Food for thought

This week, I've run across these two articles...

• Food and Drug Reward: Overlapping Circuits in Human Obesity and Addiction 
• The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Health (Not What You Think)

  Now, I have to be honest.  I read the last blog post & skimmed the first article.  I need to do further reading into the Rat Park study & read the paper listed in the first one.  On the surface, though, assuming both authors are correct with their summaries...  it's really making me think about the mismatch in nature of humans vs. our constructed environments which we believe to be "ideal".

Just food for thought.

Dresses or Pirates....?

So it's International Wear a Dress Day (at least according to Erin at the Dress A Day blog and her legions of avid followers). In keeping with the spirit, I wore a dress. Big shocker there. And it's being taken to a further level since it has been proposed that we try to make it International Wear A Dress WEEK. I'll be participating also this way also. Below I've posted a slideshow and it should have more added each day until the end of the week. Yay for a Binkle Fashion Show! (as if that's not what this blog has resulted in so far - I apologize for starting this right smack in the middle of my sewing rampage)

Here's my quandry: Friday is also International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Can she do it? Can she pulll it off? Wearing a dress AND being a PIRATE?!?!?! Stay tuned for the next cliff hanging episode.

By the way, it'll be a continual crunch-week for me from now until Sept. 30th. I may not be around much. It's nothing personal. : )

More Halloweeny giddiness...

I know I should be doing crunch work right now, but I can't help sharing that I'm getting increasingly giddy about making my Mrs. Lovett Costume for Halloween. (Euphoria displayed by insistance on capitalizing random bits.) I have all the fabric now and the blacks and greys are sitting in the drier at home waiting to be checked on and the Red/ dark stripe is waiting to get washed & pre-shrunk so that I can make the crazy bloomers(which were never seen in the movie, but showed up in a Promo photo that I found). To be made: Skirt, Bloomers, and corset. To be Altered: black sheer 3/4 length sleeved shirt found at Ross Dress-For-Less. To be bought (prolly at Hot Topic): fingerless mitts, either fishnet or lace, and black hairspray. It shouldn't take nearly as long as last year's costume and should be infinitely easier to hang out in than various others I've done or had in mind. In fact, I think I could even get away with it at work! (<-this is the realization that got me all giddy) Yay. fun.

P.S. As always, I'm not happy just making something, so my mod this time will be that I am intending to make the skirt out of decent looking material, and making the tiered bustle thingie at the back detachable so that I get two skirts instead of one and I'll be able to wear it out & about. I can use it steampunky, or for regular. Now, as such, I will have to find a way to temporarily stain it dirty looking for the costume. It's washable, so I'm thinking maybe regular dirt dissolved in a spray bottle, but I know sometimes dirt doesn't come out as easily as one would like. If anyone has any easily cleanable dirty-making suggestions, let me know! (<- Note: that's dirty-making suggestions, not dirty suggestions)

One Dress for EVERYTHING... part deux

Yesterday I posted a blurb about my love of my infinity dress... What is it? Well, here.... 20 variations and counting. It's Dressigami, so I can't figure out how many variations you can achieve until you've done them all. I guess the mind is the limit...

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Get your own

The irritating thing is that my meaty-kelso legs make me feel like I haven't lost 43 lbs at all. * le sigh *

I think I need to make two more... one floor-length out of equally slinky black fabric, and one out of a cute casual fabric for more-every-day-ish wear. I thought this Merlot slink, changeable-color stretch fabric would be kinda casual and cocktail all in one, but alas, 'tis not. The dress lends itself to being quite classy & I need a fabric that will "dress it down" I guess.

One dress for EVERYTHING!

I found this a while back, and decided I should try it out. The day before Greg came to visit and *stole* my sewing room from me (the nerve!), I finally found the perfect fabric and so this morning I got up early & whipped it together. It took about an hour, then I spent another hour playing in it and twirling and showing Jonah all the dress origami I could come up with. I am in love. I will be wearing it later today. I will be wearing it everyday henceforth! (ok, maybe not...) I will however post a picture fashion show later and offer to make one for every girl I know!!!!! SHARE THE GLORY!!!!!

OK, I shut up now...

*sings* 'Tis the season to be gorey..... Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...

Egads! I don't know if it's unbelievable that it's this early or this late, but I just got my first twinge/twitter/butterflies-in-stomach at the realization that Halloween is coming..... Boo-yeah! (<-pun intended) Hehehe...

I need a 12-step program

Help! I've discovered that I am an addict and I need help. For the past couple of months I've been obsessed with sewing... first one project, then another, then another... In the past 8 months, I've bought more fabric than I have before in my life. I now have two closets full of fabric and 15 projects lined up, and instead of tackling any of those, I am frantically trying to figure out a cost effective way to make a germanic Renaissance gown out of brown chocolate velvet. Like this: St. Helena

On top of all this, my friend Greg is staying with us this week and the first night I was actually going through withdrawal. The guest room is my sewing room. I had to clean up my machine in order for him to stay. We were hanging out in the guest room Monday night, and I couldn't help pace around from one closet to the next, tempted to take out fabric, handle it, start something, anything.... It was weird. Weird, I tell you, WEIRD!!!!!

Help me...