Getting stuff done

One of my garments is dedicated to my love for cupcakes. I bought cupcake printed fabric to make a pencil skirt out of, but it was hard to stop there. Today I made fake cupcakes for the garment and a basket my model will be carrying. My ma enjoys getting crafty once in a while, so she helped me decorate the cupcakes a little bit.

I'll post some pictures this weekend, but check out the website:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Fake_Cupcakes/

Making the cupcakes was very fast and not as messy as the writer of that article said. I have to disagree when she says to only fill the cupcake papers halfway. Granted the expansion foam does grow, I don't feel like it grew enough to fill the entire paper.

Today I also painted my keys! The weather channel said it was going to rain all week and I was a little sad I wouldn't get my keys done. Thankfully today ended up being gorgeous and I was able to spray the front half of the keys. They turned out really great. I'll try to post pictures of those soon as well.

This afternoon at school, I knocked out the top for the key garment. I'm pretty sure I'll have the entire garment done by Saturday evening :) finally!!

I also had a fitting with one of my models, the girl who is wearing the cupcake garment. Looks like her skirt is a go and I can make the real one this weekend. I should have her garment done by Monday or Tuesday. She came over before I made the cupcakes today, so I'm really excited for her to see what's going around her shoulder, in her hair, and in the basket.

Just a few more weeks until the show!!

round 5,006

So I've been trying for the past month to upload my lineboard. Obviously I have yet to be successful with it. I'm still problem shooting that with my good friend who is very knowledgeable in all things artsy, so hopefully we figure out the problem soon. It was the coolest thing ever to have a 15 min conversation with a friend about photoshop and illustrator and they totally know what I'm talking about the entire time :)

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while... I've just been so frustrated with my above problem.

Things are coming along slowly, but very well. I have one thing in muslin right now (probably the only item i need to have in muslin) and 1 more garment to make patterns for. I just did a fitting with the muslin skirt earlier today, but I think I'm going to adjust it in muslin and do another fitting of it before I use my real material. Time-wise, I shouldn't do it that way, but I want it done right when I use the real stuff.

I'm really excited about the Runway Show :) I'm definitely in gear now to finish all my stuff ASAP. I know most of my teachers hate that I procrastinate, but I kind of enjoy the pressure of a shortening timeline.

That's all for now!