Archive for April, 2008

Beatriz: the camo prom dress

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

PLEASE NOTE:  I am no longer making custom gowns.  If you want a camo prom dress, you can get the fabric from www.snydercreek.com (use the formal fabric tab) & have a local seamstress make you a gown.  If you need help finding a local seamstress, try www.findadressmaker.com or www.paccprofessionals.org or call your local fabric store for references.  [...]

Payments and Deposits

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Next week, after I’m done with my current deluge of prom & wedding dresses, I’ll be posting more in the series of “working directly with your designer”.  In the mean time, I just wanted to give you a quick update on a couple of items:
1) I can now accept credit card payments over the phone.
2) [...]

Stephanie’s dress

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Just a quick peak at Stephanie’s dress. “Erethral” was the effect we were going for. I think we’ve got it! (O.K., wordpress is telling me I misspelled “erethral”, but all they will give me for a suggestion is “urethra” hahaha.)
Sorry for the neighborhood pics in the background, I was trying to get a [...]

Sally Rand costume

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Here’s some fabric I just dyed for Stephanie St. Clair.  I’m making a Sally Rand-esque costume for her for a burlesque performance.  I’ll post pictures of the finished dress in a couple of days and give a link to her photos from the shoot when she sends them to me.
There aren’t many great pictures on [...]