August is Over

As we count down August, days get colder and nights get darker earlier. Tall tale signs that summer is almost over =(

Yesterday I attempted the Le Sac Dress with the rando fabric I bought from the bargain bin at Walmart. I didn't have any extra string so excuse the stupid beige mess. I've worked out the pattern (which wasn't too hard to begin with) from looking at the actual dress and really it was 2 pieces of rectangular shaped fabric sewn together at the sides. The owner of AA must be ecstatic for getting away with selling 2 rectangles and a piece of string for 40 dollars. Lesson learned from this? 1) I need softer fabric like cotton to make this. The fabric from the bargain bin was stiffer and really if I didn't tie that black belt around my waist I might as well be wearing a potato sac. 2) Gotta make it longer as the hem just hovers around my cooch.. ahem... I'll pick this up again when I decide to buy more useful fabric.

Today I woke up to find myself home alone. My sister went to school registration (ew) and my parents went to work. What did I decide to do you may ask. No... I didn't blast my music and prance around in my underwear (I would have any other day really). But today I decided to bake... well.. steam... I made steamed banana cupcakes. My arm hurts from whisking because I had to whisk the eggs and sugar to a certain stage of consistency. But it's all good.

Now that my summer is dwindling down I feel I need to do things to catch up on all those lazy days I spent doing nothing all summer.


Pick of the day: I saw this a while ago, but wanted to share. This is a concept trailer called The Sleep Shift from Wong Fu Productions (Yes those guys that brought you 'Yellow Fever' except this is more serious.) The plot follows a guy who has to work the graveyard shift of his family run store and because of this he starts to feel like he's missing out on life because he sleeps during the day when everyone's active and wakes up at night when everyone else is asleep. If you look past the cheese factor, I think the concept is quite good. I like this genre of movies =) I do hope they make it.