I recently found this vintage pattern beauty, on one of my thrifting outings:
I love love love the styling of the A version! The tie at the front waist and the tucks at the curved shoulder seam, these type of details you don't see on many modern designs. I want to make it in something soft and drapey. I still need to actually check to see if the pattern has all it's pieces. There have been many a times that I picked up some fabulous pattern and to find out later it is missing pieces. Not really a big problem for me, since I am a pattern maker. But it can be frustrating, if it is important piece/s that go missing.
One the home renovating front... the biggest issues I have with our house is living/dining room that was redone in the late 60's or early 70's. It has all the ugliness of home decorating from that time period:
-faux wood paneling in a light beige/off white combo
-gold shag carpeting
-matching gold drapes with sheers and antiqued gold curtain rods
-and the topper, A FREAKING POPCORN CEILING!
While doing a little preliminary research on where to start with this room remodel we came upon this forum. Just gotta love a forum out there uniting all the popcorn ceiling haters. I learned a lot, but it has also brought up more questions. I am pretty sure (based on the time period the popcorn was put up), that we have the type with asbestos, so the question is to test or not to test it. If we test it and it comes back positive for asbestos then we only have to options, have it removed by asbestos abatement folks (very spendy) or remove it our selves (there are very detailed instructions and a lot of safety stuff to deal with). We haven't decided what we are going to do yet, but I am leaning towards doing it ourselves, with the proper equipment and disposal, it could all be done in a few days.
I will post some pictures of our oh so dated living room soon.
