A WEDDING, A DANCE, A HOMECOMING AND A BABY

 

 

This past month was a pretty busy one for my family. First off, about 4 weeks ago,  my niece Kay married her sweetheart Danny. It was in Reno, which is about 2,500 miles from here. I couldn't take 5 days off from work, but the Doctor went. To bad he doesn't like to take photos.

              Here's Mr. and Mrs. Salerno.(geez, I hope I spelled that right)

                    First dance as Mr and Mrs.

 Kay dancing with her dad, Gary. The Doctor's youngest brother.

                  Kay and her mom. Misty.

The reason I couldn't go was the dance concert was breathing down our necks. I get down time, but it's sometimes not in the right space. Here's a new photo of the dance called Attic Antics

 Five little girls get bewitched by the imps in the attic. The image on the screen is motion capture that one of the art department faculty did. He filmed 2 dancers then changed them into imps. The girls get turned into monsters. Sorry the photo is fuzzy

 The second part of the ballroom dance was a cha cha. I do love the 80's sequin party dresses! Both dance photos by Sarah Wildes Arnet.


The Homecoming football game and parade was the same weekend as the dance concert. Seeing as The Doctor is now a big shot he got to be in the parade

 He's always sooooo dignified.


And our newest family member made her appearance on Friday. Say "Hello" to Annadella Lila Morris!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She needed a bit of oxygen  and is now fine.Those tubes look pretty scarey but she only needed them for a short time. Her mom is the older sister to Kay, aka The Bride.  Shila and Chad have a set of twins, Em and Wes who are 3. I don't know where "Annadella" comes from, but "Lila" was the name of my Mother-in-law and she would have been Great-Grandmother .

Wonder how exciting the next month will be?

WEIRD DOLL WEDNESDAY, PART67

 

It's Wednesday already? Let's dance!!!!!!!

 Spanish dancing couple. Love the Elvis sideburns.

               Her dress is amazing.

MY NEW DRESS

 

I bought this dress last Friday for $2.99. It looks like *meh* on the hanger

 Totally looks great on. It's from a company called Susie in the City.

 The knot wrap detail in the front gives it a lot of shaping.

 Random cat photo. Sleeping Mr. Scooty

Here's another dance I designed. All 8 costumes where pulled from stock. We've had the green and blue dresses for years. The one on the right started life with an ugly lace with bows bodice. I took that off, added some sparkles and braided straps. The one in the back got the long sleeves removed and some sparkle added to the front. Cost for all 8 costumes? $0.00. Yeah, I altered a couple of vintage dresses. So, sue me. I don't see the point of letting costume pieces hang in storage, rotting on the hangers when you can change them up and use them in shows. I also did the costumes for the cha cha number (no photo yet) that was also the same 8 dancers and those costumes also cost $0.00.  As a costumer, I'd rather pull from stock and spend money on period shows or musicals.

Enjoy the rest of the week.

".........$20 IN MY POCKET"

 

On Friday, before work, I walked over to the Salvation Army and got 8 items for under $20. Here's the receipt  to prove it.

 Sometimes I think people don't believe me when I tell them what I pay for some of the dresses I wear. My new dress cost $2.99. Here's want else I got.....

 Vintage short sleeve man's shirt.......

 2 vintage sweater vests and a short sleeve turtle neck sweater

                 Wool sport coat. Geez, lots of brown and tan.

 My new dress. Which I hope I can wear next week. It looks way better on then on the hanger.

and a sweet cropped cardigan.

The 8th item is a pirate shirt from International Male which is hanging with the costumes for the next show.  It's the "puffy shirt" from that Seinfeld episode ( I've never seen that episode, but someone told me about it)

Until next time........

IT'S PLAIDURDAY!

 

According to Bella Q, it's Plaid Day. As I don't own any plaid, here's The Doctor wearing some vintage Pendleton.

He has tons of the stuff, but all the other photos I told looked like mugshots! Not the best poser!

 THE DYING SWAN.

Here's an old postcard of Anna Pavola in The Dying Swan costume. The dance was her trade make piece.  

 I stood in front of this costume (or one of them)  at the dance museum in Stockholm, Sweden in 2003. I had to come up with a more modern version

 

 tutu, feathers, trim and more feathers. Thanks to ebay, we found the tutu for $55!
The rest of the pieces were from old, beat up costumes. We recycle like crazy.

the first idea on the dress form. We decided to shorten the over fabric so some of the tutu shows. 

  Done!      photo by: Sarah Wildes Arnett

Another view.  Danced by Haley Sheppard. Photo by: Eric Brandt Neilsen, who also choreographed the piece, from Fokine's original work

WEIRD DOLL WEDNESDAY, PART 66

 

Another "stunner". Well, she looks stunned. I'm guessing by the little windmills on her dress she's Dutch. 

She's another tiny doll, that's my finger holding her by her one wooden shoe.  She's also sporting a crazy hair-do: plastic hair helmet sides with a fohawk on top.