More good things...
May. 4th, 2018 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowangolightlyI have gotten my fabric approved for my costume. Admittedly it is weird going to a 2-year-faire veteran for costume approval but so far, I gotta say that she's doing everything right...or what *I* think of as right. See, trying not to judge or to be that old veteran who things that nobody young can do anything right, because that is utter nonsense. I'm delighted to see young people figuring things out; I just want to offer help so they don't have to continuously reinvent the wheel...since I've done that about a dozen times myself.
So I pinged her on Facebook IM and asked if she could approve it, since ordering silk from India takes about 2 weeks longer now with idiotic Customs regulations 'cause sure, a flat package of fabric could have drugs or smuggled intelligence information or some other stupid shit; it now takes FOUR weeks to get stuff shipped.
She didn't want to use the gorgeous navy blue and gold, very subtle, silk that I'd picked out because the court children are going with blue and gold. Seems fair, although I grieve not being able to get that fabric. This: http://www.puresilks.us/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2573
She asked if there was another fabric I could choose so I looked quickly and found this: http://www.puresilks.us/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=6619
And she liked it *and* thanked me for being flexible (!) in my choices. The more I looked at it, the more it looked familiar from pulling brocades for that person who wanted to buy some. I ran upstairs and sure enough, I have some of this...I have FIVE yards of this. Really don't remember ordering it and it's not any client's stuff but oh well, this saves me about $120 I could ill afford to spend right now. I did find a diamond-tuck-pleated black silk dupioni on the site so I ordered a couple yards of that; will be gorgeous and light weight for the hanging sleeve. And then some blue dupioni matched to the blue in the brocade, plus trims and I will be set: another court costume that will cost me about $75 in materials, tops. Haven't searched my trims yet but then, I haven't sketched out the costume yet either. The costume guidelines are sketchy at best this year. That will make it interesting.
In other news, I have applied for a part time job assisting in the care of a friend-of-a-friend's 90+ year old parents who live at John Knox Village. Convenient in that John Knox is only 3-4 miles away from my house and I could take hand work and jewelry stuff to work on. I like the gal (the daughter in law) when we spoke at length on the phone yesterday. She sent me the care instructions and it seems pretty straight-forward; keeping them company, giving meds at the right time, pretty much. So I have offered weekday mornings with no clue yet as to what it pays but it couldn't be anything less than at least $10/hour for them to get anyone decent. We'll see.
So I pinged her on Facebook IM and asked if she could approve it, since ordering silk from India takes about 2 weeks longer now with idiotic Customs regulations 'cause sure, a flat package of fabric could have drugs or smuggled intelligence information or some other stupid shit; it now takes FOUR weeks to get stuff shipped.
She didn't want to use the gorgeous navy blue and gold, very subtle, silk that I'd picked out because the court children are going with blue and gold. Seems fair, although I grieve not being able to get that fabric. This: http://www.puresilks.us/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2573
She asked if there was another fabric I could choose so I looked quickly and found this: http://www.puresilks.us/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=6619
And she liked it *and* thanked me for being flexible (!) in my choices. The more I looked at it, the more it looked familiar from pulling brocades for that person who wanted to buy some. I ran upstairs and sure enough, I have some of this...I have FIVE yards of this. Really don't remember ordering it and it's not any client's stuff but oh well, this saves me about $120 I could ill afford to spend right now. I did find a diamond-tuck-pleated black silk dupioni on the site so I ordered a couple yards of that; will be gorgeous and light weight for the hanging sleeve. And then some blue dupioni matched to the blue in the brocade, plus trims and I will be set: another court costume that will cost me about $75 in materials, tops. Haven't searched my trims yet but then, I haven't sketched out the costume yet either. The costume guidelines are sketchy at best this year. That will make it interesting.
In other news, I have applied for a part time job assisting in the care of a friend-of-a-friend's 90+ year old parents who live at John Knox Village. Convenient in that John Knox is only 3-4 miles away from my house and I could take hand work and jewelry stuff to work on. I like the gal (the daughter in law) when we spoke at length on the phone yesterday. She sent me the care instructions and it seems pretty straight-forward; keeping them company, giving meds at the right time, pretty much. So I have offered weekday mornings with no clue yet as to what it pays but it couldn't be anything less than at least $10/hour for them to get anyone decent. We'll see.
