Project Homecoming Dress

So, making my homecoming dress, I am doing an experiment. I do corsets most of the time, and I am trying to do the corset of my dress with interfacing, I am experimenting, and you should never do that a week from your event, but I am, don't do what I did, I was told I wasn't going, but now I am.

Dress Making

To all my fellow seamstresses out there, I am sewing my homecoming dress once more, zI am going to give you the advice I've learned over the past three years making dresses or anything really.

• Mockups are your friends: if you are using a pattern, you want to make sure you pattern fits, if it don't fit you, likely the cute article of clothing wont fit you, even pinning the pattern together and holding it up to see will work, but if you do mockups I guarantee that your pieces will turn out!
• Learn from your mistakes: If you make a mistake, depending on what it is, you will have to a) fix it, or b) see if it's noticeable, you can't fix an accidental slit in your bodice. true story, I made an eyelet hole in my prom dress, but it wasn't noticeable at all, so I got away with it! You've got your mistakes, and your failures, but we are DIYers, we don't fail, we make something else! 
• Measure: this is important, no matter what shape, or size, this is important. You can't always count on being the same size you were last year, it doesn't work, your body changes, and so does everyone else. Just look at Megan Fox and all these other people over the years, they change, shift. We deal!
• Test: Test every thing! from fabric and steam, to how something fits! and believe me, it comes in handy to make sure something correctly! My first Homecoming Dress was really loose, we were doing our best, but it didn't fit correctly, things move, its up to you to find out if they move reasonably. Is that dress so tight it puckers? Is it loose where your boobs are coming out and your bra is showing? 

These questions are important, leave a comment below if you have anything to ask or add!  

Going from a PC to a Mac

Today I just got my Macbook Pro, and have been getting used to the Mac world. I really don't care about the whole PC vs. Mac controversy. I got the Macbook Pro for design purposes. Someone in my family is defiant to Macs completely because he finds Mac people occultish, I don't know. This blog was published with the use of my 2007 Macbook!

My Fist Day

Today was my first day of work, I will say this job is a bit laid back. I answered a few phone calls, talked to a few customers and washed out a few coffee mugs. It wasn't very odd, but I wasn't used to answering the phone with stranger, the whole "Don't talk to strangers" does not apply to anybody above the age of 16, although I had never met a stranger when I was little, very social. my first day was ok, could have been worst. 

D. A.

Deiviant art post I've started treating my Deviant Art like a Blog, but we'll see if I can keep up with it. My user name is Alexy28210, same as my Youtube, don't ask why I picked it, haven't  posted for a while, feel bad about that but here we are. Enjoy!

Parental Blocks

I'm 17 no, am getting a new computer it's a good thing, but right now I am having the first world problems of being blocked from my blog... it's not pleasant. mainly because I couldn't complete the series I started on Fridays. So if you were looking for anything new I was supposed to post, this is as new as it gets, and there goes the series. Wooohooo.

When ur doing an open house...

So I recently did a graduation open house,
I have 5 tips for you! I took note of things I should have done differently, but you only graduate high school once so I'm probably going to have to think of this in a few year, when I have kids graduating! That won't be for a while.

1. Send out actual invitations that people will remember. I did a facebook announcement and an announcement at my church that morning.
2. Have a long playlist to play while you're having your open house if you are playing music, not CDs, unless you have a multi CD player. it saves you from a lot of running around
3. Have a place to put the cards! there will be many cards that day, you will want a box!
4. Get people to help with the food, it makes it easier on you and your family, ask someone to add to your food. Same with set up, ask people to help, there are some people who love to help!
5. If you have a Power Point make it fully automatic, saves running around!

Some of these are things I did and recommend, but some are things that I had to do, like restarting things, power points, music, I had a short playlist, and was running back and forth to fix that and eat lunch and talk to people and restart the overhead and then back to talking to people.

use this info! it saves!