One of the fun things about working on my winning look for the Her Universe Fashion Show 2023 was getting to try out a bunch of new tools and techniques that I wouldn’t have otherwise had the motivation to do so. It really pushed me to explore. So for part 5 of the series I…
Welcome to part 4 of my series on my winning look for the Her Universe Fashion 2023, totally Minnie. Wanting to start at the beginning of this construction journey? Check out this post first. Today I’m talking all about those dots on my bodice which you can see pinned on above as I was figuring…
This is part 3 of my series on making my judges’ choice winning look Totally Minnie for the Her Universe Fashion Show 2023. Want to start at the beginning of my construction journey? Start with this post. One of the hardest parts was the cutouts on the bodice. Originally I was just going to do…
For this post in the series about my Her Universe Fashion Show 2023 Totally Minnie look, I’ll be talking about constructing the bodice. Want to start at the beginning? Check out this post. Technically, I should post about the effective muslin I made which was an 80’s rocker style dress, but I want to get…
Welcome to the first part of many about the construction of my Her Universe Fashion Show 2023 Totally Minnie look. My goal is to get one part out a week until I’ve covered everything. Be forewarned that these are lengthy posts with lots of photos since they’re brain dumps of my thoughts and trials and tribulations…
I keep wanting to make my posts all logically ordered, but then I also realize that I have such a backlog of posts that I should just post them and get on with it, so here we go . . . If I look a bit messy, it’s because this photo was taken shortly after…
Big news! I’m the 2023 Her Universe Fashion Show Judges’ Winner! So if you’ve been wondering why I’ve been completely absent from posting recently, this is why! From when I was accepted in mid-May to the show itself on July 20, I spent nearly every non-working waking moment working on this look. I threw myself…
Time for one of my throwback posts. As in, one of the ones I meant to post ages ago, but just never got around to it. This one is for my Kitty Pryde casual cosplay that I made for Comic Con 2019 and also ended up wearing to the intro party at Costume College that…
If you’re not familiar with Alphonse Mucha, I highly recommend checking out his work. His work is just lovely. In fact, if you think you don’t know his work, you’ve probably seen it but just didn’t realize. Go check it out, then come back here and finish reading. Last summer my costume guild had a…
This was the Belle costume that I made for my cousins daughter (first cousin once removed?) a year or two back for Halloween. I used the same pattern McCall’s MP551 that I used for the Cinderella costume I made. Apparently after she got the Cinderella costume, she loved it so much she wanted to be…