“Be Our Guest” is one of the BPN’s as I like to call them (Big Production Numbers) in “Beauty and the Beast”. How do you turn people into silverware? And dance? On a budget? Seriously? The range of ideas is vast and there are many different interpretations, varying in complexity, cost and…
A couple of weeks ago it was that annual rite of summer for band kids: MARCHING BAND CAMP WEEK. If you haven’t been in a marching band . . that means long days in the August heat learning music, learning drills, marching and sweating. To make things a little more fun this year, each day…
Medieval? Renaissance? Elizabethan? Tudor? This is where you start to see the difference between the “just wanna have fun” crowd, and the true historical re-enactment crowd. If you “google” search “Medieval costume” you get pictures of all of the above, wrapped up with some fantasy (wings, anyone?), Southern Belle & modern Prom . . . .which…
I am almost done working my way through the costuming of “Beauty and the Beast”. Sewing and blogging have sort of taken back-seats to some other goings-on in my life . . gardening, moving kids to-and-from college & apartments, WORK, trying to move my sewing area, and some other volunteer commitments. I have a whole…
Lumiere. Lumiere is one of the “problem” costumes in Beauty & the Beast. Now . .if you are a professional, you can make really neat hand pieces with real flames and everything. If you have electrical skills, you can maybe wire something up . . . if your skills are more in the sewing area.…
Drop Waist 1950’s Look Upcycle Dress One of the most common styles of bridesmaid dress readily available at thrift stores is the strapless, wrapped-look bodice, with a floor length, flared skirt. There are variations on this theme . . how the wrap look is done, how flared the skirt is, the shape of the bodice…
One of the things I enjoy the most about doing costumes for my high school shows is working with the kids. They never cease to amaze me, and they are SO.MUCH.FUN. This year for “Grease” I decided to dress Vince Fontaine in a zebra jacket (the original costume plot calls for a pink zebra jacket…
This is a tale of two dresses . . and one curtain. Here is the beginning of the tale: The first dress is a two piece blue long ensemble with a button back. The second dress is a one piece blue satin strapless dress with front pleating. The third item is a very long, somewhat faded,…
I have been wanting to do a “start-from-the-beginning” post and had been trying to decide what sort of costume to create. I have lots of ideas rattling around in my head, it was just a direction of picking a direction to go 🙂 I got inspiration from a comment my sister made on on of…
Who doesn’t want to be a Mermaid? Shiny fins, gorgeous hair, live underwater in a magical world? Why not??? About a year ago when I was ordering fabric for a different project, I ran across the scale print spandex, and showed it to my daughter . . who OF COURSE begged that we should get some…
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