1. 8 hours stripping with Saphir Reno'Mat. The base is Olive.... (Luxury ateliers often begin with olive-tanned (olive-toned crust leather) before applying a patina because it provides the best chromatic control, depth potential, and aging behavior). 2. Filled the cut with Angelus leather filler. 3. Than applied a pass of 5 to 1 ratio of Angelus Oxblood... unfortunately, the dye was absorbing into the cut. I re-applied filler and now will let the dye set. Next steps: 4.I'm thinking I will do an alcohol wipe to slightly lighten up the oxblood undertones 5. Will be a 4 to 1 pass of chocolate

Yesterday when I was planning out my outfits for the day I realized I had left the silvebelly fedora with the red hatband and trim at home even after I had laid it out to bring. This meant I did not have the hat that I usually were with this ensemble. I almost went without a hat. Instead, a got back from supper late so I had to rush to change outfits and I was late to the costume parade at Concoction and as I changed outfits I had left the black beret on. So with the heart suit I am wearing a pink shirt, a pink pocket square, candy stripe tie, pink patterned socks and the burgundy and grey saddle shoes. As to the photos, Robin took several candid shots of me wearing these outfit and said that was good enough when I wanted to get a more formal picture. So I edited out the other folks and used her candid shots.

Day after tornados came through 6 miles away gonna check on the boat. Still no internet. OOTD Barbour jacket Harold’s silk and cashmere sweater Levi’s jeans Hanna flat cap Pendleton socks Sperry Topsiders Borealis dive watch