Purple Fuzzy Dresses

1. I cleaned.
2. I got groceries.
3. I got Bear a new set of rubber boots. His old ones having developed a rather large hole in the ankle.
4. I cooked and fed the kids despite wanting to just curl up and go to sleep.
5. I have been really enjoying my current book that I am reading.

Not that enjoying it would be hard mind you. It's Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold and I really like the Vorkosigan series she has written. This one being near the end of them. Still I now want popcorn and not the microwaved stuff but the real thing with butter and maybe a little bit of salt. Sigh! I swear this kid inside me loves butter. I have almost a constant craving for everything fried and that makes it hard for me to eat healthier with less fat content. Because I am sorry perogies or onions fried in oil is just not the same. Tonight I fried up some parsnips my mother had sent me. I like parsnips, I just wish these ones had not gone bad. They had been in the freezer for a couple of months so who's to say?

Anyway, onto cloaking, last night was very productive and amusing. I did actually manage to get a swim in with Raven (she finagled her mother into babysitting, who then proceeded to warm up the sewing machines for us while we swam). We have a line on some fabulous trims that hopefully shouldn't take too long to get here. We also got to compare notes with the Crazy Lady of the Woods(this being Raven's Mom) about sewing techniques and patterns. Especially about bog coats. Raven found online the traditional cut for a bog coat and promptly made a mistake while trying to cut one out. Thankfully it was a minor mistake and one that should be easily fixed. Also I must admit it made me feel slightly better about the mistakes I have been making recently.

Still we added another 3 cloaks to the done pile and after pricing them we put them away in the tubs. It always feels good when we get to that part of things. I also started to cut out three things for my daughter from the um... purple panne velour that I had traded some to trim to Raven for. So Smiles is happy that she will be getting not just one dress but two new dresses from the soft fuzzy material. I haven't told her about the play cloak I am making for her from the same material. That's going to be a surprise! I just hope she doesn't wear both a dress and the cloak at the same time. Knowing my daughter I am sure that that amount of... purpliness is going to happen sooner or later. Sigh! So hopefully I will have some energy to sew one or both of her dresses tomorrow and then be ready for more cloaking at Raven's tomorrow night.