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Jan. 30th, 2004 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deliriumcrowWent to sleep last night and the room was cool. So we shut the window. (Yes, we keep the window open. It gets *fucking hot* in here unless the rest of the house is at 60. Which is where I want it at night. I hate sleeping in the heat, especially in the winter.) And woke up and the room was cold. Went downstairs. yup, heat's out. Again. Fucker should have gotten the pump fixed the last time, when the heating guy said to do so. Nah, he says, it'll be fine. Fine my ass. So I went to school where the buildings are heated. I like that in a room. Got back home, adn Alan is still here. His genious plan? take off the old pump, go to the store, get a new pump, and attach it himself. This wouldn't be such a bad idea, if he knew how to fix things. Which, judging by the rest of the house, he clearly does *not*. So yeah, the house will be burning down imminently. I think I'm going to evacuate some of my more important stuff soon.... Hmm. Perhaps, since we will be moving up soon, I can store some of the les useful stuff in my grandmother's newly empty attic. It's still tragic, the more I remember about the things we lost. Like a box of my great grandmother's 1940s era hats. I used to play with those when I was little. Anyway, the attic is newly rewired also, and thus is unlikely to catch again. And then I can sort out the things that I don't need to take with me, and leave some of the clothes that I never wear, and stuff I never use. Perhaps the dolls, since I never have space to put them out or anything....
I hate being cold. I hate being this cold.
I need large quantities of heavy, linen-look cotton (or real linen....) for a class. About four or five yards, I think. I'm making a copy of a dress painted by Rogier Van der Weyden on several of his Magdalenes. Because it shows every single seam line, and countles little details of construction. This will be my semester project. Yes, I like this plan. Assesment of old paintings to determine how much is allegorical, how much is fact, and is this pattern even possible on a human body? (Yes, it is. I made one similar to it, but not similar enough. I'll wager that the red brocadeof the pinned sleeves is allegorical, but that the idea itself is not. The style itself is probably accurate, I've seen it in one other place, but it also looks lower class, and is thus less likely to have been portrayed. Or to have survived.) Also, are the fabric colours period for a lower class? Probably, I don't really know. These are the things I have to research. So I got a pile of huge books out of the library of dubious usefulness. Many books. Big ones. And found one that I want on InterLibrary Loan, and ordered it. It's one of the Museum of London books of all the things they found when excavating London.... I covet so badly. Actually, Jeremy, I'm willing to take partial payment in fabric. It's for purely academic purposes, I promise. :) I have the wool for pinned on sleeves in a reasonably period shade of muddy green, but I need the dress linen and I think Jo Anns has it for really cheap. Something like $3 a yard. Also I need large metal pins.... I have a chemise of a reasonable period (it's not like they changed much or anything....) and I lack shoes, unless you count Chinese shoes. Hell, I even have pseudo-linen stuckings. :) Need to find a reasonable colour, though.... Something that will look better with muddy green than the pea green looked with the red sleeves. Heh.
We have heat again. Yay us. This shoudn't have to be a cause for rejoicing. Especially not so bloody regularly.
Also, I have begun experimenting with how one makes a cloche hat. The first one is failing miserably.
I hate being cold. I hate being this cold.
I need large quantities of heavy, linen-look cotton (or real linen....) for a class. About four or five yards, I think. I'm making a copy of a dress painted by Rogier Van der Weyden on several of his Magdalenes. Because it shows every single seam line, and countles little details of construction. This will be my semester project. Yes, I like this plan. Assesment of old paintings to determine how much is allegorical, how much is fact, and is this pattern even possible on a human body? (Yes, it is. I made one similar to it, but not similar enough. I'll wager that the red brocadeof the pinned sleeves is allegorical, but that the idea itself is not. The style itself is probably accurate, I've seen it in one other place, but it also looks lower class, and is thus less likely to have been portrayed. Or to have survived.) Also, are the fabric colours period for a lower class? Probably, I don't really know. These are the things I have to research. So I got a pile of huge books out of the library of dubious usefulness. Many books. Big ones. And found one that I want on InterLibrary Loan, and ordered it. It's one of the Museum of London books of all the things they found when excavating London.... I covet so badly. Actually, Jeremy, I'm willing to take partial payment in fabric. It's for purely academic purposes, I promise. :) I have the wool for pinned on sleeves in a reasonably period shade of muddy green, but I need the dress linen and I think Jo Anns has it for really cheap. Something like $3 a yard. Also I need large metal pins.... I have a chemise of a reasonable period (it's not like they changed much or anything....) and I lack shoes, unless you count Chinese shoes. Hell, I even have pseudo-linen stuckings. :) Need to find a reasonable colour, though.... Something that will look better with muddy green than the pea green looked with the red sleeves. Heh.
We have heat again. Yay us. This shoudn't have to be a cause for rejoicing. Especially not so bloody regularly.
Also, I have begun experimenting with how one makes a cloche hat. The first one is failing miserably.
