And What Have You Been Making This Week Princess???....

Hello Dhaaarlings...

On top of making preliminary costumes for the theatre group...

 Princess has been busy filling an order for Party Invitations! 

That's right darlings... one of the Empresses friends is turning 70!

The friend has commissioned Princess to not only make the invitations for her party... but as it is a "Witches and Warlocks" themed Costume Party...

 Has decided that she would like to have Witch Costume commissioned for  herself...

So after much "ummimng" and "ahhing" over designs we settled on the above and below... for the invitations...

A Witch on broomstick silhouette printed on glossy photographic paper and mounted on black card and matching black envelopes...

with the invitation printed on white linen finish paper inserted and fixed to the inside  of the black card.

And as the friend concerned has just survived a battle with breast cancer... a costume themed party was just the ticket for someone that has never had one before in her life... And has such a marvellous reason to go all out in celebration!

The costume is in the planning stage...Picture Black and Mauve Satin with Spider Web Netting over long floaty sleeves...

As always I'll post a picture or two of the finished product on completion darlings.

Oh... and the fabric you see in the left background in the top picture is another project on which I am working...

It is to become a blouse to be worn to a wedding for a grandchild  of another friend of the Empress... It's due to be completed by the end of next week!

So... For me... I'll be chained to the Phaff.... seemingly for the rest of the year at this rate!

But I can't complain... Both the party invitations/ Witch costume and the wedding blouse are paying customers!

Things seem to be taking off all of a sudden around here!

I think need a little celebratory drink!

You know you are always welcome to join me...

Bottoms Up Darlings....

A Day at the Races???.....

Hello Dhaaarlings...




I love the smell of racing silks and sound of thundering horses hooves racing toward the finishing post as much as much as the next person...


And I'm not even adverse to the occasional flutter with a bookie in the mounting yard... though at present my passionate yearning for a day at the races has somewhat been curtailed and instead... my passion has been rekindled and replaced by mountains of tulle, satin and crystal organza...

As you are probably aware... I am in the process of designing and making the costumes for a local whole of school production of 

"Alice in Wonderland"

The School ranges from grade prep primary age to year 12 senior High school which makes for a lot of kids and a multitude of costumes. 

fortunately most of the costumes have been made as class projects through the year and I have been one of the costume designers asked to put the final embellishments to them an bring them up to standard for the stage production. 

In the past few weeks I have been working on the costumes for the Prep, Grade 1 and Grade 2 kids who are a variety of Flowers, Butterflies, Dragon Flies and Blades of grass ready for the Garden Scene.

Below are some samples of the Flower costumes....

The Butterflies and Dragon flies are also completed.

There are one or two stand alone costumes which are very creative and have been designed by their wearers and I will post about them at a later date

but for the moment think "Moth", "Bread 'n' Butterfly" and "Venus Flytrap"

Go on let your imaginations run wild darlings...

There are also 2 minor flower roles that act as the wranglers for the junior performers in the scene and they have special costumes for their part. 

These being 

A White Rose...

And a Red Rose

Consisting of a tulle skirt, an apron of wired and shaped rose petals and an elasticised headband...

In the meantime I've been conjuring 13 more flower hats for the supporting cast/chorus in the garden scene...

And here they are...

All fitted to an "Alice Band" and combined individually with a plain underskirt and over-skirt of tulle and patterned netting....

So... That's what I've been up to...

One down.... with only 12 more skirts to go!

I think I'm ready for a stiff drink Dhaaarlings...