Year: 2011

Felicity’s favourite things: naptime

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Felicity has a few favourite things: bottle tops and tuna fish, wool blankets, and naptime. Specifically, naps with me.  Mr Dreamy doesn’t nap often enough to make it worth her while to get excited about. Felicity loooooooooooves napping with me.  If she thinks it is the right time of day, and there is a chance I might nap (something I do once or twice a week), she hopefully follows me into the bedroom every time I head that way. I took a nap yesterday, and she definitely felt I was long overdue for one. As I was unpinning my hair she twined around my ankles, mewing encouragingly. As I moved to take all the pillows off the bed (yes, I’m a pillow pile-er) she stood on the edge of the bed in a pose that usually indicates that she is demanding pets.  Did she want a pet?  Nope!  As I reached out for her she moved out of reach just fast enough for me to end out spread over the bed.  Just where she wanted …

Why I’ve been a bad blogger

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I’m afraid I’ve been rather off my blogging form this week, and I do apologise. Rather than my usual post-a-day at 5.30ish (no, I don’t actually get up then, I write them the night before and schedule the posts!), I’ve been lucky to get a post every other day, and often they don’t publish until 5.30 in the afternoon. Anyway, over the last two weeks I have: – Made two new corsets – Finished the silver corset – Made 3 pairs of bloomers and two chemises, complete with extravagant amounts of lace and pin-tucks. – Submitted a project proposal to a museum – Submitted a paper abstract to a symposium – Worked on two wedding dress commissions – Given a talk on 1940s and 50s novelty prints to a quilting group. – Given two different talks on corsets to a burlesque expo (plus had all the planning and model fittings for 12 models for the talks). Plus made an attempt at keeping the house tidy, spending time with Mr Dreamy, spending time with my sister, …