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NienorNiniel
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Birthday: 1/22/1990
Gender: Female
Interests: I've got so many interests I don't know where to begin. First off, I'm a Christian, a homeschooler, and a sesquipedalian reactionary! I've loved reading for as long as I can remember, and some of my favorite books are The Lord of the Rings, the Chronicles of Narnia, the Cat Who... series, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Anne of Green Gables, the Inheritance Trilogy, and many, many more. I sing and play the piano avidly. One of my very favorite things to do is act, and I love both musical theater and regular theater. Another passion of mine is history, and I belong to a 4H group specializing in living history. I love costuming. I like singing rounds. I think herbal medicine is fascinating. I have long hair and enjoy it. And another thing...I love educational TV!
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Occupation: Student
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MSN: nienorniniel6@hotmail.com
Member Since:
11/13/2004
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| I'm so tired. And cold.
I have a lot of sewing projects to finish, and not much motivation right now...let's make a list.
regency crossover dress needs to be hemmed and hook-and-eyed
black wool spencer needs to be buttoned
short stays need to be bound
new civ war corset needs to be...started
paisley modesty cloth needs to be hemmed
turquoise wool bedgown needs to be cuffed
civil war dress needs to be hemmed...and thrown out the window because it's very stubborn
gunne sax skirt needs to have a new waistband
And I'm knitting a scarf.
Can you tell I tend to finish things to the wearable point and then pin them together because I hate doing the little finishing touches?
And then there's the projects I need to start and finish-
I'm making a costume for something with Krissy...in theory...but that's a secret.
Than needs a pair of breeches, which I have fabric for, a shirt, which I don't, a weskit, which I do, sort of, and a frock coat, which I don't. And a cravat, which I do.
Than also wants muffitees for Christmas. He is so strange. And I'm supposed to be making him a Charizard costume. How old is he? Nine?
I need a few pairs of new drawers for winter.
And then there's the Christmas presents I want to make that probably won't get done.
Does anyone know where I can buy cheap leggings to wear under long skirts?
Normally I have loads of motivation to do these things, but the tiredness and cold has been so debilitating, I haven't been getting anything done. I'm going to take the regency dress to school with me today and hope I can get that worked on a bit. I'm a little skeptical however- it's going to be cold, and as the lounge gets full I will probably be outside. Fingers don't like to work when it's cold. | | |
| Hmm. So, just for the record…college didn’t happen.
There’s a girl, Holly, probably about twenty-one, in my English Comp class, and she’s really, really masculine. In my head I’d been calling her a butch, because she’s tattooed and hole-punched within an inch of her life and wears mens’ clothing and swears every other word and smokes and is rude to the teacher. I told Dad about her with distaste.
But then the other day, she caught up to me after class and said, “So who’s that guy you meet up with after class? Is he your dad?” I said yeah. “Well, last week when you were leaving, I walked by and he turned his head and looked at me and shook it slowly.”
Oops.
So now I don’t call her butch in my head. I call her Holly. Dad doesn’t remember shaking his head at her, but it was wrong of me to think of her so negatively. Last night we had a test, and she appeared behind me as I was leaving and asked me how I thought I’d done. So we had a friendly conversation about it as we walked down the road. She, lighting up and smoking, dressed in droopy jeans and a skater hoodie and a flat black cap. Me, clutching my sewing, dressed in pink with a pretty scarf and my long hair around my face.
Which one of us is better? Certainly not me. | | |
| Yikes. I'm tired. I just haven't managed to make myself post on xanga, and I don't think I'll work too hard at it. I do have another blog and like that one better. /
We're working hard on the Pirates of Penzance- my brother is playing Samuel, my Dad's a policeman, and I'm Mabel- and this coming week will be all rehearsals. I'm working some and visiting family for two days so I will miss some of practice..
I haven't got a lot to say! Yesterday I went to Lisa Libby's with Krissy and we all worked on our sewing projects. Mrs. Libby and I are making matching dresses for myself and her two girls, and I made most of my dress. I'm really dissatisfied with the back, but maybe I can fix it. The fabric is really pretty. | | |
| Happy New Year, everyone. :) My parents and I have decided that I am going to go for two years of Christian liberal arts education, preferably at Geneva, and then I will go on to get a degree in herbal medicine. It is a big decision, and means that I will have some rather difficult work ahead- I start a Botany course at the community college next week, and will have to do chemistry and anatomy at some point- but I hope that since I'll be actively working toward something I love, it'll be bearable. As for now, however, I am writing a presentation on women's rights in the nineteen-fifties, and sewing a dress from that time period. See ya. | | |
| I love I Corinthians. Paul explaining to his brothers and sisters in Christ how Jesus' coming had altered man's relationship with God, but also explaining the simple truths of Scripture in relation to 'modern' times, and addressing the bickerings of the church. It's encouraging to know they bickered back then, too, isn't it? Here's what I learned last night: "Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is just as though her head were shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head. A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head. In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God. Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God." Reading this in bed last night, I realized that headcoverings have nothing to do with modesty, or anything of that sort- but everything to do with Christian order. When a woman covers her head, it is a symbol of authority. She is showing respect for her 'head'- not her bodily head, but her husband, her authoritative head! Do you think I'm right? I suppose I'm a hypocrite, because at this point I don't plan on wearing a headcovering. I don't see how that verse is anything but plain, but I'm afraid to subject myself to the discomfort such a move would bring on. I love doing my hair becomingly, of course, but what I really mean is that people think I'm strange enough already...with the skirts and long hair and apparent insensibility of the other sex...do I really want to give cause for ridicule? But then it doesn't matter what I want, really. It's what He wants. Therein lies our dilemma, I suppose... | | |
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