Yay!! *Dances!* So the "New Year" is here! and I'm wearing my colonial clothes!! :D You're all probably like, : "What clothes?" LOL! Well I finished my bedgown!! And my stays!! HURRAY! *dances again!* I don't have shoes though,..... :S Lol! :P Well I kind of do! I'm borrowing my little brothers moccasins! :P (There were indians around!) I could have just forgotten about shoes for awhile if I didn't work out with the animals! But! Since I do! I need something to get through all the mud in the paddock area! (thankfully though the mud is all frozen in the morning!) And Daddy made some sort of little
wooden bridge for me just a little bit ago!(Yay! :D ) :P SO I needn't worry about shoes for a little at least! But I do need to worry about a normal colonial gown! So far I have the following!:
-Moccasins-2 pairs of Stockings
-Garters(Oh! My garters are just strips of leather! :P )
-a Shift
-Stays
-Petticoat
-Begown
-Cap
-and an Apron!
On the 12th of January though, My music teacher wants me and Susan to play and sing(I sing Susan play) at the Treble Cleft Club shes part of. And I REALLY don't want to sing in my work dress,.. :( The bedgown kinda looks like a chinese outfit. Maybe I'm wearing it wrong though! I donno! I 'd really like a recognizable colonial gown though! I still need to order the pattern! :( I think I could finish it though! If I ordered the pattern right away and got RIGHT to work on it!! :S !!! We'll see I guess!!
For my stays, I didn't order any boning! I was thinking about getting metal boning,. and then pounded ash wood boning! But by the time I could have ordered either, it was to late! : ' ( They wouldn't have gotten here in time,.. :( I had only about a week left to figure something out! So!,.. *Sly Grin* "MWAhahahah!!* A-hem!
During the large ice storm all of our trees lost a whole bunch of branches! Including our ash tree! :) :P So I carved boning from the ash tree branches! :P Is that kinda period correct Wendy? lol! They seem to work good! It took a long time and I got 3 blisters from it! Ha,..ha,.. I was working to hard the first time! :P
For my next pair of stays though I definitely plan on buying boning!!! Or if I can get my brother to carve em for me,.. :D :P hehe!
For as not to temp me, me and my mom went through ALL my CLOTHES!!! And put some in bags for friends, some for keep til I'm done and some for the goodwill!! So my drawers are practically empty! *Gasp!* :S Lol! My drawers are usually over flowing! And a large pile of clothes of the floor too! :P Now though!, that shouldn't be a problem!! :) Unless I go crazy wearing colonial clothes and tear through the bags before mom gets them out of the house!! mwahah! :P ! I don't think so though, but who knows!! Maybe I will! :P So! The pictures are of me right before I changed into colonial december 31st! (I had to sleep in shift so I'd wake up colonial! :P ) Then of me after I had changed into my colonial clothes!(Also pictured is a back view of my bedgown and a picture of my stockings!) And I did a test run with doing my animal chores too! :P It was okay, but I didn't know where Blu's moccasins were then,.. I was wearing Ellies, which are way to small!! lol! They worked though! :P I also need to make my cloak! I wrapped myself in a wool blanket! Which I plan on turning into my cloak!! Lol! :P But I'm glad I did that "test run" because now I know I definitely need wool stockings!!
I'm hoping that sometime next year I can go out east! I really don't know if I can go, but I sure hope so! I'd like to visit Wendy and see the fort I've read and heard so much about!!! and also visit my forum friends! Since most of you live out there or around! :D We'll see though! I don't know what'll happen! (Who does though! :P )
