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So, I'm working 35 hours a week now. It may not seem like much, but the way it's dispersed makes it feel like so much more to me.
But, in the last week I've fallen in love with a dress, and a piece of the Triangle's forgotten history.
An old shopping center, called Waverly Place. It's so beautiful and surreal there--with the halted escalators, and the dead fountain..and the unique architecture. Everything was left almost as it was the day the shops there closed--like a tragedy occurred (and while, I know none did, it still is almost romantic to look at it that way). It's lonely, yet so peaceful. If I could keep my laptop alive for longer than 2 hours, I'd go out there to write.
I may just do it the old fashioned way; with a notebook and pen. I really feel I could get some good work done there.
If you want to see it, hilariously, it was featured in a fan-made Doritos' Commercial for a contest for a Super Bowl 2007 spot... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUFvJNQ0bnM . The big spirally building you see in the background is one of the main two buildings of Waverly--where the Teppanyaki/Thai/Sushi lounge Midori once resided. You can actually see where it says "Midori" on the top of the building.
Waverly's still got some tenants, like the Whole Foods market down there that is thriving, but the main part of it is dead. When Neko showed it to me the first time last week, the last store in that main middle part was closing--which was Flame Kissed Beads.
Apparently, a developer was going to raze the entire area, and make it look more like North Hills in Raleigh ( a froofy, high-class open air shopping mall, that while pretty, makes me feel like I'm some penniless rube every time I'm there. Which by their standards, I am.) but, thankfully they split apart due to "differences", and nothing was done. My little hideaway will stand for some part longer.
I honestly wish they'd just start trying to re-open stores there, and spruce it up. I'd love to see it survive, and stay the way it looks now. It's really a rare treat.
And the Dress.
This endeavor has cost me a good bit of money, but god, is it worth it.
Neko and I are making a beautiful dress that is of our own design--the base pattern being the Simplicity 9891. It's currently being constructed of about 12 yards of Chiffon in blue and white, 7 yards of Cobalt blue silkeen, and 6 yards of some weird paisley-print fabric in white.
Once I get more pictures up I will show it to you guys. But, rest assured, it will be a sight.
I may be entering it in the State Fair, and we also may be entering it in the Simplicity Halloween Costume Contest, and the AWA Masquerade.
I can't wait for it to be done. ♥
Otherwise, it's been mostly work...I hope everyone else is having a nice evening~
Enjoy your Labor Day.
But, in the last week I've fallen in love with a dress, and a piece of the Triangle's forgotten history.
An old shopping center, called Waverly Place. It's so beautiful and surreal there--with the halted escalators, and the dead fountain..and the unique architecture. Everything was left almost as it was the day the shops there closed--like a tragedy occurred (and while, I know none did, it still is almost romantic to look at it that way). It's lonely, yet so peaceful. If I could keep my laptop alive for longer than 2 hours, I'd go out there to write.
I may just do it the old fashioned way; with a notebook and pen. I really feel I could get some good work done there.
If you want to see it, hilariously, it was featured in a fan-made Doritos' Commercial for a contest for a Super Bowl 2007 spot... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUFvJNQ0bnM . The big spirally building you see in the background is one of the main two buildings of Waverly--where the Teppanyaki/Thai/Sushi lounge Midori once resided. You can actually see where it says "Midori" on the top of the building.
Waverly's still got some tenants, like the Whole Foods market down there that is thriving, but the main part of it is dead. When Neko showed it to me the first time last week, the last store in that main middle part was closing--which was Flame Kissed Beads.
Apparently, a developer was going to raze the entire area, and make it look more like North Hills in Raleigh ( a froofy, high-class open air shopping mall, that while pretty, makes me feel like I'm some penniless rube every time I'm there. Which by their standards, I am.) but, thankfully they split apart due to "differences", and nothing was done. My little hideaway will stand for some part longer.
I honestly wish they'd just start trying to re-open stores there, and spruce it up. I'd love to see it survive, and stay the way it looks now. It's really a rare treat.
And the Dress.
This endeavor has cost me a good bit of money, but god, is it worth it.
Neko and I are making a beautiful dress that is of our own design--the base pattern being the Simplicity 9891. It's currently being constructed of about 12 yards of Chiffon in blue and white, 7 yards of Cobalt blue silkeen, and 6 yards of some weird paisley-print fabric in white.
Once I get more pictures up I will show it to you guys. But, rest assured, it will be a sight.
I may be entering it in the State Fair, and we also may be entering it in the Simplicity Halloween Costume Contest, and the AWA Masquerade.
I can't wait for it to be done. ♥
Otherwise, it's been mostly work...I hope everyone else is having a nice evening~
Enjoy your Labor Day.