Do you ever sell custom work? Like wedding dresses or Renn Faire garb and the like? It seems to me like that could be pretty lucrative. If anything, the danger might be that you'd get sucked into it and end up not going on to grad school because, "Hey, I'm already making a great living sewing my own creations. What do I need school for?"
Shall I just keep your funnel? Call it even for the jars?
I don't know if either of you guys are into gardening, but if so, you could sign up for the new community garden I'm managing on Maize Road. It's free, it'd allow you to grow some of your own food (or fiber or dyes or whatever), and you'd get to meet the other gardeners.
I have sold some custom work, mostly ren garb as I have no real desire to design wedding gowns. Working at David's Bridal both in customer service and alterations during Bridal Christmas will kill anyone's muse very quickly
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*hugs* Good luck! I'd love to compare notes with you (though I'm not going to try and put any applications in for at least a year now... wanna see how much debt I can pay off first).
I'm looking at UNC too... although there's also a program at Univ. of Virginia... But UNC has the Costume Tech specialty that I really want. I just don't know what kind of background the people applying usually have, especially how it compares to what I've done so far.
I took a few years off after college, and didn't do anything theater, because I was convinced I'd never make any money on doing the historical costumes that I wanted. Not only that, but I hardly sewed for my self for the longest time. Now in the last year I've done a lot of different shows, and I'm starting to get back to my own personal research... I just feel like there must be tons of people who've done more than I have...
So, if you don't mind, I'd love to hear more about what work/shows you've done, etc... Maybe we can give each other ideas about what area we can improve on?
Heh, I graduated this fall with a degree for Textiles and Clothing Design. I've not done a whole lot of theatre ever, but was in charge of garb for a one day renaissance festival for three years. I also made two dresses for a fashion show last year.
I need to look into to the theatre scene here, which is alive though small, and see if I can't manage to get more experience.
I'll let you know what UNC says when I manage to email them about the questions I have. It's a hard email for me to write.
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Shall I just keep your funnel? Call it even for the jars?
I don't know if either of you guys are into gardening, but if so, you could sign up for the new community garden I'm managing on Maize Road. It's free, it'd allow you to grow some of your own food (or fiber or dyes or whatever), and you'd get to meet the other gardeners.
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I took a few years off after college, and didn't do anything theater, because I was convinced I'd never make any money on doing the historical costumes that I wanted. Not only that, but I hardly sewed for my self for the longest time. Now in the last year I've done a lot of different shows, and I'm starting to get back to my own personal research... I just feel like there must be tons of people who've done more than I have...
So, if you don't mind, I'd love to hear more about what work/shows you've done, etc... Maybe we can give each other ideas about what area we can improve on?
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I need to look into to the theatre scene here, which is alive though small, and see if I can't manage to get more experience.
I'll let you know what UNC says when I manage to email them about the questions I have. It's a hard email for me to write.
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Woo! Free time!
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