Mood:
a-okTopic: Rants and Raves
I think my cold is mostly gone. I don't have an earache any longer, and I only have a slight case of the sniffles. Yay!
On the weekend Dave and i went off to A different home improvement store to look at their tiles and bathroom stuff. They had a huge assortment of kitchen tiles, but not as much in bathroom tiles. They had plenty of french countryside Terra cotta, sunny yellows, bright blues, all the colours i was looking for. They did not do as well in the Bathroom fixtures department, or in closet organizers. So the score so far is Closet improvements: Canadian Tire. Kitchen tiles and paint: Rona. Bathroom tiles, flooring, fixtures and accessories: Home Depot.
Dave is almost okay with this, except for the part that means he'll be doing some home improvement work that might be heavy, like taking out the old vanity and replacing it with a new one, laying a new floor, ceramic tiling...little things like that.
So I just found out today that one of the types of crystals i wanted has been discontinued and I will never ever be able to find them ever again. That's so sad. Now I have to either A: decide on a substitute or B: adapt my idea so it doesn't use the pear shaped crystals. I think I'll do B and use larger crystals instead of pear shapes.
I have a complaint. I contribute to several fashion and sewing sites. A few have mailbags where someone can send in a question and we try to answer as many as we can. There's a couple types of question I hate more than any other as it's impossible to answer, and people get angry when we tell them it's impossible to wave a magic wand and conjure up what they want. Here it is in five variations just this morning:
I am looking for a pattern to make a dress similar to the hooded one that Margaret Trudeau wore to her 1971 nupitals to the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. I tried looking but unable to leave a question on any site. If you can give me any info where to look or for that matter how to reach her regarding that dress - I would be over the moon - Thanks everyone for your
And:
Where could I find a replica or something similar to Ziggy Stardust's white outfit? I'm looking to create as close a replica as I can to this outfit: (link removed) It was the second outfit he wore in Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture and so far I have had very little success. In particular, no luck in finding a shirt like that one. Any help is appreciated
And also:
I am looking to buy the dress rhianna wore in her under my umbrella video. whre can I buy the exact dress she wore? not a copy but the exact dress?
And:
I want to know where The character of elaine in Seinfeld got her clothes and her bags. What is the designer of her bags and where can i buy some of her dresses?
And:
I want to make this dress:(link to movie actress on red carpet wearing a draped and pleated and hand painted Zandra Rhodes gown) I have some fabrics and my grandma will let me use her sewing machine so how do I make it cause I've never sewn anything before. How do I cut it and measure it? I don't want to use a pattern? I want it to look like that dress and not a home made dress from a pattern?
First: Have you looked on I dunno...GOOGLE? Like the image search? And then taken your picture to a dressmaker? Or perhaps using google to look up sewing patterns and compare your picture to sewing patterns? Are you lazy? Do you want me to do your work for you? Are you too important to search on your own? And that was a long time ago and probably custom made so the likelihood of finding exactly what you want is close to impossible.
Second: Once again, custom made, long time ago, at least this guy has a picture, the likelihood of finding a replica anywhere is NIL. Those costumes are sooo custom made and so unique that almost all are in museums.
third: That was custom made for the video and not available to the general public. (are we sensing a theme here?)
Fourth: All costumes for Seinfeld were either custom made (Elaine's wardrobe has a particularly interesting story) and the accessories were all purchased at Mid town Manhattan stores, where someone like her would shop. Only they are from the MID NINETIES and likely all discontinued styles and no longer available.
Finally: Custom made...and a pleated and draped dress is difficult enough with a pattern...why does everyone want to make something that would send me into conniption fits for their first sewing project?
If you see it on television on a character, or in a movie, or in a video, it's likely a costume, designed for the character and not available to the general public. And if that piece is older than five years, it's no longer available anywhere. And if it's over thirty years old, tough titties, you're out of luck. I try to be nice, but some of these questions drive me crazy. There are thousands of things out there that you can't buy, and Ms I-Want-Margret's-Dress lady...I don't care how rich or important you think you are. And I am not searching every pattern on the internet for you!
And that's all for now. later! And I found a place with cheap tear drop crystals YAY!
