this weekend’s creationals
Yesterday I was going to start making a new purse/bag because my current one is toooo long. I started getting material out. I wanted to make it half pretty print, half solid. The more prints I started looking at, the less I wanted to make a bag. I switched gears and started making a shirt. Or, a prototype of a shirt. I don’t have any patterns for shirts, and really I think they’d be more of a hindrance than a help right now, because I haven’t used a pattern since about…oh, ninth grade. I don’t have the slightest memory of how to make them work for me. And a very important note, most patterns aren’t made to fit weirdly shaped tiny people like myself! So I just hold fabric up to myself and see where I think it needs to be cut, then improvise ways to put it together.
I know this method isn’t destined to be super reliable right off the bat, so I used a random penguin print fabric for a prototype. It actually went pretty well, too! It’s not entirely finished and I only have the top part “done”, but it ended up coming together better than I would’ve expected. I’ll post a couple pictures later when I find my flash card reader.
Yesterday, a friend of mine mentioned on her Facebook status that everyone should watch the documentary called The Beautiful Truth. Needing a break from my shirt prototype, I hopped over to Netflix and started watching. It was amazing and frightening. I recommend it highly.
As a result of seeing the documentary, I found a juicer on Craigslist today, and I’m about to go work on today’s tangible– some vegetable/fruit juice combos. Hopefully I’ll drink them.
I’ve also started reading Charlotte Gerson’s book The Gerson Therapy, which is largely what the documentary is about. It’s fascinating to say the least. It’s cured lots of various chronic and acute diseases that normally “require” extensive and often dangerous treatments- and all it is is a healthy diet. It’s stringent and difficult to implement given today’s food standards (=crap), and essentially vegan. I’m going to see what I can do.
Wish me luck!
