else, so I made a jacket. A little modified of course (the first one was made for corset wearing) but basically the same design. Turns out that went really well..just not for me. Too big, too white and too short, but it looks nice when I'm not wearing it. So hopefully I'll find a home for it somewhere else...on someone else's much taller and much more suntanned body. Or something.

And the other things there are my new hat..and a first try at a plain cotton cap..but I underestimated the size of my head. On Lus head it fit perfectly..but he's not always into showing things of..

But the next try out is much more successful!  It's a birthday present that I finished just last weekend for my girlfriend (..a relationship that used to be a lot weirder, trust me). She's always been an inspiration for dollmaking, but until now I've never really been able to capture her..always too light and too proportional..and a little big headed..but that's what they all suffer from. So now I present, my girlfriend in a jar!

At first I was going to continue my street-children-theme..but for some reason I think that might creep her out..so she became a 2011 forest princess! That's as modern as it gets people!

Next up is some shirt making..and some dollmaking (Lorna Doon style probably, I just can't get that out of my mind!).. and what am I gonna wear to the slumber-party this weekend? (..yeah..that's probably just exactly what it sounds like..)

Just one last thing..

 

..because I need to remember this day as the day when something good happened too, today I finished the last piece to my 1880's outfit. The final buttonhole on the final petticoat is now done! Now I can step into Victorian London and blend right in!

Most of all I'm surprised I managed to do this much before something else caught my attention and then I'd be in the place where I'm most..sidetracked and lots of lose pieces lying around. 

And because today deserves a happy place:

London 2011