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I've Got Issues!!

Journal Entry: Sun Mar 9, 2008, 11:05 AM
Fabric, issues, that is. ;)

I've got a series of corsets and robes and skirts that I'd like to make, for my photography costume wardrobe...and every so often, I'll go to the fabric store, and buy some promising remnants with those projects in mind.

Only when I get them home, I just drool over how pretty the fabric is...and how I could drape it over a chair or use it as a backdrop or a curtain, in a shoot...and I can't bring myself to cut the fabric up!!!

We're definitely going to reach a crisis with this, eventually, however, as I now have two trunks I use for fabric...and the second one is getting close to overflowing...

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*redLillith Mar 9, 2008, 11:07:40 AM
lol .. sounds like a familiar problem! I do that too . . and once I have used a piece enough times as a backdrop or a prop, I then force myself to hand it over to my seamstress and tell her to just do it!! lol. what a fun dilemma to have though, eh? :hug:

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=DarkMaidenofSorrow Mar 9, 2008, 11:15:26 AM
I used to store a lot of fabric too, though I'd actually make clothes for my daughter and myself then. :) They make great accessories for photography too though! One of my favorite backdrops was just offwhite sheets covered in remnants of lace fabric. :nod:

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=Athansor Mar 9, 2008, 11:17:55 AM
They're DEFINITELY great accessories for photography--I use 'em in almost every shoot...which is part of why I can't reason myself out of saving them. They DO actually get used--but I really NEED the costumes, more than I need them as accessories! :rofl:

What can I say--I'm a mess! :)

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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
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=Athansor Mar 9, 2008, 11:20:40 AM
Oh, you're good at recycling, then--and I'm just not. I'm hoarder, from way back... ;)

But you're right--it IS a fun dilemma! :D :hug:

Right now I have three beautiful pieces of upholstery fabric on my livingroom floor...two purchased expressly for making corsets, and one bought just because it looks good, and was cheap. But since I didn't buy the OTHER fabrics I need for corset-making, I'm afraid they'll wind up in the chests. (I'm online right now--when I have MANY other things I SHOULD be doing--looking for coordinating fabrics. If I buy them today--then maybe I can FORCE myself into making the corsets! ;))

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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
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`MYvonne Mar 9, 2008, 11:22:43 AM
Buy more than enough and keep one to drape and one to sew!

Shelving! add more shelving!
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~Elitha Mar 9, 2008, 11:27:34 AM
Hehe.. you could always donate some of that lovely fabric to my stock account :D

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=Athansor Mar 9, 2008, 11:29:28 AM
You are a woman after my own heart! :D :hug:

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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
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=Athansor Mar 9, 2008, 11:31:27 AM
Hehe--now THERE'S an idea! :D (At least I wouldn't have to make any more decisions about it! ;)) :hug:

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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
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