I've spent the Mon and Tues of this week sewing like crazy!  We had an event to go on Wednesday night and I'd decided I wanted a new outfit to wear. I already had the fabric and pattern on hand. It was an "easy" pattern for a sleeveless top and a long, drapey jacket with three-quarter sleeves. "Easy" in the pattern-world means all the sewing can be on the machine and not many pieces are involved. Even so, all the cutting out, pinning together and getting up and down to iron seams takes time.  It took all of Monday afternoon to do the blouse, which had some quirks I'll have to figure out how to adjust if I use it again, but it came out wearable enough. It was a peach-toned crepe fabric. The jacket took all of Tuesday afternoon. It took the whole "Mummy" movie on DVD just to cut it out because each front, back and sleeve had to be cut out individually. (That was the layout for 60" width fabric.) It was a sheer fabric with orangish-peach/burgandy roses on black. The roses were edged with gold glitter.

I wore this outfit with a pair of satiny black pants I already had to a graduation event at the Officers club on Eglin with my husband. One of young men from our Bible Study has spent the last 6 weeks in Airmen Leadership School and invited us to his graduation ceremony-dinner. This is an important first school in an enlisted person's life as it trains them in being a supervisor. It's a semi-formal affair. All the officer and senior enlisted guests are in formal dress blues (blues worn with a white shirt and black tie) or mess-dress (short dress blue jackets with cumberbunds at waist and white shirt with bowtie). For civilian guests, it's jacket/tie for men and dressy attire for ladies. It's probably the biggest tadoo we have opportunity to attend and usually get invited at least once a year by young men and ladies in our Bible Study. So the outfit will get plenty of wear!

While people in Pennsylvannia and upstate New York are shoveling snow, here in northern Florida I was putting the finishing touches on mulching my winter garden and mowing my lawn. (probably last mow of season.)  I also put out Mr. Electric Jack o' Lantern today!

In the garden I have a row of brussel sprouts (from seed), a row of red cabbage, a row of broccoli (greenhouse starts) and a row of beets. (just planted the seed today!)I'll post a photo when everything is a little bigger. Right now, with all the pine straw mulch the plants don't stand out that much and it'd just look like a brown square.

Megan is coming over tonight. She's a civilain who works on Eglin, a mechanical engineer. She came from a college Navigator goup and immediately looked us up when she arrived and she and I have been meeting ever since.