That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

To get you in the proper frame of mind, go read Hark! A Vagrant's series of Great Gatsbys. Go ahead. I'll wait.

All set?

What better way to spend the first full day of summer than to dress up in 20s garb and go to the Gatsby garden party at Spadina House. I didn't manage to take a lot of pictures because my battery was dying and also because I gave the DC control over the camera and he's just not as snap-happy as I am.

Free! Free like the wind!

*Posted timey-wimey after marks were in because as of this date I was up to my armpits in marking and didn't have time to finish the blogpost.

I was a student for a very long time, and developed habits of economy that I've never really lost, even now that I've been earning a good income for a while^*. It should be no surprise to anyone who knows me when I make the following declaration:

I love free stuff.

This has been established. I have mentioned before that I love free sewing and crochet patterns since if I screw it up, I'm only on the hook for the fabric and notions, most of which I can reuse. When I saw the Fat Mum Slim photo prompt for May 22 was 'Free,' I thought I should match it to not only the location but to the outfit as well. Everything me-made I wore was made from patterns freely available on the internet.

Top to bottom: Chunky fluorite/aquamarine chandelier earrings, SwoonPatterns scarf-neck cardigan, my blueberry Colette Sorbetto hack, Lekala jeans skirt with spiral gores. I was hoping to add MakeBra's hipsters and a Burdastyle obi to the mix, but I ran out of time.

Not with a whimper: MMM14 week 5

So here we are: the final week of MMM14. The prompts again provide not much of a hint for the Where in Toronto is PhysicsGirl guessing game, so better hints are in the mouse-overs. The answer to the first one is actually given. Answers to previous weeks' locations are in the mouseovers at the bottom. I'll give the answers to this week's locations next week.