I really am still alive....

I'm sure all my readers are probably gasping in horror and mortification that I didn't post about anything yesterday.... Or today for that matter. ;D

I really am still alive over here; I have just gotten very busy of the late.

I'm slowly but steadily working on my costume for the upcoming masquerade ball in May. At first I was planning on making a renaissance era costume, the kind with the loooooong sleeves, but, my grand total for all that fabric would have been around 40 or 50 dollars!! Ouch.

Plan B.

I am now making a regency style costume. If you scroll down to Megan's post about her dress, you'll be able to see the two different styles. Meg is doing view B (the green long-sleeved one), and I am working on view A. My color for the overlay (the white fabric in the pic) is an extremely pale green, that almost looks gold in some lights, made of a medium weight cotton. The underlay color is a light, cream, made of flannel backed satin. I know, I know, I am totally going to die with part of my costume having flannel on it, but, it was soooo pretty, and it went so nicely with my green fabric. ;D I told my sisters that at least I will die happy!

One thing that I am doing differently is the sleeves.... I've been skulking around countless blogs and websites, gleaning ideas for my costume. I found one fantastic idea for the sleeves; but I have nothing to go by except the pictures. Regardless of that, I bit the bullet and so far so good! When I finish the sleeves I'll post some pictures and show y'all.

In fact, I really should be sewing right now instead of typing away on here.... I am a procrastinator by nature and have a tendancy to leave things 'till the last minute (oops).... Okay, here I go. :)

Maybe I'll catch a chance to do some more posting tomorrow....

I really am going this time!!

~Caitlyn ;)