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I have only four episodes left of The House of Eliott. I don't know what I'll do without it; I just know I'm going to cry and cry when I get to the last episode. Oh, sweet, sweet 1920's-dressmaking-British-drama! It's inspired me so. I always feel like making something fabulous after I've watched it. In fact, a while back I had a dream that I had dolls that looked just like Bea and Evie, and they had on little replicas of their costumes from the show. And it was one of those hyper-real dreams, where you could see every detail of fabrics and trimmings in perfect life-like clarity. It was a great dream! Since then I've had an idea of making a collection of twenties doll clothes, and in fact I've already started designing the first dress. It's terribly exciting, actually! :)
New Doctor Who last night at long last! Yay! I suppose it'll take me a while to get used to it, but it was probably mid-season before I got used to the last Doctor anyway. As long as the silliness is there, I'm happy. ;-D
Still reading The Five Red Herrings. Far, far too long. If you took out half the characters and half the chapters it would be a much better book. That's usually the strong point of Dorothy Sayers, that it's all very concise and moves along at a nice pace so you never get bored. I think maybe this one's so tedious and exhausting because she was making a point to use real locales and train schedules and all that; it just gets bogged down with too much detail. One of my favortie lines from Little Women (the movie at least, I can't remember at this point if it was in the book) is recalled to my mind at this point, where Jo, with emphatic conviction, states: "The first rule of good writing is, never, EVER write what you know!" But I suppose, Dorothy Sayers being English, she never read Little Women!
New Doctor Who last night at long last! Yay! I suppose it'll take me a while to get used to it, but it was probably mid-season before I got used to the last Doctor anyway. As long as the silliness is there, I'm happy. ;-D
Still reading The Five Red Herrings. Far, far too long. If you took out half the characters and half the chapters it would be a much better book. That's usually the strong point of Dorothy Sayers, that it's all very concise and moves along at a nice pace so you never get bored. I think maybe this one's so tedious and exhausting because she was making a point to use real locales and train schedules and all that; it just gets bogged down with too much detail. One of my favortie lines from Little Women (the movie at least, I can't remember at this point if it was in the book) is recalled to my mind at this point, where Jo, with emphatic conviction, states: "The first rule of good writing is, never, EVER write what you know!" But I suppose, Dorothy Sayers being English, she never read Little Women!
