First post!

Welcome to my blog!

"I could write a blog.  I have thoughts." Julie Powell, Julie & Julia

My internal monologue fills life moments with movie quotes.  It's fun!

Why start a blog now?  After years of reading and following other people's costuming blogs (Historical Costuming, Time Traveling in Costume, and Tortoise and Plume, just to name a few!), I thought I wanted a place to share my costuming process, and my random thoughts.  With pictures.  What could possibly go wrong??

As life goes, this year my August was PACKED.  From July 28-31, I attended and taught at Costume College, a three-day (mostly) conference on costuming, in Woodland Hills, California.  It's AWESOME, and amazing, and filled with talented, amazing people who make the most wonderful costumes!!  The experience always leaves me excited for next year, energized about what I'm going to make next, and exhausted since I rarely get enough sleep.  It's a delicate dance of making sure I get enough food, sleep, time with friends, and not take too many classes or teach too many classes.  This year, I seemed to get it just right, and had a FABULOUS time!!

My pink Natural Form Dress at Balboa Park in San Diego, CA.  Otherwise known as "the girliest dress I will ever make".

Then, two weeks later, I was on a plane to vacation in the United Kingdom for two weeks!!  I've never been to the UK before, and I had a blast!  I went with a friend, and we did everything you could possibly do in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow.  Being both big Harry Potter fans, we took a trip on the Jacobite Steam Train (aka the Hogwarts Express), saw "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" play at the Palace Theatre (!!), and went to the Harry Potter tour.  It was amazing!!  Of course, we did other things, like took a trip to Chatsworth House, saw the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, went to the mecca of costuming the Victoria and Albert museum, and took a day trip to Paris.  We had an amazing, busy, crazy, exhausting, fantastic time!

Then, a week after I got back, I went to a Civil War reenactment at Huntington Beach, California, one of the largest (if not the largest) event on the west coast, held every year over Labor Day weekend!  The weather was gorgeous, and I had lots of fun hanging out with lots of different friends.

And now, it's back to real life, and back to sewing.  Sewing!!  Which means, create a blog, create a project list, and start sewing!!

Have a great day!!