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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Thursday afternoon, we did the photo shoot for Mirabelle, my 100 Bride for 100K ™ charitable initiative gown. Proceeds from the sale of this limited edition collection of gowns will benefit breast cancer research, support, and awareness. A new gown will be released each year to add to the collection.
Each of my “100 Brides” will [...]
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
I don’t normally share so publically the nightmare that has been my health history over the past year, but I feel you need to know what a terrible drug Cymbalta is. NEVER take it for any reason. Ever.
I have uterine tumors that cause me a great deal of pain on a daily basis. My insurance [...]
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Friday I had a photo shoot with the re-make of the Josephine gown. This was just a quick photo shoot to get the new pictures up on the website before the save the date cards go out for the launch party, but I’m very pleased. This is also your indroduction to Christina, my new spokesmodel. [...]
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
I’ve been hinting for months that things have been moving at a frantic pace behind the scenes & now it’s time to let you in on the story.
When my Get Married television episode aired for the first time last November, I started to develop a national following for my line of vintage inspired bridal gowns. [...]
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
I have a new client who has been franticly searching for the J Crew Celeste Pique Dot Gown for her destination wedding next summer. I’m going to be making her a replica of the gown & am currently searching for the right fabric. I have several contacts in New York & will being going [...]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I have finally worked up my “how to measure yourself” chart. Several of my clients are waiting on this, thanks gals for your patience.
There are, as you can see, quite a few different measurements. I will do my best to walk you through how to take these. If you have any questions, [...]
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
If you are reading this today, you have most likely just come from my homepage after seeing my debut on Get Married. Welcome. I hope you’ve had a fun time looking through my corsets and gowns. I’ve had such an exciting time creating this line & I hope that you love it [...]
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
I just nailed down everything for the photo shoot for this coming Monday. Photographer, model, hair/make-up artist, intern, & local. We’re looking into a second model at the last minute. My model for the day is Ashley, but she’s got a time crunch. You would think it won’t take longer than 3 hours to shoot [...]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Here’s the sketches I just turned into Get Married
These are cropped snapshots of the color copies, so take them for what they’re worth. I’ve cropped out the flats b/c I just don’t want those floating around the internet. If I had been thinking all the way through, I really wouldn’t have sent the [...]
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago & just noticed it was hanging out in draft limbo.
I’ve just made arrangements to postpone the photo shoot until Nov 2nd. I have to admit this has made me breath a big sigh of relief. We’ve got out of town guests to entertain [...]
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