sewing entry 2011

This year I won Third Prize in the sewing section of the Canberra Show. I am determined to enter again, but I must decide on what I am going to create!

Before the end of the year I have a couple of things I would like to make, including a wedding dress for my sister's wedding in France (don't panic, it will be a very simple dress and shouldn't take too long at all!), but I want to get started on my Show entry sooner rather than later.

Last year I entered in the Non Professional (less than two years experience) 'Any article of hand or machine sewing', and I think since this is only my second year entering I will stay in that category.

But the delima is: do I design something myself, or go with a pattern?

One pattern I did have in mind is a replica of Scarlett O'Hara's red dress -

Which I would make in blue so I could wear it myself.
But is that too much?
It's not as though the prize is a lot of money or anything. It's mainly just ribbons unless I win the Grand Champion award which is $500. Last year some ugly ass outfit won. Very strange!

bad boyfriends

The other night I was flicking channels on TV and I came across a segment that I had seen advertised on one of our current affairs show. This segment was about some dodgy guy and the girls he had used and abused. One of them had a kid, the other two were there saying how horrible he was, and then they talk to him and I am honestly surprised that he could get one girl to go out with him, let alone multiple girls at the same time!

He is on the dole, has all sorts of piercings, and looks malnourished!

At the end of the segment the 'anchor woman' said "And if you've had a relationship with this guy we want to hear from you.".

It made me go "I wonder if from now on when a guy is a poo head can we just call a current affairs show and get them to do a name and shame on him?".

Can you imagine!! This is the fireman who took this girls virginity and then stopped returning her calls. He also has had charges against him for assault on a previous girl friend!

Or, meet this charming and good looking man. He lies about being married! Have you dated him assuming he is single? Call us!

It is all just a little bit ridiculous, isn't it. Really they should be running a story on "Why women go out with arse holes!" or "How does this dead beat even get a girlfriend?". Those are the kinds of stories I want to see!