A little more costume work and a drabble

Let’s see… I’ve gotten a bit more work done on my D costume. Made the pieces for the middle layer in the skirts. I just did strips which I’ll sew to the sides of the velvet layer to cut back on bulk since there are supposed to be three layers there plus the underskirt. But I tacked down the edges of the bindings in the back by hand this time and it looks so much better to my eye without visible stitches and with less rippling in the edgings. So, now, I’m tempted to go back and rip out the bindings on the velvet and redo them even if no one else is likely to notice the difference. ^_^;;;

My parents were asking me the other day what I wanted for a birthday present so I think I’ll ask them to buy me the pearls for the costume. Need to decide on exactly what color I want first though. If I pick one of the Swarovski colors though, I’ll probably order online since it’s cheaper that way.

Today is the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. We have mooncakes as usual and my father got a box with a dozen small ones in various flavors as a gift from his business partner. We’ve only tried one of the pineapple ones so far. I guess it’s okay but I never liked mooncakes that much.

I wrote a PSOH drabble for the occasion, too. Believe it or not, I managed to work the Petshop drabble community’s latest prompt of “War” into it. My brain makes the wackiest connections at times! *laugh*

( Mooncake Messages )