It’s holiday season and I’m excited to share with you my latest make — the Cashmerette Mansfield Dress! This party dress is the latest release for the Cashmerette Club which you’ll receive if you’re a monthly member in December or one of the All-Access members. Disclaimer: I’m a Cashmerette Collaborator and received a year of…
We’re almost there and even closer to the 2024 Her Universe Fashion Show which is a week from tomorrow! This is part 12 of my series on my Totally Minnie look for the 2023 Her Universe Fashion Show. If you want to start from the beginning of how I made it, start with this post.…
After a brief hiatus for the holidays, we’re back with part 7 of my series on my winning look for the Her Universe Fashion Show 2023. In this installment, I’ll be going over how I did the bow on my Totally Minnie gown. Even though this was one of the last parts to go on the…
For part 6 of my series on Totally Minnie, my winning look for the Her Universe Fashion Show 2023, I’m excited to share all about how I did the rhinestones. I was really proud of how this worked out and I think it’s an amazing and efficient technique and, honestly, if I hadn’t done it…
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…
This is probably one of the fastest finish to photos I’ve ever had. I finished this last Wednesday (literally, I was finishing up the lining by hand in the hotel room that night because I wanted to wear it the next day), got photos over the weekend and you get to see it today! The…
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…