Monthly Archives: September 2010
Costuming Charlie Brown: Collars & Skirts
Sally and Lucy have very distinctive Peanuts dresses – triangular bodice and full skirt, puffy sleeves, and unique collars. Starting from this tunic pattern, I needed to design some extras for the costume myself – collar, skirt, and sleeves. For Sally’s … Continue reading
Costuming Charlie Brown: Multitasking
I am costume designing for Charlie Brown – and my current strategy is massive multitasking. I have 4 costumes currently in progress, 1 done, and 1 yet to start (eek). I’m pretty good at following patterns – the tricky part … Continue reading
Notes on Nashville
A few items of note from our trip: 1) What is this? We had no idea. A sculpture or really advanced technology? 2) Nashville has a full-scale replica of the Parthenon. It was built fully restored for Tennessee’s 1897 Centennial … Continue reading
This is what happens when…
This is what happens when you let frosted, sprinkled cupcakes sit in your car in Nashville heat for 3 hours: See how nicely the frosting melted and dripped off the cupcakes, leaving the sprinkles behind? Also good to know: re-frosting … Continue reading
Costume Designing Charlie Brown: the plan
This should be interesting. Our church is putting on You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown next month. I volunteered to help with sewing and general crafting, and now I have been declared the costume designer. Having never costume designed in … Continue reading
Cookie holding coffee cup
Totally brilliant “Dunk Mug.” Unfortunately, the only website where I can find it has it listed as unavailable. =( Any potters out there want to make one for me?
Reliving my childhood crafts: cross-stitching
For quite a while in my elementary and middle school years, I was really into counted cross-stitch. It had been years since I last worked on a cross-stitch project, but a year or so ago I had the urge to … Continue reading