Adventures in Haberdashery

I have an important announcement to make: Despite popular belief, I am not dead.

Due to my long hiatus from Singing Dragons, I have no doubt that this became the popular belief nationwide. I'm sure that my myriads of adoring fans have been utterly bereft without me. Well folks, I'm back, and I didn't actually die. So you can come out of mourning now.

What have I been up to, you ask, during this unnecessarily long hiatus? Well, dear reader, among other things, I have been making hats. My obsession with steampunk has only continued to assume greater heights while I've been away from this blog, and I have created two hats.

The first (my second-ever attempt at hat making, after the creation of a so-so fez) is the fascinator below, made of cardboard, hot glue, faux-leather, and some embellishments that were lying around the house.

That one turned out pretty well, so I made a small top hat next. It took a lot of black fabric, ribbon, hot glue, and episodes of Doctor Who to get it finished, but I did it! I used flowers, lace, a tiny compass, and some gears as embellishments.

~Naddie Boyne

And now I don my music theory teacher's hat...

Through a refreshingly random turn of events, I will be teaching a music theory class to six students between the ages of 11 and 15 for the first semester of this school year. I am both excited and a little apprehensive about this. Excited because music is my obsession and passion and I love sharing it with other people. Apprehensive because while I've taught classes on various subjects before, I've never taught music theory officially and I've never taught anything where I had to write my own syllabus.

Fortunately, I see music theory as pleasant rather than as a chore (most of the time), so writing the syllabus has actually been quite fun. Music theory is nearly impossible to teach in a group larger than ten, so having a class size of six is very comforting. The class only goes until early December, so if I find myself horribly and surprisingly unsuitable for this job I won't  make my students hate me for the whole school year. Just for half of it.

All in all, I'm rather looking forward to it, despite my mild anxieties. This should be an interesting learning experience, and of course I always am pleased to find more ways to share music with people.

And thus concludes the second post of today. I wrote and published two today because I feel guilty about not posting for so long.

~Naddie

Side note: Not that I'm going to actually wear one, but what do you think a music theory teacher's hat should look like? Boater? Fez? Fedora? Dunce cap?