Progress - not much

Well, about all I got done on yesterday's list was the shopping. My back's been sore, but not where the injury occurred. The muscles on either side of my spine, right between my shoulder blades are constantly tense now. I think it is related to my muscle strain a few weeks ago, though (change in posture/overcompensating for the injury). I'm still going to the chiropractor at least a couple of times a week. I go back today, in fact. I think it's worth mentioning to him.

I did at least get the front panel of the jumper mockup cut to length, and started chalking out the neckline. But I went to bed at like 8:30 and was asleep probably by 9:30 (didn't quite make it through the second Futurama I put on). So, I'm slightly behind now, but not by much. The habotai and dyes are still not in either. I guess I should have expected an extra day or two since there was no post on Monday.

I also won a black leather belt on ebay for the Council Velvet (not going to worry about tooling the design and weathering too much or total accuracy just yet) and got new, larger moonstone cabs for the buttons and bezel cups to set them in (still debating whether to return the smaller ones or just keep them and use them on something else, I'm leaning towards the latter). I also ran by Wal-Mart on my way home from work and picked up a couple of invisible zippers, some metallic gold DMC floss (that I think I'm not going to use on this, looked fine under store lighting, but too sparkly under my home lighting), and the biggest embroidery hoop I could find (for the silk painting), and some other miscellaneous notions I knew I needed off hand. Still a few things to get, but I've crossed a lot off my list.

I'm doing some last minute searches for a black and silver brocade that would work for Chris' undertunic. There are a couple of extra possibilities (one at eQuilter and another on ebay), but still, I think the one that "reads" the best (without seeing a swatch of any of them) is the one at Hancock's. I need to go check out their suedecloth and see if it's on sale here like it is in Galveston (thanks Sarah!), so I might check to see if they have the fabric I'm eying in the store, or any other possibilities for that matter. I think I'll do that after work today.

---

I need to call Steff and see how she's doing on her pattern. I made sure she knew she should read through all the directions before cutting it and told her to call me if there was anything she didn't fully understand. I know how I felt the first time I read a pattern with pretty much no sewing experience and no one around to help me (lots of google searches ensued).

The money would be nice. . .

Re-listed my leftover pieces, hoping some of them sell. Lowered some prices, got rid of BIN, but forgot to add gallery to the earrings, d'oh! *fingers crossed*

Maybe after Halloween, I'll make some new stuff and try to have a trunk show in town. Maybe even a joint venture with tripiq if they're willing.