Sometimes I wake up and wish it was 1783.

I know a lot of us do that..but I swear I spend half of my day daydreaming about living in anyother time period than this one... I know it isn't the wisest thing to do...but it makes me happy. Despite all the hardships of previous generatioins...I often just feel like I would be happier living then than I do now. I get so disappointed in society and culture. 13 year olds have recreational sex (unprotected due to poor Sex Education..thank you Middle America.) The death threats over health care bills (which isn't even for 'health care reform' someone described it as insurance reform and I think that's a better description. We are still without public option.) Rude behavior, lack of class and manners. Ugh. I'm just over it half the time...I know there were serious challenges to face in the past and it will always be that way..but I'm will to trade...at least for a while...if anything to make me appreciate the lifestyle now more than I do. I just think of Tasha Tudor and how much I want to be like her when I'm older. Just simplify and have a peaceful exisitance....and wear dresses and corsets and bonnets..but I don't think Fredrik would appreciate that much.. hehe.

Anyways, in other news. I've finished my corded corset, mostly due to the fact I ran out of cording and embroidery thread so I couldn't finish the design I had intended for...but it still looks good. I don't have any pictures yet because of life.

However, I was supposed to be attending the 1810 dress workshop this weekend, and that had to be cancelled.  So though I have an 1810 corset, I don't have a gown! My grandfather fell and broke his hip on Tuesday and there was just no way I could have gone to Williamsburg and be in a workshop all weekend. I'm in Ohio now with my mother helping take care of my grandmother and my grandfather. He's so loopy on morphine and all the drugs...he keeps having very lucid dreams and getting confused...but now he's starting to compare the hospital to his POW camp from World War II. It's fairly funny, and he's been able to speak about it easily for a long time, but I think we're all a bit concerned he's going to have bad flash backs...

Back to subject...I wont be doing a lot of sewing probably. My time is going to be split between Ohio and home..and FREDRIK COMES ON SUNDAY! So I will be very very busy.

I will try to post pictures of the corset and see how well it fits and also give a run down of what was the good and bad parts about the construction, what I should have done differently, etc.

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