Riot and Frolic

a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

Mission: Slightly Possible

My mission, that I have forced myself to accept, is to finish all these projects.  Before Christmas.  

  • Sew a button on my pants.  Don't make fun of me.  I'm starting small.  But the button choices, gah!  I could pick the quiet kid who would blend in with all the other buttons (bottom).  Or the one who would play nice, but probably end up smoking in the bathroom (right).  Or the pretty one who would give all the other buttons complexes (left).  

 

Button choices

Paralyzed by button anxiety

 

 

fabric scraps

Mae loves the polka dots

 

  • A wrap skirt for myself from an old school Simplicity pattern that I hope to make into a reversible wrap skirt WITH pockets.  

Wrap skirt fabric

This pattern is so pretty! AND it doesn't match ANYTHING I own.
  • An apron of me and probably two or three other littler (more little?) ladies.  

apron fabric

OK, I like polka dots, too

 If these projects go anything like my "fun" project of switching out drawer pulls in the ladies' room, I will probably die from an exploding bobbin spool or something else ridiculous.  (Yeah, those 4 drawer pulls took me an hour to put in, a pair of scissors, needlenose pliers, a huge wrench, a regular-sized wrench, and some mineral oil.  What?!)

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