I make no secret of my desperate love of the earlier half of the 18th century, with its truly bizarre silks in insane geometric and floral p...

So for the past year and a half I've been in the terrible habit of hunting down gorgeous historically inspired fabrics and buying them t...

....or...."My Favorite Color." I wear so much black in everyday modern life that my poor mother, when we see each other, is alwa...

Last year, I was not in love with this fabric when I first saw it online. An Etsy seller with remnants from a decor business had taffetas in...

....and that's ok.  Because the saying "nothing ventured, nothing gained" has carried me well through costuming, and I have ve...

Ok, get ready for a lot of pictures and not a lot of text 😂  I won't try to spoil it with my ramblings unless I remember something. Our...