I am making the crowns out of pipe cleaners and beads and craft foam. The first thing I did was play with the pipe cleaners and beads, putting them together with floral tape. I am thinking this will be the evil queen, step-mother crown.
Here are all 5 crowns- I put some designs on them with dimensional fabric paint. This is my “spray booth”- outside in a cardboard box. Only one has the beads and wire attached at this point.
Here they all are- gold and very smelly.
Next Tuesday is dress rehearsal, so I have one week to get everybody dressed! Things are going well on the costuming project- 72 kids, 3rd to 5th graders, most with 2 costumes. The hardest part is when we need to try things on. We called all the ladies-in-waiting and the narrators to stay for half an hour after rehearsal, to try on dresses- 28 exhausted girls, mobbing me. I am not good at this part of the project.
I am working on armor for one of the boys, and I’ll make the 5 crowns that we need. This is the most fun and creative part for me.
What I love about doing costumes- This is the only time in my life that I can play with fake flowers and metalic spray paint!
I’ll post pictures when there is anything together enough to show.
Next Tuesday is dress rehearsal, so I have one week to get everybody dressed! Things are going well on the costuming project- 72 kids, 3rd to 5th graders, most with 2 costumes. The hardest part is when we need to try things on. We called all the ladies-in-waiting and the narrators to stay for half an hour after rehearsal, to try on dresses- 28 exhausted girls, mobbing me. I am not good at this part of the project.
I am working on armor for one of the boys, and I’ll make the 5 crowns that we need. This is the most fun and creative part for me.
What I love about doing costumes- This is the only time in my life that I can play with fake flowers and metalic spray paint!
I’ll post pictures when there is anything together enough to show.
Next Tuesday is dress rehearsal, so I have one week to get everybody dressed! Things are going well on the costuming project- 72 kids, 3rd to 5th graders, most with 2 costumes. The hardest part is when we need to try things on. We called all the ladies-in-waiting and the narrators to stay for half an hour after rehearsal, to try on dresses- 28 exhausted girls, mobbing me. I am not good at this part of the project.
I am working on armor for one of the boys, and I’ll make the 5 crowns that we need. This is the most fun and creative part for me.
What I love about doing costumes- This is the only time in my life that I can play with fake flowers and metalic spray paint!
I’ll post pictures when there is anything together enough to show.
Next Tuesday is dress rehearsal, so I have one week to get everybody dressed! Things are going well on the costuming project- 72 kids, 3rd to 5th graders, most with 2 costumes. The hardest part is when we need to try things on. We called all the ladies-in-waiting and the narrators to stay for half an hour after rehearsal, to try on dresses- 28 exhausted girls, mobbing me. I am not good at this part of the project.
I am working on armor for one of the boys, and I’ll make the 5 crowns that we need. This is the most fun and creative part for me.
What I love about doing costumes- This is the only time in my life that I can play with fake flowers and metalic spray paint!
I’ll post pictures when there is anything together enough to show.
this is Mango horning in on the picture taking…
I have found out that doll bases (what I have called the thing that holds up my dolls) and doll stands are completely different. I found this out by doing a google search.
Doll bases are an unfinished doll form- a blank- to make your own doll on. Most of the ones I found by googling were computer generated- lots of naked, hairless barbie-type girls and also a full range of anime type figures, aliens, or probably anything anyone would want. See some here and here.
Arms and legs sewed on…
Nothing to do with dolls- yet- but I think this is fascinating.
I won’t have much tiime to work on the dolls in the next few weeks- costuming for Snow White will be keeping me busy. Today I have been working on finding surfaces in my attic work space… E is home from school for a month and so I had to clear my stuff out of her room. As I work on organizing the mess, I am faced with so many unfinished projects- heads waiting for bodies, naked, hairless dolls waiting for clothes. So much potential! I got a bit side-tracked in my cleaning and sewed the arms and legs on Miss Columbia. She looks much better now.
The pictures of the day are from the garden, which looks wonderful even when neglected-
This is a bush clematis that I grew from seed about 5 years ago. It grows to about 15″ tall and can be floppy, although this one is staying very upright without any support.
Iris- Madame Chereau. It is the oldest named variety of Iris (1844) and is one of my garden heirlooms. I got it from my Mother-in-law, who got it from her Mother-in-law.
Iris- “Flight of Butterflies”
Allium- “Purple Sensation”
Allium Christophii
Hellebore