Non-illustrated other than the Instagram post of ridiculous selfies, because I did not try very hard to take pictures on my own phone and have not yet purloined any from the group album.

To sum up: very fun! Would go again in winter, although I am not entirely sure that the level of fun around Grand Illumination specifically was worth the really outrageous price they charge to stay on-site for the Christmas season. (I would, however, vastly prefer to stay on-site because, like with Disney, the amount of running around and dealing with parking and the cost of tickets is a huge markup of inconvenience if you stay off-site. We didn't have to move the car from my CVS run for hairspray on Thursday night until we left on Monday morning.)
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And that's the Williamsburg report! I actually 100% unpacked and put everything away on Tuesday; be very impressed. Yesterday I did my hours of job hunting (ugh) and today I've been focusing on the sewing room. Cleaned up the rest of the Williamsburg sewing layer of crap (there are still multiple layers of crap underneath that, don't get excited), and vacuumed (ooh).

Goal for the rest of the holiday season is to split my sewing time between the 1790s portrait sewing and costumer's yard sale sewing prep. I have so many half-finished damn accessories in the UFO bins. Mostly caps...probably? Caps are a nice portable sewing project for volunteering at historic sites/ events. Which of course means I've developed a habit of cutting out and starting a cap, putting it somewhere stupid in between events, losing track of it, and then starting a new one for the next event. So, I should dig through the bins and see what's reasonable to finish and see if I can sell at the yard sale (only if I don't want to keep it, of course!).

Oh, and one more thing: after a weekend of wearing, I've decided I like the Augusta stays well enough to keep them. I definitely still don't love them, but I like them well enough to keep them instead of trying to find the motivation to fit another new pair of stays in the near future! Also, fit aside, they do look pretty nice! These are the first stays I've made in a while that I did take my time on, and it does show (how about that). I should probably finish binding them and make a blog post, but don't hold yer breath for that!