Yesterday was lovely 🙂 I  do enjoy displays for kids so long as the theme is very particular. So we were teaching history. I generally don’t have that sort of hook in recreation costumes, so it winds up being a better opportunity to do activities such as read. It was also lovely getting interesting questions…
Tag: spanish
Passion project-2 1600 silver Spanish court gown before I fall alseep
Its a cool name for a cool but insane ensemble I have been plotting for years. It has taken years just to get the fabric sorted! but sorted it is ???? This s the portrait that inspired it all. Well actually a copy of the portrait that inspired me. That one though is just madness…
Did stuff
Bought thread, pulled apart costume for zip for Maleficent, sewed a row of ribbon on my verdugardos, tidied channels along seams on the inside of verdugardos, covered and inserted shoulder pads in my spring jacket (also reshaped the shoulders), dyed fabric for farthingale hem (firm cotton and fulled wool) trimmed Valois skirt (tore skirt, fixed…
The next few months
Not hectic, but a lot of planning 🙂 And not in order of importance. !) Spanish work. I have texts and physical costume to finish. They are both at the personally satisfying stage but not at all ready for public viewing. But the two have been working together. And I do now have my physical…
more hemming
My cleves gown really needs to play catch up with my Saya Entera and Vasquina y Ropa. So this gown is using all the resources at the moment 🙂 I need to decide on adding to my embroidery pattern so that means sorting out pearls by size. Shower time, and then hemming. It is well worth it just…
Early start to what should be a good day
First a shower, I am online with a coffee to wake up. Then removing some clothing from my project workboxes, and then I can work on my real passion projects: Vasquina y ropa y manga redonda. It still needs a jubon y manga justa. That will require my embroidery frame set up to lay the…
Hah! laundrey detergent back in the positive!
In other words I made my Elsa cape purple again. Luckily before I resorted to buying blue acrylic ink (as it does tint very well- though it needs to adhere and the risk of streaks is high when you use water and the risk of flame too great when using alcohol) I decided to use…
Wow, I have been away a long time…..
Or at least it feels like it. I am still rehabilitating my body after the last six months of inactivity due to the sinus infection. I am not sure if I have cleared it but I am able to sit up, look at a monitor for more than five minutes. Except today. Today I am…
Day 16-30
(Have collated days 1-15 in one post, once these are done will do the same for the rest) 30 Day Cosplay Challenge! Day 16 Not locally because I’m the smelly judge 😉 No really. But I am part of one or two groups that not everyone can say they have been invited to be a…
Day 1-15
30 Day Cosplay Challenge! 1. Your first cosplay. Christine Daae. Funnily enough. Not a direct copy, an interpretation for a Song in Costume class for the North Shore Performing Arts Competition in 1994. Can’t find my photo of it online. Ah well. I still have it. To remind myself of how far I have come…