I finished the dress portion (rather, just the sewing... still a lot of embellishments to screen print or whatever) of my future Halloween costume. It's looking pretty good so far. I made some minor adjustments to the overall design of the dress, however. It's supposed to be pretty open in the back and I really don't want to do that. The grommet lacing goes all the way up the back and shall do the same in the bodice portion (the purple bit) of the costume. It shouldn't matter too much anyway since the long wig (that I've still yet to purchase) will cover up this portion anyway.
Other than that, I've been practicing the guitar a lot... at least an hour a day... sometimes I practice up to four hours. Mostly technical stuff. I'm getting more comfortable with the idea of playing an /actual/ song as opposed to chords and finger-independence exercises.
I can't wait to be able to play all the songs that I want to.... and to be able to mess around and /create/ music...