Changing Tides and Going Places

The first thing I did after finishing my masters degree this spring was to drink nearly an entire bottle of prosecco, sleep for about twenty hours, and then dye my hair pastel pink.

Immediately after my final hand-in my mother came to visit for a couple weeks, and I got to show her everything I'd done/made over the past year and a half, plus take her all around Edinburgh indulging in touristy things. We were going to go to the Isle of Skye for a bit, but took an impromptu trip to Madrid (Spain!!! Ahhh!) instead after finding super cheap flights.

If you imagined the majority of our holiday pictures were posed or serene, like this one, you'd be wrong.

We mostly took a lot of terrible selfies, and it was glorious.

Nothing has slowed down at any point though, as I went back to Outlander in June... starting a couple days before my mother left. I've been working there since then as a junior costume maker, working on some really lovely things that I so wish I could show you! I can't wait for you guys to see Season 2!!

So what comes next?

Now that's the tricky question... one which I don't yet have an answer to. I have lots of ideas. Lots of goals, lots of wishes; and very little strength to tackle them. My lease ends soonish at the end of August, and I don't yet know where I'll go or what exactly I'll be doing. Whatever it may become, my life needs to involve a good wifi connection, since I have SO MUCH lined up to blog about! So. Much.

Thank goodness I can blog from my bed, too, as I think I need a bit of a breather before throwing myself into the rest of my life.

Something is definitely afoot!

I've actually been quite busy these last few weeks, as aside from my new, summer job as a historical interpreter, I've also been scheming and working on something pretty awesome with my partner-in-crime Nicole.  We're not quite off the ground yet, but you can expect to hear all about it within the next month.  This picture shows you just a sliver of what we've been working on, and I can hardly wait to really get going!

Until then, I've got plenty keeping me occupied.  Life goes in a steady flow of work, sewing, sketching, tumblr, work, sewing/netflix, sewing, work, falling asleep over dinner, etc.  The sewing area has fallen into a level of lived-in untidiness, and I'm sort of hovering between intense inspiration and utter exhaustion.  It's not half bad.