Preparations are underway.

Project Transylvanian Ball:

Tessa’s Victorian Costume:

• Corset [check]

• Gold Bodice [check] Oops, wrong colour!
• Brown Bodice [check]
• Gold Underskirt [check]
• Bustle Overskirt [check]

• Gold Bodice Jacket [check]

My gown:

Corset underway—received boning last night… must weigh about 5 pounds. Found really nice boning with lacing holes.. got two sets, an extra set for my new Regency stays I’ve cut but not sewn.

Project Horse:

• Acquired at significant discount, a new halter, rope, 54” girth, fleecy saddle-pad, gloves and saddle cover (god that was fun… I can’t remember the last time I went tack shopping it was like snorting pure, untainted sparkly happiness powder)
• Bought a brand new pair of Fuller Filly PUPPI Jodhpurs today.
• Cleaned and oiled both of my saddles.
• Arranged for appointment to see the newest member of the Mt. Hood Johanesen Clan (Saturday)
• Found and secured lodgings suitable for the giant hoofy baby.
• Need to go up in the attic and pull down two tack-boxes to inventory additional tack, oil bridles, and insure they haven’t been eaten down to scraps by mold.
• Need to soften my old paddock boots.

Project Evil:

• Found lodging for Satan (aka; my mother) near Gresham.
• Obtained, completed and submitted necessary paperwork for said lodging.
• Took steps to secure lodging, including a long, unnecessarily complicated and costly process just to get my mother to inconvenience herself enough to get me her signature on a piece of paper (faxing to a local pharmacy is too complicated you see…)
• Pestered sister to get financial aspects covered…
• Hopefully secured lodging for mother within 40 minutes of my residence.
• Considering moving to the Tibetan plateau.

Project Exhausted:

• Somehow managed to come down with a case of upset stomach and body aches.
• Emotionally drained from dealing with Satan (aka Mother).
• Sick of house-hunting for mother.
• Fizzled out from trying to find care facilities for Papa.
• Burnt out from Horse-Boarding hunt.
• Still trying to make up from the sleep debt from late-night sewing.

Project So Excited I Could Cry:

• I’m going to have a horse again! OMG OMG OMG!!!!