The Woman in Black

Went to see the woman in black today, very good. Visually beautiful, the lights and colours used make it look so beautiful. Daniel Radcliffe is rather good, strange watching him as someone other than harry. The costumes are beautiful and the set is AMAZING!!! would totally recommend it to EVERYONE.

25th feb Titanic

Went to the shop to do the Titanic themed window, got both windows painted once over but the gloss didn't dry in time. We got the railings spray painted  and pinned together and had a little mess around with some costumes for the time period. i think we did a pretty good job considering what we had to go from. (the dummy definitely looked like rose)

24th feb

Started on the dress i brought home from the shop. I cut out the fabric for the frills and unpicked the bottom on. This took sooo long it was stitched over about four times. But that is finally unpicked, just have another layer to do. 

Costume

So i spent yesterday unpicking a very large ruffle of a dress. Took me so long, an im not overly fond of unpicking blah! but i finally got the layer off, now to conquer the top layer and attach the new fabric.

Costumes.

When i was dressing the mannequin in different costumes i rummaged through and found a few i really really liked. some of the costumes were so beautifully constructed.

40's/50's style dress. So detailed, covered in small beads and sequins. Absolutely gorgeous but so tiny around the chest and waist. The corset underneath the dress is so beautifully constructed just an all over beautiful dress.

 Showgirls outfit : I think this is possibly my favourite I've come across so far. Covered in sequins all over. You can tell there has been a lot of hard work but into the costume. Again it is so small size ten if your lucky. the corset inside is so pretty, and the fabric at the bottom look as if they have been singly made and sewn on. The dark blue ones are made to look like dollar bills and in between netting and lace. By the looks of the costume i would say that the sequins and beads have been hand sewn on, showing how much work has gone into the costume (it is very heavy due to all of the sequins and beads.) There is also a lovely head dress to go with it.

day 4 and 5 (17th &18th feb)

Friday and Saturday I was working at the shop.

Friday mainly consisted of sorting through costumes in the laundry room. ironing them out, hanging them all up and putting them all away. This doesn't sound like a lot but it took soooo long sorting through everything. I also photographed the rest of the clothing that was going on ebay and tidied up the shop a bit. 
Saturday was list day, wrote down everything that needed to be written down and put onto ebay. I also sat down with Brian and we talked about what we were going to do this coming weekend with the window display. 

16th feb 1950's

The petticoats and skirts finally got finished completely on Thursday pretty proud of everyone involved i think we done very well considering none of us had ever made either garments before!!

Had to miss working at the shop on Thursday because of making the 1950's clothes, way too much to do got a bit worried things wouldn't get finished but as far as i know everything went smoothly. Again i think we done pretty good as we hadn't made anything like that before.

I know Fiona took the costumes for a fitting and there was a few problems with the jackets but i think everything got sorted out and the jackets are now complete.