Playing around with playboy

In the summer my friend Tiana invited me to some with her to New York for a week and a half and help her run an extravagant performance and dinner party event called "Carnivale of Ascension". I'd been to New York state before, but never New York city, so I was eager not just to experience the city with a genuine New York socialite and all of her friends, but to go to the famous New York garment district and get my hands on some interesting new materials. In the summer my primary focus was on making my cocktail-dress style aprons, so I mostly bought materials for that reason. However, I'm such a bargain hunter and when I see some kind of strange, extravagant deal I seize it. In one of the fabric stores we saw this incredible screen-printed sheer playboy material. There were a couple different designs and I bought 5 yards of one and 10 yards of the other. Afterward I kind of put it in a box and forgot about it. The other day it dawned on me that I have 15 yards of playboy material and no idea what to do about it. So, I'm trying a few things to make use out of it. The first thing I've started working on is a red lined pencil skirt. It's coming along pretty well, although I find the thin, sheer material really hard to work with.

I've literally started making this skirt about 2 weeks ago, but have had almost no time for it. I've recently switched my day-job from working in a fancy grocery store (Epicerie Fine) to working in a pub and have been working both jobs at once in order to "transition over" aka "kill myself with work". I've also been getting in the down-to-the-wire crunch time rehearsals for Mental Floss. Mental Floss is an amazing play by a local playwright that I have the honour of performing in from February 10th to 14th. I`m so excited about this play, I can't even describe it. I haven't done any serious theatre since I went to Europe last year and it's been killing me. Now all my pent up theatre energy will be getting sweet, sweet release. Yay!