Finally transferred a load of photos off my memory card.  There are things there from over a year ago *groan*... Please excuse the yellowy lighting, my desk lamp casts that weird glow and I haven't had a chance to correct for it in all of the photos.

A much-belated accounting of my taffeta Venetian project.  This was meant as a trial run for the ( Read more... )

Since it doesn't look like I'll be having time in the near future to post details of the construction of last year's silver Venetian gown, here are a few photos of the completed project, including the delicious gold Venise lace partlet that I didn't have time to finish.

From the inside out: blackwork edged camicia, tabbed Elizabethan style corset ( Read more... )

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First of all, I love eBay very much.  It's a great marketplace for a small-time seller like me, and a way to find really unique things that I can't go to the mall to buy.  And I have found some wonderful things browsing late at night for good prices.

On a second note though, it's darned frustrating.  I'm going for a period look rather than true ( Read more... )

 I'm terrible at drawing.  If it's three-dimensional geometric, a flow chart, or involves the body at microscopic levels (thank you physiology courses), I can get away with it fine.  If it's supposed to be the entire view of something living, dead, inanimate, or otherwise real and doesn't solely rely on straight lines, I normally break out ( Read more... )

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Edited to correct jumbled thoughts and poor spacing as a result of originally typing this at 2 am while watching the royal wedding on CNN and using m'lord's oversized laptop with a selectively functional space bar.

I've been trying to decide how to trim the gown. I'm 90% sure that I want to use the sari fabric for the body of the gown with the ( Read more... )

Here are some belated photos of the silver taffeta.  Hopefully you can make out the subtle crinkled texture.  It's always amazing how different the same fabric can look with flash (left, top and bottom) versus natural lighting (right).


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My UPS package containing the 5 yards of silver taffeta finally arrived yesterday.  It's amazing how shipping can beat up a box so much, but the fabric inside was undamaged.  There was a plastic sleeve on the outside of the box maked PACKING SLIP in neon orange; normally, chemicals and equipment arrive at my lab with the same markings, so I was ( Read more... )

Quick update - amazing how less than 5 minutes and a pair of pliers can reduce a formerly unappealing necklace into piles of very usable components.  Not going to reclose the opened links since the fake gold alloy might not hold up well to multiple stresses (there's already signs of cracking in some of the joints due to torqueing).


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