chanda went to ballet in the morning and morgana worked on a few "chicken" skirts for her modern dance/choreography teacher's carnival of the animals piece. ellen's mom made these skirts years ago.
a few of them are new (like the one morgana is sewing) but this one directly above is an original. her mom did beautiful work and made all the costumes for her dances.
i never have an easy time sewing through velcro . .
chanda's friend has a birthday party tomorrow to which we'll all be going for lunch.
the girls were out at a friend's house this evening so greg and i decided to eat out.
we were going to try a new place called taverna, a greek restaurant on bedford street. however, they were all booked with reservations so we went to doma, right next door. i've been here often with the girls but greg hasn't. he used to visit their cafe when it was on perry street a few years ago. they have delicious food. in the pic above this one it shows the chicken liver mousse i had and the gouda cheese greg chose to have for an appetizer. then i had half a roast duck (which i brought home to share with morgana later this week, she's the only one who likes duck besides me) and greg had beef brisket.
he had the amazing apple strudel for dessert. i managed to decline which wasn't easy! (still trying to stay off sugar and wheat.)
around 8:00 a jazz band set up to play. it was a nice surprise to listen to some live music. they were very good.
You know that you can buy leather needles for hand-sewing? They are kind of angled looking and work very well for tough materials like Velcro!
ReplyDeleteOh that's right . . thank you Eva :)
DeleteP.S. What are chicken skirts??
ReplyDeleteSkirts that they wear as costumes for chickens: http://outsideblue.blogspot.com/2010/06/c-in-chicken-dance.html
Deleteabove aren't the best pictures, but they will do as examples :)
let's try that again:
Deleteclick here for the carnival chicken dance
Ah, so it is really a chicken! I thought maybe it was some sewing term :).
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