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Jul. 22nd, 2016 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotMy bonnet somehow arrived today - so fast! It is beautiful and fits so well and will last me forever. It's totally inspiring me to do some more bonnetry of my own ... but not now, I need to trim this bonnet (when the ribbon arrives) and I'm pretty sure several of my new underthings need buttons/need buttons moved because I assumed I'd get more waist-reduction with the new corset. (Probably need tabs added to widen the waistbands tbh, I was pretty optimistic.) Later, though! I have a roll of good buckram, and I think I will use it to make a bunch of forms to cover at another time. I haven't had great luck with it due to bad materials and bad patterns, but I really like the whole 3D nature of millinery.
I worked tonight and am working tomorrow and did the same last weekend as well, which I feel like should frustrate me more? But whenever I do more than 40 hrs in a week (which I will be going WELL over next week, what with setting up and then working the reeenactment) I remember that after December 1, I can't legally do that anymore! It perks me up no end. Some of the board members seem to think this is unfair to me, but ... I don't want to work unpaid overtime, why would I? It's never like "oh, I have so much work to do, I need 55 hours to do it in," it's pretty much always a function of there being an event I have to work as well as my regular hours.
Also I just realized the other day that in September, I have to give a talk at the War of 1812 Symposium at SLU on women's dress (natch) the weekend after my birthday, and then the next Thursday I have to give a talk on the exhibition we'll be opening that day, and then on Friday I'll be leaving work early to go directly to the airport and fly to Albany for our vacation to see our cousins in California. :O
I worked tonight and am working tomorrow and did the same last weekend as well, which I feel like should frustrate me more? But whenever I do more than 40 hrs in a week (which I will be going WELL over next week, what with setting up and then working the reeenactment) I remember that after December 1, I can't legally do that anymore! It perks me up no end. Some of the board members seem to think this is unfair to me, but ... I don't want to work unpaid overtime, why would I? It's never like "oh, I have so much work to do, I need 55 hours to do it in," it's pretty much always a function of there being an event I have to work as well as my regular hours.
Also I just realized the other day that in September, I have to give a talk at the War of 1812 Symposium at SLU on women's dress (natch) the weekend after my birthday, and then the next Thursday I have to give a talk on the exhibition we'll be opening that day, and then on Friday I'll be leaving work early to go directly to the airport and fly to Albany for our vacation to see our cousins in California. :O
