400 Years of Fashion … and a spot of modern-day dreadful drafting!

For her Blog Birthday, the lovely Comtesse Olympe de la Tour D’Auvergne ran a giveaway – I was one of the lucky winners (remember, I said I had my lucky streaks!) and today I got home to find this fabulous prize waiting for me: I’ve had a quick look through and it’s wonderful – lots [...]

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Deliveries

I’ve mentioned bits and pieces that I’ve ordered and a something special for the Lady Luck Outfit, and at last it’s time for show and tell, with some things less exciting than others: Fray-stop glue (wooo, exciiiiitiiiiing  ;P  ) and spray-on fabric stiffener – that’s a little more exciting as you can build up the [...]

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Graduation The Second

Hello hello!  I’m very sleepy after a looooong day.  Here’s a picture of what I did today: And here is a slightly edited version of a comment I just made on Miss Rosemary’s blog about today and the whole Master of Arts experience, because I’m very sleepy and should be in bed (and because it [...]

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Prince of Persia: Tamina Costume Inspiration

I’m away for a couple of days (it’s silly-looking cap and gown time, AKA, my MA graduation!), so while I’m gone here are some more inspiration/reference images, this time for my Tamina-type costume.  Click on the image for the full-size inspiration board: The harem pants – the harem pants!!  They must be made.  I have [...]

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Something New and Fun and Pretty and Lovely!

Good morning gents of the womanly and manly persuasions!  As the title suggests, I have something pretty to show you and recommend most heartily – new tee: I was very pleased that my t-shirt arrived so quickly (from the USA, as well!), nicely wrapped and with excellent sizing advice from the artist herself.  A lovely [...]

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Writing progress – additional

In which I get to be all smug because another 600+ word day (after a pretty crappy Monday at work, no less!) means that I’ve now broken through 50,000 words (50,560 – wooo!) and (yes, AND) I’m already past my target total for the end of the week (50,554).

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Writing Progress

I’ve not mentioned my WIP in a while – for multiple reasons progress has been somewhere between slow and non-existent for several months, but the past couple of weeks I’ve been slowly getting back on the horse.  Momentum is the most important thing for me in terms of getting those words on the page, so [...]

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WLTM Strong Female Characters … Whatever that means?

I cringe when I see them done badly.  I probably cringe even more when there aren’t any.  I have a hard time reading novels without them.  Some of them are my absolute favourite pieces of fiction ever.  It’s perhaps not so much of a mystery what I’m talking about if you glance at the title of this [...]

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Happy Bastille Day?

It’s that time of year – Bastille Day.  I know many people celebrate today, but I feel torn. On the one hand I am no monarchist: much as I enjoy reading about the lives of historical Queens and researching and making clothes of the nobility, I’m not into that kind of class system.  (Especially when [...]

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Birthday Masquerade Costume: Inspiration Board

I may or may not have spent most of today messing around on a new toy: Scrapblog*. The other day I realised that the reason I couldn’t find a picture of the 1780s outfit I had seen in my dream because it didn’t exist!   My unconscious mind must have put together elements of different outfits [...]

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