Baaa!!

[mlsdesigns]

I like being a sheep :) and it's been so much fun, looking back to see just how much I did this past year! No wonder I was tired ;)
Any way,

Re-vamp of my blue ball gown - net overskirts and bertha with posies and lace.


Mummy's plaid silk ball gown, Clare helped with the hairnet!


Clare's bustle and petticoat and the ball gown - skirt, overskirt and bodice.


Don't think it really counts! Mummy's blue Anglaise, a rehashed hideous bridesmaid's dress, worn with my undies and cap and a scarf for a fichu!!


Mummy's cotton print day gown with chemisette and hat.


Blue silk regency, chemisette and hat.


Fanchon bonnet.


Striped linen regency and straw hat.


Indian cotton print regency daydress.


Clare's petticoat and regency ballgown.


Mummy's black and gold sari ballgown


Fanchon bonnet for Saffia, young girl in y dance group.


Blue plaid daydress and green silk drawn bonnet.


Day/evening bodice for Mummy's plaid ballgown skirt.


Mummy's mantle, which I don't think she ever wore in the end, or maybe to go to one ball, taking it off as soon as she got there!


Decorated hairnets and bows, and undersleeves for this dress and the pink evening bodice, as well as refits for both bodices, after I lost all the weight with my gallstones.


Sheer white waist and belt, tucked petticoat and corset cover.


How did I manage not to get a photo of Clare in this! Anyway, new overskirt and day bodice for her green ballgown, and teeny pink straw hat.


Finally, a multi use photo!!! Clare's apricot over robe and lunardi hat, my brown velvet spencer and Marrianne straw hat, Mummy's peach daydress and brown floral over robe.


Mummy's cream wool spencer and brown velvet hat.


New corset.


Blue winter hood, remade almost completely!


Mint-green regency ballgown, from a sari.


Red challis winter day dress.

I started out doing them in order of completion, then I got confused and did them in the order I found them :D Wow, I did a lot! It's amazing what a lot of sewing you can do when you only work part time, and only term time at that!!

Comments

[chloeandrudy.livejournal.com]

Isn't it amazing when you compile what you actually did?
The light blue gown, where you're crocheting, do you have a link to your post where you were working it on it? I'd like to look at it more closely.
Happy New Year! Val

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year!
I have no idea where the post from making that bodice is! I'll look for the post from that day, I think it has more shots.

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

Here we go :) http://mlsdesigns.livejournal.com/74554.html

[chloeandrudy.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thank you!

[chloeandrudy.livejournal.com]

You, my dear, need to start tagging your posts. That makes it easier for us and you to find particular ones again. It helped me a lot when I started my costume diary, and needed to find photos and comments I'd made while making them.
And for us nosey LJer's. :D

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

You know, I've thought the same thing myself! Seems like such a crazy daunting task though!!!

[jennylafleur.livejournal.com]

Jumping in to say - yes you do! Just start doing it from now on and go back to catch up a little at a time. It's really not that bad if you take it in small chunks...

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

I've started tagging, it's taking so loooooong!
And I think they do realise how lucky they are :)

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

Absolutely gorgeous costumes. You are such an inspiration.

I would SO love to persuade you to join Kentwell in their new Victorian events.

And you and your Mums really do need to come and visit. I think we still have a cook book held hostage - don't we??

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *blushes*
I don't know if we could manage to join in from such a long way away! It sure looked like fun though :)
Do you still have a book? I forgot! What was it?! We'll have to see if we can't manage to get to you soon, life gets so busy doesn't it?!

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

Kentwell is closer to you than Llandrindod Wells is! ;-) And over Christmas period there would be warm places to stay at Kentwell - no expectation of staying in a tent or caravan!

Sorry - just think you would be great in our Victorian event! ;-)

The cookbook is one on deserts.

[mala-14.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's quite a list. Good for you!

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I knew I'd done a lot, but I had no idea quite how much till I put it all together. And I think I have even more on this year's list, eek!1

[koshka-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Such pretty things! You really had a wonderful costuming year :)

I love that you have the proper accessories for each one--it adds so much!

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I did have a good year didn't I?!
I suppose I do! I love accessories: gloves, bags, hats, jewellery, I like to feel like a real person - the original lot didn't just wear a dress, they put an outfit together each day the way we do! Mixing up hats and jewellery makes it feel like a new outfit every time!

[jennylafleur.livejournal.com]

Wow - you really did alot this year and all of it lovely! I hope your Mum and sis know how lucky they are to have you! :>

[girliegirl32786.livejournal.com]

Such lovely work this year!

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

Why thank you!!

[marcine.livejournal.com]

Wow! Lots of pretties. And I love that picture of your mom in her cotton print day gown -- she has such an impish grin. Looks like she's having a blast.
Here's to happy sewing in 2010!

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

Thank you! She does have an absolute blast every time we dress up, she's like a little girl :)