Back to sewing!
I’m back in town and sewing up a storm. This week a huge amount of progress has been made on a stunning Modern style wedding gown, awedding corset is going through the final stages,...
Category: events
Valhalla Renaissance Faire – Lake Tahoe
I spent last weekend up in the lovely Camp Richardson, CA for the Valhalla Renaissance Faire. I’m looking forward to participating this upcoming weekend as well. I know I’ll see lots of friendly faces:)...
18th century suit: stripe waistcoat inprogress
I’ve started going through all the photos I took of the wedding garments in progress and decided some might be nice to share. Here is one showing how I cut out the shape of...
“Golden Thimble” Award from cc26
A few surprise overall hall costume awards were given out on Sunday, at Costume Con 26, while we waited for the historical masquerade judging. Here is a glimpse at one of the pamphlets showing...
Costume Con 26 San Jose, CA
I have so much to write but I’ll start with saying – Wow! I had a wonderful time. I recognized some outfits, some faces, and some names. I need to start adding everyone on...
Edwardian World’s Faire 2008
My sister and some of my girlfriends attended friday of weekend of Edwardian ball events as an impromptu bachelorette party. The rain welcomed us:
Photos from PEERS
Laura, one of the improv actors/dancers at the annual Dickens reunion 12th Night Ball, wore a couple of my sample pieces (chemise, drawers, and corset) for some music hall stage scenes. Here are a...
Gray-black Wool Kontusz
I got a quick photo this weekend of Curtis wearing his polish coat at Golden Gate Renaissance Faire.
Back from Golden Gate Faire
I have to say it is not easy being a Princess. I reprised my role this year as Princess Elizabeth at the Golden Gate Renaissance faire ( http://www.sffaire.com ). I do not have many...
Mock-up/SLO faire
Much progress was made on the renaissance pair of bodies including but not limited to cutting out 18 pieces. I pieced together some silk damask fabric remnant for the mock-up because I have such...
Northern Ca Pirate festival: modeling shots
These photos feature various pieces of my costuming pieced together to portray a pirate theme for the Northern California Pirate festival this upcoming weekend. The hats were trimmed and decorated with feathers to add...
Tudor Tailor in Santa Cruz
I am really happy I decided to travel, back down to the bay, to meet the Tudor tailors. I have never had so much fun wrapping my head. Being able to touch and look...
Valhalla Faire and Tudor Tailor
This upcoming two weekends I can be found at the Valhalla faire. I will be wearing the blackwork chemise even though it still lacks its blackwork pleated top edge. A week from today will...
Silk Fifties Dress: prelude to the Gotham Ball
I’ve added an image gallery of my 1950s dress . Here is a photo of it in action (photo courtesty of Peter Overstreet).
