#happy feeling

[kitteecassee]

[nancyheart11]

Dress Reveal!

guess who finished a project that's been sitting for far far too long? Me!

so for long time friendos you might remember that instead of writing a thesis I got to make a wool coat for my capstone. But tragedy struck days before the thing was due, I forgot to mirror my pieces of my lining and since I'd ordered that online I had no time to get more. So instead I went to the store and got new lining, which I managed to get put together and had the coat done for grading :D (how much sleep I got in those last few days we won't say)

Cut to a couple weeks after this project is done, and I want to put the pieces I have together into a dress instead, but I'll need some new fabric to make this work and oh no! The site says that kind of fabric is all out :(

Now last year, I was looking for something for a totally different project and saw the same fabric back in stock, so I got more!

And now today, I finally finished this lining turned dress that been years in the making at this point!!!

Heres how we started! Things are looking good!

Now I didn't want long sleeves on this now that I was making a dress, so I traced the sleeve pattern, slashed it and spread it on the bottom, adding fullness and making a much more flowy, loose sleeve!

This dress was gonna take a lot of buttons, but I didn't have many in a size I'd need, then I remembered that I made some covered buttons for the wedding guess dress last year and still had some left I ended up needing a few more but that's alright.

Behold buttonholes and the ruffle! These both took me several hours to do XD the buttonholes because the poor buttonhole foot kept getting stuck on this decently thick fabric that I self lined, and the ruffle because I pieced together a strip twice as long as I am tall at least and gathered it till it fit the bottom of the skirt, which was a great way to reduce fabric waste from this project!

And here we are! The final dress on me! I think it turned out adorable? And I got so excited I even painted my nails a matching green hehe.

But of course I still need to show how my 2026 fiber arts bingo is going

Sooo close to my first bingo, but alas, maybe next time? I do have some red fabric my mom wants made into a blouse?

Hope you enjoyed and are having a lovely time friendos <3 thanks for taking the time to look at this cool thing I made.

[life-is-beautiful-like-you]

;)

[sike-n]

i love you like a cloudless blue summer sky 💙

[smoothfunfacts]

Smooth Fun Fact #1298: Regardless of the month, Smooth always kept winter-themed dish towels hung in his kitchen because his wife’s favorite holiday was Christmas. (Bonus Fun Fact: To commemorate his deceased spouse, Smooth still exclusively displays Noel-designed hand cloths, as well as other Santa-related mementos, around his home 365 days a year. Extra Bonus Fun Fact: In addition to being somewhat sentimental, Smooth maintains daily Yuletide décor because he is lazy and adverse to change.)

[retail-truestory]

That feeling when a customer comes to you and says, "hey I have a question and you'd know this answer better than anyone..." Like. It just feels so good and reassuring? Just knowing that, yeah, I've been at this store long enough to know plenty of things. But some of my coworkers have been at this place for as long as 15 years and you could go to anyone who's been here even a year longer than me. But you still come to me because you trust me and have faith in me as your local retail employee. Even if I just say, "I think" without total certainty the customer nods and says, "alright, I'll try it. Thanks so much! :)" It's just such a nice, warm, and happy feeling.

[scretladyspider]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FtOtjdXNQA) - The cat vlog! All about my cats, when I adopted them, and how great they are :D