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Est. 2010

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  • Refashions
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    • No Sew Refashions
    • Shirt Refashions
    • Sweater Refashions
    • The 366 Day Refashion Project
  • Thrifting
  • Home DIYs
  • Ovarian Cancer & Me
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  • Refashionista 1940s Inspired Dress Refashion from 1980s Dress
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    A 1940s-Inspired Dress Refashion & Benson’s Bad Back

    June 11, 2020 / 77 Comments

    Oh 2020, you vicious minx you. Just when I start thinking maybe things are getting better, I am proven to be entirely, woefully wrong.

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    DIY 1920s Costume from 1980s Dress

    January 19, 2020 / 66 Comments

    You guys. We messed up. With the 2020s looming ahead of us we got too excited and did something rash.

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    A DIY Xanadu Costume!

    January 2, 2016 / 34 Comments

    When the Nickelodeon announced it would be sharing this cinematic gem in their First Friday Lowbrow Cinema Explosion series, I won’t lie…I was excited.

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  • Yacht Rock Dress Refashion 1
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    Yacht Rock Dress Refashion

    August 14, 2014 / 75 Comments

    When I received a pair of tickets in the mail for the annual Free Times Best of Columbia Party, I was delighted and surprised!  But what to wear?

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  • RED Meets Purple! 2
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    RED Meets Purple!

    October 17, 2012 / 29 Comments

    *Cough* *Cough* *Hack* *Hack* I’ve returned to the living from the land of the lung-funk!  ðŸ™‚  Sorry for being so absent from this blog! As some of you know, I was the costumer for a recent production of RED. The play centers around painter Mark Rothko’s two-year struggle to complete a lucrative set of murals for Manhattan’s exclusive Four Seasons restaurant, and his fraught relationship with a seemingly naïve young assistant .  Sadly, you can’t see it, as the production…

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  • Day 273:  Plan 9 From Outer Space!!!! 3
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    Day 273: Plan 9 From Outer Space!!!!

    March 29, 2012 / 10 Comments

    A couple of months ago I agreed to costume a production of Plan 9 From Outer Space (yes…based on the 1959 Ed Wood movie).  I’m not really sure why I agreed to this.  I had never costumed a show before, and this one is pretty demanding, with a lot of things that would have to be made from scratch, refashioned, and difficult to procure. Basically, if you send me an email asking me to do something, start it with “Hey…

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