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Another night of lumping around, but I did make myself dinner and washed a pan of dishes at least. Didn't play too many games actually, even leaving my phone running the one bc it needs to be active to complete three of the quests that I was "working" on (it's an idle game, but the quests were to collect coins from my food court, and those only get collected while the game is active). What time I spent with my phone on was largely reading sewing patterns.

Did not bother to attempt to see the eclipse. It started snowing around 8 am yesterday and it was only partially clear at 7am this morning. Of COURSE we had a weather event on the night of a fun sky-related event. Today it is brilliantly sunny, but cold. Not as cold as it could be, but cold compared to last week/earlier this week. Alas.

Yesterday during my afternoon whine of booooooored and why snooooooow, my love K suggested I plan a spring wardrobe. Brilliant idea! So I pulled out the craft notebook and started making a list. It actually helped bc then I could also visualize what the "collection" would look like, like if I made that mustard yellow shirt that's been on my list for ages, would I necessarily want to make something in like, hot pink, that wouldn't go with it?

The List (tm):
-Grey wool trousers
-Brown houndstooth skirt (I have 6m of this, this would allow me to have a matching jacket)
-Mustard yellow striped button-front shirt

Things I can mod to wear with this:
-Teal Sagebrush top (needs new cuffs)
-Black Poplina (also needs new cuffs)

Things I can finish to wear with this:
-Brown Mitchell trousers (just needs closures)
-Brown Scout dress (buttons and buttonholes, hem)

The PINK Meriam trousers also need closures, but as I said, they don't necessarily go with the other things, so that's less of a priority lol. Maybe just to GET 'ER DONE and feel satisfied to have that off the to-do list. And then I can try them on to see how they fit bc I made them almost two years ago and things have changed since then.

OK BACK TO THE LIST. I question my choices to add dresses and skirts to my wardrobe since I so rarely wear them. But that might just be bc all my dresses stopped fitting in the post-covid years (post here defined as "I went back to work" but shit was still VERY REAL) and I donated them all. For spring, it might be nice to have a lil extra air around my legs. Because I really liked the bodice I mocked up last weekend and it'd be really cute with a skirt bottom.

I've never really thought about curating a collection like this, and I'm not sure if my stash can support it. It's largely "ooh shiny!" lol. But this is a good exercise! It makes me happy to be working towards something so tangible.

Future considerations:
-A slip dress for under the silk Nicks dress
-A petticoat (not too floofy, just a lil somethin' somethin' for that extra oomph)
-Under shorts bc no way am I walking around in skirts without some protection against chub rub.