First Day of Spring

Kana here.  It is officially the first day of spring, never mind the incoming blizzard tonight.  New England weather is wonderful, isn't it?

That, however, will not keep me from showing off my new dress.  Technically, it's not new.  It's been hanging on the rack in the back room for the last six months because I didn't want to wear pale pink in the middle of winter.  This was the human's first attempt at playing with kimono silk, and had spent about six months of the 'works in progress' pile before she finally finished it.

The dress is made from dimple-dyed kimono silk (shibori in Japanese) in pale pink using a very modified version of the LJ Aspen dress pattern.  Turns out the texture of the silk makes it very unsuitable for gathering, so the human omitted the underskirt entirely and narrowed the overskirt to avoid gathers.  The green satin sash with tiny woven rosebuds makes a nice accent, I think.

Since Easter is next week, I convinced the human to make some appropriately themed books for us. 

So what did we get?  Beatrix Potter bunny books!  'The Tale of Peter Rabbit', 'The Tale of Benjamin Bunny', and 'The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies'.  Each book has the complete story with all of the original illustrations.  They're super cute, aren't they?

You can get a copy of these patterns at the human's Etsy store here.

At some point, Samantha and Nellie are going to start their massive scrapbooking project, which means the rest of us have been collecting cute cards to past into said scrapbooks.  This time, the human raided the New York Public Library's digital collection for this set of antique Victorian (and some Edwardian) Easter cards.

Printable Victorian Easter Cards

There's 20 different designs in all, the cards are 1"x1.5".  They'd look super cute if you clip them to a string to make a garland.  (We may try that next week.  Easter ice cream party, anyone?)