Good morning friends! I feel like I need a motivational post to get me out of bed!

I just got my Patreon suggestions, and already picked an image to work with, but as I didn't plan on drawing/painting today, that's not really doing anything to my motivation.

Yesterday I did a thrifted quick fix, hoping for pictures this weekend. I still have some teasers for you, don't worry ^^
 this is the before, and the after is down below.I got this dress for 1€ because I was thinking about just using the fabric. But when I got home, I noticed that the top part was really lovely, with some nice gathers (I should talk one day about the darts VS gathers drama in my life lol), and decided to cut it in half. Now because the tiered dress was pulling so hard on the fabric, when I removed it it became so airy and poofy and so cute and omg I'm dying

So the thing I need to do today (well, plan to/want to/would like to?) is just take in the sides at the armhole of this dress:
You can see it's gaping. Once I do that I have a new house dress! Indeed it's not my style, but it's very comfortable, so I definitely see myself wearing it at home! It's a dress my mom gave me years ago saying "you'll fix it right?" me: "yeah eyah yeah"
See, I didn't lie! I'm gonna fix it

Next in the project line is this skirt:
Therer is so much to be done here: ugly buttons, waist too large, ugly lace inserts, and a bit too long to my liking. (I like long skirts, I just don't feel like it fits this one well, because of where the buttons end, idk, just personal preference I guess)
I really want to work on this one because I want to practice hemming by hand ^^

And then I have all the contest prizes that don't really motivate me atm either... sigh... I'm hungry

I'm going nuts!!!
I'm (already) stressing about winter, and how my ears already hurt from the cold wind, and that I need something to cover them up! I thought a lot about it and the only soluytion that came to my mind is that I should crochet one!
Now I don't like the bandeau types one, not the beanies, and the ONLY think that I like is ... BONNETS.
HOWEVER, they ONLY make patterns for babies and new borns...
PLEASE HELP!!! I'm not that good as to make my own pattern in crochet...
(I'm talking about something like this: crobypatterns.com/free-pattern…)

Hi guys! I recently discovered something that looks like an interesting group:

People submit half-sketches and others can complete the missing part however they feel like.
Here are some examples:

I haven't completed any yet because I'm super busy, but I halfed some of my older sketches and submitted them to the group:

Maybe some of you want to join the fun ^^
I think the mermaid half has potential:

Photos of my two recent sketches for Frappe7 and Diksharpner
You can see the colours better

Huge motivational boost today!
It's not for right now, but it's very inspiring!

I was a bit sad at how all the lace was from synthetic materials, how hard it was, in shops to buy 100% cotton thread, how all stretchy materials had at least 5% elasthane, etc, etc.
So this morning I did a search for eco-friendly online fabric shops and omg did I find!!! It's AMAZING: linnen, hemp, linnen & hemp jersey (now I really want to sew t-shirts), 100% organic cotton VELVET (I love velvet), organic cotton LACE, and organic cotton thread! Just AMAZING!!!
When I'm gonna get super good at sewing, I'll be able to make gorgeous pieces using these gorgeous eco materials!!!

For now... well I'm tackling my stash and, since everything is thrifted it's still somewhat eco. I still have a lot of synthetic fabrics, and all the cotton I have well... it's not organic, so it's not that good for the environment, but at least it feels better to the skin. I'll use all I have for practice and learning. And from now on, when thrifting, at least I won't be buying synthetics. And hopefully, when I'm done with this huge stash, I'll be good enough to buy the EXPENSIVE stuff (though it's not that expensive when you think about all the benefits for your and the planet, really). I'll still start by buying the stuff that's on sale though

Second happy thought is that I have NOTHING on my todo list today. I mean  I didn't ask anything from myself, so really I just do whatever I want! I don't have to go out today, I don't HAVE TO draw, I don't HAVE to sew... Se, we took our time, woke up a bit later than usual, ate a LOT (cookieeeeeees). 
Then I sliced up a failed watercolour piece (I left the masking fluid for too long, it became cement), into 1 ACEO card and swatch strips to test my colours on.
Then I finished a second sketch contest prize which I'll be posting later.
And now it's almost 12 and I still have the whole day to do WHATEVER I WANT

And if you read it all, please tell me, I'll give you a MEDAL and a HUG!