by kelerr
No one is as shocked as I am at how much I managed to make for myself over this past month. I have not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE makes to show you. Now, in all honestly, the first make I’m going to show you was started a while ago (so long ago that I can’t remember when exactly), and this month I polished it off and added the sleeves and did the hems. It really […]
by kelerr
This week is an insanely busy week for me (The Little Mermaid is in just TWO DAYS!!), so I’ve opted to do a repost of a Glow costume review I wrote shortly after the first season came out, just slightly updated with the second season. Some of the grammar might turn out strange since I wrote this post over a year ago, but I’m leaving it as it for the most part. I am completely addicted to Glow. That came […]
by kelerr
Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’ve probably seen, or at the very least heard of, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Almost everyone I know watched the story of Midge Maisel, the picture perfect housewife-turned-comedienne after her husband leaves her. I first discovered the show during Amazon’s pilot season. I watched it on a whim, fell in love with it and then didn’t hear anything else about it for a while. Finally, the whole first season came out and […]
by kelerr
Last week, I continued my Friday night theater series, something that started accidentally, but when I discovered that I had booked theater tickets for three Fridays in a row, I started adding more Fridays in to see how many weeks I could go with a Friday theater night (as of right now, February 15 is my last scheduled one). This past Friday was a Christmas gift for my mom, who really wanted to see Laura Benanti in My Fair Lady. […]
Categories: Costumes, Out and About, Theater
by kelerr
NOTE: This post is a repost from a few years ago. This Tuesday’s post was going to be about my trip to My Fair Lady, but time got away from me this weekend while trying to finish up The Little Mermaid costumes and so I’m going to save that one for when I can actually write it at a leisurely pace. So enjoy a little “blast from the blog past” today! This week, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has been […]
by kelerr
On January 1, Netflix aired the final season of their adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. The series followed the lives of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire after the death of their parents in a tragic fire, and the subsequent bad fortune that befalls them. I read the books when I was younger, but definitely not the age the books were intended for. I was in my early twenties, and I never finished the series as I […]
by kelerr
I swear I don’t go out as much as this recent string of out and about posts would imply. Normally I’m just home binge-watching Netflix and working on sewing projects, but for whatever reason the next couple of weeks are full of shows. Currently, I’m in the middle of a six show Friday night streak, and I’m outlining them all here. This past Friday’s show was Dear Evan Hansen, the Tony-award winning Broadway musical. A co-worker of mine was nice […]
Categories: Costumes, Eating, Out and About, Theater
by kelerr
Cogsworth was the second character that came to me fully formed, costume-wise. I knew exactly what my plan was, and though it got tweaked here and there as we were going along, he ended up looking exactly like what I pictured when I originally started doing my designs. The first step was planning. For months I had asked my coworkers to send me cardboard that they would otherwise be throwing out, and as a result I had tons to choose […]
by kelerr
Every year, there are some characters who seem very simple on the surface but it takes me forever to come up with a costume idea. This year those characters were the Silly Girls (a.k.a. the “groupies” who follow Gaston around everywhere he goes). In the end, I took inspiration from both the animated and live action versions. I liked that the characters in the animated version wore matching dresses, but I also liked that in the live-action they wore different […]
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