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I’ve made a muslin of my dress, but despite the fact that I know it’s a muslin and will look different when it’s made out of the read fabric and has a proper lining and all I can’t help think there’s something missing. I sure wish I had found out about this book Bridal Couture: Fine Sewing Techniques for Wedding Gowns and Evening Wear sooner. I put a copy on hold from the library but it will likely be a few weeks before I get it, since it’s currently signed out. I found it while considering going back to a lace dress idea, but realizing that I don’t actually know a whole lot about working with lace since I never have before. Regardless, if I do stick with the idea I’ve been working on, I’m sure the book will have some very good suggestions and techniques for inner construction. In the mean time, as I am planning on making the dress out of Dupioni Silk, I found some very helpful information about sewing with it here and here.

Yesterday I finished reading The Millionaire Next Door after coming across a copy at the foreign books library here in Kobe. The Millionaire Next Door is one of those books that always gets mentioned when reading about personal finance or wealth building, so I decided to read it. It was different from other books I’ve read about personal finance because it was more research based, and more about providing data profiling millionaires rather than telling the reader what they should do to build wealth. The information contained in this book was really interesting, and sometimes surprising. It was also a quick and easy read, and I definitely recommend it if you are at all curious about what characteristics people who build wealth share.