So, totally off-topic for this blog, but my main hobby is improvisational baking, and very rarely i share a recipe of mine on here, if it turns out so good that everybody at work asks for it. This one is so easy, it feels kinda dorky to even act like it was some feat of creativity to come up with it, but so many people wanted to know how to make it ( Read more... )

Completely and totally off-topic post, but this is a recipe i created and felt might be good to share with the world.

See, one of my hobbies is experimental baking. I've been trying out a few vegan cookie recipes of late because one of my coworkers is vegan, and this one turned out so well that i thought i'd put it on the internet ( Read more... )

This seriously could not be more off-topic, but I've been doing quite a few baking experiments in my spare time and sharing the results with friends and coworkers, and this recipe is one that enough people have asked for it just makes sense to put it online and share it with the universe. You don't need a mixer for this recipe, just a bowl and a ( Read more... )

This has exactly nothing to do with theatre, costume production, millinery, graduate schools for costume career tracks, or any of the other topics you're used to reading about here, but i'm so proud i have to share.

La Bricoleuse is only one of the fora in which i write, and instructional/academic nonfiction is only one area of focus for me. I ( Read more... )

If you blog on LiveJournal, you know that when you log in, there's a prompt on your screen, often some question intended to give you a topic to write about in case you don't have a post topic in mind. I never use this blog to write about my personal life--it's strictly on-topic about costuming production topics related to my career ( Read more... )

I generally have a policy of sticking to the topic with this blog (i.e., costume craft artisanship and related topics of interest); this is really a stretch, so i'll just call it off-topic.

What topical news i have to share is this: I am currently working at the Public Theater in NYC, doing some craftwork for the royal court in their upcoming ( Read more... )

I've been sitting on this review for a while, meaning to post and and continuing to forget. Oops!

If you don't know the story of the treasure of the steamboat Arabia, it's a pretty incredible one.

Loaded to capacity with an enormous cargo of goods, the Arabia set sail up the Missouri River in 1856; her aim was to distribute merchandise to a ( Read more... )

Fashion stylist Isabella Blow passed away this past week, and i'd like to mention a bit about her.

Ms. Blow is directly responsible for the career of a man who some say is the greatest living milliner, Philip Treacy, as well as fashion icon Alexander McQueen ( Read more... )

I've just finished up a cross-country drive from North Carolina to Utah!

The PlayMakers Repertory Company season has come to a close (reopening in the fall) and we professional production artisans on staff at traditional seasonal theatres often travel to work at one of the many summer theatre or opera companies during the break ( Read more... )

This is off-topic for the blog, but i thought it might be of interest to my readership.

Someone on crew at the theatre i work for (PlayMakers Repertory Company) filmed strike for our last production, Stones in His Pockets by Marie Jones, and posted a time-lapse video of the process to YouTube ( Read more... )