Friday

Friday, I was supposed to meet my mentor at Hancock's, a fabric store in Hickory. Turns out she had to be at an important meeting and she couldn't make it. I had my parents and Andrea accompany me. I saw some really cute patterns. A single pattern is about $30! But this weekend is labor day weekend, and some lady behind the desk said the patterns would be about $7. So I'm waiting till then to go and buy the pattern, possibly the fabric as well. Hopefully it won't be too expensive[:
Oh, and as for the sewing machine, I'm either using my aunt's, my mentor's, or another family friend. I really don't see the point in BUYING a sewing machine. They're very expensive. And I doubt I'll have any more patience left in me to sew anything else. Therefore, I'm just going to borrow one[:

Thesis statement

The thesis statemenet we have to write in the introduction is much harder to write than I thought. It's one sentence; ONE sentence. It's honestly killing me.

Mentor interview

Today, in class, we started to type out the questions we will be asking our mentor.
Surely by the end of the interview, we'll become good friends [:

New model

Kala is going to be my new model. Simply because she's ACTUALLY going to get married in the summer.
Yesterday we were sketching how she wanted her dress. It's really pretty, but I'm not sure it'll be EXACTLY like that. But I'll try my best!

Letter of intent, mentor,

Check!
I have recently finished typing my letter of intent, and have signed it.
I have also found my mentor. Which I'm so excited/glad that I've got that checked off.

Yrma Lopez Miller, long-time family friend. I was stressing yesterday that I would have to go to different bridal shops today and look and ask around for one. But then I mentioned this to my mom, and right then she said "Yrma sews beautiful dresses!"
She does. You would believe she bought right out of a store.
I'm so excited to get this project started.
Some time this week we're going to go buy the pattern for the dress.
And then take the measurements of my friend Emma; she's going to be the model.
Some time after that, buy the cloth, and hopefully get started.

I wanna be ahead of the game, and get this started, asap.
I estimated the time it would take to complete this, 3 weeks.
I'm not sure if it'll take more or less time, therefore I must start soon.
I definitely don't want to fall behind.

Egad!

So after pondering for a couple of days, I have decided what I want to do for my senior project. In my first blog, I mentioned that I wanted to do quite a few things, and I definitely want to sew something.
My boyfriend's sister is getting married in a couple of months, and she has two little daughters, who I would imagine would be the flower girls. So then I thought to myself "why not sew a flower girl dress?" My mind was set on that for a while.
My research paper had to be something relevant to my product, so I thought, "well flower girls are used at weddings--ceremony--marriage!" Marriage would be the perfect topic. So I dug a little deeper. I can interview couples who have been married over 5 years, and how their life changed, and the commitment it really takes to go through with it.
"I should make a bride's dress." Something simple, yet cute. What can also be included in my research paper, is SIMPLICITY. How you don't need to stroll down the aisle in a $50,000 dress. It doesn't need to be super fancy, but comfortable. In movies, I've seen girls do anything to buy the most glamorous dress. I don't think it's about that. Sure the dress is important, but it's not the most important. On your wedding, I bet you're already stressed enough with everything going according to plan, you don't need to be uncomfortable the whole ceremony.
So right now, that's what I'm thinking about.

I still need a mentor, hopefully tomorrow I can go look for one, probably at a bridal shop. HOPEFULLY.

Academic Coach

Today in class, Mr. Beane told us we had to have an academic coach by tomorrow. Teachers can have up to 2 students. I rushed to Ms. Poole's classroom, and I was the first to ask her. So I'm glad I have my academic coach down! [:

She has to proofread my research paper, and grade my portfolio.

In class,

Right now, I'm trying to decide what my project will be. I've thought about it before and at first, it started with taking voice lessons. It went from voice lessons, to pottery. And from pottery to Peru. And now I'm thinking about making clothing.

We just created a web site on Google, which I have done before, but it's hard to get it exactly how you want it.