Well been busy with little things here and there since getting married. One of those is changing my last name, I got it done with the Social Security Admistration by the Friday of getting married. Not too shabby, but I took advantage of sometime off over the past two weeks to get things done with the Department of Transportation, my job, and working in on getting it switched with all of my bills and such.
I haven't worked on much sewing, though it did make some progress before Lewisburg Arts. I did finish up the gold trim on the dark blue gown and was able to wear it for the Lewisburg Arts Festival. It looked lovely! I want to post pictures but haven't been able to track down the person who had taken some good ones of me. Guess we will see, my camera needs a new rechargable battery so it was useless toting it along. The battery won't hold a charge anylonger, though as old as it is, I have a feeling that will be a tall task to find a new one. Guess that is what ebay is for, without the flip design of the screen on my camera even with it being older, is the only way I can take pics of myself in the mirror.
It was the best $10 purchase ever, next to my wedding gown. It came with everything; charging cord, leather bag, extra battery that is now dead too and three memory sticks. I will need to get a new one before we go on vacation to Virginia want to take it along for photos of course. I know an all new camera will cost more than I am willing to spend and my camera on my phone is not that good. Hmm well guess I'd better get cracking.
Lewisburg Arts is a fun Demo as always, I did work with the kids in the childrens tent making heraldic shields. I then did a walk about drawing people to the encampment while showing off my pretty garb. There was some beautiful handmade arts and crafts by local artisans, but really didn't have money for things, beautiful things none the less. I did get food but that was about it. Let alone I don't have much more space at home for anything extra. The wall space is full and I will have to do a spring cleaning to get things back into a organized manner. Glad I bought the door hooks, they have paid for themselves holding extra clothes and garb. Its saving my silk lovelies from wrinkling up like a crushed flowers.
In the spirit of getting things done, I have finished my wedding scrapbook, It was a predesigned book that was bland in color and design but had potential. It turned out super nice and was able to add lots of creative details to the plain pages. Speaking of scrapbooking, I found a really neat storybook fantasy themed scrapbook and decided to make one for my gowns and SCA interests. So far so good, I am about 1/3 of the way done. I am creating a poem so I can tell my personas story through my work. Its very challenging but if I can pull it off, it will be one awesome book. It will take a few years to get everything done printed and added to the book, though it gives me some major goals to look forward to filling the pages.
In getting pictues printed out for the wedding and scrapbooks, I have discovered the awesomeness of walmart photo online. Its great to pick them up right up from work and just paying with my debit card, makes life easy. No extra effort in going there to download photos, crop, adjust exposure, and then print. All done from the ease of your desk, really cool. I have to say modern technology is super nifty, makes life easier but does come with its own set of challenges.
I got my prints back at the end of the week of getting married, its amazing how fast now with digital photography how easier it is to get things around. I am super impressed with how they all turned out, just lovely. Was able to get my mom to pick up some preprinted photos and she was able to enlarge some of her 4x6 and 5x7's to 8x10's. I know she is as pleased as I with how they turned out, she is sending them to friends and family.
So I know I have to pick up the sewing needle again to make progress on decorating the silk gowns. Oh speaking of silk gowns, I was able to purchase the Turquoise gown that I was interested in sometime back. The person who purchased it found she was needing a colonial gown and wasn't going to use the Turquoise gown, so she sold it to me for the price of my last bid. Not bad really, very happy to get it tried on the sleeves so I know they fit. So other than some decorative puffs and trim there should be no altering to fit. Oh I am going to be good and lay off the sweets to make sure I fit all these lovelies, its worth it. Just have to get back to the gym routine.
Well more things than I thought, but that is pretty much it for now. On the job market I am hoping for some new change of pace and praying for something better in the job department, here is to hoping its sooner than later.
Wishing, Hoping, and Waiting,
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