Thursday, July 8, 2010

PLACES TO GO.....PEOPLE TO BE.....

Now that one is deliciously dressed...
one needs some place special to go!
Or is often the case, the event will inspire the ensemble.
So.....
like the chicken and the egg,
evo-lution becomes much less important than
the ultimate display of plumage!
Come Dance Through Time...

GROUPS & ASSOCIATIONS
JANUARY
Victorian 12th Night Ball @ San Mateo, CA
FEBRUARY

MARCH
APRIL

MAY

JUNE
Valhalla Renaissance Festival @ Lake Tahoe, CA

JULY


SEPTEMBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

FAVORITE ONLINE SUPPLIERS

DESIGN CROQUIS & MEASUREMENT CARDS
Tauton - croquis
Designing Arts Studio - measurement cards
Art Design Fashion - fashion templates

HATS
Lynn McMasters - patterns & online instructions
Judith M - patterns & supplies
Hats by Leko - unfinished hats & supplies
Lacis - supplies & battenburg folding hat & mad hatter buckram
Dirty Billy's Hats - lady's wool riding, low crown straw, straw tricorn
Hat Book - supplies
Pattern Studio - patterns & frames
SilkFlowers.com - silk flowers
Silk Flowers Factory - silk flowers
Save on Crafts - silk flowers
Lubin Flowers - silk flowers - wholesale
USI Floral - silk flowers
Davyne Dial Millinery - handmade silk roses
The Box Shop - hat boxes
Northwest Traders - Native American hat bands
Clearwater Hats - ready to wear
Dad's Hats - ready to wear
Excalibur Leather - leather tricorn & cavalier
Hats in the Belfry - Madhatter top hat
Samuels Hats - finished hats & hat boxes
Goorin - ready to wear
Tias - vintage hats

PATTERNS
Eva Dress - 1800's > 1950's
The Blue Gardenia - 1920's > 1960's
Decades of Style - 1920's > 1950's
Vintage Martini - Victorian >1980's
Rusty Zipper - vintage
SewingPatterns.com - low prices
Ravenrook - expensive! artistic reform & regency
Truly Victorian - 1830 > 1901
Sense & Sensibility - Regency - 1940's
Crazy Crow - Native American & frontier
Northwest Traders - Native American & frontier
SuitAbility - riding
James Country - civil war era
Smoke & Fire - colonial
Rocking Horse Farm - medieval > 1930's
Wingeo - medieval > 1940's
Burnley and Trowbridge - 1700's > 1800's
Kannik's Korner - 1700's > 1800's
Mediaeval Miscellanea - medieval > Elizabethan

FABRICS
Thai Silks - Los Altos store
Exotic Silks - Mountain View store
Renaissance Fabrics
Bennett Silks - moire silk taffeta
Baltazar - bridal & heirloom
Trim Fabrics
Pendleton Woodworks - art nouveau
Deco Dame - art deco, art nouveau, craftsman, wright, animal
Fabrics-Store.com - jacquard linens
Fabric Tales - asian prints
Fabric Mart - Hawaiian
GotFabric.com - batik, asian, Hawaiian
Bella Fabrics - Italian silks, only via store in Los Angeles

MARBLED SILK
Marbled Fabrics - by the yard $70
Silk by Lucia - retail
HGTV - instructions

LACE, TRIM & RIBBON
Sew-Biz Fabrics - well priced metalic trim & venice lace
Deco Dame - tassels

BUTTONS, CLASPS & FASTENERS
Garden Fairies Trading Company - snowflake & feather buttons
Britex Notions - buttons, lace, & ribbons

CORSET PATTERNS & SUPPLIES
Corset Making Supplies - good prices & speedy delivery
Frederick's of Hollywood - stockings & thigh highs
Stocking Showcase - stockings
Stocking Store - stockings

TOOLS & MACHINES
Elna US - embroidery machine

DYE, PAINTING & TRANSFERS

BEADS, BEADING & JEWELRY SUPPLIES
Lacis - large bead loom, bag patterns & bag frames

ACCESSORIES
Dragonfly Design Studio - parasols & fans
Lace Parasols - parasols, fans, gloves
Long Ago - parasols & petticoats
Lands Far Away Imports, Inc. - fans, castanets, shawls, peinitas, mantillas
Great Lookz - gloves
Fall Creek Suttlery - gloves, parasols, striped stockings, sandelwood fan, petticoats
Ostrich.com - feathers
Tias - vintage handbags & purses
Purse Street - vintage handbags & purses

WIGS & HAIR ACCESSORIES
Ingasbo - circlets
Lady MacSnood - beaded snoods, hair sticks
Longlocks - hair stiicks

MASKS
Costume Chik - leather, venetian, blanks
Venetian Masquerade Masks - gorgeous filigree
Masquerade Magic - gorgeous filigree
Mask Italia - gorgeous filigree, pairings
Ca' Macana - venetian, celestial
Venetian Mask Society - filigree, venetian, feather
Quirao - large selection
Beadmask - leather, beads, fairy
Halloween.it - butterfly
Tom Banwell - leather, steampunk
Chantal Mallet - custom wire
3Wishes - filigree
Venetian Masks Shop - filigree, blanks
Rain Walker Masks - leather, fairy
Angel Mask - leather, fairy, bast
Lyonshel - foam, felines
Fantasy Guild - leather, wolf, water,fairies, astro
N.O. Madness Masks - large feather
Ravenwood Masks - leather
Gypsy Renaissance - beaded & pairings
Dream of Italy - blanks & metal filigree
Masks.com.au - blanks

LOTS'O'LINKS

TROPICAL MOTIF

MADAM BUTTERFLY

CALYPSO, THE MERMAID

BELLY DANCE
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Back again!

Well... while I'm stuck recovering from a serious back and hip injury, mostly recumbent, most of the time, with laptop balanced on my belly to keep me connected to the outside world, I think of cool things to do with this blog. Here are a few:

* Post a list of inspiring blogs.

* Post a list of links to favorite websites

* Post a list of all the costume projects I've completed.

* When I'm up and around again, take and upload photos, including notes about patterns and fabrics used, as well as techniques employed & lessons I've learned (& so I don't repeat mistakes again ;-)

*Post a list of the projects I plan to work on in the future, including due dates, notes about where to get resources, how to questions I have , and discoveries I'm making while working on each project.

* Take or scan and upload images that are design inspirations.

* Take and upload images from costume events I attend.


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Saturday, January 30, 2010

My First Time ;-)

I'm a blog virgin.
Testing...to see...how it looks.
Did I pop, cheri?
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