Essentially Steph

"I’ve been personally trained in razor cutting by Rob himself. So if Rob’s fully booked (happens a lot 👀), I’m a great alternative for that lived-in, textured vibe." (That's Rob, the owner of the Salon, who has trained him himself?!?)

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This is what I did with the left over material I had! I saw this pattern ages ago and wanted to make it after I'd made that bumbag at xmas for my housemate, but had a bunch of stuff I wanted to make first at that point. I do still need to add a buckle slider to the strap but I just sewed it in place last night so I could wear it out! I've ordered the slider online and I'll finish off the bag properly when I'm back next week.

I still have frog bag mark II, and potentially to remake my velvet top before the end of August. I have a project I started on my mini sewing machine before I moved back to the UK which needs finishing, and I bought a pattern from some trousers not long ago so I might have a crack at that, but then I can be more free!

I'm interested in going off piste and making stuff without any patterns, so maybe I'l take a class or something to learn more about that?!

I did try and hype him up a bit saying I’m not precious about my hair etc and being like are you up for a challenge!! He rallied for like 30 secs but I could see he really didn’t wanna so I just agreed to book with his colleague but it won’t be for another 2 weeks and I’m just bummed, I was so hyped to get it today. His colleague is also even more expensive and it’s like… the most you will cut off any section of my head is 2cm… and I already feel fucked around, is it even worth it??

I did then bump into some people I knew from Cambodia which would not have happened if I hadn’t left at that particular time, so that was cool! But then I got badgered out of a tenner by a homeless guy and I know you’re supposed to feel good when you do nice things for people but it was just the inch-mile of it, then the feeling bad for feeling annoyed, like that guy is having a bad time, and just UGH.

Also explains the bloating I guess.

Watch me realise in real time that I did not for one second think about the placement of the pockets or the seams when attatching the skirt to the bodice... I have one front pouch and one butt pouch now.

This morning I checked out, then got breakfast on the way to Kelvingrove gallery. Had a little wander around there, then walked through the uni and up to the botanical gardens and got myself a lil raspberry matcha as a treat on the way.

Really enjoyed the botanical gardens! Then I got the subway to shields road to have a quick roller skate session at the rink there! Forgot it’s summer holidays and was just full of kids, thought it might be a nice quiet mid-week session lmao. I shit you not, I did not count to 10 even once without someone falling over, often right in front of me hahaha but it was still fun to glide around and I think I sweat out all the alcohol from yesterday.

Then I walked back to central to get my train and saw it was cancelled, but I was quite early anyways so I got on an earlier service, and no one asked for my rail card either direction which is great because I recently realised it expired on the 1st not on the 27th like I thought!!

Had a little read of the first chapter of Chiara’s book 👀 so exciting!

Well everything went wrong from there, I snapped 3 needles in quick succession, zig-zag stopped working entirely, I did find a solution on YouTube (essentially gear jammed but manoeuvrable by hand) so I ended up sticking to the normal presser foot after I fixed it to save myself sticking my hand inside the machine to manually change it each time, but then I ran into (maybe) tension issues, but nothing I have troubleshot has worked so I think it’s a thread issue? Was using a poor quality one from a sewing kit so I’m gunna buy a good quality thread tomorrow and pray that works!!

The material is a million times better to work with so I’m just frustrated that I’m now stuck because of issues with the machine, when everything else was actually going well! Have to remind myself that I wouldn’t have got it all done today anyways. It’s ok. But I am hoping to finish it before the end of the week (and I’ll be away tue + weds!!)

Fucking DONE. This was such a ball ache fabric to work with I’m actually pissed or rather than satisfied to have completed the project!!

Lots of bodge-job bits, lots of cba that will DO. Ruffles aren’t as ruffly as desired, waistband isn’t straight, I don’t care!!

4 photos from hogueras with Matt and Andy last week.

I’d already paid the consultation fee which would be redeemable against the treatment, but I heard her initial panic at the length of my hair and had to point out that all the teenage boys with shorter hair than me are getting perms lmao which is when she asked me to send some photos. Ultimately it was the bleach that put her off, but I didn’t really want someone doing it who wasn’t used to working on that length.

The salon I went to today specialise in perms and are unisex and weren’t put off by the bleach on the ends and were overall very positive about the possibilities and talked everything through and I feel in good hands! They’ve taken a strand to test and should get back to me today so 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻