It's a project!

The treasure necklace turned out okay. Possibly it is too blinged-out with pendants per inch, but... *shrug.* It was nice to finally use some of the beads I've been given over the years, as gifts, site tokens and prizes, to make something nice.

At beatrixherald's suggestion, I tried making a pagan Anglo-Saxon peplos dress instead of a Viking apron. I did a quick consult with Gale Owen-Crocker's book and found that early Anglo-Saxon bead festoons could include pendant components. Now, whether or not they included wire twists with special beads, or even so many pendants, I'm not sure, but it was Close Enough for Government Work.

I had 5ish yards of nubby blue silk I bought at Pennsic, oh... eight years ago? Since I haven't used it yet, I figure whatever alleged project I was going to use it for has expired, and I drafted four yards of it into becoming a peplos. Pin, festoon, looks sweet! A little short - mid-shin - but that's not unexpected for something that's an overlayer in colder weather.

Hey, what if I belted it? That brought it up closer to knee-high and... wait, what's that draft?

I was sporting a mini-skirt look in the back! The back of the dress is pulled over the shoulders to pin to the front, so the back is a touch higher than the front. Belting it exaggerated that a lot.

By moving the shoulder-pins further toward the top of my shoulders, I could get the hem down to the back of my knees in the rear. Still pretty short. I finally figured that belting it is probably not meant to be, and anyway, within another month or two, I'm not going to have a waist to belt around anyway.

Next time, 60" fabric.

How weird is this?

Cooper's Lake Campground in the 'off-season.' What're those picnic tables doing in the middle of the Street of Gold?

Am I missing something?

I was just browsing a 'cars of 2014' puff piece in Forbes, and of course there were a lot of electric cars. Not hybrids, but real all-electric plug-ins.

Where are you supposed to plug them in to charge overnight? The parking lot for my townhouse complex doesn't have outlets, and folks with on-street parking for their homes or apartments seem out of luck, too.

My grandma had a garage and my grandpa had a semi-sheltered carport, but most people I know don't actually have an indoor, wired place to put their cars. Would this switch to electric come with a massive infrastructure change to wire up America's streets and parking lots? How would you meter that? Parking meter-like objects that accept credit cards? Or are electric cars just for people with garages?