Mistress of Disguise

Geico emailed me saying they noticed the address change, and that I should review my stuff. Hmm. Turns out, our new address means our insurance got cheaper by about $10/month. So, that's a win!

All of the billing information for all the places should be completely updated now. Hopefully there won't be any more surprises.

Tiger made a daring escape this morning when I left for work. He darted out the front door, quickly realized that crap, this is not the outdoors I am familiar with, and ran around trying to figure out where he was. I finally caught up to him on a neighbor's porch, where I scooped him up and threw him back in our apartment. Little shit.

Finished pinning on the boning channels for the 1906 corset mockup last night. Not a monumental achievement, but dammit, it's progress! I will stitch them on tonight and do a fitting and see how things look. It doesn't look drastically different from my last mockup, so if there aren't any major problems, then I'm finally going to move on to the final version. It will be really nice to finally have a corset finished! (Just realized I still have to order boning and a busk! Guess I won't be finishing it this weekend.)

The embroidery is stalling me out on the 1872 corset. I really want an embroidered corset again, I just don't actually want to do the embroidery. I'm sitting and watching TV so much at night that I should just have it beside me to work on then. If I'd been doing that this week instead of mindlessly scrolling my phone, I would have it all done by now. (And I wouldn't have to rewind the show a dozen times because I missed something important. XP) I am trying to get back into the habit of doing an hour of sewing every night, so next week I'll try and focus on the embroidery so I can finish up that corset the following weekend.

This weekend's plan is to get the final version of the 1906 corset cut out and assembled, and order the boning and busk. Sunday I am going to try and make the 1878 natural form hoops from the pattern I extracted from De Gracieuse. Skirt supports are usually pretty quick, so I should be able to finish them in a single day, fingers crossed.

Reprinted the 1906 corset pattern while at work yesterday, and sized it to my measurements. I took my measurements several times to double-check all my numbers, so hopefully it will be right this time, and I can get on with making the final version. I will attempt to cut out the mockup tonight, since I don't have any errands to run after work.

I did a pickup grocery order at the Walmart that's now closest to our place, and it went fine, except I didn't know they didn't have a drive-through pharmacy, so I had to go inside anyway and wait in line behind a zillion people. *grumble* I'll be switching back to the old pharmacy so I can sit my lazy ass in the car and have my pills vacuum-tubed to me, thank you very much.

Speaking of pills, my doctor's office left me a voicemail basically saying "yeah, we're only giving you a week of pills at a time so you'll get the hint and come in for blood work, it's been 6 months." Guess I'll have to make an appointment.

Woke up to find the corset mockup once again liberated from the project basket and dragged across the living room. Silly goober. Tiger was very insistent on snuggles this morning, because he is clearly deprived and neglected. He helped me make the bed by biting the corner of the sheet and rabbit-kicking the comforter.

We finally, *finally* got the approval notice from the new apartment complex! Move in date is hopefully the 23rd (we have yet to hear back on that), so we'll have less time to pack than we originally thought, but eh, it's all fine. We're just waiting on details now on when to go over and sign the lease and all that. We're on our way out! Hooray!

Sent a pic of the first corset fitting to Liz to get her input, and she said that it looked big. I didn't feel like it was big when I tried it on, but then it was in my head once she said it, so I did another try on, and surprise! It's too big. Once I really paid attention and laced it properly, I could get it completely closed. I'll have to hack another quarter inch or so off each pattern piece. I'm also going to take a half inch off the top edge, since it sticks up a bit far. I like where the waist sits right now, and how the torso fits, but it just comes up a little too far at top.

At this point, I've hacked apart this mockup so many times that I just need to make a new one, so I'll try and get that done tonight.

Tiger spent his first full night on the bed with us! He was sitting at the door and meowing at the top of his tiny lungs, and M was worried that he would wake up our guest, so we let him in, and he snuggled us all night.

Poor Tibby hid in the bathroom all night because we had a big storm come through again. We again missed the worst of it, and we didn't have any tornadoes this time around, so it was mostly just heavy rain and winds. The thunder was loud enough to set off some car alarms, though, which I always find funny. But Tibby is a big chicken, and always heads to the windowless room in the middle of the house, like he's had kitty tornado training.

Went to Commissioner's Court this morning to be recognized for 5 years with the county. I got a shiny gold pin and a picture with the sheriff, and I missed lunch.