March Madness Begins

No, I am not talking about basketball.  I admit that my many interests do not include sports, though I do enjoy the Olympic gymnastic and ice skating routines.  My reference is in regards to the fact that I have something going on almost every single weekend this month.  I am glad for it.  I need things to look forward to while interacting with the outside world.

Now on to the adventures of this past week...

Project Adventures

The achievement for the week is that I re-did my fan out skirt pattern from the previous week.  Most importantly, I like it.  From that learning experience I can now move forward with the remaining 3 skirt pattern pieces.  After that I am finally ready for the first mock-up.  Yay!!!



I also worked on mint chocolate fudge cake pops.  I dipped these on Sunday, and because of the fudge it took about 4 hours to do 80 cake pops.  This is why on the whole, I only do cake pops once a month.  They really are not hard to make, but they are time consuming.  But they are delicious, or at least the once that I make.

Exploration Adventure

On Saturday March 3rd, I went to the Steadfast Festival hosted in the events area of Strongwater Food and Spirits in Columbus, OH.  A favorite local Columbus band of mine, Playing to Vapors, was playing there, which was my big incentive to go.  It actually began at 2:30 pm, however, I did not arrive until 7:45 pm.  As mentioned before, I am doing my own take on "March Madness" and did not want to run myself ragged before Playing to Vapors went on at 8:20.  I spent quite a bit of time talking to people, mostly new people and one new familiar person.  I stayed a couple of songs into Day Wave, who I was enjoying.  However just like Lilac Lungs at the 2017 Fashion Meets Music Festival, I was beginning to tire out which is not a good thing when you have a 30-40 minute drive home.  So I left.



I did purchase the Playing to Vapors vinyl and had all of the band members sign.  I now know that I should take a Sharpee or 2 with me to things like this.  It took several tries to find a marker that would write.  Playing to Vapors also played 2 new songs that they are working on.  Admittedly, I am a little curious when they may be releasing their next album.



Well that does it for this week, until next time...