It was a lively production of Once Upon a Mattress, with Karin Terry an apt Princess Winnifred. Unlike Carol Burnett, she was quite tiny, but had a huge voice and good comic timing. Andy Baldwin was also good as Prince Dauntless, he of the terrible posture.
Those clever library workers have done it again with this book display.
What could they be getting at?
These are some gorgeous edges!
Dire messages in whimsical fonts seems to be a feature of this decade.
A double fun SKS mail suprise: a nice letter complete with stickers, plus a postcard.
Sara says that it’s the penultimate week of school and was thrilled she got to read in an elementary school classroom.
The northernmost point of Lake Michigan sure is pretty.
Ariel observes that she likes how this story about grief often makes her forget that it’s a story about grief.
Well said!
Sara reports from “the great 208” that she’s been experiencing humid days with the excellent smell of petrichor.
She also wrote a postcard as the car she was in was driving on I-5 near my house. She was on a road trip and the other companions decreed that there was no stopping to say hi.
Here is the first version of a gathered skirt. It’s pretty much the easiest to make as you can cut a rectangle, gather it, and then slap a waistband on. My instructor though, had us expand the blocks outward to make the skirt bigger.
And the plus of these tiny skirts is that I can make all the mistakes. In this case, I didn’t realize I had sewed together the wrong sides until it was time for the waistband , but I just added the waistband and moved on.
Mental note: do a better job marking front and back.
While most skirts have incorporated one element at a time, this one took the flared skirt, made a high/low hemline, and added a ruffle. And goodness do ruffles take time.
Especially so now that I’ve run out of the blue sheet. It didn’t shed, so I never finished the hems. But this white sheet I’m using immediately starts to unravel when I cut it, so I have to do at least a one-fold-over hem. And I don’t have to tell you that a hem on a ruffle is a thing that takes a lot of hemming.
I would not wear a skirt like this at this time; I’m more into covering my legs than exposing them. But it was fun to construct.
And I’m enjoying my collection.
I don’t think I took a picture during the construction of the flared with yoke, but that one is my favorite so far. Flippy cheerleader skirts in my youth had yokes, and I’ve always liked them.
Bolded means favorite
Six Truths and a Lie by Ream Shukairy
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6 by Beth Brower
Leave Your Mess at Home by Tolani Akinola
Fair Play by Louise Hegarty
Not the one about household chores and mental load (I recommend that one, if you haven’t read it and have some chores/mental load things happening at your house) but instead both a friends/grief story and a murder mystery story.
The Goodreads average is quite low. I’m wondering if others also felt they were kind of dumb while reading this, as I did. I’m a golden retriever of reading though, I just amble along, despite not entirely getting it.
DIY Thrift Flip: Sewing Techniques for Transforming Old Clothes into Fun, Wearable Fashions by April Yang, Coolirpa
The Handsewn Wardrobe: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Clothes from Patternmaking to the Finishing Stitches by Louisa Owen Sonstroem
I don’t think hand sewing my wardrobe is in the cards for me right now, but if it ever is, I’m coming right back to this book. There is also pattern drafting info, and a healthy disclaimer that one need not either pattern draft or hand sew.
