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Blogpress and Costume Making

Back in November I tried this new app by Blogpress and all it did was give me headaches using an iPad but there have been improvements (2 months later). Let's test it out and see how good this thing is. I just finished embellishing swords for twelfth night. And I have to admit that I had way too much fun embellishing them! I want more to embellish! I had first painted them with a brown handle but it looked so boring. But there is nothing like a little glitter and color to make things more interesting. Now we need some costumes. At first we were going to rent a knights costume but it was so much money and it seemed like I could make a tunic, even if I glued it. Lucky for me that my mom knew how to sew. Here's the tunic we whipped up in about 3 hours. It was soooooo easy. Here's what we did. 1. Measure the person's shoulder width and add 3" to each side. This will be your width, i.e. 25". 2. Measure the length from shoulder to knees and that will be...

And yet another Tiara

Ola! Happy Sunday. Well the weekends almost over but Thanksgiving is next week. This marks the beginning of yummy food and delicious sweeties! Eeeeee! I'm so excited. I love the holidays but it's getting down to the wire and I haven't spent as much time as I would like to in the studio. Okay, I haven't spent ANY time in the studio. Oh bad me. I know I said I was going to talk about the fabulous workshop with Thomas Mann but I just have to share my latest creation. LSU Tiger Tiara This is my LSU tiara but I'm not sure how it will withstand my jumping up and down in the stands.  Materials used were Czech glass (6mm and 4mm), silver, and gold pewter. It took about 4 hours to complete.  The technique used here was the same as for the Who Dat Tiara but this was was bigger (taller).  Talk about fit for a queen! BTW...I was using BlogPress but now I give up.  It just wasn't working correctly. Argh!  More trouble then what it was worth.  Have a gre...