costumes.

i'm now unemployed. i have three weeks or so before going back to school. i have found one thing to do to amuse myself until then.

a friend is directing a play, "baby with the bathwater" by christopher durang. a very absurd piece of theatre, and it needs costumes to match.


yes, i'll be painting the babies on the fabric. it looks like in addition to those two dresses and the tie, i'll be making one more dress, a pair of shorts, and a bassinet that can hold a teenage boy. and maybe one more dress and a few aprons. i'm quite excited for it, really. i just need to get some fabric and paint.

also, i still do that knitting thing every once in a while. i stopped at a couple of yarn shops last week while we were in cape breton. i got a book i've been eyeing for a while, "boutique knits", which features a lovely cloche-like hat pattern, for which i picked up some teal alpaca. i also experienced, for the first time, malabrigo. i got two skeins of lace in "water green". i've been loving this colour lately.

and a few things from my sketchbook lately:

one week at work, i only had one kid sign up for class, so we did some more involved things, like making dolls. that's what i made. no, the kid didn't know who liza minnelli is.

and a little stamp i carved from a piece of linoleum:

i'm going to do a series of posts of things that make me happy. i'm really a pretty materialistic person deep down, in a way, and i love buying things. i'll be posting some things i own that make me happy.