tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15445769950545344462024-03-12T15:04:05.251-07:00Beauty From AshesGinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14345391863552645466noreply@blogger.comBlogger400125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544576995054534446.post-73544326388963996082018-01-18T22:13:00.001-08:002018-01-18T22:13:44.288-08:00Royal Order Sash Bow Tutorial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello all! Just a quick tutorial about how to make a Royal Order Sash Bow. I made these years ago, for my trip to Costume College in 2014 and then Port Townsend's Victorian Festival in 2015. Somehow I forgot to write about how I made them. With this year's Costume College's theme being royal and all, I figured it would be a good time to do just that!</div>
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The ribbon I used was 3" wide moire ribbon from this store on eBay: <a href="https://www.ebay.com/usr/ribbonstore?_trksid=p2047675.l2559" target="_blank">Ribbon Store</a>. It offers many colors, made of rayon and is fabulous to work with!</div>
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I have a nice Pinterest board dedicated to Sashes: <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/rlnwht/royal-order-sashes/?eq=sashes&etslf=NaN" target="_blank">Royal: Order Sashes</a> where all kinds of inspiration can be found.</div>
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The Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor has 2 wonderful posts dedicated to sashes: <a href="http://orderofsplendor.blogspot.com/2011/09/royal-splendor-101-sashes-and-stuff.html" target="_blank">Sashes and Stuff Part 1</a> and <a href="http://orderofsplendor.blogspot.com/2011/09/royal-splendor-101-sashes-and-stuff_26.html" target="_blank">Sashes and Stuff Part 2</a></div>
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that explain the meaning of sashes, countries that give sashes and orders, how to wear them and other fun things! Plus, the blog is just fabulous to look at if you like me and adore all things royal! </div>
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Port Townsend, WA for their Victorian Festival. I loved the way the light blue of this sash went with the pale yellow of my natural form ball gown.</div>
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More images here: <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2015/03/port-townsend-victorian-festival_29.html" target="_blank">Port Townsend Victorian Festival</a></div>
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Costume College 2014. The first time I went as royalty. I attended the gala as Empress Gina and my fabulous costuming bestie attended as Queen Josie!</div>
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More images here: <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2014/08/costume-college-saturday-night-gala.html" target="_blank">2014 Costume College Gala</a></div>
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Take two lengths of the ribbon and fold them so that the ends lap over each other about 1/2" in the back. The finished, folded piece should measure 5 3/4", so perhaps the length of the ribbon pieces before folding would be 11.5"? I apologize for not measuring that.... Mark the very center with chalk or a disappearing pen and secure with a pin. You will have two separate folded pieces of ribbon.</div>
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Place the two folded ribbon bits one on top of the other, overlapping sides facing each other so that you don't see any raw edges on the finished product. Stitch up the marked line.</div>
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After you have stitched the two folded ribbon pieces together, iron the edges so that they are flat.</div>
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Now you get to make the template for the "pinked" edges of the next layer.</div>
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Cut a new piece of ribbon 5 3/4" long and transfer the "pinked" edges to each short (cut) side of the ribbon and cut out.</div>
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Fold the "pinked" piece in half and iron so that you can see where the middle is.</div>
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Place the "pinked" piece on the two folded, stitched and ironed pieces. You'll want the ribbon to gather nicely when you pull the string, so use my stitches as a guide. The idea is to have the ribbon gather in deep gathers and not shallow ones like you have when gathering a skirt into a waistband.</div>
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Sadly, I didn't take photos of the next steps, but they are easy. Gather up the hand sewn running stitch in the center of the three layers as tight as you can get it and knot it off. Cut a piece of ribbon about an inch to 1 3/4" wide. Tri-fold it into a piece about 1/4" wide, or a bit more, and wrap around the center of the ribbon over the top of the gathering stitches. Sew to secure in the back.</div>
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Next, drape the rest of the ribbon over your shoulder and overlap it at your hip and mark where they meet. I can't remember how far the overlap point was from the end...maybe 3 or 4"? Pin the overlap in place. While it is on you (or your mannequin), pleat the ribbon at your shoulder so that it lays flat against you. If you don't do this, it will stick out and look weird. Secure with pins so you can sew the pleats down when you take it off. When you take the sash off, either gather or pleat the marked bits so that when you overlap them, they flare out from each other. You don't want them laying on top of each other. Stitch points together.</div>
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Sew bow to the spot where the sash points have been stitched together. Now you can decide how long you want your tails. Looking at actual images of real sashes will help a lot here!</div>
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Now you can totally add whatever "Order" you want to! Since Josie liked elephants, this was our Order of the Elephant! Denmark is the country that has an actual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Elephant" target="_blank">Order of the Elephant</a>! I put the ring of the medallions under the "knot" of the bow and stitched to secure!</div>
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I won a lot of heraldic pendants on eBay and fell in love with this one. It also matches my order star so Huzzah!! Perfect match!!</div>
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Some of my "order stars" that I have collected over the years. The top two were ones that I altered using stars off of eBay.</div>
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<b>Please note:</b> When you make the sashes, remember that the back side of the ribbons need to be longer that the front side as the bow sits at your hip, whatever hip you decide that should be. Most sashes go from the right shoulder to the left hip with the exception of a very few. But if you are planning on making your own "order of....." sash, you can decide what shoulder to what hip you go with!</div>
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I hope this tutorial made sense! They are super easy and fun to make!!</div>
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The 1860s Elliptical Half Mourning Dress should actually be called "The Dress of a Thousand Hours" dress. This thing has taken me sooooooo long to complete! It looks so simple. Well, that is totally deceptive. The bodice was chock full of fiddley bits, like the fact that the upper sleeves not only boasted two puffs, but a mancheron! Then there was all the beading. Ugh. I know that beading makes a project or dress look extra cool, but my eyes and fingers and hands were getting ready to disown me as I got close to completing the trim. Sheesh. I think I'm getting old because body parts are starting to seriously chat about rebelling against me and taking part in a coup. Stupid aging!!!!!</div>
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Anyway, the dress is complete and I am so very thrilled with it! The inspiration came from <a href="https://whitakerauction.smugmug.com/Spring-2014new/18th-and-19th-C-Clothing/ID-12-25/i-gbZcFJf" target="_blank">Whitaker Auctions</a>. It was dated to the 1850s, but looks more late 1860s what with the elliptical skirt and all. Whatever the date, I fell in love with it when I was searching for inspiration for the silk that I've had for years. I bought the fabric from a fellow costumer who has since passed away from complications of pancreatic cancer, so I think it only fitting that I chose to make a half mourning dress!</div>
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I am working on a lace and net day cap and a soft bonnet to wear with it. So happy this dress is done as now I can add it to the line up of The House of Whyte's "6 Dresses in 60 Minutes" fashion show!!! (My ultimate costuming goal is to have dresses, with underwear and head wear, in all of the silhouettes from the 1830s to the 1930s!)</div>
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My version of the Whitaker Auction dress.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Isn't this beautiful! I so love the fabric!! Photos of the original dress inspiration used with permission from Charles Whitaker. Thank you!!!</span></div>
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The two puffs and one mancheron per sleeve was a totally pain in the rear, but in the end was worth it!</div>
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The original's armscye was way down on the upper arm as was the way of a lot of the 1860s dresses, but because my shoulders are "claustrophobic" and because I have to use my arms in sweeping motions during my programs (you know, tie my hands behind by back and I can't talk) I chose to move the armscye up further on my upper arm/shoulder. I really don't like that pinned down feeling. But, I was happy to find many examples of shoulders that weren't as low in my research!! Huzzah! </div>
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I was thrilled when I sewed the bodice together to discover that the flowers on the fabric lined up perfectly! Like the middle flowers are exactly down the center of the bodice! Happy accident indeed!</div>
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I love the medallion on the back of the sleeve! Isn't the fabric just stunning? I love the blue and off white print against the silver!</div>
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The original didn't have a belt or a collar so I had to use my imagination to complete the look. I decided that a belt the same width as the sleeve cuffs would look good with a medallion that was the exact same as the ones on the bodice. I think it looks rather fetching! I still need to make a collar and am trying to decide what it will look like.</div>
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Close up of the bead work. The original used cord and beads. I didn't have any cording, so used soutche which actually worked well with the beads resting in the channels!</div>
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Good Sunday evening to you all! I hope this week was a fabulous one for you! For me, I finally got around to feeling like tackling my next project...a half mourning, late 1860s, elliptical gown! I am almost done with the petticoat so Huzzah!</div>
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Today's post is about the last of the wedding dresses I made for the Dressing The Historical Bride program. And it ties with my favorite for first place. I don't know why this one makes me so happy, it just does! The fringe would have put it in dead last just last year, but I think since I made the fringe out of the fabric itself, it didn't look so "fake". Don't know what that means, but there ya go.</div>
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The dress was made out of 70/30 cotton poly and is a beautiful moire!! I adore moire and think it's interesting that both of my first 1850s gowns happen to made out of moire (<a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Unique-3-15-Bridal-Sunflower-Flower-Brooch-Pin-Clear-Austrian-Crystals-06014C1/321591080754?rt=nc&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D41375%26meid%3D72fa1b3e8e0e4f738277f24a36174535%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D321214598274&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851" target="_blank">MET Moire Mourning Dress</a>). I know that I should have used a lighter weighing fabric, but when Mama made her <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2017/06/gold-and-silver-wedding-anniversary_11.html" target="_blank">50th Wedding Anniversary Party Dress</a> there was a ton left over. She let me have it and there was almost enough to make this dress! I do not what we were thinking, buying so much. Like I have said before, math is not my strong suit and so it is the norm for me to buy too much fabric, but this was ridiculous! Anyway, the skirt of this dress alone weighed 8 pounds! So note to self, when next making a flounced 1850s dress, use a sheer fabric! hahahahahahaha!!</div>
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I just loved how this dress turned out and now I am wanting to make a ball gown in the future! Out of lighter weight fabric...</div>
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I love the long point on this dress and the way the seams work together to give the illusion of a super long "V". I borrowed Mom's faux wax orange blossom corsage for the decoration on the dress. I though it looked fantastic!</div>
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I spent a long while searching for an 1850s wedding dress to use as inspiration. The one below from the V&A Museum totally made my heart happy and was going to make the whole outfit similar to the original dress. However, I had never used the pattern I purchased to make the bodice and so was really stressing out over it, even though I intended on making a mock up. Perhaps one day I will make a bodice similar to it!</div>
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1857 Wedding Dress. Source: <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O166841/wedding-dress-unknown/" target="_blank">V&A Museum</a></div>
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After I decided against making a long sleeved bodice, I had to go on the hunt to find a short sleeved bodice. Happily I came across this fabulous example from <a href="http://kerrytaylorauctions.com/archive-list/?id=68&sts=archive&paging=2" target="_blank">Kerry Taylor Auctions</a> (Sold December 3rd, 2013. Lot #45) Thank you Kate for permission to share the image of this fabulous dress! </div>
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Wanting to make sure that short sleeved bodices were used in weddings in the 1850s, I also searched for photographs from the era and found many. Below are a couple. Such beautiful brides!!</div>
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"Martha Pickman Rogers in her wedding gown"</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/martha-pickman-rogers-in-her-wedding-gown-168509" target="_blank">mfa Boston</a></div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2654M/lots/643" target="_blank">Skinner Auctions</a></div>
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One of the most time consuming parts of this project was the making of the fringe. Below you can see how I did it. I laid the fabric on the floor, put heavy books down on it to hold it down and started pulling the weft threads, sometimes two at a time! And yes, it was also a messy business!</div>
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Each strip, and I had to make 10 strips of over 5 yards, took over an hour to "pull". I spent a lot of time on the floor!</div>
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Other tools used were a seam ripper to start the threads to be pulled and a comb to comb the fringe when it got knotted up.</div>
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A short video on how simple it is to make your own fringe!</div>
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This pattern was a fabulous one to use. I will most certainly be using it again!!</div>
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Good Sunday everyone! I hope that your week was a fabulous one! Mine was busy, but it's over and I'm looking forward to next week when hopefully I start a half mourning, 1860s elliptical dress!</div>
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Today, I'm sharing the accessories and underwear that was made for the <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2017/10/1920s-robe-de-style-wedding-dress.html" target="_blank">1920s Robe de Style Wedding Dress</a>. And also my Mama's puppy, Chloe!</div>
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I was so busy and really under the gun to get things (namely dresses) ready for the September "Dressing The Historical Bride" fashion show, that I just didn't have time to do the flowers that I wanted for three of the dresses. Having done floral things in the past, and being so beyond excellent at making my visions come to life, I asked Mom if she would do the 1850s, 1914 and 1920s wedding bouquets. I'm so happy she said yes, because as you will see, they were magnificent!!!</div>
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Isn't Chloe the cutest thing? She is so fun and silly and happy and loving! I want to steal her and bring her home, but Mom would be crushed and Greg would not be pleased.</div>
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And my Mom...she is just the cutest thing ever! She made the bouquet out of new maiden hair fern bushes from Hobby Lobby, Boston fern bushes from the dollar store, beautiful bridal blush roses from Michael's, and antique lily of the valley that I pulled off of an antique hat...there were over 45 of them on the hat!!! The style of bouquet in the 1920s had become ENORMOUS and for some fun reason, knotted ribbons, sometimes with flowers tied to them, sometimes not, were added to the bouquet. As you can see in the following inspiration photos, Mom hit the nail on the head perfectly!!</div>
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I just love the shape and size of these bouquets. Many of them had asparagus and maiden hair fern and just a few flowers, usually roses. The look was something very whispy and airy</div>
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Keeping with the look of the cloche in the 1920s, wedding veils became caps that resembled skull caps. They were many times made of a lovely silk veiling and decorated with tucks, silk ribbon, silk ribbon flowers, waxed orange blossoms or fresh flowers. Elastic was sewn into the edge to hold the veil snugly to the head!</div>
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To go with the dress, I chose antique, ivory colored, kid leather opera gloves!</div>
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Many of the veils from the 1920s were exceeding long, probably to make up for the short skirts that were now in fashion, but on occasion, brides wore short veils. Happiness for me, as my veil was on the shorter side!</div>
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For the underwear for the dress, I wanted to make a set of "step-in" combinations and tap pants. I should have made them out of satin, but I was out of money to purchase some and had pretty cotton on hand, so that's what I used! I will, in the future, be making a satin set.</div>
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The pattern used for the step-in combinations and tap pants was <a href="http://www.pastpatterns.com/501.html" target="_blank">Past Patterns 501</a></div>
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I must admit that I was most excited about this project because I could finally make these panniers!! I think they are ridiculous and marvelous and jolly and fun!! Plus, I can now make other Robe de Style dresses! Huzzah!</div>
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I really liked how this pannier was attached to a bodice. Sort of like an extra element of modesty for the satin bodice of the dress. Source: <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/83896?img=7&imgNo=4&tabName=object-information" target="_blank">The MET</a>.</div>
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The lace at the hem came from this example from <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/82632?img=2" target="_blank">The MET</a>.</div>
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The pattern I used for the the panniers was the fabulous <a href="http://www.lafnmoon.com/product_p/p128.htm" target="_blank">Laughing Moon 128</a></div>
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To finish out this post, one more look at the lovely Miss Adalea wearing the 1920s dress! I could not get over what an incredible 1920s bride she made! Almost made me cry!!</div>
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Hello everyone! I hope that the start of your week has been splendid! Mine has been ok! This week's post concerns the 1920s Robe de Style wedding I dress I made for the "Dressing the Historical Bride" program. I think it is one of my favorite dresses. It is so ridiculous, with the panniered hips, but so elegant and lovely at the same time.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Dress</b></span></div>
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I used a hem stitch to hem the satin edges. That was so not fun. But in the end it was worth it!</div>
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Photo of a Robe de Style wedding dress I found on Pinterest with no source stated. I LOVED the lace flounces on her skirt! It is so sweet and very feminine. I didn't much like the idea of making a collar like is on her dress, so left it off.</div>
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The bodice part of this dress, that was once on eBay, really made me happy. I liked how plain it was leaving the skirt to do the showing off. This dress has sheer sleeves, but I didn't like those either. The flounces were gathered on a cord and that is what I did for my lace and satin flounces. I also really liked the piping around the neckline, armscye and where the bodice meets the skirt.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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For mine, I made small tubes of satin that were knotted at the end, wire and very thin crochet thread and antique lily of the valley sprigs.</div>
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This first inspiration dress is from <a href="http://www.antiquedress.com/item5154.htm" target="_blank">antiquedress.com</a> (the next 4 photographs). Deborah graciously gave me permission to use several photographs here on the blog. Thank you Deborah!</div>
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The first decoration I discovered was on this dress from Antique Dress. I instantly fell in love with how the leaves were placed on wire then covered with thread and the addition of the lily of the valley.</div>
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Everything about this dress makes me happy. The color, the satin, the lace and the floral decoration!!</div>
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Look at all those lovely lily of the valley! I think there were also waxed orange blossoms used!</div>
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The second inspiration for the floral decoration comes from <a href="http://wildrosevintage.blogspot.com/2011/10/1920s-beautiful-vintage-wedding-dress.html" target="_blank">Wild Rose Vintage</a> (next 3 photographs). Thank you so much Faye for letting me share your dress here!! I am so in love with it!</div>
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I really can't believe how similar the decoration on these two dresses are. Like almost exactly the same!! And look a that lovely piping between bodice and skirt!</div>
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I used a tutorial that I found through Pinterest to make the satin flower. You can find that tutorial <a href="https://www.usefuldiy.com/diy-easy-fabric-roses/" target="_blank">Here</a>. The leaves I made using instructions from a fabulous book..."The Art and Craft of Ribbon Work". It is a reproduction of a 1920s flower and bow making book that is fabulous!</div>
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And speaking of piping....look at what I did while making piping for my dress! I have NEVER sewn through my finger while using my sewing machine. Well, my fingers got a little too close to the needle this time. The dangers of using a zipper foot I guess! Thankfully, it wasn't that bad of an accident!</div>
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For the pattern I used for the dress was the Laughing Moon pattern 128 <a href="http://www.lafnmoon.com/product_p/p128.htm" target="_blank">Robe de Style</a>, View C and it went together like a dream!!</div>
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Right then! I hope you all have a most excellent rest of your weeek! I'm trying to work up the desire to start on my 1860s elliptical skirt half mourning dress. We shall see how tomorrow goes!</div>
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Good Sunday to you all! I hope that your past week was a fabulous one! Mine was good. Mom has been improving with her shattered leg and working on her therapy and should be going home tomorrow!! Huzzah! </div>
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Today, I'm sharing the bonnet I made to go with the <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2017/09/1830s-wedding-dress.html" target="_blank">1830s Wedding Dress</a>. There wasn't a bonnet that I copied "exactly", but I took some ideas from extant bonnets and fashion plates from the 1830s. I noticed that a lot of the bonnets from then had a texture or pattern other than plain satin and that made me happy. I also noticed that quite a few had narrow stripes. LOVE! I spent quite a long time trying to locate some fabric that would suit my idea of the bonnet I wanted and it wasn't until my Big Sis, Marilyn Holly gave me a bag of fabric. In this bag was the perfect fabric!!! Huzzah! I raced home with my bag of fabric and held it up to my dress, and low and behold they were in the same color family!!! I was thrilled! I also wanted it to be over the top to go along with the fabric and design of the dress. I added three antique, off white ostrich feathers, a huge flower sprig that I took off an antique hat that was falling apart, wide antique ivory ribbon for the decorative bows and some incredible antique lace that was in my stash!! </div>
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The pattern I used was Lynn McMaster's <a href="http://lynnmcmasters.com/romanticbonnet.html" target="_blank">1830s Romantic Era Bonnet</a></div>
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My sister, Kelly, made the necklace for me while we were in the waiting room at the hospital waiting for Mom's surgery to be over. Thanks sis!!! Little did we know what a 2 hour knee replacement would turn into an 8 hour surgery to repair the bone that was shattered into over 20 pieces attempting to remove the rod that had been placed in the fibula over 31 years ago. On a happy note, Mom is improving nicely and will be going home from the care center where she has been rehabilitating for 2.5 weeks tomorrow!!!</div>
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I had a hard time finding a fashion plate, portrait or any suggestion that a bride carried flowers on her wedding day in the 1830s. I'm sure she did, but... I will do more research into that, but for the fashion show, I liked the idea of a bride walking down the aisle with a prayer book. All of the fashion plates that I saw from the 1830s of brides showed her holding a prayer book or Bible and many times a handkerchief. I had a dickens of a time trying to find an era or at least antique prayer book on line or even in town, but I came across this one from the 1960s at a local antique store that was holding an Estate sale. Huzzah! I'll continue to look for a true, era appropriate prayer book, but until then, this will do! I also had my 1830s bride wear my silk, fingerless mitts.</div>
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Inspiration below for prayer book or Bible carrying.</div>
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To keep the enormous sleeves up and in place, I made these sleeve supports using a pattern that Annielese of <a href="http://youngsewphisticate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Young Sewphisticate</a> sent me! Thank you my dear! These are fabulous and totally aided in keeping the correct shape!! Here is a pair of extant sleeves supports that are in <a href="http://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2015/07/romantic.html" target="_blank">FIDM Museum</a>.</div>
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And to finish the blog, one more look at the lovely Miss Molly modeling the dress! She was so adorable and such a good sport!! Thank you again Molly for joining us!!</div>
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Well, I believe that's all for the 1830s Wedding Dress....until I wear it!! I can't wait!!</div>
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The last post I wrote was about the "Dressing The Historical Bride" fashion show and tea, highlighting 5 unique silhouettes from 5 different clothing eras. Today I want to share with you the 1836 wedding dress that I made and the Augusta Auctions Dress that I used as inspiration! I emailed Augusta Auctions and Karen Augusta gave me permission to use the photos of the phenomenal, incredible, over-the-top dress found on her website: <a href="https://www.augusta-auction.com/component/auctions/?view=lot&id=15961&auction_file_id=36" target="_blank">Augusta Auctions</a>. Thank you so much for allowing me to use this fantastic dress and the images in the making of my own 1830s dress!!</div>
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I have for quite some time wanted to make a crazy, ridiculous, huge sleeved 1830s dress. I also knew that I wanted a fabric with a texture on it and not just a plain satin fabric. While mom and I were visiting my brother and his family in Spokane Valley, I stopped by a JoAnn's and low and behold this incredibly beautiful brocade jumped off the shelves and wrestled me to the ground screaming for me to buy the bolt and take it home. I agreed with the crazy, customer attacking fabric and purchased it...oh, and I could use my 60% off coupon! Huzzaaaaaah!!! It made my magpie heart happy. Now all I needed was the perfect dress to copy! After hours and hours of searching Pinterest, my eyes beheld the most gorgeous 1830s wedding dress I had ever seen! First of all.....PLEATS!!! Secondly, although I had never given oak tree leaves any thought other than thinking they were super cool, this dress had two huge oak leaves framing the pleating on the bodice. The more I looked at the dress, the more my eyes dilated, the more I salivated, the more I got excited, the more I HAD to make it!!! The fussiness of the whole thing just really captured my crazy fashion loving heart!</div>
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Here she is in all her 1830s glory!!! Don't know when I'll get the chance to wear it myself, but I hope that day is soon!!!</div>
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I foolishly thought that this dress would be a super quick make. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!</div>
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That was the most hilarious thing I had talked myself into believing for a very, very long time. I don't know how long it took, but I can say that during the making of the three dresses that I needed to round out the program (1836, 1856, 1920's), I finished all 10 seasons of "CSI: Miami". That would be 232 episodes that averaged 43 minutes a piece for a total 9,976 minutes or 166 hours. Throw in the random "Cranford", some "Call the Midwife", "Manoa", and I started "CSI:Crime Scene Investigation". All I know is that making the whole dress was a colossal consumer of time.</div>
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The pleating was particularly a pain in the rear. The panel was too wide to use my perfect pleater, so I had so measure, mark and pleat each individual pleat, one at a time. </div>
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Well, I can now say that I have an 1830s wedding dress in my costuming collection and for some reason that makes me giddy with delight!</div>
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I hope you all have a wonderful last week of September! I can't believe how fast time is flying by!</div>
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Hello everyone!!! I hope that this post finds you all more than well!!</div>
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Oh my goodness! I can't believe that it has been over 2 months since I have written a blog post! EEEEEK!!! So much has happened in these past two months, so I think I'll forgive myself this sore neglect of blog posting...</div>
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I'll write more on that maybe in the future, but for now, I'd like to share with you the "Dressing The Historical Bride" program that We Wear History and The House of Whyte put on two Saturdays ago! We Wear History and Something Special Antique Store in Meridian, Idaho, do a High Tea/Fashion Show yearly in September and this year's theme was Dressing the Historical Bride. Not only was it an underwear education program, but also a fun historical walk through bridal wear from 5 fashion eras. Those eras that were showcased were the 1830s, the 1850s, the 1890s, 1914 and the 1920s! I had such a fun time researching all the dresses, veils and accessories for this program, but need to schedule my sewing time a lot more carefully! There were days that I was sewing more that 12 hours a day. Lately my creative mind has been writing checks that my body and the whole space time continuum thing simply cannot cash! So, there will be lots of work going on in that arena in the future!</div>
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We had so much fun this year as the ladies are so delightful, elegant, fun, funny and just a true blessing to work with! We added two new ladies to our "family" this year, Michaela Coy from <a href="http://mysoulisfedwithneedleandthread.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Soul is Fed With Needle and Thread</a> and Connie Smith all the way from Texas!!! (Connie is my bestie from Texas, Josie Smith of <a href="http://josephinegypsy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Josephine Gypsy</a>)</div>
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Photos were taken by the talented Colton White (my boy!) and the floral arrangements from 1850s, 1914 and 1920s, were made by my sweet Mama who couldn't be there as she had scheduled knee replacement surgery two days before...(due to some horrid unforseen events, she doesn't have a new knee but does have in and on her tibia 2 plates, 19 screws, 4 wires and 148 staples...yaaaaaaa...more on that later!)</div>
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Sooooooo...without further ado, here are the historical brides in their finery!</div>
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What is an underwear/bridal fashion show without those lovely ladies who dress the brides? Here are the fabulous dressers with the brides they were tasked with making ready for the walk down the aisle!</div>
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I may be a bit partial and prejudiced, but I think that these lovely ladies were just stunning! (They are stunning out of costume as well!) It was such a thrill seeing them all dressed up!!!</div>
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I have the most fabulous men in my life! My husband, Greg and my sons, Cody and Colton were so accommodating and agreed to act as tea pot fillers and escorts for the brides during the show! I was so proud of them! They also helped to deliver ALL the everything to the venue and take everything home. I am so blessed!!</div>
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(these next 5 pictures were taken by my long time bestie Kay Dyer!)</div>
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Miss Molly with Mr. Greg White</div>
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Miss Brianna with Mr. Colton White</div>
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Miss Mikayla with Mr. Dakota White</div>
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Miss Aubrielle with Mr. Greg White</div>
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Miss Adalea with Mr. Colton White</div>
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Good Monday to you all!! I hope that you had a wonderful month of June! I do apologize for my absence, but the relief I thought would come after the Anniversary party didn't, in fact the anxiety got worse, along with other symptoms that I had been having but are now stronger. We have discovered that I have adrenal fatigue (sorry Facebook friends if you are reading this again!!) and so I'm taking steps to correct my wacked out stress hormones and attempting to heal myself! I have put off posting about my Silver Anniversary dress because the thought of taking photos of the dress, editing them and the writing about it caused me no amount of stress. I really enjoy writing about my dresses and love editing the photos and doing my research and many times a post takes about 1-2 hours. Well, right now, that is just so overwhelming. But yesterday I felt good enough to take the pictures and edit them and today feels like a good day to blog about it! So here we are!</div>
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Long ago when Mom and I started planning for our Silver and Gold Wedding Anniversary party, I knew exactly what dress I wanted to recreate! This magnificent beauty from <a href="http://antiquedress.com/item4556.htm" target="_blank">Antique Dress</a>!! I seem to have an affinity for this website and their fabulous dresses!! (Remember my <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2016/08/1898-wedding-ensemble-complete.html" target="_blank">1898 Wedding Ensemble</a>?) The combination of silk satin, gossamer lace, copious quantities of waxed orange blossoms!! My mouth watered and my eyes dilated just looking at her!</div>
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I had originally planned on making it out of silk satin and some lovely lace I found on eBay from China, but family issues, the hard time Colton was having with school along with his depression, mixed with my own personal health/anxiety issues caused me to put this lovely dress recreation on the waaaaaay back burner and relegate it to the "maybe some day" file on the computer. </div>
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Well....the closer it got to the party date, the more excited I got about making the dress and even though I had my 1898 wedding dress, I wanted something special just for this special day. Then happiness occurred and Greg said he needed to go out of town for a job and was taking Colton with him!!! I don't like it when my Greg is away from me, but this time I was, "Yes!! I can sew literally ALL DAY and not have to worry about what I'd cook for dinner or putting make up on or leaving the house for anything!!!!" I didn't have the time or money to order silk satin so off to the local stores I went. I ended up making it out of a really nice weight poly satin from Hobby Lobby and lace and wonderfully soft, drapey, veil tulle from JoAnn's bridal collection! </div>
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Cody works so he was gone from the house 8:20-6:30, so I quite literally sewed non stop, breaking only for food and the powder room. In the evenings, Cody and I went out which was fun as we seldom have time alone, so those Mama/19 year old son times were so sweet! Greg and Colton were supposed to be gone Wednesday night until Monday or Tuesday evening...5-6 whole days to knock out this surprise dress for the party! Well, Sunday afternoon, Rosie Dog started barking furiously and I look out the window and there is Greg's pick-up and trailer! I bounded out of the house, I was so happy that he was home! Gone was my 1-2 extra days of non-stop sewing, but I didn't care cause my love was back home! In all actuality, it was foolish of me to think I could get the dress completed in that time because 90% of the making of it consisted of draping the lace and soft tulle. The dress took me waaaaay longer that I had originally thought...over 110 hours!! In the end, the crazy press to complete it and all the hours was totally worth it to see the look on my Greg's face!!!</div>
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I eventually want to add orange blossom vines to the front of the dress and over the shoulder, but I need to locate more original blossoms. I am also going to be making a new suite of underwear to go under it. The sheerness of the tulle at the shoulders kept me from wearing my already made princess petticoat and corset cover, so new undies are in the planning stage!!</div>
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Poly Satin from Hobby Lobby</div>
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Soft poly veil tulle from JoAnn's Bridal Collection</div>
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Lace from JoAnn's Bridal Collection</div>
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<b>Dress Base: </b><a href="http://www.lafnmoon.com/Pattern_104_1909_1913_Day_Evening_Dress_p/p104.htm" target="_blank">Laughing Moon #104</a> greatly modified</div>
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<b>Over draping: </b>all tulle and lace draping was draped by me...that took the longest time!!</div>
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Following are images of my dress followed by the original. At the bottom are "action" pics of me wearing it at the party. I did a lot of editing as any shade of white on a sunny day photos horribly!!!</div>
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Again, photos of the original dress, courtesy of <a href="http://antiquedress.com/item4556.htm" target="_blank">Antique Dress</a></div>
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Good Sunday, almost Monday to you all! I hope you all have been doing well! I do want to thank all of you who wrote emails to me, commented on the blog, or messaged me on Facebook about my previous post concerning anxiety and stress. You all truly blessed me and your thoughts and prayers are most coveted! I am doing much better, especially since the weeks leading up to yesterday are over and I can now concertedly work on healing myself and getting back to my wonderful normal! I am happy to report that Colton is doing much better as well and we are together working on getting back to us and making this summer a super fun one!! Thank you for your kind words, thoughts and prayers concerning my sweet boy!!</div>
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Yesterday Mom, Dad, Greg and I along with our close family and friends celebrated our wedding anniversaries. Greg and I celebrated 25 years on January 3rd and Mom and Dad will celebrate 50 years on October 7th. Mom and I felt that a month that fell somewhat in the middle of the two dates would be a fabulous time to have a Gold and Silver Wedding Anniversary Party! It was held <a href="http://www.thebishopshouse.org/" target="_blank">The Bishops' House</a> in Boise. Being a small venue, we had a limit on attendance, but it was a very intimate and lovely affair none the less! I had been wanting for many years leading up to this quarter of a century mark, to have a grand anniversary party in a fabulous Victorian House, where the attendees wore Victorian garb if they so chose. But I didn't know anyone who 1) owned one or 2) would let us hold a party there! Then we discovered The House and voila!! Our plans started in earnest!</div>
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For the decorations, we chose to simply utilize the wedding artifacts we use in our "Dressing the Victorian Bride" program. Easy Peasy! We didn't have to purchase anything that we wouldn't use down the road! Plus it added a very lovely feel to the Victorian House!</div>
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My mementoes of my wedding day consisted of my shoes, Greg's cuff links and shirt studs, our wedding invitation and napkin, Greg's boutonniere, my garter, flowers from my wedding bouquet, repaired cake topper, our toasting glasses, our photograph, my dress and veil. </div>
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Mom made a lovely shadow box filled with her ring pillow, original ring in the original box, show clips, garter, Dad's cuff links and tie pin and her going away bouquet. She also repaired her cake topper, had her marriage license framed, a champagne bottle from their honeymoon, her veil, dress and photograph of the wedding party!</div>
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We were thrilled to be able to use the over the top punch bowl!! It was such a fabulous addition to the serving pieces!</div>
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The cake came from <a href="http://sugarrushcupcakeryboise.com/" target="_blank">Sugar Rush Cupcakery</a> in Boise. The middle layer was Pink Champagne!!!!</div>
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Marilyn and Aubrielle Holly were our party coordinators and they enlisted the help of my Mother-in-Law Pam, my Sister-in-Law Chrissy and my cousin Linda to help in the kitchen assembling the food that had been prepared the night before. </div>
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The tea party-esque menu included:</div>
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Roast beef sandwiches with herbed cream cheese spread and red root relish</div>
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Chicken, cranberry, cheese and almond sandwiches</div>
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Cream puff cups with custard</div>
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incredible cookies made by my sister!!!</div>
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We are so appreciative of all the work that went into keeping the food trays filled and looking FABULOUS so mom and I could enjoy our day!! You ladies rocked!!!</div>
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In the middle of the table was placed Kelly's cookies. She makes THE best sugar cookies I have ever tasted. They are perfectly soft in the middle but with a little bit of a harder outer layer. She made these blue (Mom's favorite color). They were decorated with "W" for Walters and White, "50", "25", "G&G" for Greg and Gina and "R&L" for Ray and Lana! Her labor or love (12 hours of work on Friday) was so greatly appreciated! I'm actually eating one now!</div>
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One of the fun things we did was set up a Victorian "photo booth". I wanted people to be able to take pictures using a great background and props to emulate cabinet cards of the past! It was super fun!</div>
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We even cut the cake, fed bites to each other and drank a toast with our arms intertwined</div>
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We were so blessed to be surrounded by close family and friends who have prayed with us, walked through the good, the bad and the ugly times with us, dropped whatever they were doing to come sit with us or just simply lent an ear during times of sorrow, frustration or pain. They have laughed with us over something ridiculous, shared moments of utter joy, let us be our true selves (without running away screaming!!), and in general supported us during this thing called marriage. To them I say a heartfelt "Thank you" and please know that you have blessed us greatly!</div>
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One of the things that happened after the party was officially over was a vow renewal ceremony. I hadn't wanted to do one but a few weeks before the party, I felt the urge to surprise Greg with one. You see, our marriage hasn't always been as incredible as it is now. Being raised differently and coming from different back grounds was a little bit like a radio trying to talk to a toaster. We have both hurt each other and it has been really rough road, but God has been so faithful to the both of us and we have endured and our marriage is so much better than I ever thought it could have been! So, I thought it would be a lovely thing to renew my vows to Greg. I asked our dear friend Dave (who is a pastor) to perform the ceremony and he graciously agreed! Talking to Greg afterwards he agreed that it was very special thing to do and that it meant a lot to him... "it was a very good surprise"! He took the whole thing with his usual aplomb, he is that fabulous!</div>
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All in all it was a truly splendid day! The weather totally cooperated, not too hot, not too cold! It was joyful, non stressful and filled with happiness. I am so grateful to my Mom and Dad for showing me that a marriage can be a good thing and to God for blessing me with my Greg, and Greg for not giving up on us and for those who are our cheerleaders!!</div>
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Here are two videos of the surprise vow renewal ceremony! The short one was taken by Gracie McElyea and the longer one by Stacey McElyea. I hope you enjoy them!</div>
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Photos taken by Colton and Mama!</div>
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Today's blog post is going to be a little something out of the ordinary...not happy looking photos of me wearing my newest creations...but rather, I'm going to be very transparent in this one about my almost life long battle with stress and anxiety.</div>
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Source: <a href="https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/get-involved/im-fine" target="_blank">I'm Fine</a></div>
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After listening to so many women (all within the past 2 months) share about their struggles with stress and anxiety, or share that their children are having issues with them, I decided that now was the time to talk about this. Especially after this past month and a half when my beloved Colton (he is my photographer for my blog) opened up to us about his mental issues about stress, anxiety, self loathing among other very serious things (he has given me permission to share this), I strongly feel that talking about these things, being open and transparent about what we are dealing with and going through, not being ashamed or embarrassed over something we have no control over, is a HUGE step in the healing process.</div>
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I had started this post on Sunday night at around 10:45 and it stressed me out so much that I closed my computer and am just now opening it up again. I wanted it to be all flowery filled with anecdotes and links to websites that would offer up wonderful information that has helped me in my journey and my thoughts on why we feel we need to put our shiniest faces forward on social media. But, the very thought of having to do all the research just defeated me. (It usually takes me hours to write my blog posts as I want them to be a good read, funny, with pretty pictures and good research...this time it is going to be raw and off the cuff like we are having a conversation...) So, I am simply going to share with you my story and maybe that will help someone with what they are going through. </div>
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I have always struggled with stress and anxiety. Well, at least as long as I can remember. Being a first born and a wee bit OCD hasn't helped one bit. I remember stressing out about my brother and sister getting hurt or doing something naughty (hello!! Not the mama and the daddy!!!) I would get sick and not be able to eat breakfast before I left for school in the morning. I was always afraid that I would get in trouble for something/anything and was always in a heightened state of awareness. This seems so weird as I had the best childhood ever, my parents were loving and FABULOUS, I loved Jesus with all my heart!! So, where did this all this crazy, crippling anxiety and not dealing with stress come from?</div>
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Well, it was 5 or 6 years ago at the end of summer, I remember this because I was canning peaches, when one morning I awoke with the greatest pressure on my chest. I laid in bed and took stock of my stress levels. Over the years I have learned that when there is pressure in my chest that I am in the grip of an anxiety attack. Well, this time around was different. There was nothing going on in my life that would warrant this reaction. Life was good, no issues with anything whatsoever!! So, why was a 10 ton elephant sitting on my chest? I took my shower and began boiling the water to start peeling the peaches and I could feel my blood pressure rising, like really rising. I stopped what I was doing and went to the fire station down the road so they could take my blood pressure. The fireman that was taking it turned white and his eyeballs bunged out of his head! He said, you need to go home and rest for an hour then go to the Paramedic station and have them check it again. I can't remember what my blood pressure was, but it seriously high, enough to suggest I was probably having a heart attack, or would have one presently. Wooooooow. That's awesome. So I did as directed. Well, my blood pressure hadn't gone down, but rather had gotten worse, even though I thought the whole thing ridiculous because I knew nothing was wrong. So, the paramedic suggested they transport me to the ER and have an EKG which I did. </div>
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Happily the doctor on call was a cardiologist. She informed me that I wasn't having a heart attack (thank you Lord!!!) but an anxiety attack. Well, that was weird to me because nothing major was going on at the time. So, she asked me what <i>had </i> been going on. Well, that summer my brother-in-law had many, many brain surgeries (between June and Thanksgiving weekend he had 10) and many of them were emergency ones. The stress from being in that frightened state, over his life, my sister's life, the children, etc had taken it's tole. She said, "No wonder you are having an anxiety attack!" She decided to do blood work and check the levels of the naturally occurring anti-anxiety and anti-stress hormones and it was determined that my <a href="http://www.webmd.com/depression/features/stress-depression#1" target="_blank">Serotonin</a> levels were very low as I was using up more than my body could make. (after much consideration, I am surmising that I have probably had low serotonin levels my whole life). Anyway, she also shared this little tid bit with me. </div>
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Whoa. In other words, the panicky feeling I was getting, the pressure in my chest, that was only a little bit of what my body was dealing with. The major organs are affected by stress and anxiety, the blood vessels, your ability to breathe, your digestive system...It's ALL affected when we are in the throes of anxiety. And that is not good. </div>
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I was put on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citalopram" target="_blank">Citalopram</a> to help me deal with the stress and boy did it help! After about a year I decided to go off of it and for a while it was ok. </div>
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For me, anytime any sort of stress enters my life, whether it be good or bad, my anxiety levels shoot up and that stupid pressure comes back. Well recently, the ugly anxiety monster has made its way back into my life. It all started before the election this year. The horrible and ugly things being said on both sides of the political fence really started to take their tole on my mental health (I am what people call a sensitive and so get literally physically ill when I read ugly words over and over again on social media) so I took myself off of Facebook for a time. Then as things always seem to do in my life, events started to snowball. If any one of these particular events would have happened one at a time, I could have totally handled it. But Nooooooooooooo!!!! We must gang up on Gina!! Things got so bad with so many things in my personal life and the lives of my loved ones (like some of my sweet Mama's physical issues and my sweet son's battle with his own stress, anxiety and self loathing) that my level of anxiety was the worst it's ever been. </div>
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I started getting what I have dubbed "Anxiety Blooms". It's when something sets you off and it feels like your chest, starting in the center and blooming outwards, is being having a killer adrenaline rush. I was getting them up to 15 times daily. Anytime a text would chime on my phone. Anytime a loud noise was made in the house. Anytime the dogs barked. I took my blood pressure during one of these Blooms and it was 170/118. Wow! Awesome. </div>
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I started really self medicating myself (in the past I would do this about once every other month) by drinking a whole bottle of champagne. It has less alcohol than wine and it would give me a lovely buzzed feeling which I wanted to feel good even for a little bit, and it totally took my anxiety away. Well, this time around, the champagne wasn't working. Like not at all. It didn't take away the pressure in my chest and I didn't even feel good with the buzzed feeling. Even blasting worship music wasn't working.</div>
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It was after acknowledging I didn't want to ruin my liver and after admitting that all other non medicine avenues weren't working, that Greg and I decided that I needed "bigger" help in dealing with this crap. Not only was I having anxiety blooms and high blood pressure, I was sleeping in until 10:30 after going to sleep at 11. I lost all interest in the things I loved to do, namely sewing and antique shopping, I wasn't myself (I am so very full of joy and happiness most of the time), food didn't taste good yet I was shoving it down my throat (I have gained over 7 pounds back), I had no interest in life, I couldn't make words form when I was in conversation, living was just hard and I felt on a minute to minute basis that I was drowning in quick sand and I could feel myself curling in on myself. </div>
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I took a test at the Dr's. office and it showed that not only was I in a full blown state of anxiety, but I was also depressed. I thought this odd because I didn't feel depressed. But she let me know that anxiety, stress and depression are very close bed fellows and we decided to put me once again on Citalopram. Now while this is not what I want for myself as I really would rather do it in a more homeopathic sort of bent, this is what is needed for me right now. I do not want to have a heart attack or stroke. I do not want to ruin my internal organs. I want to be around for a long time. I want to get healthy again. So, for now, until this season of crap storm that life is throwing my way has past, I will stay on the Citalopram. Then when I am healthy, and life has leveled out, I will look into nutrition and exercise and learning how to deal with stress and worship music and prayer and all the other good things to get me back to being me!</div>
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So, if you don't see me on Facebook or notice that I haven't been keeping up on my blog, this is why. It takes great energy, even with the medication which is greatly helping, to do more that the basic wife, mom, living things.</div>
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-If you have to talk about your feelings, talk about them until you don't have to talk about them anymore. Sometimes we just have to hear our voice outside of our heads to help us process and heal.</div>
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-Please don't feel guilty for this! You didn't wake up one morning and decide, "Hey! Being stressed out sounds like all sorts of fun! Let's freak out and have stupid high blood pressure!!" This is not something you chose.</div>
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-Be gentle and kind to yourself. We can be our own worst enemies when it comes to things like this. Remember, this was not of your choosing, so stop blaming yourself and start loving yourself again.</div>
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-For this season, do what you need to do for you. If you need to go on a medication and you would rather not, please don't feel defeated in doing so. There are seasons in life and hopefully this will be a very short one. If you would rather go the naturalistic way, do that. Remember, you are answerable only to yourself and in my case to God. When it comes to your health, do what you need to do to get you healthy.</div>
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-Even thought this is hard and I need to take my own advise here, reach out to your friends and let them know what you are going through. They can pray with and for you, listen to you talk about what you are feeling, just be "there" with you and maybe not even have to have a conversation.</div>
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I hope this will help someone who reads this. Remember, you are not alone in this battle! </div>
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I hope you all have a wonderfully blessed rest of your week! I'm now off to shove potato chips down my throat and watch Sherlock Holmes!</div>
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Good Saturday night, almost Sunday morning to you all! I hope this blog post finds you all well! In between the crazy and the mundane I have been doing ok! </div>
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This year the Boise Train Depot is celebrating its <a href="http://parks.cityofboise.org/media/1274658/depot-celebration.pdf" target="_blank">92nd Birthday</a>. To help with the celebration, Eriks Garsvo (Eriks works with the Boise Parks System as "Conductor"/tour guide at the Boise Train Depot and also works closely with the Nampa Depot restoring a vintage caboose among other things) got the Union Pacific to bring the Union Pacific Heritage Steam Locomotive No. 844 to Boise for the celebration! How totally cool is that? VERY!!! Since my sweet family couldn't be at the Birthday Party for the depot tomorrow as we are celebrating my Colton's 15th Birthday, we decided to go to the depot to watch the locomotive make its grand entrance at the depot and what a grand entrance it was! Holy canoli! It was so exciting and LOUD! There is a video linked at the end of this post. It was so fun to be able to watch this fabulous train make its way to our fair city!</div>
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Since I couldn't make it to Sunday's festivities, I decided that today would be a GREAT day to wear my <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2017/04/wearing-historys-1930s-gina-dress.html" target="_blank">Wearing History's 1930s "Gina Dress"</a> and also take the opportunity to do a photo shoot. My very talented son Colton was my photographer once again and did a fantastic job! He is so awesome!</div>
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I tried a new tactic where my hair was concerned. Instead of just twisting my hair back into a bun, I did a whole bunch of curls around my face and pinned them up, then twisted the hair back into a bun. I know that I need a lot more practice in the hair area, but I'm getting there! And I think I am getting better with the 1930s make up. I'm thinking about investing in some Besame make-up as it's geared towards that lovely vintage look!</div>
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This time around with the pictures, I played around with some fun editing thinking it would be fun to have a more vintage look to the pictures Colton took. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed wearing this dress and the super fun time at the Train Depot!</div>
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I couldn't help being a goof here! Colton was down below waiting to take my picture at the edge if a great precipice...Ok, it wasn't that great, but 10' into a pond of koi...ya, that's great! Anyhoo, I think this is one of my favorite photos!</div>
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Aaaahhhh...my fabulously sweet husband! He didn't want to take this picture with me because, "I'm not dressed for this!" Whatever you handsome devil you! You look gorgeous!</div>
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My Colton's Birthday was yesterday! He turned 15! I can't believe how old he is getting. I love this young man so much! He is funny, fun, has a great sense of humor, is kind, gentle, but sticks up for right and justice. He loves his family and friends with a fierce passion, loves rap music and playing the guitar, and he loves Jesus! I can't wait to see what the next 15 years bring! Happy Birthday to you my son!!</div>
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Good Sunday to you all! I hope you had a most wonderfully blessed Easter! I had a really fabulous day myself! Celebrating Resurrection Sunday at church, worshiping the risen King, spending time with my incredible and fun family, getting stuffed on the most fabulous ham I have ever put in my mouth, hiding Easter Eggs for kids who are almost too old to go on Easter Egg hunts, sitting in my parents' backyard in the shade and eating yummy cake made by mom, laughing my head off at the fun stories that are told over and over. Ya, my day was most satisfying! </div>
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Another fun thing that I did today was do an exceedingly fast fashion shoot with my Colton taking the pictures. Right after church and before we left for mom and dad's, we drove around looking for the perfect blooming trees to use as back drops for the dress I made for Easter Sunday!</div>
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It all started back last summer when I saw this seriously beautiful, fun and PINK floral print cotton at Wal-Mart, I really liked it and would always pet it when in the store. I knew it would make a perfect summer dress, but then when I was doing my mad 1930s research a few months ago, I came across the perfect inspiration image and the fabric of the dress was so close to my Wal-Mart fabric I totally freaked out! The inspiration dress is more peach, but I prefer pink to peach, so that was just fine by me! I also noted that the blouse portion of the dress could totally be made using Wearing History's <a href="http://wearinghistory.clothing/1930s-day-or-evening-blouse-skirt-pattern/" target="_blank">1930s Day or Evening Blouse Pattern</a> if I altered the collar and added an outside placket. Perfection!!!!!!!</div>
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Fast forward to recently. Driving around this spring, I saw all the wonderful pink and white blossoms bursting forth on all the spring blooming trees. Oh my giddy aunt! Photo shoot perfection!! Then I recalled that Easter was coming up...</div>
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Fabulous pink fabric + blossoming spring trees + Easter =</div>
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So....slowly but surely, my Pink Blossom Easter Sunday Dress was made!! </div>
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Then I got all self conscious and didn't know if I wanted to wear it to church...with the make-up...and the gloves...and the HAT!!!</div>
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You see, I'm a "wear jeans and nice blouse to church" kinda gal. So, wearing a dress, that is vintage looking is waaaaaaaay out of my comfort zone! But after some great council from my fabulous husband (I could wear my dress that I made specifically for Easter Sunday to church as an offering to the King we were celebrating! Huzzah!!!) I decided to wear my dress! I'm so glad I did! It was more comfortable than I thought it would be and the shoes were even comfy! I am so loving this era and it's happy cotton fabrics that I am so wanting to make more and will possibly be wearing them to church in the future!</div>
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So, on to the flowers. The print on the fabric shows beautiful blossoms, probably cherry, but really, they could be any blossoms! I had an hour before we had to leave for the parents' and so Colton and I set off to find some trees. Happily one subdivision offered up two blossom colors and the third color was found off a semi busy road on the way home! We were crazy running people and I'm sure passers by got quite the laugh!</div>
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Thank you to my wonderfully talented son for the great pictures! You are a rock star!!!</div>
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Wearing History's Pattern that I altered to make my dress! </div>
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Yikes! Sun Washout! Oh well...the trees were fabulous!</div>
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Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14345391863552645466noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544576995054534446.post-17908148978386170422017-04-02T19:55:00.000-07:002017-04-02T20:06:14.182-07:00Wearing History's "1930s Gina Dress"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Good Sunday to you all! I hope you have been having a great end of March/first of April! We here in Idaho have been enjoying our usual "if you don't like the weather in Idaho, wait 15 minutes" weather. I do love this about our change of seasons. At least the Spring/Autumn times. During winter, you can depend on bitter cold. During summer, you can depend on disgusting heat. But in the autumn and especially the spring, it is fun to see what will happen "tomorrow". Personally I have been super busy doing life things and working on a wonderful somewhat new to me era!! Here's the story.</div>
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About two years ago (at least I think it was that long ago...) when I was in my "let's do all the 1930s, 40s and 50s things!!!" mode, I was at Antique World Mall when I came across the most beautiful pattern I had ever seen. This includes all of my 1950s sailor dress patterns, even my few Victorian-1916 patterns. Why? Because of the blue floral print dress. My heart was lost utterly and completely to this era. (Great!!! Like I need another era to have my heart be lost to!!!!) I think I was just at this point searching for inspiration into this era and hoping that I would be able to find some patterns in my size...both body wise as well as wallet size. One of my favorite booths offered up the pattern that would change my mind when it comes to the 1930s...that is until I made the <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2017/02/finally-1930s-fall-suit-is-worn.html" target="_blank">1930s Fall Suit</a>. But I digress...</div>
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Giddy with delight, I photographed it with my phone and went to the one spot in the store that gets internet reception and Facebook messaged it to Lauren of Wearing History. I think I jokingly asked her if she would size it up for me as the bust size is 32" (if I didn't actually ask her that, I am pretty sure I was thinking it. When you get "old", memories that are over a week old, begin to get fuzzy.) Being that I have an ENORMOUS rib cage, there wasn't a snowball's chance that this would fit and I don't even know where to begin sizing patterns up. Almost immediately I got a response from Lauren and I am pretty sure she was as giddy as I was with the beautiful pattern. During the course of our furious messaging back and forth, it was decided that I would send her the pattern and she would work her magic and create a multi-sized pattern for all to enjoy!! I was thrilled! And to be perfectly honest with you, my thrilled-ness was totally selfish, because that meant that <i>IIIIIIIII</i> would totally benefit from this idea!! But, yes, I was also thrilled that Lauren would be making a new pattern to sell and others who love vintage dressing and sewing would benefit from the new pattern! Win Win for us all!!</div>
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Well, things over the year happened, like the back yoke piece not being in the pattern and the search for one commencing , and ooooooh a most beautiful, joyful, longed for and loved baby being born and the events that go along with that and the pattern took a while to get sized up. Lauren kept apologizing that she hadn't gotten to the pattern. I was totally fine with that as I realize that being pregnant and having a baby totally take precedence over pattern making and I was in no way in any hurry!!! But recently (see? I can't even remember when the flurry of hurridness started!) Lauren informed me that the pattern was being printed and would I like to be a pattern tester? Well, again perfect honesty here, I hadn't been too impressed with how the Orange Fall Suit fit and I didn't like how I looked in it and "would I really ever use a 1930s dress in a fashion show?" and do I even want to fuss over this "vintage" era as it's not antique? All these thoughts went through my mind as I slept on her question. Finally I decided that yes, I would be a pattern tester. After all, she had been worried that I would be upset if the pattern didn't come out in time etc, so how could I NOT be a tester!!?? See? I can totally be a selfish snot.</div>
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Finally the pattern came and the name of it was "1930s Gina Dress". Lauren had asked me my opinion on naming the dress and I said I had no idea and that I trusted her to name it. I can't remember if she told me what it would be, or maybe I forgot what she had said in the hurry and hustle of daily life, but when I was holding the pattern in my hand and saw what the name was, my heart constricted and I got a flush of happiness, humility, unbelief, awe and a huge dorky smile spread over my face and my eyes misted over! What a great honor to have this pattern named after me! (Thank you so much Lauren!!!)</div>
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I got right to work on the mock up using some horrible fabric that was scratchy and gross, but as the shape began to take shape, I got more than excited. How had I missed the awesomeness of this era? Perhaps it was the using of a pattern that wasn't an actual vintage one, I don't know. In any case, I hit AAAALLLLL of the quilt shops in town looking for a similar fabric to the one shown on the pattern. Finally I found a fat quarter of THE PERFECT FABRIC at a store called Crafter's Warehouse. Of course they had sold out of the fabric and wouldn't be getting any in. I then re-visited AAAAALLLLLL of the quilt stores in town and nope. Not a one of the stores had my fabric. So to the internet I went. Happily Hancock's of Paduca had some! I ordered it and anxiously waited until it came. Theeeeen I had to order a soft hand cotton organdy. That too took "forever"!!! (I so totally need a worm hole!!) But both came and I got to work!!!</div>
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Below is my version of Wearing History's newest pattern!</div>
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My version and the original. I am wanting to do a photo shoot at the Boise Depot as it would be a perfect fit. The Depot was made in the 1920s so would be perfect for a dress that was fashioned after the fashion of the 1930s!</div>
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The pattern. When I sent it to Lauren, I didn't think I would see it again. I messaged Lauren and asked if I could have a photo copy of it and she informed me that she would be sending it back!!! I was so ecstatic about that!! </div>
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A fun still life. Original pattern, vintage buttons and belt buckle found at my other favorite antique store (Something Special in Meridian), the new pattern and my fabric!</div>
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Emma wearing my new dress. Poor thing needs to gain some weight!!!</div>
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This is what my 1930s fedora style hat started life out as. A 1990s summer hat. It is made of the most wonderful straw that totally does what you ask it to! I don't know the name of it, but every time I see one of these in a thrift store, yard sale or estate sale, I get it because I know that I'll be able to reshape it into what I am "needing".</div>
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The inspiration for my new hat is an original. I do have some lovely wool that matches it almost perfectly that I'll use for something 30s, but for now it played the perfect model!</div>
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The red gloves and both bracelets are vintage. Not sure exactly how old they are, but will work nicely with the dress! The shoes...the shoes. These proved to be a bit problematic. Until I am sure that I truly love this era (like will I wear it on a regular basis outside of costuming?) I don't want to invest in an expensive pair of shoes. Until I decide on that matter, these shoes from a thrift store will work just fine. They have a very vintage flair and the color was red! Not sure exactly when peep toes came onto the shoe scene, but again until I can afford some Miss L Fire shoes, these are going to be it! Also, my feet HATE HATE HATE heels...so there is that.</div>
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The pearl bracelet belonged to my Great-Grandma Nonni!!</div>
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This era and pattern offered an opportunity for me to grow sewing wise which always makes me happy! Especially if there is a YouTube tutorial I can watch several times!</div>
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As I said above, I am wanting to do a proper photo shoot of the dress, but couldn't resist putting it on along with the accessories and some lipstick! I am going to have to do some research and make sure the hat of correct proportions but for right now, I'm really happy with how everything turned out!</div>
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About the pattern... Lauren as always did a magnificent job with resizing the pattern. This being my second time making a 1930s outfit, I am quite thrilled with how easily this went together. Where there are questions about things, Lauren has added <i style="font-weight: bold;">WH</i> (Wearing History) notes to help with modern day understandings. The fit is perfect (I used the size 40 bust for the top and the size 38 bust for the skirt) but ya, the fit is excellent! I made <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2015/11/1930s-sheer-blouse.html" target="_blank">this blouse</a> using the <a href="http://wearinghistory.clothing/tea-at-two-1930s-day-or-afternoon-dress-pattern/" target="_blank">Tea at Two</a> and that pattern too was most excellent! If I could, I would own every Wearing History pattern because they are just that fabulous!!</div>
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Thank you so much Lauren for making this pattern possible for ladies like me who are not a size 32 bust! You are such a patterning rock star!!!</div>
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Good Wednesday to you all! I hope your week is going wonderfully so far! We (Colton and I) are on Spring Break, so it's been great at the White house! </div>
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Last Wednesday my crinoline kit from <a href="http://www.woodedhamlet.com/costume_accessories/CagedCrino.htm" target="_blank">The Wooded Hamlet</a> arrived!!! I have been saving for this baby since late last summer and I finally had enough money to order it! I was so excited when it came in, that Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening I worked on it and then Sunday I completed it! I am so thrilled with this beautiful cage and wish to thank Needle and Thread for creating this incredible kit. As they say in the DVD and written manual, it took them 4 years to gather or have the materials created and boy was it worth it!</div>
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When I was doing my research into this, I couldn't find any real helpful information about the kit and since it did cost a pretty penny, I wanted a little more substance or "chewy" info. I thought that since I couldn't find any and really took a leap of faith to purchase it, I would write a little "product" review and give you a little more info on the kit!</div>
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If you have ever made up one of Truly Victorian's hoop patterns (I have made all three) then making this will be a snap as it is very similar. One of the main differences is the size of the hoop wire and the use of hardware and different tools. Plus there is waaaaaay less sewing!</div>
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I must confess that I was freaked out to start making this as I had heard that it was a real booger to put together and they had to watch the DVD several times. I think the making of the TV hoops helped a lot and in truth, the DVD was so very helpful, the text was almost verbatim what the DVD said and it really was simple, if not fiddly, to make! You watch someone (I think his name is Dave) construct a whole cage from start to finish! How fabulous is that!?</div>
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It comes with everything you need but the tools and those are a looooong tape measure (I used my husband's metal work tape), a cloth seamstress' tape measure, bent end needle nose pliers, an awl, hammer, large wire cutters, scissors, metal paper clips, twist ties or pipe cleaners, blue disappearing ink pen and a pencil. Of course you will need a sewing machine (or you can sew by hand) and I used my iron to iron the tapes. In the kit are Large spots, small spots, alligator clips, copper tubes, leather, a knitting needle, waistband, buckle, tapes, wide hem wire and thin hoops wire, DVD and 10 page manual.</div>
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This is what the "back" of the tapes look like. See those handy channels? Those are what the hoops go through! Genius!!</div>
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The front of the tapes. Those diamond and stripe weaves help a lot with placement of the small spots. Also, it is an exact reproduction of the original tapes! So very, very authentic!!</div>
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These are the small spots. These made my fingers so beyond angry! You use these to anchor the tapes to the wires.</div>
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These fabulous copper tubes help thread the wires through the tapes and for most of the wires, they are used to connect the wires together.</div>
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To keep the ends of the fabric from totally unraveling from the wire, I used <a href="http://www.joann.com/prym-dritz-fray-check-sealant/1052851.html" target="_blank">Fray Check</a>. This way after I cut the wires, I didn't have to worry about the fabric unraveling if the wires were moved (which they are quite a bit during the whole process). </div>
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A metal knitting needle is used to help thread the wires through the pockets in the tapes.</div>
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After cutting all the wires to the proper length and crimping the copper tubes on, all the wires are threaded through all the tapes. I used two heavy books to hold down the top of the tapes to keep them from flopping about.</div>
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After this step, you spread the tapes out to points that are measured out from the center of every wire at three increments on either side of the back measurement. The measured increments are marked on the wide bottom wire and go up about every 6 wire. That way you have a nice "anchor" point every so often to keep the tapes straight on the wires.</div>
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The DVD suggests using twist ties to attach the end wires at the front, but I couldn't find any so I used pipe cleaners! They worked great!!</div>
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One of the most pain in the rear, fiddly parts is getting the tapes straight and the hoops tiered nicely. Most of my time was spent doing two things...this was one of those things. </div>
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Here's a video talking about the frustration of just getting the tapes to stay straight while adjusting the wires. Truly no big deal, just a time consuming portion of the making. But if you want your hoops to look good, it is worth it to take the time!</div>
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Wires at the front attached with the copper tubes. As with the TV pattern, you move the end parts to opposing sides to help with sturdiness.</div>
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The top wires that didn't close together in the middle were attached to the upper tapes with alligator clips then...</div>
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...covered with the leather and anchored with the large spots. I didn't read the addendum that came with the kit that says to put the spots OVER the wires and not in between them...grrrrrrrrrrr.... READ THE ADDENDUM!!!</div>
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The small spots are used to anchor the wires to the tapes. This was the second most time consuming part of this project. These spots took a long time! But see how the line in the middle of the tape helps you place the small spots? Brilliant!!</div>
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I didn't get a picture of the large spots before I used them, but this is the size. These are AWESOME to work with as the prongs are not pointy!!</div>
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The DVD suggests using bend end needle nosed pliers to attach the spots. I did do this, but before I used them on the small spots, I used my seam ripper handle to bend the prongs over as I couldn't figure out how to do it with the pliers. I also used the seam ripper point to make the holes in the leather and the bottom hoop wire and tapes to affix the large spots.</div>
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Inside of the finished hoops. You can see here how the wires stay in the pockets after the small spots are affixed.</div>
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I simply adore the waistband they send with the kit. The bottom of it is a pocket to sew the tapes into so it looks all pretty and neat!</div>
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Ok, so here is my grouchiness with getting the wires correct at the bottom. This was another time consuming part...the lower wires just wouldn't cooperate with me when I tried to connect them in the center. I know this was user error.</div>
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Here you can see how really uneven the bottom wires are! Take your time and really make sure these are good before you connect them!!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Finished Hoops!!</b></span></div>
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On Emma Mark I you can really see how the wires and tapes line up. Like I said, it takes some time, but it totally worth it!!</div>
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My old hoops for comparison. I think the new one will work just fine!</div>
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I ordered the 108" kit and it actually ended up being 111". There was a lot of wire left over so I could possibly have made it a lot wider if I so chose. But I wanted this hoop to replace the previous one, so stayed with the size. They also say that if want a more elliptical shape, the kit can be modified to make one! How cool is that? </div>
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Here is the link to The Wooded Hamlet's <a href="http://www.woodedhamlet.com/costume_accessories/CagedCrinoDetail.htm" target="_blank">Original and Reproduction comparison page</a>. It is literally amazing how authentic these people have made this kit! I am in awe and so happy that I have mine!! Huzzah! I cannot wait to wear it out!!</div>
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All in all, I would highly recommend this incredible kit. It takes a little while to complete, but if you are looking for as much authenticity as you can get without ruining an original, this is the way to go!!</div>
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So, last Saturday We Wear History put on a fashion show at the Boise Public Library as part of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Birthday Celebration. Laura was born in 1867 and died in 1957, so I thought it would be cool to highlight the fashion that was worn during the "7" years during her lifetime. Since I hadn't made a little girls dress for 1867, we started in 1877 and went through to 1957. It was super fun, the models did a more than incredible job, they looked so beautiful, and the audience loved it! It is always fun to watch young ladies and gentlemen interact with the ladies after the programs and to watch the ladies as the young ladies call them "princesses"! Oh how I love these fashion shows!!</div>
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1957, 1947, 1937, 1927, 1917, 1907, 1897, 1887, and 1877!</div>
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Molly represented a young lady and therefore her skirts were shorter than if she would have been her 2017 age of 16!</div>
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Laura and the big sleeves of the 1890s. She is wearing a cameo that belonged to her Grandmother!</div>
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Adalea thought wearing this era's dress was super fun!</div>
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Me. Wearing 1930s. Oh, such a different experience!</div>
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Marilyn totally rocked the 1940s look! Her hair and that beret!</div>
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Sarah loved wearing the 1950s, she has several dresses from this era in her closet!</div>
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Sarah (L) and Laura (M) are sisters. Molly (R) is Laura's daughter!</div>
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Mother and Daughter!</div>
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Adalea and Molly, best of friends!</div>
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And now we come to my favorite picture of the day! My sweet Colton and me! Thank you my son for taking these wonderful pictures of such a fun day and helping with the moving of the dresses and things! You are such a trooper and I appreciate you so!!</div>
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This past Saturday, We Wear History did a fashion show for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Birthday Celebration at the Boise Public Library. (Photos of that fashion show will be posted in my next blog entry...the ladies looked fabulous!!!) Because we wore dresses that were representations of the fashion that was worn during Laura's lifetime, a dress from the "7th" year in the decade was worn (Laura was born in 1867 and died in 1957). I chose to wear my <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2015/11/1930s-fall-suit-complete-laaaaaaa.html" target="_blank">1930s Fall Suit</a> that I made clear back in November of 2015! The only time I have worn it outside my house was to attend a friend's wedding, but didn't wear the hat, gloves or wear 1930s make-up, so this was its first "official" wearing and I am not 100% sure that it makes me abundantly happy...like my Victorian-1920s dresses make me happy.</div>
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Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I'm used to being really trussed up when I wear my Victorian-1920s outfits with a corset and all, but the wearing of this 1930s fashion just didn't look right to me. It could have something to do with the fact that the silhouette of this era was a long rectangle as well, something I am just not used to. Or maybe it was the weird fit of the jacket, I just don't know. I think I am going to have to make a couple more 30s era outfits just to make sure! Oh, and I do need make some appropriate underthings, like whatever they used for the corset...corselette? girdle? And of course that era's brassiere. Oh darn. I have to make underwear? I'm so upset! aaaaahahahahaha!!! </div>
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Greetings lovely readers! How have you been since I last wrote? I hope very, very well! I am still struggling with getting my anxiety and stress under control, but it is getting better. I decided this past week that instead of lying in bed and binge watching Netflix and Hulu, I would make myself arise and sew, do laundry, clean the house and get out in the sun when it shines. Even if I don't feel like it, I need to get on with life until the normal, happy me comes back! I know she will, she always does. </div>
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I finished my <a href="http://wearinghistory.clothing/1910s-camisole-or-corset-cover-pattern/" target="_blank">1910s Wearing History corset cover</a> yesterday and decided to go ahead and do a photo shoot with that and the <a href="http://wearinghistory.clothing/circa-1917-combination-underwear-chemise-pattern/" target="_blank">Wearing History 1917 combination underwear and chemise pattern</a> on Emma Mark II. I will wait until the petticoat is done and then do a photo shoot with the underwear on me. </div>
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This is where my frustration really came into being. The shrinkage of the fabric caused the corset cover to become at least 1.5" shorter. I ended up making a rather wide waistband, but since one of my extant corset covers has a wide waistband, I'm not too stressed.</div>
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*Caution, heavy photo post...because... a horse!!!!*</div>
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Good Monday to you all! I hope your weekend was wonderful and that the beginning of your week is off to a fabulous start!</div>
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My week is off to a great start! Why? Because today I got to do a photo shoot for my <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2016/09/1872-riding-habit-complete.html" target="_blank">1872 Riding Habit</a> with the most incredible "prop" I have ever had the joy of having my historical costumes photo'd with! And the prop? Chocolate the black horse! And what a gorgeous horse she was! A while back when I first started working on the riding habit, a lovely blogger named Michaela Coy (who writes <a href="http://mysoulisfedwithneedleandthread.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Soul is Fed With Needle and Thread</a> blog) offered to let me do the photo shoot with her horse! Can you say HUZZAAAAAAH!!!!???? We had scheduled the shoot a couple of times, then we got a blizzard and then there was ice. Finally, today was the day! There was snow and it was crunchy. Let me tell you what. This photo shoot was the most exhausting one I have ever done! The snow was about a foot deep and there was a nice, thick crust that made for hard walking. Then there was the length of the skirt, which is long, because riding habit. All in all, I think I burned about 10,000 calories in the 45 minutes we were there. (Colton and Mom went with me. Colton was my fabulous photographer! Mom wanted to see the horse!)</div>
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Thank you so much Michaela for your generous offer, your time and your horse! Chocolate is such a sweet heart! It is interesting because the pictures I'm sharing look as though Chocolate and I have known each other for a long time. We haven't! She was just that sweet!</div>
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That's the lovely Michaela! I look forward to getting to know her better!!</div>
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Brrrrrr...the combination of being cold, tired, and worrying that perhaps Chocolate wanted to be done resulted in a short video. But you get to see Chocolate and Michaela!</div>
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What a fun day and photo shoot! It was so fun being around a horse again. It has been years since I have been this close to one and she was so beautiful!!</div>
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I know what you're probably thinking. Brown? Really? You couldn't have gone with a prettier, party color? Well, no. Why? Because of the EPIC antique, silk chiffon embroidered lace that I have had in my stash for years! Then about three years ago when I fell head over heals in love with Phryne Fisher, I purchased all manner of fabrics thinking I would make a huge Phryne wardrobe. I purchased some coppery/brown poly chiffon and crape from the Casa line at JoAnn's that mysteriously matched perfectly the antique lace! They sat together in my "someday project" pile in the costume and fabric room in the garage until one day last year I was looking through Pinterest and found the perfect inspiration! It's a wedding dress, but I thought it would be awesome as a party dress. I had also seen other "party dresses" in the same fashion so thought, hey! That is what the brown dress will become!</div>
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Because I am me and I adore antique and vintage underwear and their reproductions, I'm taking this opportunity to do some really correct 1916-1919 underwear. I have made a 1916 <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2015/09/wearing-history-1910s-jacket-and-1916.html" target="_blank">black and ivory striped petticoat</a> that I made to go under my wool Wearing History jacket pattern jacket and stripe skirt, and then I just recently finished the <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2016/06/teens-era-corset-and-wedding-purse.html" target="_blank">yellow long line corset</a>, but wanted a more true to era chemise, corset cover and another petticoat in ivory and lace to match the chemise and corset cover. Yesterday I started on the envelope chemise using Wearing History's pattern (picture below), and I just have the top hem and straps to finish and that is complete! I would have finished it yesterday but I wanted to copy an element on an extant envelope chemise from my collection and that made the front too short, so the front panel had to be re-done. After the chemise is complete, the corset cover will be tackled!</div>
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The start and almost finish of the chemise. I found <a href="https://witness2fashion.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/chic-undergarments-for-ladies-1917/" target="_blank">this chemise</a> (first image on the page, second chemise from the left) that had really sweet tucks at the top and lace edging at the bottom. I altered the Wearing History pattern to account for the tucks and just need to finish the top with a hem and lace and make button holes and attach buttons at the bottom and it will be complete!</div>
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Thank you so much to everyone who entered the Giveaway! I loved reading all of your costuming stories and getting to know you a little bit better! I believe that that's what the costuming community is all about! Enjoying each other's company, learning from each other and admiring others creations!!</div>
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I hope that 2017 is starting out wonderfully for all of you! So far, so good here at the White house! It has been snowing quite a bit. I just measured the accumulation on my bird feeder and it measures 7.5". That is snow pack from when it first started snowing before Christmas with the warm melting days and so forth... As I look out my window, it is once again snowing! What fun and we here in the Treasure Valley need it as we have been in a drought for some years...which is nothing new for the high mountain desert known as Idaho!!</div>
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A fun thing about today!! It is my actual 25th wedding anniversary which I think is fun because I'm choosing today to post about Beauty From Ashes' Blogiversary Give Away! Yes, 25 years ago today, I married my sweet, Gregory Robert Martin White! I cannot believe it's been 25 years of joy, pain, fun, hardship, happiness, contentment, irritation...all of the human emotions all rolled up into one 25 year package! 25 more years, here we come!!! (I will post our wedding picture so you all can see what young things we were. I was 20, Greg was 19. I totally robbed the cradle!) This is what I wrote on Facebook...</div>
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I'll also add on here (cause it's my sewing/costuming blog) the man who lets me be my creative self without nary a complaint or harsh word. Who says, "It's ok!" when the hours have gotten away and dinner isn't ready and the house is a wreck (I am after all a professional house wife!). Who let's me dress him up for when we go to a costuming event and who totally and completely supports me in all of my costuming, creating, artistic, and business endeavors. You, my sweet, are a true blessing!! </div>
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Ok! On to why this post is being written!! Waaaaay back on <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2011/12/ah-yeshere-i-am-again.html" target="_blank">December 16, 2011</a>, I wrote my very first blog post for Beauty From Ashes. There were no pictures, just a threat about keeping up this blog for my memory and notes and ideas. Since then, I have written 382 posts. Some have been about ideas, some have been about completed projects, some have been Throw Back Thursday posts because I hadn't made anything because I had been involved in projects that weren't mine and I didn't want the blog to fall into misuse. Some posts didn't have anything to do with sewing or costuming, but about antiques and cooking. It has been a real mismash and I have enjoyed all of it! I have gained quite a few followers and for you all, I am most grateful! You have encouraged me and lifted my spirits with your lovely compliments and I count many, many of you as friends!</div>
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I have learned a lot during my "career" in blogging. One of the biggest things I have learned is that not all people are alike in their preferences and "likes". There sometimes is a huge difference between what I think is awesome and what my followers think is awesome! That is so fun to observe. My writing style and what I post about has changed over the years...sometimes I wax poetic and other times I just write the bare minimum. I believe that all depends on what is going on in my life at the moment of writing and how I am doing emotionally. Or if I am super excited about a project, of if I'm feeling just "meh" about it. </div>
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1. <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2016/09/roller-skating-1880s-bustle-dress-style.html" target="_blank">Roller Skating 1880s Bustle Dress Style!!</a></div>
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2. <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2016/10/late-1850s-corset-embroidered-chemise.html" target="_blank">Late 1850s Corstet, Embroidered Chemise and 1860s Elliptical Hoops!</a></div>
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3. <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2012/07/wire-frame-hat-how-topart-4.html" target="_blank">Wire Frame Hat How To...Part 4</a></div>
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4. <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2016/06/natural-form-era-maternity-gown.html" target="_blank">Natural Form Era Maternity Gown</a></div>
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5. <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2013/01/edwardian-s-bend-corset.html" target="_blank">Edwardian "S" Bend Corset</a></div>
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6. <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2013/08/wire-frame-1863-bonnet.html" target="_blank">Wire Frame 1863 Bonnet</a></div>
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7. <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2014/02/cutsom-made-royal-family-orders.html" target="_blank">Custom Made Royal Family Orders</a></div>
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8. <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2013/09/1884-military-inspired-bustlecomplete.html" target="_blank">1884 Military Inspired Bustle...Complete!</a></div>
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A very fun, educational, entertaining, emotional, satisfying time have I had writing and keeping up with this blog! And I thank you all for joining me on this wild ride!</div>
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<span style="color: red;">I have decided to go ahead and open this up to anyone who wants to enter...as the husband just weighted it and it is under a pound....Huzzah!!!</span></div>
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As part of my Blogiversary and as a way of saying thank you to my wonderful, supportive followers, I am wanting to offer you a gift! While I was making my <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-pocket-day-cap-and-washed-chemisette.html" target="_blank">pocket</a> for my 1830s cotton print dress a couple years ago, I thought "this would be a fun gift to give someone if I ever did a Blogiversary give away!" Then, just this November as I was making one for my dear friend's birthday, I thought the same thing and hello!! My blog's anniversary would be next (December) month and I could make one! Huzzah! Well, then the back went out and all thoughts of sewing flew out the window! Grrrrrrr... Well, the back got better and the time for making a pocket was at hand. It is now finished, made with silks and cottons left over from previous dress projects of mine. This pocket along with some bits and bobs I've had in my collection/stash are what I would like to offer by way of "Thank you!!!".</div>
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Because I am so not computer savvy and because the thought of having to learn how to do Rafflecopter causes my brain to hurt, I am just going to do it the old fashioned way. Write the names of the entrants on a piece of paper, put them in a hat, and have my Colton draw a name out! We will video it so that you can watch us do this...the drawing out of the name part that is! </div>
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"Why did you get into costuming? Was it to get in touch with your ancestors? Do you just love sewing/creating and you had to make something that made your heart sing? Were you impressed upon by one of your friends to do what they were doing? Or was it that fabulous dress from a movie that you just felt the urging to recreate?" </div>
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Pocket of silk dupioni, silk taffeta, printed cotton, and cotton lining. I will send along cotton twill tape so you can make the waist tie to your measurement!</div>
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Back...made using the cotton fabric from my 1830s cotton dress! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this fabric!</div>
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Roughly 15" long! Nice for holding phones, gum, money, ear plugs, snacks, camera, scissors, thimble, acorns...whatever you think you'll need!</div>
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Bits and Bobs include vintage buttons, laces, two Victorian photographs, black leather gloves, three vintage handkerchiefs, a set of vintage garter clips, and a card of antique hooks and eyes. I don't know why I have chosen these to be part...just felt they would be fun!</div>
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Good Thursday to you all! I hope that your last full week before the week before Christmas is going swimmingly! I thought I would write my 2016 round-up now while I have the time...also, I am needing something to do while I'm still laid up with the stupid back thingy. </div>
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This past year was a year of costuming weirdness, as far as my personal makings were concerned. Last year, I made from scratch or re-purposed then decorated 11 hats or bonnets. This year, only 2 were made! Well, four if you want to count the wedding headpiece and the tea gown cap. But still, I find it most odd especially considering the fact that hats and bonnets are my utmost favorite objects to make! Then there was the fact that I made so many things of underwear. Last year 6 objects of underwear were made, this year 14 things were made. Seems like the hats and underwear objects did a swap! Then I made some shoes, Edwardian swimming boots to be exact! That is thrilling and totally satisfying knowing that I can look at them and say, "I made those! How cool!" </div>
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Several different things, costuming wise also happened this past year. The first several months of 2016 were taken up with costuming the musical "Guys and Dolls" for NNU, and that meant that my own personal sewing was totally put away. While I truly enjoyed working on the musical and working with the wonderful cast and director, it was a happiness when the musical was completed and I could start on things that my imagination had been running away with! I also started, along with my sweet Mama, a new business endeavor, <a href="http://www.thehouseofwhyte.com/" target="_blank">The House of Whyte</a>. The House of Whyte does historical fashion education programs. Mom and I had been doing Victorian Underwear Shows for 5 years and finally decided that we needed to expand it and make a business! I am so happy that we have, as it has opened doors to bless other people with the fun and beauty of Victorian clothing! </div>
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Things also happened that had nothing to do with costuming, and had everything to do with family. My sweet oldest son, Cody, graduated from high school. I am so proud of this young man...most of his school career, we homeschooled, then his senior year he took dual enrollment college classes at CWI!! Watching him during his graduation was such a surreal event as I am only about 10 years old (ok, in my mind). I had such a wonderful time sitting in the audience, feeling pride, joy, and wonder as I watched this young man, whom I have known his entire life, take this next step into adulthood. My youngest son started a new Homeschool Co-op (a classical education schooling format). This new type of education was so foreign to both Colton and I that I started going to school with him on his "at a school building" day on Wednesday and had to make myself more available to him during his at home days. That was a really different way of schooling from the past and was something we both sort of struggled with adjusting to. Now things are wonderful and Colton loves his new Co-op!</div>
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All in all, 2016 was a tremendous year! A couple of sadnesses I personally experienced were the loss of my Aunt LaVonne and Greg's Grandma Fay. LaVonne was my mom's older sister and a fun aunt to have. She will be greatly missed! Fay was 98 and had lead a most wonderful life! I'll miss her chipper personality and charm.</div>
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We did do some fun things...Mom and I went to Utah, stayed with Jennifer Rosbrugh of <a href="http://historicalsewing.com/" target="_blank">Historical Sewing</a> and went to tea with Jennifer and Lisa Hiller at the <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2016/05/tea-and-tiaras-at-grand-america.html" target="_blank">Grand America</a>. It was a really delightful weekend! Greg's mom, Pam came for Cody's graduation and we had a total and complete blast! Mom, Colton and I went for a long weekend visit to my brother and his family's. I love hanging out with them and seeing their new house was very awesome! Dad, Mom, Colton and I went hunting in the mountains of Idaho. I find it quite satisfying to be able to provide nutritious, healthy meat for my family and I also like hanging out with my parents without the distractions of "town". I am sure that I did some other fun things (I did take Colton on quite a few photoshoots) but right now as I am writing this, I can't seem to bring them to mind! I can't wait to see what this next year brings!</div>
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This year, I really wanted to work on building several new Historical Fashion Education Programs. These new programs were:</div>
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The Bridal and Mourning program wardrobes are completed as is a good bit of the Women in Sports wardrobe. There are still more sporting outfits that I have on my "to do" list and a few more pieces for "The Stages of a Woman's Life" program. We shall see if 2017 is the year to see these completed!!</div>
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For the most part I used natural fiber fabrics for the bridal trousseau. Silk dupioni, silk chiffon, silk ribbon, antique ribbon, antique lace, cotton batiste, wire, crape paper, bees wax and poly bridal satin (for the skirt lining)</div>
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Well, that's it! I still have to do a photo shoot wearing the Riding Habit (Can't wait to do this Michaela <a href="http://mysoulisfedwithneedleandthread.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Soul Is Fed With Needle and Thread</a>!!) and the 1850s Mourning outfit. Those could happen after the new year, we shall see!</div>
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Good Sunday to you all! I hope that the week was good to everyone and that you did fun happy things! Me? My week was going fine and dandy until I woke up on Wednesday to discover that my back had gone out. Like the "big go out" that long time readers know plagues me at least once a year. This event lands me in bed with pain so severe that walking up stairs, sneezing, coughing or laughing reduces me to tears. And forget about any sewing or having any sort of fun. My crime this time around? Waaaaait for iiiiiit!!! </div>
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Yup. Nothing so exciting as lifting a car off a child, oooor climbing Mount Borah, ooooor wrestling an alligator. Nope. The activity I was participating in this go around was catching some z's. Exciting huh? Bet you wish you could live my life! hahahahahahaha!!!</div>
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Anyhoo, I had planned on getting one more sewing project in before the new year. Well, two actually. You see, my blog's anniversary is December 16th and I was hoping to make an 1830s pocket as a give-away gift, along with some other fun things. Well, I am going to have to do that probably after the holidays and certainly after my back heals. I also wanted to make a yellow bonnet using my new Timely Tresses pattern. At present, my time is taken up with lying in bed, watching movies and TV shows on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and YouTube, binging on Pinterest, stretching my back muscles, and generally feeling sorry for myself. Pretty sad huh? Pain is not my friend and the presence of it, specifically this kind of horrific pain does a real number on my psyche and plunges me into a deep depression. This time around however I have been using my HiDow T.E.N.S. unit and it is really helping and I believe it is bring healing about much faster than in the past. Plus, my chiropractor is back from his vacation this week so I will be paying him a couple of visits!! I am looking for that silver lining and praying that the duration of this round of back issues is greatly diminished!</div>
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One of the things I felt up to today was taking pictures of my 1850s second mourning bonnet. This bonnet was my first use of Timely Tresses' patterns. I used the <a href="http://www.timelytresses.com/Mid-century_bonnets/1854-1865/Flora%20Francine/Flora%20Francine.html" target="_blank">Flora Francine</a> pattern and can I just take a moment and gush over how fabulous this pattern was? I have made patterns for my own bonnets in the past, but really wanted a true to the era look for my <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-met-moire-mourning-dress-is-complete.html" target="_blank">MET moire mourning ensemble.</a> First of all, the pattern came with a book for its instructions. A BOOK!! I couldn't believe my eyes! And it's quite the lovely papaer back book! I wish I had happened upon these patterns when I first started out making hats and bonnets as I wouldn't have had hardly the frustrating time I had in the past! If you are a visual learner and wish to make bonnets, I strongly suggest investing in Timely Tresses patterns. The Flora Francine came with three different brim choices for mid 1850s to early 1860s. Perfect! Having made many bonnets, I adjusted some things like adding tabs to the brim to sew it to the crown (not 100% sure if that is era correct) as that is the construction step I am used to, but there are instructions that are different in the book (I still can't get over the fact that they have a book for their instructions!!!!! EPIC!!)</div>
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The inspiration for my bonnet came from the FIDM Musuem. <a href="http://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2013/03/sarah-elizabeth-crafts-easter-bonnet-1852.html#more" target="_blank">Sarah Elizabeth Craft's Easter Bonnet</a> to be specific. I have made an <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2013/10/1863-half-mourning-bonnet-complete.html" target="_blank">1863 half mourning bonnet</a> and an <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2015/10/1840s-mourning-bonnet-complete.html" target="_blank">1840s mourning bonnet</a> and was looking for something different from these previous ones. I was perusing Pinterest (shocking, I know) and came across little Sarah's sweet yellow bonnet and fell in love. I knew it would be the perfect one for what I was wanting. Happily, I was making my ensemble second mourning, so I could add the white, some flowers and add a little bit of flourish to the bonnet itself!</div>
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Made of black Thailand Silk (very similar to dupioni silk) gifted to me by a lovely lady who purchased it on a trip to Thailand from the factory that she toured! How cool is that?</div>
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The inspiration for the placement of the flowers came from the below image from <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/269092?rpp=20&pg=39&rndkey=20120731&ft=*&when=A.D.+1800-1900&what=Photographs&pos=772" target="_blank">The MET</a></div>
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For some reason, the fact that the flowers on the inside of her bonnet weren't perfectly even made my heart happy!</div>
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Fabulous, fabulous pattern booklet from Timely Tresses. I have since ordered the <a href="http://timelytresses.com/" target="_blank">Verretta Louia</a> 1847-1854 bonnet pattern! I can't wait to make it up!</div>
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I hope that the coming week is a great one for you! If you celebrate Christmas, do you have your house decorated and ready for the holidays? Happily, I got my decorating done before the back went out. Hey! Maybe that is why my back is in rebellion! hahahahahaha!! </div>
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Greetings to you all! I hope this finds everyone happy and healthy and getting ready for Christmas! Is your house all decked out and ready for the holidays? Mine finally is, although I have misplaced 5 wreathes that I use in my decorating, which is quite vexing to say the least.</div>
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Lately, life has been really busy and sewing has been slow and sometimes non-existent, but it is only a season and soon (like in a couple of weeks when Colton gets three weeks Christmas vacation!!!) things will pick up again! Huzzaaaaaaah!!! I have been putting the finishing touches on my 1850s mourning bonnet to go with the dress then <i>that</i> project will be completed. Next up will be an 1840s stripe silk taffeta gown and I so cannot wait to begin it!</div>
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Today at my church we had our annual Christmas tea and Mama and I were table hostesses. I thought long and hard about whether or not I would wear my Victorian Tea Gown. Since we were using Mom's Royal Albert Old Country Roses china set that is very Victorian looking, I decided to go ahead and wear the gown. I am so happy I did too as it was a great place to wear it and it was after all a tea party!</div>
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Back in June of this year, I wore the dress as a <a href="http://beauty4ashes7.blogspot.com/2016/06/natural-form-era-maternity-gown.html" target="_blank">Natural Form Era Maternity Gown</a> for the centennial celebration of Mary Hallock Foote day at the Boise Public Library. I knew as I was making it that one day I would be ruching the front panel and moving the tab that goes across the front down to the natural waist line to make a Tea Gown. Can I just say that the plum satan...er...I mean satin, was a total and complete pain in the neck to ruche! AND there were 12...TWELVE!!! new rows of ruching that needed to be sewn. It took me something like 3 days to get all the rows ruched and then backed with the same fabric so the threads wouldn't pop. Because, had those threads popped, there would have been a crater where my house is because I would have become apologetically cross and exploded.</div>
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Oh ya, and I also made a lace cap like the ladies would often times wear during tea time! Since my tree is up and happy, I thought it would be fun to do the photo shoot around it and not with my tea cart as the tea cart is currently in storage. Hahahahahaha!!! Many thanks to my fabulous husband for being my photographer today!</div>
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Sweet Rosie Dog is always wanting to get in the pictures! She is such a sweet heart!</div>
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Mama and I at our table. Aren't her dishes beautiful? Just like her!!!</div>
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The Grand kids with Papa and Nana.</div>
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Oh my family...you delight my heart!</div>
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What a crew!</div>
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My sweet family.</div>
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The Girls.</div>
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I hope you all have a most fabulous week my friends!</div>
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