Welcome to The City of Desire.

"Such wind!", a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

I love the way that Cleo is glaring at that flyaway tinsel with complete and utter disgust...XD

Kristen sewed this dress last night while I played Sora no Kiseki on the PSP. She had originally intended it for Frankie, but I think it suits Cleo the best. I'm not really a fan of Cleo, but the Dead Tired version is a very pretty girl.

Kristen isn't 100 percent happy with the way the dress turned out, but I like it very much. Besides, I've seen the crap that passes itself as Cleo de Nile's fashion pack.

I left her arm bandage on because if Cleo takes off all her wrappings, she'll crumble to dust. That's what she gets for being the daughter of a Mummy!

I've grown tired of sewing doll clothes lately, so I decided to try my hand at human garments. It took me two evenings to make these flannel pajama pants. I used a Kwik-Sew pattern designed for beginners. I didn't do a great job matching up the plaid (neither did whoever sewed my storebought pajama pants, but that's no excuse!)...but they are extremely comfortable. And pink.

The finished length was supposed to be 29 inches, but my inseam is a mere 27...::sobs:: I shortened these by two inches and they're still pretty long. I'm fairly petite but there was no way in hell I was giving these a 24 inch waist. I like my pants big and sloppy. I ended up making the medium size, and the waist fit perfectly. O_O

My maternal grandmother was an accomplished seamstress. She even made my mother's wedding gown, which is so tiny I can probably only fit my hand inside. My mother claims she sewed her entire wardrobe when she was growing up. She was always well-dressed (even though she hated that she couldn't have jeans) in spite of the fact that her parents' annual income was $6,000 a year.

I don't know if sewing is the affordable enterprise it used to be. These pants cost $25 to make. That's not terrible, but I'm sure you can buy much cheaper pajama pants. Still, the fabric is really nice quality. The main appeal to me is that I can shorten the patterns to fit my unfortunate figure. The average length of a petite pant leg is 30 inches. Because according to the clothing industry, 5'4'' is standard petite. :O

Over the course of a few days Kristen and I sewed up these dresses for Sweet Punk Girls!Koron and Lien. Kristen did a lot of work on Koron's blue dress, and I did most of Lien's dress myself. Kristen is much more anal about every last detail than I am. I'm hoping her scrutinizing eye will make me a better sewer. ^o^

::sloppy topstitching on Koron's dress is my work::

::did much better on Lien's dress the following day::

Lucas was acting really cute this morning. He bopped me in the finger with his mercifully clipped claw trying to steal a styrofoam peanut I was about to throw away. I let out a fakey yelp and he starting rubbing against my ankles and winding between my legs frantically, like he wanted to make up for it right away. ^_^;...

It's a beautiful early spring day (actually, it's still winter, so it's wing?), 64 degrees and partly cloudy. Here's a blurry picture of Lucas acting like a cat-hole and going crazy while I'm trying to make my bed:

He's attacking the drawstrings on my knitting bag. I had taken pictures that looked even crazier than that, but they all came out like some slo-mo dance video. He wriggles around too much. :O

I made this dress for Himeno last night. It fits all right, I guess. ^^; I love sewing rickrack on doll dresses. I used to wonder what a normal person would do with brocade ribbon and lace tape, but after buying a few tops from Anthropologie I figured you just do whatever you want with it.

I must find...shoes....