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Feb. 5th, 2016 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotHello, it's been quiet! Kings Rising was released on the second, so I've been reading it after work instead of posting or sewing. It was wonderful, although it would have been better with an epilogue. I may reread the whole trilogy.
I still don't have a gift from the Chocolate Box exchange, and the deadline is in a couple of days. This is perplexing. Fortunately there are a bunch of people who posted requests I found interesting, so it's likely that there will be something I enjoy reading even if I don't get a gift! (I meant to write extra treats for some of them, but then my gift fic got up to about 4000 words and writing more for another fandom felt too hard.)
Money continues to slip through my hands like water. I finally broke down and bought a DVD of Our Mutual Friend because it's apparently und/lable and is supposed to be sooo good - saving that for Sunday/Monday, when I'm going to do as much of my February petticoats as I can since I'm going to be in Vieques the week after next(!!). (Oops, I was going to try to put the zipper in that dress tonight so I would have something to wear tomorrow. Why am I so scatterbrained??) Then I bought a yard of light blue satin for my corset. Silk satin! Gosh. I am going to stop spending from now on - I have the fabric for the next couple of challenges already bought. Oh, I do need the German whalebone, though.
There's a lot I'm meh about when it comes to Agent Carter - namely, all the plot developments - but it's worth it for the flashbacks to Peggy's and not!Hedy's childhoods. Also for Atwell's chemistry with D'Arcy, and D'Arcy's funniness in general, and for knowing that Hayley Atwell is constantly accidentally hitting her coworkers.
ETA: Peggy's wedding dress is really '80s, though. Actual 1940s wedding dresses are terribly frumpy 9 times out of 10.
I still don't have a gift from the Chocolate Box exchange, and the deadline is in a couple of days. This is perplexing. Fortunately there are a bunch of people who posted requests I found interesting, so it's likely that there will be something I enjoy reading even if I don't get a gift! (I meant to write extra treats for some of them, but then my gift fic got up to about 4000 words and writing more for another fandom felt too hard.)
Money continues to slip through my hands like water. I finally broke down and bought a DVD of Our Mutual Friend because it's apparently und/lable and is supposed to be sooo good - saving that for Sunday/Monday, when I'm going to do as much of my February petticoats as I can since I'm going to be in Vieques the week after next(!!). (Oops, I was going to try to put the zipper in that dress tonight so I would have something to wear tomorrow. Why am I so scatterbrained??) Then I bought a yard of light blue satin for my corset. Silk satin! Gosh. I am going to stop spending from now on - I have the fabric for the next couple of challenges already bought. Oh, I do need the German whalebone, though.
There's a lot I'm meh about when it comes to Agent Carter - namely, all the plot developments - but it's worth it for the flashbacks to Peggy's and not!Hedy's childhoods. Also for Atwell's chemistry with D'Arcy, and D'Arcy's funniness in general, and for knowing that Hayley Atwell is constantly accidentally hitting her coworkers.
ETA: Peggy's wedding dress is really '80s, though. Actual 1940s wedding dresses are terribly frumpy 9 times out of 10.
