Dress Experiment

Normally I wouldn't feel so nervous about making a dress, but this one is for a wedding and for my friend Melissa who lives in NYC. Fittings might be an issue. So I came up with this idea- to use this tutorial from threads to make a dressmakers dummy out of duct tape. Or rather, to have Melissa make it and send it to me. I realized in conversation with someone last week that the variable a duct tape dummy doesn't tell me is how deep/wide it should actually be. Right now my most ingenious idea is to stuff it with bubble wrap, but I heard about some spray in foam that hardens that might work better if I can find it. Anyway, here it is up and together, though I can't start on it until I get more cast off bubble wrap.

Here's the pattern from Vogue. If I can figure out how, it will have a higher back and no train.

Happy <3 Day

We're back

Things

Let's try a roundup of stuff I've been looking at recently:

Kitchen stuff

Toasted pecans like these:



and more food stuff

Also: some lights like this to replace our old crusty yellowed recessed eyeball lights. Turns out to be harder to find that one would think.

Happy 2009

Snowpocalypse

5 buses stuck on Pine

our neighborhood

an anonymous snowman

Thundersnow

Turns out thundersnow is an actual term. We were awoken at 5:30am to crazy thunder and lightning and again at 6:30 to a snowday phonecall. It's already been called for tomorrow.