Sooo... I'm a slacker in the sewing aspect of my life. wah! I miss sewing. I rearranged my room and have a fab new system for my fabric stash and existing creations. Can anyone say praise God for Bed raisers? I love under the bed storage. Actually, going through the stash was quite inspiring and I have a 18th c creation mulling itself over ( Read more... )

I just watched the Newsies.
I love Christian Bale.
He is attractive.
Think I will watch Little Women tonight.

I am perfectly aware that this is not a really costumey goodness movie. Does anyone have some REALLY GOOD costume movie recomendations so I can stop being jealous of everyone having something to sew?! ;)

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Well, I went to my first costume event and survived. Actually it was the most fun I had in a long time and am totally addicted. My Regency dress was really absolutely beautiful, and I don't mean to sound snobbish here, but being around all these regency-esque costumes made me appreciate how hard I tried on my own dress at being historically ( Read more... )

I should have nipped it in the bud yesterday, when I had the chance, because today I officially have a cold. lame. My Regency ball that I've been looking forward to for MONTHS is on Saterday. Today I am consuming massive amounts of Vitamin C and bundling myself up against the any chills. I shall conquer this (to quote Mr. Darcy of the BBC Pride ( Read more... )

What is it with Live journal and deleting your WHOLE entry just becasue you switch to "Rich text"?

Anyway,  TO summarize what I had typed before, I've had all sorts of drama with my mom this past week or two (you may have noticed we just have drama. period.), in which I was being haughty, she was being haughty, I would offer to design her ( Read more... )

Getting really Giddy about my Ialy trip in March! for costumers who have been, any places in tha main cities (Venice, Florence, Rome) that are a must see for historical fashion? I know of the Gallery of Costume at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Anywhere else?

Yes! I love making new discoveries about my LJ! Yay for finally figuring out how to have new pictures for each post! Behold yet another flower fairy icon ( Read more... )

Just spent $141.oo on text books. Why do textbooks have to be SO EXPENSIVE????? There just BOOKS! PAPER and GLUE! Thanks be to God for my mother and father who hath commited money towards my cause and are helping to pay for the books ( Read more... )

here are the pictures and I hope they will be seen.

ok, here is he bodice mock-up on Rockette. I actually really like how this bodice looks, and eventually want to make one for myself...


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