~wiws~ Blueberry dress

I present: The Blueberry dress.  I almost didn't blog it, because it is so plain and boring.  But I'm wearing it, so I guess I'd better.  

It was a quick make earlier this week, out of Robert Kaufman's lawn in royal.  I was expecting a more saturated royal blue, but the color is almost exactly the color of ripe blueberries.  Hence the name.  It works, but I worried that it would look a little uniform-like.  I guess that doesn't matter.

I wasn't planning to take photos this morning, so I've been running around like a headless chicken doing stuff for our parish's feast day and generally trying to get everyone ready for church and such.  So, wrinkles.

I made inseam pockets on this dress, and I wish I'd made them just a bit higher.  I put them at the height of the patch pockets, but I failed to account for the fact that the top of the inseam pocket is quite long, and I should have made the bottom of the pocket line up with the patch pocket pattern marks.  Oh well.  They are still plenty functional, I just have to reach a bit to get to the bottom.

The dress is quite improved by bright accessories, I will say.  It was looking rather blah before I added this coral necklace.  

I got new glasses last month.  I've been wearing bifocals for 30 years, and the optometrist said I can finally go to plain ol' readers.  So I hopped off to CVS and picked up a $20 pair.  Not too shabby, I think!  I bought a second pair at Rite Aid a week later because I'm finding that I take these off somewhere in the house around dinner time, and then when I'm wanting to read in bed on the 3rd floor, I have to go hunting for them.  I keep the second pair next to my bed on my reading stack--it works quite nicely!

The shoes don't quite go, I think, but I'm sort of too hot to care.  It has been a difficult week, between the random water shut-offs (Friday it was off for almost 6 hours and it was 94 degrees outside with high humidity), the heat and humidity, the kids' resultant poor behavior and sleeping, and so forth.  My husband has been away a lot this week (he is back now), and that is always hard on me.

Our parish feast day is tomorrow (St. Elizabeth the New Martyr) as is Birdie's namesday, so we have a bit of busy coming up.  Miles to go before I sleep.