January 2011
So apparently I'm not done yet.
—finding out that the 10th Doctor’s brown suit was made out of several pair of trousers (because, apparently, there was a particular pair Tennant was fond of) and a completely unrelated jacket used as a pattern—
Just makes me want to make a suit that way. Not even a replica suit, necessarily, just— I want to make a suit-jacket to match a pair of completely unrelated...
An addendum:
I also found out that my mother agrees with me re: suits, the lines thereof, and men’s suits tailored to fit women > women’s suits a lot of the time.
I also found what look like really good vest patterns at Simplicity, which, of course, /isn’t/ who is having the sale, but who I might need to buy from anyway after all.
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How I spent my afternoon, by Shannon:
I started out neck-deep in patterns thanks to an email, then it wound up turning into this huge discussion about coats and suits with my mother, and then I spent the rest of it getting excited by sewing/costume replicating blogs. (With a side of nerding out over Things Costume Designers Do When They’re Designing, which reminded me that I have a book about that relevant to ST: TOS....
I don't understand how some people can find...
thekeeperofkeys:
Things I love: animated .gifs, David Tennant’s ridiculous face.
Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and... →
wilwheaton:
It’s taken a while, but Google has finally caved in to pressure from the entertainment industries including the MPAA and RIAA. The search engine now actively censors terms including BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent, RapidShare and Megaupload from its instant and autocomplete services. The reactions from affected companies and services are not mild, with BitTorrent Inc., RapidShare and...
fuck. that.
that being: taking my child to the bus in -10 degree weather. i am pretty sure my nose hair, the inside of my nose, and part of my /lungs/ flash-froze in the process.
fucking winter.
Queen of Zan: Word of the day: Queerplatonic →
lizardkitsch:
sssupercovennn:
deliciouslysubversive:
tiaramerchgirl:
jhameia:
meloukhia:
An outgrowth of a conversation about aromantic orientations, and the desire to be able to define relationships that are not romantic, that are also not friendships, and that play…
Then after informing my child that no, it is in fact too cold to go to school in her pajamas, I reached back and found a cat.
I thought it was a pillow.
And now, with random song lyrics still stuck in my head, we’re off to the small thing’s med check appointment.
I don't even know sometimes.
I say that a lot, by the way, you’ll probably get used to it.
Stuck in my head this morning:
“Here comes my baby, here she comes now, (melody of song done in ‘duns’ because I can’t remember the words apparently) with another guy, here comes my baby.”
