Archive for May, 2007

thunderbirds

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

I took the kids out to see the Air Force Thunderbird show this afternoon. I think my pics look just the same as last year, but here’s the best one from this year:

It’s hard to get pictures, you just point ahead of where they are & click & hope you get something. They do [...]

Rachaels dress

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

I just got done with a fitting & thought you might like to see the dress. This is a very unstructured silk chiffon gown. You can’t tell well from these pictures, but there are 2 layers of chiffon at the hem, one about 8 inches higher than the other. There are 14 [...]

How to mark darts when you can’t use chalk

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

I’ve been working on a silk chiffon dress this past week. I thought I would take a few pictures of how I mark dart placement when I just won’t take the risk of putting chalk or air/water erase marker on a fabric. A sheer wedding gown is THE place to be paranoid that [...]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Because, surely, it’s not actually SNOWING on May 23rd. I mean, c’mon.