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May. 8th, 2007 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newmoonstarYay! I actually DID get sewing done! Not on the Russian court dress, but I finally re-did the sleeves of the peach 1900's American Girl doll dress that I'd had to cut the elastic out of because it got all crumbly and gross. I also made a little belt for it, so now it's a cute little blouse-fronted girl's afternoon dress. There's something so satisfying about remaking an old dress. I may still have to re-do one of the sleeves again though, it looks a little lop-sided to me. Someday, when we get film for the camera, I'll post a picture so I can get a second opinion.
I can't count on my mum's opinion about it, because she's upset that I'm working on something besides her medieval costume. I wish to heaven my mum would back off about making medival costumes. There are two faires next weekend, but I haven't even started on anything for myself because she's always butting in and making it such a goddamn chore. Why can't she just get some interests of her own and leave me the heck alone? Why can't I have normal, supportive parents who are happy to let me have my own interests, yet secure enough to stay out of it, and then be proud and admiring with my completed projects? Instead of having a complete nut-case who has to butt in with criticism and discouragement, and then get really judgemental and nit-picky with every damn project I undertake? I'm a cheerful person by nature, but damn it, there is a limit to what one can put up with.
I've finally read the last of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories. I'm a little sad to be through, they were such fun. Of course, there's still Thrones, Dominations, but it's only a fragment, and I don't really trust anyone else to finish it. That's what's kept me from reading Sanditon all these years too. I just feel that once the original author dies, there's no way anyone else could complete the novel properly. No matter how good it is, it's never going to be the original author's vision, and therefore it's not 'real' in the same way, you know? But I'm a little bereaved, not to say a tiny bit curious, so I'll probably end up giving the Frankenstein monster known as Thrones, Dominations a try. And I know I'll give in and read some version of Sanditon one day too. ;-D
I can't count on my mum's opinion about it, because she's upset that I'm working on something besides her medieval costume. I wish to heaven my mum would back off about making medival costumes. There are two faires next weekend, but I haven't even started on anything for myself because she's always butting in and making it such a goddamn chore. Why can't she just get some interests of her own and leave me the heck alone? Why can't I have normal, supportive parents who are happy to let me have my own interests, yet secure enough to stay out of it, and then be proud and admiring with my completed projects? Instead of having a complete nut-case who has to butt in with criticism and discouragement, and then get really judgemental and nit-picky with every damn project I undertake? I'm a cheerful person by nature, but damn it, there is a limit to what one can put up with.
I've finally read the last of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories. I'm a little sad to be through, they were such fun. Of course, there's still Thrones, Dominations, but it's only a fragment, and I don't really trust anyone else to finish it. That's what's kept me from reading Sanditon all these years too. I just feel that once the original author dies, there's no way anyone else could complete the novel properly. No matter how good it is, it's never going to be the original author's vision, and therefore it's not 'real' in the same way, you know? But I'm a little bereaved, not to say a tiny bit curious, so I'll probably end up giving the Frankenstein monster known as Thrones, Dominations a try. And I know I'll give in and read some version of Sanditon one day too. ;-D
