This weekend, with much help from my mother, I finished putting together my long awaited collar! My sewing machine, which is great, doesn’t really deal with the velvet well….nor does it really do buttonholes in any sort of consistent manner. My mom’s sewing machine on the other hand…it does it all.
I’m happy with the way it turned out though. Fits like a glove and looks great on (no pictures of that yet).
Now, I just have a few more things to do before I ship it off to Savannah for the show. First of all, I have to find a model, preferably one with a long neck, to shoot my piece on. And of course, this means I’ll have to find my way into the photo lab and happen upon some equipment…all by this weekend. Then I have to figure out how to pack this thing to it makes it to GA in one piece!
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like I’ll be going to the SNAG conference, so Savannah will have to wait until another time. I’m bummed that I won’t get to attend the Lineage and Legacy show, but maybe I can visit GA some other time.
On the grad school front, this past Friday I mailed my LAST 2 applications (to Kent State and SUNY-New Paltz). I think the whole process was starting to get to me, but I’m happy to be done compiling my packets. I still need to make visits to the aforementioned schools though…Bill and I will be venturing out to New Paltz, New York at the end of the month so I can meet with Myra and Jamie. We are going to make a weekend out of it…and are staying at an honest to god b-n-b. I promise to take pictures 
It’s gorgeous! I can’t wait to see it on a neck with a cameo.
I will post an image of that ASAP!! I’m excited to see it too.