Villain Extraordinaire: Hello Kitty and Gin

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July 30, 2005

Hello Kitty and Gin

Today did not start off particularly well, if one can call waking up at 3:51 AM to a screeching building-wide fire alarm a start. It turned out to be a false alarm, but i dreamed i knew who the vile prankster was and berated him justly. It was none other than J's little brother. Damn him! Well, we slept in accordingly and only later ventured out to a Chipotle lunch, where in i performed an amazingly stupid feat: i drank a caffeinated soda. Just one, mind you. Seems innocuous enough, right? Unfortunately for all involved, especially for J, it is not. Caffeine makes me amazingly happy for several hours and then miserable and angry. My neurotransmitters just can't handle the violence being done to them. So, my crash began whilst in the middle of making the Hello Kitty Lunch Bag below. What set it off really was when J beat me at Magic. It was just too much to bear. Well, it was a teensy more complicated, but you get the idea. Things are improving now, but i think i still need some recovery-icecream.

As for the matching skirt, i made it last night. It is very simple, with an elastic waist instead of a zipper. i wanted something that i could just pull on and could lounge around in besides workout gear...and besides the Faux-Former pants i made for us, also pictured below. So anyway, the Bag came out pretty well for not having a pattern and basically winging it. i would like to get one of those Amy Butler patterns, but don't know which. i am starting to get the hang of the inside-out thing, but the shapes and flaps and stuff are currently beyond me.

Also, Lisa-the-costumer came over to help me modify my Betsy Ross Sharp Skirt to be more pencilly and generally sexier. The new cut is very Raymond Chandler. Can't wait to stitch that skirt up. How dirty sounding! So anyway, we broke out the liquor bottles (though sadly, not for some afternoon guzzling, but rather to weight down the pattern and cut it sans pins).

Here are some photos before i set off to find that ice cream...

Lisa in action:

We thought this fabric had real Transformers on it at first, but it was just as good (if not better) after we realized that they were some kind of Joann's pseudo-Hasbroian creation. Delta X44?? Patrol Sector 6?? Who knows?