date night

Yesterday D. and I went on a "date" - dinner and a movie. Movie: Spiderman III; dinner: Thai Farm. Reviews of both: good :)

( snipped for possible Spiderman III spoilage )

Neither of us had been to the restaurant but had passed it multiple times and decided to give it a whirl. Good interior ambience and I admit I wasn't adventurous with my order (Thai fried rice with seafood), but D. commented on how fresh his was, and perhaps we will go again :)

Given that there are so many good restaurants nearby we're toying with the idea of eating a swath through the nearby "sit down" restaurants we ignored when D. wasn't working. Slowly, of course, but surely :)

costuming foo

After nearly a week of procrastination, I finished the tux pants, including all the couture-esque foos to make it special (linking the hems of the pants and lining together so it won't cling/float around). They're getting professionally cleaned/pressed in my next dry cleaning run, though given they're so hot I'm not sure when I will have a chance to wear them :P

So, onward and upward! Whilst working through the metric buttload of laundry and cleaning up my sewing area a bit (wow, there are tables under there!), I did tentative work on my next project, a duplicate of Zoey's vest from "Firefly" (because in the circles I run in, one never knows when one might need a Firefly costume).

I've been sitting on ~6 yards of maroon upholstery PVC for over 4 years and thinking it's perfect, but PVC does NOT look like leather, so I'm experimenting to see if I can make it look like leather. I sanded/scraped a scrap around on cement and dyed over the scratches, to no effect - the "wrong" side and backing is white flock and wouldn't take dye.

My next tricks will include trying some of the tips from AlleyCatScratch's faking leather page ("Use sandpaper along the long lines-where you would expect to see wear & tear. You can work the brown (brown what? - A. Non) in where you abrade the vinyl from roughing it up.") and this neat book I got as a gift, sometime after I get back from K. Zoo.

Feeling kind of ho-hum. This sometimes happens after I get a lot done - I feel so accomplished and then at a loss because "what next?" isn't immediately apparent.