More Channel Surfing
Feb. 24th, 2012 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
femkes_folliesFurther explorations of the mental variety...
1. I've been delving into the world of Vintage Cocktails. Enough so that on my next trip to Chicago, I'll try to snag both some Creme de Violette and Creme Yvette. The development of the cocktail and its transmutation from "trashy" to the Very Most intrigues me. Especially cocktails made as they were intended to be made... sans blender. Which leads me into:
2. Collecting some vintage barware. And trying to determine (between Wonder Husband's preferences and my own) what sorts we'd need.
3. Contemplating an evening at a local themed bar. And what we might wear. Husband and I are currently wrangling over whether to do teens, 1930's, or WWII era. So I'm poking at that. Granted, I am at the moment (like everyone else) a little taken with the costuming from Downton Abbey. I'll try to control myself.
4. Just now, dragging out the sewing machine (or, more to the point, getting anywhere near it) is a major PITA. So my sewing has been curtailed. Though now that Spring is coming, I'm more likely to clean out the sewing nook so I can get in it again. However, I still like hand projects I can sit and diddle with. Also on my list is possibly acquiring a treadle sewing machine.
5. Because, once you've started looking at fashions from the 1830's through the teens (if you're me) you then swerve into the whole British Colonial Era. I'd like to do a dress with beetle carapaces in the embroidery. And maybe learn Hindi. :-)
1. I've been delving into the world of Vintage Cocktails. Enough so that on my next trip to Chicago, I'll try to snag both some Creme de Violette and Creme Yvette. The development of the cocktail and its transmutation from "trashy" to the Very Most intrigues me. Especially cocktails made as they were intended to be made... sans blender. Which leads me into:
2. Collecting some vintage barware. And trying to determine (between Wonder Husband's preferences and my own) what sorts we'd need.
3. Contemplating an evening at a local themed bar. And what we might wear. Husband and I are currently wrangling over whether to do teens, 1930's, or WWII era. So I'm poking at that. Granted, I am at the moment (like everyone else) a little taken with the costuming from Downton Abbey. I'll try to control myself.
4. Just now, dragging out the sewing machine (or, more to the point, getting anywhere near it) is a major PITA. So my sewing has been curtailed. Though now that Spring is coming, I'm more likely to clean out the sewing nook so I can get in it again. However, I still like hand projects I can sit and diddle with. Also on my list is possibly acquiring a treadle sewing machine.
5. Because, once you've started looking at fashions from the 1830's through the teens (if you're me) you then swerve into the whole British Colonial Era. I'd like to do a dress with beetle carapaces in the embroidery. And maybe learn Hindi. :-)