So I've been having a gap year between college and graduate school, and I'm...not good at taking time off. I tend to find myself new projects.
I've dabbled in costume and cosplay, severely constrained by a lack of time. I have, at this point, two full steampunk outfits. The first is an entomology-themed outfit, which I made in high school, and which most foully betrayed me at the last convention I took it to by shedding a good bit of trim and a large metal butterfly very loudly onto the floor in the midst of a panel.
The second I made soon after Weather was published. I based it on a necklace that my godparents gave me for my eighteenth birthday; the necklace is gold with a garnet and pearls, a beautifully designed traditional Victorian pendant. I fell in love with the necklace when I received it, and halfway through undergraduate decided that I absolutely needed to graduate in a dress based on it, both because of its beauty and because of the significant role my family played in my life throughout college.
