the final product

And here it is....I LOVE how my dress turned out! It was so comfortable and I still totally love the colour (in case your colour is off on your monitor, it's not coral or peach, its a deep orange).

Julie, Rachael, Rachel & Julia (no joke!)

We had a blast! I took a ton of other pictures, which may find their way onto my blog yet, but I don't have time now. I'm feeling a little anxious to get going on my massive proposal which is due this week. More to come....

my latest project

tomorrow is my graduation dinner & dance, so i've been hard at work transforming my bridesmaid dress (that is, my sister's dress from my wedding) into something a little more fun. yes, this much orange crepe-back satin and it still could turn into something more fun. who knew?

the nasty BEFORE picture

hard at work

it needed a good hem. as in, 13 inches. then with the leftover fabric i added some wedge-shaped panels on the sides to make it a bit more of an A-line.

i also added this waistband just below the bust, using the crepe side of the fabric.
because i wanted to.

and the finished product..... oh wait! you can't see it yet. you'll have to wait until after my banquet tomorrow. ha!

fondue!

i was beginning to doubt my culinary abilities recently as foods which i've made many times before haven't been turning out as planned lately. but i think that "lately" started when we moved to this apartment. so i think that i'll listen to R and accept that maybe the failed chinese chicken balls on friday were more due to the fact that my range is older than i am and not as reliable as it was, say, back in 1979 (they did promise us new appliances when we moved in last year. yeah... that's not gonna happen anymore is it?).

after an hour of trying to deep fry my chicken balls so that the outside looked good AND the chicken was cooked inside, i gave up. i kept the chicken and yesterday we had a fantastic oil fondue. i have the company's coming fondue book and i made a Basil Garlic Mayo sauce to dip the chicken in, we had "fried cheese" (dip in beaten egg, coat with breadcrumbs & shake-n-bake, repeat, fry in oil fondue - so gooey!), red and green peppers, and i made some biscuits to soak up all the oil in our tummies. mmmm-mmmm! maybe i'm not such a bad cook after all.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS!

the end is near.

i should be studying, but all i feel like doing is painting with watercolours. i should be into the books, but i just want to work on my scrapbook which has been collecting dust. i'm really sick of studying. i hardly even care about this exam tomorrow, since i'm going into it with a good mark and it's only worth 20%. but i will go and get it done. i know i'll find the motivation somewhere. oh yeah......
IT'S MY LAST UNIVERSITY EXAM!
wow.... this is totally crazy. i can't believe it. when i started out 4 years ago i'm not sure that i ever really thought that i would ever be finished. oh, i planned to stick it out, but what does it feel like to be finished school? i don't know. i've been in school for 20 years.

i'll let you know when it really hits me that i don't need to go back to classes.