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You won't believe it, but I finally actually put my fabric on eBay. Yes. Now if I'm lucky I may get it out of the house.

And now I am uploading photos to Facebook because YES I CAN. (I got nothing done this morning.)

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I was considering whether or not I should try to do NaNo this year, and I think my decision is to try to work on one of the things I have started instead.

The next couple of days are going to involve some pretty steady sewing (if my fabric doesn't come tomorrow there will be trouble, well actually I'll just wear my blue linen gown, but you know ... I won't be really happy about it), but after that I'm going to try to apply to two jobs I have open in tabs, and work on the jacket I'm really slowly making. By the time I finish, it will probably be too cold for it.

I decided to look through one of my bound Godey's (1864) for ideas for Julie's birthday bash in January - I do have an 1867 ball gown pattern that is to die for, but there's no way to make it appropriate for Victorian Strolls, at all. But I noticed that in the winter, you can find a fair few pictures labeled dinner dresses that look like this:



Caption says that it is "an apple-green silk trimmed with one deep box-plaited ruffle." I don't have plans to do swirly ribbon trim like that, but if a Victorian periodical tells me that what I would have thought was a day dress is a dinner dress then I am fine with that! So I will make something like that.

Wait, hang on

I'm skimming through my 1864 book and I've just hit this story called "Dr. John Hale and Margaret Thorne", by Susan Haskell. The story itself doesn't seem to be plagiarizing North & South, but still ... come on.

ETA: Oh, interesting.

1) "Miss T.A. - Do not send your photograph; an improper use may be made of it." D:

2) "Miss G.H. - We believe that most of the advertisements inserted in our papers are what is familiarly termed bogus. If a man wants a wife, or a woman a husband, it is not necessary to advertise for them." Aw, way to crush my dreams.