wish me luck

So now I'm starting something that I always dreamed of doing. I'm planning out a spring wardrobe. (and in the fall it will be my new winter wardrobe) I know who does stuff like that anymore? But I've always wondered if the Good Lord didn't plunk me down into the wrong era. I love any and all things, vintage and antique from books and magazines, comic strips
clothing, recipes and especially interior design.

I have to laugh at all the folks who are reacting to the economy like it's another Great Depression. Honey this ain't no depression. When unemployment goes to 25% and milk is $6.00 a gallon then I'll start paying atention to the gloom and doom talk.

So what's this got to do with sewing a new wardrobe? (Shrugs) It's what you did when you didn't have the money to buy a whole new set of clothes every season. Until the late sixties that is when the feminazies (Do Not get me started about those, ahem, *ladies*) decreed that all home arts especially cooking, knitting and sewing were degrading to women and the only way to restore our dignity was to stop doing them (or get even with those awful men and make them do them) I'm also convinced that we have become so prosperess as a country that we've become lazy. Why sew something when it's so much easier to go to the mall and buy it?

(Shakes head)


Anyway, hopefully I'll have my dress cut out by tonight and the skirt I'm crocheeting will be done by next week at the latest, then I need to start on the shawl to match and pick out the patern for the camisole to go with it. Then we'll see about a skirt and blouse a well.

(And if Ican cheese off some "feminazies" in the mean time even better!)

the Best Place to Begin is at the Begining.....

So now that the weather has finally turned warm again (yes Shay it actually does get cold down here in north Florida in the winter time.) Himself and I are actually turning our thoughts to all the renovating and redecorating we need to do around here. Why do I always think of the Mickey Mouse cartoon "Boat Builders" when I think of us doing any kind of DIY? "All you gotta do is put it together!"