Not an Organized Person

See how I start things and then ignore them oh so swiftly? Yes, yes you do.

I have projects to share, but life and lighting conditions are not very obliging. I blame Girl Scout camp volunteering, it eats your life up like a starving person with a tasty warm donut.

But this is what I'm finding all kinds of fabulous lately:

This pattern from BurdaStyle

(pssssst, there is also an online class going on for this pattern over on Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing. It looks like all kinds of awesome.)

This tutorial for a vintage style belt on Casey's Elegant Musings

This dress found on Burda by juleken

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I am an Oregonian and I am a rain snob

Just in case you didn't know, Oregonians have a thing about not carrying umbrellas. (Or rain boots much for that matter, I never knew where to buy them until I moved to Chicago) Yes, it rains a lot. Yes, I have been caught in torrential downpours and end up looking like the worst kind of drowned rat. Do I carry an umbrella? No. I have even been known to silently judge people in Chicago that walk around campus in full raincoats and rain boots and with giant umbrellas. In a light drizzle. Sometimes even when it isn't even actually raining but just looked like it might possibly begin to threaten to rain.

I understand that this is probably unfair. I'm trying to be a bigger person and acknowledge that these people will be the ones laughing at me when I sit at my desk with my own personal Great Lake of a puddle because I refused an umbrella during a veritable midwestern monsoon.

This umbrella DIY from What I Wore might let me overcome my prejudice. Maybe. Probably not, but it would look fabulous though! Now I just need to find an umbrella somewhere...