New Year's Eve Updates

I got a little sidetracked from my Tudor project due to the overwhelming amount of gifts I had to buy/make, and also because of the fantastic light box I got from Val for Christmas. On Monday I spent the day at Kristina's photographing Uvellire products (my jewellery) with her behind the camera and me setting up the displays. I will be posting up pictures as soon as I get them to shareable visual perfection, but in the meantime I'd like to share something else.

Here's my work station: as you can see, it's a sewing machine on a chair.

As I've mentioned before, I have presents to make. Emily got a wonderful pencil case which I didn't get a photograph of because I'm a silly goose. A bunch of people got jewellery. Dad got a sweater, mum got business cards, Val got a hat, Kristina and Nadia got makeup. Heather is getting a vest, which I will be blogging about because I am sewing it, and I finally remembered that I wanted to track my projects!

The inside of Heather's corsetted vest will be green (because I have a ton of that fabric), the outside will be black with a little bit of gold trim. So far, I've figured out the pattern for and cut the green parts. The reason I say figured out the pattern is because she's slightly bigger than me in the torso area (I have a very narrow back!) and needs a size 5 while I'm a 2. Hopefully my pattern expanding works. Anywho, the visual data pretty much accounts for it all. The green fabric used to be a sheet (which I bought at ValueVillage!). A King Size bed's worth of green fabric for two bucks = win. Just because my work conditions are somewhat depressing, here's a picture of my cats to contribute to the [myth?] that all seamstresses and costume people are also crazy cat ladies.

Here's a sexy posing Lucy, sleepy Shoura, and Sylvie in the Tree :)