Presently our lawn is getting it’s ass kicked by more than one bulldozer and several chain saws. Be gone stupid sand & clover & dead trees trying to pretend you’re a yard. We are hillbillies no more! REAL GRASS is on it’s way. (the walk on kind, not hippie lettuce)
Here’s some of the “before” pictures:
I have a new client who has been franticly searching for the J Crew Celeste Pique Dot Gown for her destination wedding next summer. I’m going to be making her a replica of the gown & am currently searching for the right fabric. I have several contacts in New York & will being going there myself in October, so I’m confidant we’ll find an extremely similar fabric. The polka dots are just so unique!
I’ve seen on several websites that quite a few people are looking for this gown, so I thought I would let it be known that I can make this for you. I have found several different dot fabrics and some other similar in style white on white fabrics, but am still looking for something that is exactly the same. It can also be made in several white cotton or silk fabrics shown below.
The dot or print gown is $1450 and the plain white is $1200, plus shipping and handling.
If you have any other gowns that have been discontinued that you would like made, please let me know. I won’t copy anything that is currently available from retailers, but I’m happy to help you create something that just isn’t available on the current market. I’m an aspiring designer myself & I won’t attempt to undercut another designers work or income. Also, I usually can’t make it for less than the existing retail price, so you have no advantage having me make something that’s currently in stores. Feel free to contact me at any time with your needs & I’ll be happy to talk with you!
Here’s some of the current selections of fabric for the J Crew Celeste:
What do you think of my new logo?
Hey, where have I been for the past month? Wow, I can’t believe an entire month has come & gone. My kids have hijacked my computer & I’ve also had the tail end of spring wedding crunch. I should be back to regular blogging in the next couple of months. I’ll be getting a laptop (woohoo!) and I’m gearing up my business to switch over to using a Denver manufacturer to produce my gowns, freeing up much more of my time to work on expanding the line.
These are the snaps taken in my basement, Beatriz promises the real pics this weekend. Notice the mr. potato head lips on the floor! We had to make a couple of quick last minute fitting changes to the bust area & add the black strip to the bottom. We were all agreed that we actually liked the black on the bottom better than without. Her shoes are 4 or maybe 4 1/2 inch heels, when the dress was really made assuming she would find a 3 inch heel.
I made this dress pretty much straight from Vogue 7365 & did only one fitting. I don’t generally work from sewing patterns, but was trying to help Beatriz fit this dress into her budget. We also did only one fitting due to her budget limit and also the fact that she had to drive quite a distance to come into Colorado Springs.
Next week, after I’m done with my current deluge of prom & wedding dresses, I’ll be posting more in the series of “working directly with your designer”. In the mean time, I just wanted to give you a quick update on a couple of items:
1) I can now accept credit card payments over the phone.
2) If your wedding is more than 6 months away, a deposit of $500 will secure your date. We can decide final dress design and fabrication details closer to your wedding date.
3) I have offered a couple of my clients a monthly payment plan. Ask for details if you’re interested.
Just a quick peak at Stephanie’s dress. “Erethral” was the effect we were going for. I think we’ve got it! (O.K., wordpress is telling me I misspelled “erethral”, but all they will give me for a suggestion is “urethra” hahaha.)
Sorry for the neighborhood pics in the background, I was trying to get a good pic of the wind catching the dress (which makes more neighbors than you would think stop and ask “ahhh…what are you doing?”) See our yard in the background? It’s going to have grass in a couple of months. Really, I promise. We’re doing the whole shebang. Sprinkler system, topsoil, actual sod. Perhaps even landscaping. Woohoo.
Here’s some fabric I just dyed for Stephanie St. Clair. I’m making a Sally Rand-esque costume for her for a burlesque performance. I’ll post pictures of the finished dress in a couple of days and give a link to her photos from the shoot when she sends them to me.
There aren’t many great pictures on the internet of the original performance, but here’s a couple:
Here’s pictures from Cara’s dress, completed this past week. I only have the snapshots we took in my studio, I’ll post the wedding pictures when she sends them.
Poor Cara, she developed some sort of rash last week of unknown origin & has been on steroids which have caused swelling. She’s getting married in St. Thomas in late April.
You’ll have to excuse my not so great picture quality, my point & shoot (which is all I’m capable of using) seems to have developed behavior problems & won’t focus or flash quite right. If you know of a good point & shoot digital camera for under $500, let me know.
8 DAYS after a minor fender bender, our car continues to sit in our garage. Everyone is on board to get it fixed (the guy who hit us, his insurance agent, our insurance agent, our body shop…) but we can’t get the go-ahead from the claims adjuster. Nor can we get authorization for a rental car, even though the head light & blinker are non-functional…which I believe is something the cops frown upon. It’s now 32 minutes until said claims adjuster leaves her office for the day. At least 3 messages have been left for her today by various parties, but no one has heard back. Did I mention it’s been 8 DAYS?
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