oloriel | CfL project #1

CfL weekend has begun!

CfL has been created in honour of and based on ideas by

lady_roisin, writer, artist and costume designer, who lost her battle against cancer early this fall. Today would have been her 30th birthday, marking the start of a three-day creative effort to raise money and awareness for anti-cancer research and charities in the hope that some day the disease can be beaten and no longer snatches people away. There are many ways of participating - working on some creative endeavour, sponsoring someone else's work, donating time or money to a cancer-related organisation such as the American Cancer Society, Cancer Research UK or Deutsche Krebshilfe, registering with a bone marrow donor network, or just spreading the word.

My creative contributions to CfL are going to be costume-related. While (unlike Roisin was) I am not a professional costume designer, I enjoy designing and sewing clothing, particularly of the historical kind. I figure that finishing one of my ongoing projects, and getting some work done on another, isn't the worst way of honouring Roisin's memory. This is also partly selfish: I want to get these things done, and sewing is one of the few creative things I can do while trying to commit the complete works of Shakespeare to my already-overloaded brain. (As I have really bad sewing machine karma, I do all my sewing per hand. Now we know what it's good for.)
I'll be documenting the ongoing progress at my shiny new craftsy journal,

stonewashedgarb (yes, I know, incredibly lame pun) - if you're curious to see what I'm doing, please do drop by! ^^

In completely unrelated news, I really need to pee, but my cat is sleeping on my lap. Dilemma, dilemma...