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 well this was the wildest weekend I've had in ages. 

Saturday:

Amanda, Jess, Mackenzie and I are all finally fully vaccinated so we all felt comfortable gathering for a sewing day. It was heavenly to see my friends again and it was downright strange now normal it felt. If I closed my eyes and took a breath it was as if 2020 hadn't happened at all. All was right in the world and I got to laugh, vent, and snark. We watched the entierty of Bridgerton. Thankfully Jess has seen it before so while we talked over it, yelled at costumes and bad ideas of birth control she could catch us back up on plot points we missed. I can't say I had any interest in watcching it alone, but it was the perfect trash to watch with girlfriends and be aghast about haha. I event got a suprising amount done on my new regency short gown. I cut it out on Saturday morning before I headed over and managed to get the bodice assembled and lined (I used the jacket construction techniques from costume close up), the neckline hemmed and the CF edges hemmed. Which I thought was impressive considering we also had tea delivered from the tea house, 8 hours of trash TV and pizza...

Sunday:

Aubry organized a zoom sillouette party which I was both excited for and nervous. I wore my Victorian tea gown as I feel pretty in it, I put make up on for the first time since November as I thought I might shoot photos but then I didn't feel like putting on shoes or petticoats so I didn't bother. But I was shocked by how...un RED I looked. My face is very angry with constant N95s at work. I have rosacia everwhere and skin breakdown on my nose. I think mine turned out really cute, not as stunning as others but I just didn't have as exciting an outfit. Then we after-partied on Jenny-Rose's fancy paid zoom account till...9pm? after that but before 10pm. and frankly that was also lovely just hanging out with Aubry, Jenny-Rose, Sara and Me shooting the shit. I also sewed the drawstring channel for the neckline. 

Monday: 

I woke up fucking on fumes. I'm not used to any social interaction and I had two full days. It was amazing but I was also feeling very dissociated. But no rest for the weary, we had to take Ellie to the vet for her 5 year check up. She's very healthy and was thrilled with all the attention and love. Probably less so with her vaccines but had forgotten those by the time she got to the car. I came home and napped. I sewed one and a hafl skirt seams and ordered pizza for dinner. Now we're watching time team while I stress about work tomorrow. 
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Welp today was my last day of prep before the Georgian Picnic we're having on Saturday. Technically tomorrow is only Friday but I have a 12 hour work day and guests rolling in to meet me so really I'm done for. I had grand plans to finish the open robe I've been working on and clean the house...in the end I did half a tidy (at least it's not bad because we had people over Sunday) and got a finished bodice which does not an open robe make.


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I was feeling really bad about failing at basically everything. And then I decided to just cut myself some slack. I'm working two jobs 50-60 hours a week, I am trying to hold it together financially and emotionally for a husband battling a chronic seriously mental illness and at the end of the day if my friends don't want to be friends with me because a bomb went off in my sewing room or I haven't dusted the TV cabinet in a month...so be it. I'm doing the best I can and sometimes that's just got to be good enough. Even though this is a UFO now at least I started the creative process. I haven't sewn anything since Rob got acutely sick. And I always forget how much sewing while it feels mechanical to me IS a creative process and I can't just turn it on whenever I want with no inspiration. So hopefully I'll finish this up next weekend and find somewhere to wear it sometime. Then I can start to think about my 1918 ensemble for August as I think that's the next event. And what this has taught me is I don't have the emotional energy I used to have to keep on chugging. I need to plan more time for it all...which isn't a strength of mine so someone help me remember that. :-p

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