Mi's Blog & Costumes
Aaah, so much for getting back into posting.
Trying again.
This time with pictures from the Colonial Williamsburg trip we took in June, because AJ edited them so I don’t have to bother with that!
First time there for all of us!
I could easily spend a lot longer than we did, pouring through the museums but alas AJ, Judy, and their partners… none of them museum people!
Man I’ve been meaning to post these for ages. But for various reasons never got around to it.
Anyway! Last year I was thinking, really four Regency dress is a bit much when I have two more planned, so I decided to sell my first one.
Doris was awesome and did a photoshoot for me so I’d have lovely photos to use for etsy. It sold, right when I was getting ready to post it and signal boost, but the pictures turned out so nice I wanted to post them anyway!
We shot at Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto, and my sister Elizabeth did my wig and makeup so that Doris could take some good shots for her portfolio.
More after the cut!
I made this dress for a tea in late June, it’s the same one I talked about working on in May and June.
Soooo, I talked about this dress awhile back here, in the plotting stages.
It’s basically done now, and I’ve been a TOTAL space cadet lately, combined with the crunch of getting it done in time means I didn’t take that many pictures. But here’s what I did take! And how I made it.
I started with Sense & Sensibility’s Elegant Lady’s Closet pattern, the gathered variant.
Progress shots! Read more
Alright, so I have a few more backlogged posts in the pipeline, that all need something (mostly photo resizing and uploading ;_;).
Anyway, in the meantime, I thought I’d just ramble a bit about projects in the works, upcoming things.
Beyond trying to use up fabric with scraps, I have two new Regency dresses planned and another Black Canary variant for SDCC. One of the Regency dresses doesn’t warrant talking about at this time, there was going to be a very fancy tea put on by the Greater Bay Area Costuming Guild but they changed the venue, it will still have very nice tea I’ve been told, but it’s not half so fancy. So I put my fancy plans on the backburner and am working on a country dress!
My country dress is based on one Imogen Poots wears as Fanny in Miss Austen Regrets.
I skipped right over CoCo!
That’s because I didn’t wear anything new, not really. But it was still one of my highlights because I got to spend lots of time with Aimee’s little ladies, R & J <3
And I got to meet new people~
(Loren’s photo~ I managed not to get a group one on my camera, boo)
Also underwear & a bonus! Read more
May 18th!
Maker Faire day 😀 And Ball day!
All Ball photos from Doris~
She took many lovely photos, and if you click them it’ll take you to her album which you should check out!
Had a great time at Maker Faire then zoomed home, where both D & twjudy were early D:
So I zoomed mah girly makeup & changed my underclothes to the right shoes, socks, & leggings. Then AJ showed up and TO THE BALL~!
Edited more pics last night!
And I’m still more ahead than this, but yay.
Read more for pics, notes, and a facepalm realization 8D
