Alterations - A Playlist

My day-to-day doing alterations for Germantown Cleaners and private clients, complete with awesome tunes.
(2) Tie-dyed moo moos [hem at 2" and create a 14" side slit]
Donovan - There is a Mountain
(2) Dickies work pants [hem to 31" inseam]
The Kinks - Powerman
(1) Wedding Dress [add more snaps and "do something with this God awful sash"]
Vanessa Carlton - I Don't Want to be a Bride
(3) Dress pants [shorten by 1.5"]
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
(1) Dress pant with lining [shorten by 2.25"]
Sugar and the High-Lows - Stubborn Lover
(1) Skirt with lining [shorten by 1.5"]
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around the Bend
(1) Cropped dress pant [broken belt loop]
John Lennon - Oh Yoko
(1) Down comforter [patch hole ripped by dog]
Mos Def - Quiet Dog Bite Hard
(1) Jeans [patch hole]
Camera Obscura - French Navy

 

Heritage Dresses

Completed my second Heritage wedding dress for the future Mrs. Stephanie Wilson. We patterned the bodice and neckline from her grandmother's wedding dress. I removed all of the antique lace applique from the original, paired it with bright white lace of the same style, and transferred it to the sheer layer to give the new dress dimension. A satin sash and nude flats will finish her look the day of.

Steph looks stunning, but it's bad luck to reveal the entire dress before the ceremony!

A Season of Miracles

A Season of Miracles wrapped a few weeks ago in Nashville, TN. A wonderful filming experience - and my first Assistant Costume Designer credit!

Big Bang Fashion

Some of the best costuming on cable TV. It's one show where the costumes enhance the exaggeration of the world we're supposed to be in for half an hour instead of neutralize it to popular trends. The overly quirked styles catch us off guard but help us to understand these socially inept and fascinating guys in ways that we may not if they were on point with trends or dressed as blandly as most scientists do. They create the ideal nerds because, let's be honest, engineers and astrophysicist would never wear pants that tight.

I am in no way complaining about the tightness of Johnny Galecki's pants. Ever. What?

May 25th

Just one post and then I'll stop talking about it.

I'm so excited to see this movie. Nineteen days, y'all.

McCheese

Cross Promotion: a form of marketing promotion where customers of one product or service are targeted with promotion of a related product.

The Funky Pepper makes jalapeño jelly that'll knock yer socks off.

I made this table cloth for my mom's shop, McCombs & Company, on Main Street in Faith. She sells homemade spreads and other locally made foods and caters here and there. The best seller is McCombs pimento cheese - a recipe that's been our family for decades and has been famous in Rowan County since 1958.

She has a stack of my business cards on the checkout counter. When someone picks one up, she points out that I made both the table cloth and the roman shade hanging in the window. Thanks for the cross promotion, mom!

Works in Progress

With my creative design projects being limited right now, I thought I would take this opportunity to update on the status of the wedding gown I'm building. It's bad luck to show the finished product before the bride walks down the isle, but as I was tweeking the bottom layer, I seized a photo op.

I died. This is ridiculous.

Most of the lace was taken from her grandmother's dress.

I stood back to look at this hot mess and imagined what my bride would say if she walked in.
"Oh uhhh....well...is that what you drew? I don't, uh, remember it being so..."
This is a common problem artists have when their studio (or in my case, front dining room) is open for people to see.
Getting a peek at a project when it's in progress freaks people out. They stutter around the idea that it looks like crap and sometimes they begin making suggestions on how to fix what they think is finished. We know it looks like a wreck at the moment, y'all, and sometimes we even know how to remedy it. One thing is for sure and that is that we know what we want the end result to be.
I hope I don't sound cantankerous when I tell you not to ask to see a project. If we offer, it's cool. We want your opinion. If not, we aren't ready to reveal our masterpieces.