So far-

Lately, I've been doing work on pieces for Wandering Alice. My day job has been busy and we've had social things to do too. So my for-me and for-etsy making has been a bit stalled. Unfortunate!

I've been working on the Amy Butler Weekender Travel Bag. It's going a bit slowly. I made the main side panels last week, and last night did the outside top part with the zipper. When I got to putting the pockets onto the top part, I made them upside down! Fool. Sooo.. I stopped there, and have to recut those pieces before I can move on.
Pattern sewing is not really my strength, but this bag will probably turn out all right.

Here's a shot of the finished sides. Woohoo for first-time piping!

GIGANTIC. Really. Huge.


I've also been working on going through stacks of paper and ephemera I've collected over the years. Instructional stuff and usable bits of stuff have been catalogued into manila envelopes, binders, and folders. The rest is newspaper clippings, printouts, and pictures which I've started taping into my current sketchbook.
I was doing some of that last week while watching Akira. Then I got sidetracked and drew a coelacanth.



Haha, living fossil!