Arcade of Love!

What a fun night!

So here I am again... nearly 5am and not sleeping... why? because I have been sewing! Yes one of my secret loves. It is astounding to me how you can take remnants of fabric, and create this whole new function thing. I have not sewn in nearly a year, and I was a little rusty. Now I know you are all waiting in anticipation to find out what I have been working on, so here goes:

A few days ago, my roommate Amy tells me about this new Theatre program they are working on at the church. I was completely excited about this new adventure both for my roommate, and even more so for NorthPoint! Well I offered to help any way I could, and low and behold an opportunity arises!! WOO HOO In the mail Amy had recieved a package with her costume in it - when the costume was put together - well lets leave it at: "It had potential" and me being the Theresa gurl I am, well I was dying to unlock that potential! So I went out and bought the extra fabric... That costume has been on my mind all evening... "A" frame skirt, new patches... but I also made plans for the evening, so the costume had to wait.

Tonight I went back to 1984... seriously folks most of us can remeber the decade of huge hair, mullets, fushia lips with matching polish, hair bands, and pop rocks. There was however some super great things I remeber about the 80's, and vintage video games are one of my favorites! Now? Yes now Springfield, Missouri has something that will blast you to the past with bad graphics, competition, and delayed reactions and that is 1984, a vintage 80's arcarde!!! You pay a cover price and for up to 7 hours you can play unlimited games....*sigh* Well my competitve streak came out and bared her ugly head tonight.... it is so rare that I even care about competition that it cracks even me up when all of a sudden I have to be better than someone else... and tonight? The torment of the night was called Cypress.

I must have played that stinkin game for at least a couple of hours! I got in, and on the first try took first place on the existing score board. Then my friend found out and BAAM he beat my score by like 10,000 I was so ticked! So I eased my way back over and played for at least 45 minutes and took over every slot on the score board except 2nd. Then my friend saw that, and played. He then got himself back into 1st slot! GRRRR It was on... yeah it was on like icing on a cupcake... The whole night was spent defending my spot in first, and at the end of the night- when the arcade was about to kick us out? Yeah I beat his score by 4000... Go Theresa, Go Theresa!

So we got home about 11:30 at night, and the thought of costume altering began to loom in my head once more... I came home, and set up the sewing machine... yeah I have been sewing, and now... well all that is left is the collar, the elastic for the waist, and sizing for the length of the skirt. I cannot wait until Amy wakes up!!! I can try it on her, and then make the final alterations... Next project.... paint the hallway, finish my quilt, and finally paint that picture in my head!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/95145968@N00/ pictures of the arcade.