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Feeling better after two days on the couch with a horrible headache. (Remind me never to go shopping with my mother again.)

Feeling cheerful as I've just figured out how to adjust the Simplicity 1880's wedding gown pattern to make it into the dress from an 1883 fashion plate I've loved for ages. Yay!

Also, I've finally decided to remake an old dress that didn't work out into a late 18th century dress, and I just picked up the perfect fabric for the petticoat cheap. Mwahaha.

And I also picked up some white satin at the same store-closing sale, and now I have a desire to make a Russian court dress for a doll. Which would entail embroidery, which scares me, as I'm not into embroidery (witness my greyhound sampler has only gained half a leg in 6 months!), but possibly I could just do some pearl beading, or even go the super easy route of using trim. They used it on the Anastasia doll's court dresses and it looked... okay. I'm thinking pearls. We'll see.

And after a snow storm out of nowhere last week, it's sunny and warm again. Life is full of sunshine. I'm so cheerful I could just spit!