The Birthday Masquerade – at long last!

Yes, that’s right – photos of my Birthday Masquerade, finally! (And, of course, I was clearly far too optimistic in my last post – if anyone ever tries to tell you that being a teacher is easy, please give them a slap from me.  I’ve never been so exhausted in my life.  I’m loving it, [...]

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Stays, Now With Eyelets!

Yep, that’s right – all those pesky little hand-sewn eyelets are done and the straps are attached: Though they started off a little shaky: The bottom one that you can’t see very well was my first effort – it’s probably just as well it’s not very clear on the photo as it looks awful!!  I [...]

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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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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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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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Film Costume Love, Part I: The Good Doctor

I can’t believe I forgot to blog about this when I first saw it – clearly I had a lobotmy that week – so here it is now and my gushing about how much I love it: Yep, I said it – I don’t mean her (nothing against Lily Cole, it’s just not her I’m [...]

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Happenings

I’m back! I was much too tired to say hello the past couple of days, so apologies for the late update, but without further ado – stuff what I did last week: Played! I was pretty excited to find that there is now an adventure playground with a ZIPWIRE (!!!) by the regular playground (with [...]

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17th Century Love

While the 18th Century might be my favourite period in history, it does have a plucky young rival strutting about in crimson heels. Ah, the 17th Century, had we but world enough and time … As a recent discussion on Isis’ Wardrobe’s Blog points out, it is a sorely neglected age, probably for various reasons [...]

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I Hate Zips (And so does Zombie Antoinette)

Working on the Zombie Antoinette costume this weekend has revealed that a prominent feature of all future sewing will be the avoidance of zips.  They are complete little bloody &*^£$&*^%”%£^£*£&*£&*”£^&(%!%!!!!! I don’t know whether it was my not-so-epic sewing machine skills or the slippery fabric or a combination of the two, but after four attempts [...]

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