#sincerely j

One of the veterans I loved dearly passed away last night, and I just realised I’d never gotten a photo with him. I unfortunately didn’t know him too long, but he was such a joy. The first time I met him, at the end of the conversation, he held my hand and said, “You have warm hands. You must have a warm heart”. He was just a lovely man. I’m trying to book flights for his funeral, but timing just might not work out. I don’t know. I might just road trip it even though it’d be about nine hours. I’m just kind of doing whatever so I don’t cry anymore

Creating a wartime era outfit for the event is going alright! I have my shoes and dress - both are 'modern' but fit the era style, so I think they'll work well. I go to get the dress hemmed on Tuesday. With all the events coming up, having clothes that fit well and look right but which are also comfortable and can be moved around in is pretty important! I have tights coming in (I'm not drawing a seam up my leg, y'all; I'm getting tights), and I'm now onto makeup and hair. The plan is pillow rollers I think? Mostly because I'm not confident enough to do pin curls or hard curlers at the moment, and I don't want to worry about dents with sponge rollers. Makeup is a little harder, but I mostly just need a lipstick and to figure out how to put everything together. I'll be doing some style trials next week to figure things out, but if y'all have any resources or recommendations, please let me know!

I'm truly trying to post more on this page, both to share things with other WWII history enthusiasts and to create a digital diary for myself, but it's a bit rough! I was almost completely offline for all of the last week of March to work an event, and I wasn't online much the week before that or this week because I was either preparing for that event or playing catch-up. I've missed... quite a bit, in many ways. Anyway, I'll truly try to post more if I can!