Goodness, it's ridiculously warm for this time of year!  In fact, all this unseasonable weather has got me thinking about clothes for th...

I have a tendency to strike over-the-top poses when I'm fooling around, a habit I blame on performing in the works of Gilbert and Sulliv...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently purchased Gail Marsh's book 19th Century Embroidery Techniques  and have been practicing a...

As promised, I really did go to a lovely ball last weekend and wore my new tartan ballgown for the first time.  It still needs a lot of work...

I know I owe you a ball post, and I promise to do it today! I turned in my thesis draft and that means I havea day off to do something fun. ...

I went to a ball! It was lovely!  Then I spent all day travelling and am totally exhausted, so my plans to come home and tell you all about ...

I volunteer at the county penitentiary once a week to co-run creative writing workshops with the 18-24 year old men in the "boot camp...