Bad me.

[mandie_rw]

Bad, bad me. But she who dies with the most fabric wins, right? And fabric.com is having an awesome sale, and silk taffeta is one of those things I'm kind of unable to resist. Especially when I've come back to my room after a long day and have to deal with floor-mate asshattery. Seriously, I hate living with these people; they're driving me crazy. If I get one more note on my door about taking out the trash in the common area when 1)I'm the only one who's been taking the trash out for the past two weeks, so I got irritated and just didn't this week (thought someone might get the hint? no? okay), and 2) the GIANT FUCKING FED-EX BOX taking up the whole floor is NOT MINE...I'm going to be one unhappy passive-aggressive little person. Seriously, I don't mind taking out common area trash, really, I don't, but a box you got in the mail? I do not see why I need to take that out to the dumpster.

Ahem. Anyway, as compensation for my woes, silk taffeta. I would like to blame all the people on my f-list who have been posting about the sale, thanks very much. :)

Though...indulging myself in silk taffeta did make me choose - between spending more money on my Halloween (Black Diamonds) costume and on said taffeta. The silk taffeta won, I guess. In my cranky mood, I've just said, to hell with Halloween; I don't have the time to be anything cool and sparkly. I'll just bring up a corset or two when I come back from fall break and call it a day. Stupid Halloween. And stupid floormates.

Oh, also: I had my group presentation on The Mists of Avalon today, and I wore my medieval dress (shuttup, we had a "creative portion" in which we acted out scenes from the book, so it was Totally Valid); the only question anybody had at the end of our presentation was, "Did you make your dress?" Yes, I did, and yay, everyone was properly adoring of it, which gave me warm fuzzies!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Boy, am I glad I never lived at college.


I must see this silk taffeta that everyone is raving about! I was just on that site yesterday and didn't see it. I must not have been looking.

[heidilea.livejournal.com]

Oh--that was me. Sorry.

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's okay - though I don't get very many anonymous comments at all so I would have been pretty puzzled!

It's in the Fall Fever section, here: http://www.fabric.com/fall-fever-sale-silk-taffeta-fabric.aspx
Not a whole lot of colors,but enough to tempt me into buying some! *shame*

[situveuxmoi.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous. I want new silk taffeta too. *pouts at being a poor college student*

And what color is it?

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

I usually can't afford it either, but at $5.99/yd. plus a coupon, plus free shipping, I couldn't let it slip out of my clutches! (well, really I still shouldn't have gotten it, even on sale...but it's retail therapy!)

I bought some of the dark teal, and some of the dark coral (which looks kind of more like a pumpkin color but whatever, I liked it) because I think it might match that couple yards of stripey silk I've got in the Stash. Excuses, excuses.

I also bought black cotton velvet - not like I have any idea what I'll do with that, either, but I love the stuff and it was far cheaper than I've ever seen it. Excuses, excuses, right?

[rose-bertin.livejournal.com]

Well thanks a lot Mandie, thanks a lot. You just HAD to write about the fabric sale didn't you. And what the hell am I now supposed to do with six yards of dark teal silk taffeta huh? Make a regency dress with gold beading!

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, I am bad influence! *smirk*

...I bought some of the dark teal taffeta too - I have no idea what I'm going to do with it, but I just couldn't pass it up! I also bought some of the dark coral, because I think it wants to match the couple of yards of stripey silk I have earmarked for trim/contrast on a Victorian dress...someday.

And a Regency dress with gold beading sounds fabulous!

[rose-bertin.livejournal.com]

But I mean it was normally $20 a yard so that was like super duper deal! It would just be plain wrong not to get something. And besides, stupid actors were mean to me so I deserve a consolation prize.

A romantic period dress might be nice, depending on how much you got.