Babbles of a Procrastinating Grad Student

Good weekend is good. 

Spent all of yesterday sewing a Christmas dress - a green satin thing - and finished JUST in time to get to my work Christmas party.  Got lots of compliments on it, and then people were surprised when I mentioned that I'd sewn it...that day.  :D  The dinner was nice, we were at a fondu place that I've always wanted to go to.  Plus drinks were free!  

Then one of my co-workers, her fiance, and I took off to go to my best friend's brother's Christmas/Birthday party.  Turns out my coworker is friends with the crew.  It was a good party, even if I was a little overdressed.  lol!  I got called 'Silky' all night because my dress was apparently silky feeling.  I got groped often as people wanted to touch my dress, but it was all in fun.  :)  The round of 'spin the bottle' was hilarious and felt like we were back in junior high!  

Today, I cleaned my apartment in anticipation of my Grandma and Uncle coming over to visit.  Then tonight, I'm off to a show at the local theatre down the street.  Figured it was about time I went to something there, and bought a ticket to whatever was on this weekend.  I have no idea what I'm going to see.  Actually, hold on, let me look it up on the theatre website.

The Bert Johnson Quartet, featuring free-word poet T'ai Pu

Oh god.

With how busy we've been at work this week, I nearly forgot it was PR Day 2011 today!  PR Day is where a bunch of members from patternreview.com get together and celebrate PR's 10th anniversary.  For the PR Day in Winnipeg, we're meeting up at one ladies sewing studio (omg her own studio!!) to do some proper measurements and get to know eachother.  Then we're going for lunch before hitting ALL THE FABRIC STORES, including one I'd never heard of, right here in Winnipeg! 

I'm a little excited.  Think I need to go pull some cash out to buy ALL THE FABRIC EVER!  :D

Have a great Saturday all!  I know I will.  lol

Well, I got my painting mostly finished this weekend.  Need to paint the back and bottom of my desk, but the visible parts are all painted and looking great.  So too are the book shelves.  If you're interested in seeing before and after pictures, I posted some over at my sewing blog.

I managed to wrangle myself a new hobby too.  I also posted about it at my blog, but the gist of it is that I've rediscovered cross stitching.  It's totally my friend Heather's fault, too.  She's a cross-stitcher, and she got me considering it.  Oh, I fought it for months and months and months, but I do like hand-stitching, and combined with the discovery of a cute little needlepoint shop down the street from my place, I was doomed to fail.  Check out the cute patterns I picked up!

Still need to finish my Think Pink blouse, because the contest ends tomorrow.  EEP!  Looks like I'm going to be busy the next couple hours.  Have to be out the door by 6 am tomorrow, so it won't be too late of a night.  Okay, time for a cuppa tea, then back to work I go!

I’d planned to reward myself for finishing the report due last week, as well as celebrating my birthday on Wednesday, by treating myself to a couple days off filled with sewing. Well, the days were filled with sewing, but it was a little bit more than a couple days.

However, in the end, I wound up with a beautiful dress that I plan to wear to my thesis defense. WOO! See, that’s sort of like productivity related to the thesis, right?

Man, I’ve missed sewing.

So I know that lately I've been posting more about my sewing projects. While I like having them here, since this is my personal journal and sewing is becoming a large part of my life, I've been wanting a dedicated place to post about sewing. And while I love LJ and DW, it seems that the majority of the sewing community is over on blogspot. So to blogspot I go. For sewing, at least.

I'll probably still post about them here for prosperity and those who are interested, but it'll likely be just a link and a picture or two.

The new site is called Sewing on Pins, and will focus on sewing projects and other sewing related things and thinky.

For a sneak peak, I'll be posting soon about this cute little flower pin I made using a crocheted doily and some hot glue. The purse it's attached to is the one I made here.