Sewed some on the Elizabethan corset last night, which finally feels like I'm moving in the right direction as far as the whole getting something done thing. As I am not so good at saying "well, I am 3/2x as tall as the Effigy Corset and 2x as wide" and working it out so that I don't have shoulder straps that go around my whole body twice over, I modified Simplicity's Shakespeare in Love pattern to be somewhat more like the other extant Elizabethan corset, and added tabs since I really hate things cutting into my waist. After cutting 4" out of the center back the only real problem I have left with it is the inevitable "this probably needs a fold or pleat here" excess in the armhole. *sigh* I don't have the time to fiddle with it, so I'm just going to sew it and bone it and hope the extra stiffness and thickness of the boning will help alleviate the problem somewhat. In any case, it will be good enough for this year's RenFaire (if I go...) and I will have a purple silk corset, which is good enough for me. Reevaluation will happen next year, by which time some weight loss will hopefully require a new corset anyway.

One of the local junior colleges is having an evening drawing class this summer. I've taken it once, the better part of a decade ago, and lost most if not all of what I learned since through disuse. I'm considering taking the class again. It's only $95 for eight weeks, but the problem is that it's Monday through Thursdays, 6pm through 9:10pm. Which means that I'd go there pretty much directly from work, go home afterwards and maybe get to check e-mail and kiss my Wonderful Husband before going to bed. It also pretty much rules out taking any dance classes over the summer, as the teacher for those usually does them on Wednesday or Thursday nights. So... drawing versus dance, for two months. Any thoughts?