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BPAL Reviews
I kinda stopped wearing scent when I started the new job because I'm already pretty weird, didn't want to also be "the perfume lady". But some days I spend a lot of time alone, so I've gone back to it. Some from the "unreviewed" pile that I've been going with lately:
Languor: An opiate torpor, soporific, trancelike, and sublimely languid. A poet’s ( Read more... ) -
Ever After is the best Cinderella adaptation, and an excellent feminist movie
and just a great movie in general
1) The stepfamily have carefully drawn characters - they aren't just stock stereotypes. Do they still fit within some pretty obvious tropes? Yes, but each one has their own motivations. The stepsisters are also intelligent, which is often not the case in more recent Cinderella movies. Marguerite is clever and her ( Read more... ) -
Not sewing lately
I got a guitar last week! A parlor guitar, to be exact. I have never been able to play regular guitars comfortably because my torso being so short means that they're too hard to get my arm around, especially sitting down - but this is closer to a ukulele size (though still bigger than a ukulele) and fits me perfectly. I'm taking "lessons" via ( Read more... ) -
ohhhhhh myyyyyyyyyy
Today I dressed a dress form for the museum's gala, which went trickily. I'll quote myself from elsewhere:
See, the original gown I intended to use (a grey silk damask evening dress made by Moshier's of Utica around 1895) turned out to have been made for a woman whose build did not match any of the dress forms. She was rather robust, with broad ( Read more... ) -
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Last night I finished reading one of the most poorly-written books I've ever fully consumed, and then I dreamed I went to Albany to meet
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This evening I figured out how to turn an Adobe Illustrator file into a both a plain and a tiled PDF, so I'm basically unstoppable now. The final stone in the Infinity Gauntlet. (This is especially good as the thing I thought I had to do where I imported the AI file into Photoshop was not effective.) (I should probably upgrade to proper AI instead ( Read more... ) -
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The patterns are almost ready! I wrote the instructions tonight, and I just need to update a couple of words on the pattern itself to reflect changes I made doing the previous - I'll be printing them out tomorrow at OfficeMax, but I probably won't be able to put them in the mail until next weekend.
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