Math, sickness, and fall dresses

Not that I am necessarily much better at mathematics, but I feel that I am acquiring a better understanding of them.  Or the language of mathematics, so to speak.  For example, the statement "Marla is a musician and not a pianist" would be written thus in mathese:

Isn't that awesome???

Ok, you probably all remember this stuff and I'm sure not many people think it is very exciting.  I'm still not a huge fan of math, but I love learning, and I so want what I've learned to stick.  Being able to understand the language of mathematics (at least at a very basic level) makes me happy.  Let's just hope that I can continue to understand things as the course progresses.

 On another note, I am sick today and consequently feel like crap.  This happens every single time I get too busy--running, running, running and never stopping to rest.  I wake up to the next week sick.  Don't know when I will ever learn.

So I have cancelled my lessons for today and plan to stay home and sleep because that is all I really feel like doing.  Hopefully that will do the trick and this sickness will be short-lived.

On one final note, Jenny and I picked out a really pretty pattern for her dress, and have begun the fitting process.  I'll post pics as I take them. :)

~Bess

Jumper: Complete

I brought my jumper along to Nashville so that I could finish it up during the 4 hour drive.  I was able to hem the skirt and finish the bodice lining in the car with no issues.  If I had brought a blouse with me, I would have worn this to the exhibit (which was wonderful and lovely and inspiring, by the way).  

I think it turned out pretty adorable!

I decided to expose the metal zipper I used rather than lapping it as the pattern directed.  

Gracious the kitty (aka Leroy) wanted her picture taken, too.

Pocket lining.  Oh yeah.  

Next project: a fall dress for Jennifer.  

~Bess

Graphs and Logarithms

It is 3:35am and I am sitting up working on graphs.  Perhaps I should feel depressed, but I don't.  I can comprehend logarithms for the first time in my life, and that has totally made my weekend.  Yay for math class!

I am writing this from a hotel in Nashville, TN.  I came up to meet some fellow vintage-fashion-loving bloggers and view an incredible exhibit--The Golden Age of Couture!  I am so ready to be inspired, and plan to take lots of pictures, if I can.  Mom drove up with me, and I'm so glad she did.  I think we both needed a mini-road trip.  Nothing like a road trip to clear the head and soothe the soul. 

I need soul-soothing right now.  Lot's of inner-turmoil going on, and I don't like it.  I don't want to be in turmoil, I want to be in peace.  

I think it all comes down to me, really--I'm having a tough time trusting in the goodness and greatness of God's plan for my life.  Wait, I take that back--I do trust that His will is best for me, and that it always prevails.  What I don't trust (or believe) right now is that He will really fulfill the desires of my heart.  But then I think, perhaps I need to lay down my dreams and be ok with never reaching them.  Perhaps they have become too important, and I need to re-evaluate my priorities and focus.  Perhaps...I dunno.  Blah.

Sorry, rambling...

Well I am going to be super tired tomorrow, so I'd better get to sleep.   Have a lovely and restful weekend!

~Bessie

Babies and Ice Cream

I've come to the conclusion that babies and ice cream are all that really matter in life. 

Just kidding.  Well, kinda. 

~Bess

Whoop! Corduroy.

So apparently I am a bit of a nincompoop at taking pictures of myself.  Thus you will have to bear with me for this sneak-peak of my corduroy jumper.  I bought the fabric for this project last year and never made it.  Why?  I have no idea.  I definitely missed out on a very cute jumper last year.  Ah well!

The jumper is nearly finished--just needs to be hemmed (I have it pinned in the pictures).  Once it is done, I will have one of my sisters take some good pictures. ;)  Until then...

Here are some close-ups of the front pocket/pleat details and the back exposed metal zipper. Sorry about the wonky colors!  The jumper is black, if you can't tell (har har).  I had to way under-expose the pics to get the color right. 

 I had to sew a really fun lining into the pockets, but unfortunately I could not get a good picture of it. Alas!

I really like how this has turned out, and can't wait to wear it this fall.  :)  

~Bessie

Lunacy

Have I mentioned I love G.K. Chesterton?  He is so logically illogical.

"But the transcendentalism by which all men live has primarily much the position of the sun in the sky.  We are conscious of it as of a kind of splendid confusion; it is something both shining and shapeless, at once a blaze and a blur.  But the circle of the moon is as clear and unmistakable, as recurrent and inevitable, as the circle of Euclid on the blackboard.  For the moon is utterly reasonable; and the moon is the mother of lunatics and has given to them all her name." 

~G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Oh yeah, BTW

Posted a few new patterns on Etsy.  I will be posting new patterns at least once a week, so be sure to check out the shop!

~Bessie