So excited!

[theladyrebecca]

Can we please talk about the fact that there have been over 90 LJ posts on my friends feed since mid-Friday! I think LJ is back!

I'm also crazy excited for all these travel plans that are floating around. I'm glad you guys are spreading them out in two different years, because I'm definitely going to need to save up money, but they sound amazing!

I had a busy Sunday. I picked up my CoCo things from my roommate, dropped off the Viking at the repair store (hopefully they'll be able to fix the reverse button issues I've been having), and got a bit side-tracked by a going-out-of-business fabric store in the same parking lot. Don't worry, I was pretty good (though I'm sure it was helped by the fact that almost all their fabric was gone already). I only got several yards of a few different trims, a bunch of buttons for the black silk taffeta bustle gown for later this year, and some beading odds and ends (mostly clasps, because the faux-clasps I made for the 1830s gala gown bracelets were just silly).

Then I hustled off to meet my bf at Joanns, in the hopes of finding Flynn Rider doublet fabric for him (to no avail). Yes, that's right - new costume plan! My bf and I are going to Disney World over Halloween, and we needed appropriate Disney couples costumes to wear at the park. I let him choose (after vetoing the all-leather Hook from OuaT), and he chose Flynn! Hopefully the doublet won't be too crazy, though my bf can be a stickler for accuracy sometimes (I created a monster, what can I say). Unfortunately, it's looking like we'll have to go online for the fabric. We're trying to find something that breathes, since it is still FL, so I think we've decided on either canvas or corduroy. Rapunzel should be relatively easy - I'll have to find my embroidery files, but after all, I've already made this costume twice, so it shouldn't be too bad.

That said, because I've got these big Halloween plans coming up, I'm really hoping to finish the 1890s walking dress this week. Last night (after going ice skating with my bf and his family), I patterned out the bodice, and tried the mockup. It was so close that I'm pretty confident with the few tweaks I've made, I can cut out the fashion fabric tonight (famous last words? I hope not!). I still can't decide on the "blouse" fabric, though - while at Joanns, I picked up swatches of two shirting cottons, one with a woven sateen stripe and the other with embroidered stripes, and a quilting cotton with tiny reddish polka-dots. I have a feeling I'm going to have to make up the whole rest of the bodice, and bring it with me to Joanns to help decide which looks best when it's a giant voluminous sleeve instead of a 1" swatch...