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[mandie_rw]

And this is why I try to post here every day...once I get out of the habit it's all up with me! Nothing exciting or traumatic going on, just brain-meltingly lazy, mainly.

Let's see...I should be a lot further along with the pre-Raph undergown than I am, but there was an eyelet snafu (which reminds me suddenly, I haven't ordered ribbon to lace it, probably should do that, like, yesterday) and I was mad at it for a couple of days - and then I got over myself and made more eyelets, grumbling all the while. Does seem to fit, though. That's good. And today I mocked up the sleeves and cut the linings and remembered I hadn't washed the extra yard of silk, and so washed that too. And marked the hem on myself, which was about as fussy as you'd think it is to mark a 250"-ish hem on yourself. I left the extravagant train...it's far longer than I originally intended (I'm just going to leave a sweep on the undergown, she said) but I couldn't bear to cut it off! So it stays. Not like this is a practical dress anyway!

Longer train means longer overgown, which I measured out and discovered it's going to use just about every scrap of my voile. Time for another Dharma order! That's one of the things I just like to have on hand...like white linen.

What else? Oh, I got my extensions in the mail, and they're a fairly terrible match. I promptly ordered the next darker shade, which will probably be an equally terrible match, just too dark instead of too light. The problem with costumey wigs/pieces...nobody sells them by color number! "Light brown" is not helpful. At least the texture is bang-on? (Does this mean my hair is like "corn weave" plastic? Probably.)

Dis my cranky-extensions face. Oh well, I'll just wear whichever set is less awful, and cut up the other for hairpieces. At least they're cheap!

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[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, thanks! That's true...my own hair sans extensions is only upper-back length and is waaaaaay lighter at the ends than the roots! And looks natural as far as I can tell, haha.