Well, with winter nearly upon us (hey, I live in Texas, winter isn't until January), it's time to occupy myself with projects. Tomorrow, I plan to clean out under the coffee table, since that's where I keep all my current projects, and organize everything, and I'm going to go into the garage and dig through all my old costumes to see if there's anything that can be salvaged. I already know of one gown that I'm rather looking forward to redoing.
You see, a few years ago I went through a Robe a la Francaise craze, and I made about 5 of them. Most of them were completely unsuited to the fabric I made them out of. But, there's one gown that I glimpsed earlier that I want to redo. It was a saque, of course. The fabric was the wonderful purple jacquard that I adore. Completely wrong for the style of gown, but what can I say? I want to tack down all the pleats in the back to make a robe l'anglaise, then maybe make it into a polonaise. I can't remember what treatment I did for the sleeves, but they'll probably need to be redone as well. I'm excited about tackling it, I was always fond of that fabric.
I also have an old bustle gown that I'm redoing. The original concept was really great, but my sewing skills weren't developed enough to actually pull it off well, so the neckline is a bit...matronly. O.o The rest of the gown is great, though. I want to rip the sleeves off of it and change the neck, make a new underskirt for it, and vamp it up a bit. I'll probably need to make a new bustle, as well, since I have /no/ idea where my old one is. Hopefully I'll have it done by this weekend so I can wear it to the Fetish Ball in Dallas. ^^
None of my actually cosplay projects (ie, for a character) are inspiring me at the moment. I have an entire list of things that I wanted to make for A-kon next year, but I haven't made even the slightest dent into it. :-/ Ah, well...after Christmas I'll probably get the craze again, and then I'll be working on them again full swing. ^^