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
I first began sewing about eighteen or nineteen years ago. As I remember it, I was probably around twenty when I took it up as a real interest and started developing my skills. It started with simply wanting to make Jane Austen Regency-style gowns (a la the costume designs of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility). I used old sheets when I started, and just jumped in, knowing next to nothing. My first couple of projects were riddled with […]
Categories: Creating
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
I’m sad to say that I do not have a ton to show you this month, however to make up for it I’m going to post some previews of my costumes for The Little Mermaid once I show you the one thing I’ve managed to make for myself recently. I’m actually cheating because the dress I’m going to show off here was actually made at the very, very end of December, right before my Christmas vacation ended and I had […]
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
Instagram is a funny thing, isn’t it? Through the power of social media, I have learned so many little challenges and hashtags that I can participate in. One fine example of this is the #makenine challenge, in which you post a grid image of nine patterns that you plan to make in the upcoming year. I’m sharing my Make Nine a little more officially here, with some fabric choices and ideas, and with the full knowledge that I will almost […]
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