In the last year or so conversations have come up regarding bullying and unkindness happening – more often than before – in our small community. My post on perfectionism touched on how striving for the (elusive) perfect costume project can blind us in applying our own rules of historical accuracy to everyone else’s creative work. Read More...
Tag: Motivation
Costume College 2018
Another annual event is on the books… and it was WONDERFUL!! Honestly, it felt really good to be back after a three year hiatus. That’s an enormous canyon of time when you’ve been attending an event since 2000 and it’s now 2018. You may remember I had a baby in 2016 just a month before Read More...
Sewing Room Tasks NOT To Do When Angry
We all have those – I’ll call them moments – when our blood boils and we escape to the sewing room to blow off some steam. (That, or we have a pressing deadline so move to the sewing room because we have to.) When this happens it’s a good idea to know what you shouldn’t Read More...
The Magic of a Drool-Worthy Costume
Most often people come into making historical costumes because they love a particular antique garment they saw in a museum or book, or because they fell in love with some fabulous costuming in a film or TV show. I like to think that we are all striving (at least in some aspects) to make that Read More...
30 Days of Sharing Historical Costuming
Happy Happy New Year!! May it bring many blessings and new challenges in your creative projects. As a way to get our creative imaginations flowing, I’ve made a list of concepts relating to historical fashion and sewing to prompt the sharing of ideas we can use to spur on our projects for this new year. Yay! 🙂 Read More...
The WHY We Are Involved with Historical Costuming
“How in the world did I get here?!?” In the middle of a making a costume, do you ever stop and question how you got into this hot mess? “Why am I sewing this project today??” Costuming isn’t just a “thing.” We are “involved.” As in a close relationship. As in, we show love and Read More...
What I Learned from NOT Going to Costume College
Costume College 2016 just ended. If you don’t know about it, it is a 3+ day annual conference held in the Los Angeles area and is for all costumers wanting to “up their game” through learning and being challenged by others. I’ve been attending since 2000 and been teaching since 2004. This year, my plans Read More...
Writing Morning Pages
Aside from being a seamstress… a dressmaker, I’m a writer. I wasn’t sure of that title until many years ago my friend mentioned all the writing I do in blog posts and ebooks and sewing instructions. Yeah, ok. I loved writing short stories in junior high and high school English classes too. I’m a writer. Read More...