Published February 23, 2008 by

Timesnables and goodness

grumpy.jpgQuite a different day.

I thought Swinburne (my charming university) had totally destroyed it before it began. This morning bought an email letting me know – two days before the official term goes back – that one of my classes had been moved and that the one I originally chose simply now no longer exists.

My timetable up until now has and always has been very carefully orchestrated to maximise work time, homework time, spare time and to minimise days spent traveling. That is, I try and squash my full time load into two days preferably, this time I had it down quite satisfactorily to three.

As things are, my beautifully structured Thursday now has a gaping 3hr gap in the middle (of me stuck at uni) and my Monday has a 1hr lecture scar in my mid afternoon. I was ropeable and so close to writing a cranky email back asking them to pay me for the extra half day’s work that I lose. Class options for the change became: Monday or Monday. Thank you for the endless choice.

In honor of Analise (Boy I hope you see this): Monday Monday Monday, I say damn your mood swings.

This now (best case scenario) means that I go to work on Monday and leave at midday’ish to make my lecture. Go to work Tuesday. Do an online class on Wednesday mornings, now cue ‘homework afternoon’. Go to uni on Thursdays have a 1hr lecture have a three hour gap have a three hour tute. Go to uni on Fridays freaking early and have solid classes for 4 or so hours then I am free for the weekend.

As I don’t live exactly close to uni this is less than desirable. I often wonder if my attitude (which sucks by the way) would change if I lived across the road. Probably not.

Dear Rebecca, in truth you have a sweetly small full-time study load.

Anyway, my day turned happy by me going off and doing something quite different by hanging out with my sister-in-law Anita and her two bridesmaids-to-be for dress shopping. No I am not going to be a bridesmaid and it was still a fairly painful memory to re-engage in, because it was pretty painfully similar to my unsuccessful hunt, but I had a lot of fun. I got along well with Julie and Tash and it was great to finally spend some proper time with Anita.

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Published January 20, 2008 by

Bridesmaids dresses

113wedding.JPG{Post especially for Rebecca Monson and may be of interest to others, I’m generalising here, but probably not the boys – so go away before you complain!}

The pattern we used to sew the bridesmaid dresses is this one: New Look 6557. We used the dress option pictured in the red/white floral but ommited the sash and shortened them up.

Adding zips turned out to be fairly difficult as we used invisible zips and this meant adding extra interfacing or something we could stiffen it up. Hems were extremely difficult with the material we used. It was shinier than I perhaps would’ve liked but I wanted that colour or an olive green and one of my bridesmaids looked like death in olive green (sorry Spanna). So that was what sat best, despite being on the shiny side – outdoors it seemed to be okay. Invisible hemming tape didn’t work as it buckled, so we tacked it. Still not the best bit of the dresses, but it did the job.

6557nlb.jpgOtherwise they’re fairly simple to make for a standard size. The pattern strangely altered size-wise. The size 10’s were size 10’s, but the fit for the larger sizes needed to be tweaked and we had to make up some pieces for one, despite the pattern going to size 18 – the bridesmaids certainly weren’t and it still wasn’t good.

We had a whole lot of help from Elyce (bridesmaid) and her Mum Roslyn who put an enormous amount of work into them. There were at least two 9+ hour days involved.

If you can sew you should be right.

And four dresses cost us about the price of one you’d buy from a shop.

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