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This was a super busy weekend! On Friday, I spent a lot of the day attempting to paint my kitchen cabinet doors. I did manage to get the insides of the doors and the edges painted, though there are several spots that will need touching up. That's because I was not aware that paint doesn't dry if it's below 50 degrees, and particularly if there is high humidity. Half of them were painted by 2pm, and the other half by 3pm. At about 8pm, I went outside with a blow dryer for about 1.5 hrs until the edges were dry enough that I could pick them up and lean them against things in the garage, since it was, by that time, 35 degrees and 94% humidity outside. I put a space heater in the garage for about 2 hours, and by morning, they were all dry, but still a bit tacky. So there went my plan of hanging them before painting the exterior of the doors. And now I probably won't have time to do more on them till Saturday. I'm also supposed to paint my soffits somehow, but I feel like that's not actually possible in the winter?

Anyway, I'm doing all that because I'm thinking about selling my house and buying a larger one, and those are the two big projects that need to be done before I can proceed with the selling process.

So instead of working more on the cabinets on Saturday, I worked on my Christmas dress. Everything is now flatlined -- 8 skirt panels & 4 bodice panels. And the bodice panels are assembled (though I haven't tried them on yet), and two skirt seams are done, plus the pockets are in the skirt now. I hope to get the rest assembled tonight, ideally, so that I can work on collars and cuffs and finishing and all that, and have it finished before this weekend.

Yesterday, I spent the whole day with my bff and her husband, driving about 2.5 hrs each way in order to spend a few hours in Leavenworth, which is a Bavarian Christmas town in the Cascade mountains. It was very pretty, but I have not seen so many people, nor so many mask offenders in one place since all this started, so that was very disconcerting, and meant we didn't spend much time walking around outside. The drive was pretty, though, and our dinner was huge and delicious. Plus we brought home lots of other bakery items and candies and such for later.

In other news, my video from Saturday is knocking my socks off. It has performed so well that it made me twice as much money in its first day as any other video, has brought in over 300 new subscribers (I hit my 2020 subscriber goal!), and already has the second most views of any of my videos. So crazy. I really hope I can continue this somehow! Here's a link to the video if you haven't seen it: youtu.be/PSvy8N61YnI It's how 8 different corsets affect my plus size body, and everyone has been so appreciative in the comments. It's really wonderful.

It has also prompted me to set up my Patreon. I'm not doing the official launch until early Jan, but technically it's live now, if anyone is interested: https://www.patreon.com/ladyrebeccafashions