Why am I posting so much here lately? heh

Anyway. I asked Pim to buy me three patterns from Evadress (I cannot because my billing and shipping addresses are not the same).
This dress, I have been thinking about it for many months. There is another drawing here.



I think it is adorable, and I like a lot this yellow/green combination. And I think I can use draping about the chest/shoulders.

In fact I think it would be great to make the top detachable from the skirt and make a few of each with different fabrics, to have a lot of possible combinations. Cool no? But I wouldn't know how to go about it so that it doesn't detach, doesn't gap open, and is not bulky. Many hooks and eyes close togheter? hook and eye tape (the one I have at least) is quite bulky. Hmh.

Well, anyway. I got 3m (that was all there was) of a rayon like the one of the brown skirt, but it is a white one with tiny blue and green flowers, not crazy about it but I am thinking to dye it. I also got 75cm of another, a light yellow with blue flowers, for another skirt perhaps. Maybe I can dye them in a diluted black dye to darken a bit. Or green. Dunno.

Oh, and the other patterns... a slip pattern (because I would like to make my own, although finding a suitable fabric may be difficult, my local fabric shop has cotton, linen, loads of poly, and dupioni), and a blouse pattern I also had been eyeing for a long time. Now if Pim remembers to buy the patterns... I don't want to insist, but I can see him just forgetting about it.



Today I held a hedgehog. Darn it, it was so cute!


The picture is out of focus and sucks because my phone camera... sucks.

Today I made a skirt and a top from grey and light grey fine viscose jersey, very light with no hems at all, because it is warm and I wanted something comfortable but fitted and fitting. I cut the skirt directly onto the fabric modifying the pattern (from the last dress I made) as I went along. The top I copied from another top I have, although it is woven. The result is not a wonder but it fits and it is wearable (at least, I think). I do not have pictures, it is too dark inside.

I also found a Brownie camera in the rommelmarkt for €8. Of course now I want to make pictures with it and I am investigating, it is tricky because the exact roll it needs is not made anymore, but there are ways... After cleaning the very dirty lenses, it seems in perfect working condition.
It is a super cute little (well...) thing with a deco front, and an original carry case-bag thingy.

Yesterday I finished another skirt I started a week or two ago, from a fine brown crepe rayon with pinkish flowers. Same pattern as previous dress. No pictures yet. I love it.

My health is not so wonderful, but I don't feel like talking about it. Now I have dope though, so hopefully it will get better.

I will probably post again with pictures. I do not like posts with no pictures!

The exhibition I took part in is currently taking place in the Museum voor vlakglas- en emaillekunst in Ravenstein, The Netherlands, until the 4th of October of 2009.


I couldn't make it to the opening, but here they have a slide show in their website:



http://www.vlakglas-en-emaillekunst.nl/diasieraad/index.php

Thanks to my last name, my pieces are the first 5 ;P
They got the materials on a couple of these mixed up but I guess it does not matter much.

I've been sewing a dress, I secretly wanted to finish it in time for my next trip tp Barcelona, but I never set serious deadlines since I never meet them anyway and I don't really need more dissapointment as it is ;P

As it turns out, I finished it in time. I was still dissapointed an hour ago, but meanwhile I have fixed what was bothering me and I am instead feeling quite accomplished ;P

So I'll be wearing this dress in Barcelona I guess. We are leaving tomorrow, and I haven't told anyone, except my parents. The thing is, when you move out of the country, every vacation is always eaten up by visiting family and friends and doing 1001 chores. We were a bit tired of this, but on the other hand I wanted to see my parents. So we are gonna go to Barcelona, and we will stay with my dad and visit my mom, but for the rest, we are going to pretend we are not there ;P we will try to have a vacation like we could have in any other city, but with the advantage that we don't have to pay accomodation, we can cook most of the meals, and I do know my way around. We really wanted a real vacation. Pim wants to go to the beach, I want to go shopping ;P and that is all we are gonna do. I have sunscreen.

We will come back soon, in September, for the festes, we already have the tickets, so I'll have a chance to see everyone else soon anyway.

Here comes one picture of the dress, and I'll put all else behind a cut.



( A lot of big pics )

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And now something completely unrelated. I've loved this little painting Pim's grandfather had hanging in his living room since I saw it. My favourite flowers, and I think it is a beautiful painting. Now, sadly Pim has inherited it, and it is hanging in our living room (here without frame):



Now I noticed the date, 1946, shortly after the end of WWII, painted by Yvonne Guns, born in Belgium in 1911.



I found out she died not too long ago.

Now it is finished :)



( More pics )


Family picture of all that is going to the exhibition.

Actually... I wanted to finish the three pieces I posted about Sunday because I wanted to apply for entry in a juried exhibition of enamelled jewellery that will take place in the Museum voor vlakglas- en emaillekunst in Ravenstein, The Netherlands. The maximum amount of entries was five, and I applied with: TBC II, Oedipus, Ocell, Calla Lily and Givrer.

They just sent me an email notifying that ALL 5 got in :D and that they want me to ship them as soon as possible.

Hehee!!

I finished Julieta's necklace, she is now in Mexico and getting married next week :)







I also thought it was about time to finish some things:



( And a lot of progress pictures under the cut )

My head has been a bit foggy this weekend so I have preferred to do some beading than enamelling on Julieta's necklace.


The paint is still unfired.

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This is a necklace I am making for a friend to wear to her wedding.

( Progress pictures. )

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I have added more moss I've rescued from roof fallout and grown a bit to my... terrarium? vivarium? palidarium? hmh. Where I keep my moss. Terrarium sounds too dry for this place I have to spray once or twice a day, but it doesn't really have water in it.

The at least two snails that inadvertently had made it their home, have bred and become a colony of sorts. There may be many of them since now anytime you look you see one or several, despite how tiny they are.

They immediately (considering) went on to explore the new, lush moss. I carefully picked up four of them. Two of them are extremely tiny, I never saw such tinier ones before, barely bigger than a pin head.






Wisely enough, the two smaller ones didn't want to explore my hand.


Do you spot them? The same 4 I was holding.

I have been unable to keep up with LJ lately. I cannot find the time... the filter I read most often had become so big I couldn't cope with it at all anymore. I wish I had the time to read everything in my friends list but this is sadly just not possible.

So in order to at least be able to read some of it, I've had to go through it and take a lot of journals off this filter. I don't know what I missed in the last weeks, and I am sorry about that, I want at least to be able to read about my closest friends if that is all I have time to do...

I'll have to clean up and reorganize the other filters I have, but there is so much I don't know how long it is gonna take. I may also clean up friends list too, it is just too much.

I've finished the mustard linen handbag I started the other day, it had a design flaw, due to the handles being rigid (it's the first time I use this sort of handles) there has to be some room at the sides to open the bag, and I didn't account for this, duh. So I have added a strip of fabric all around. It was a bit tricky to sew since I had already clipped the seam allowances, and at different lenghts...

Well, now it is finished except for the lining. I was thinking of lining it with raw fine canvas, but I think I'll get some cotton to match the mustard yellow instead, since it will be quite visible, I'll see.

I made the bag to match a pair of shoes (matches better for real than in the pictures), I got them last year but only wore them once or twice before it got cold. I already got the fabric last year though. Additionally I put some lace in it to match a couple of summer dresses I have:







There is a loop to attach a flower or whatever.

( More pictures and progress pictures )

And the other bag is lunch bag the II that I made two days ago, to perfectly fit the new tupperwares I am using at the moment. It is purposefully asymetrical ;p lined with a butchered tarp Ikea bag, and the outer fabric is fine corduroy.

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It is nothing wonderful but it is very light and comfortable and useful for everyday.

Psst!

medvssa_knits

And the lastest hobby is.... knitting xDD

I knew one day or another I would give it a try.

( Read more... ) And I would bet most people in my friend's list here in LJ are not really interested in this at all ;P so perhaps I could repost and filter in LJ, and get another LJ or other journal for public posting.
If I end up doing that, well, do tell me if you are interested in being in this filter.

Hmhmh...

More on this.

Yesterday I received some beads and findings. I got vermeil findings for the Greek Vases project. Gold is out of the question so I decided to work with sterling silver and then get it gold plated. I got some vermeil (same thing) findings that I think have a granulation, greco-roman feel to them: a clasp, several headpins, earwires and a few rondelles:



I changed a bit the sequence of beads now that I incorporated the rondelles. The necklace will have to be somewhat longer.

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I also got these coral and pearl beads and the silver clasp for a comission. I normally do not take comissions but this one is for a friend. A necklace she will wear to her wedding:


The pearl in the clasp turns out to be more bluish than the other pearls so it will have to be surrounded by coral.