Thanksgiving

Hello World!

Sorry for being a day behind.  Yesterday the boy and I traveled to Sugarland to visit my dad's side of the family and stayed late to have dinner with ERad.  And today was spent in Victoria.

It's been a traveling sort of Christmas Break.

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11/12 - 18

The best way to publicize your show - WhichWhich

So the only exciting thing to happen this week was Hecuba opened.  The boy sent me these of course, because he's the best.

And sure enough the day after opening…  

My best friend who was in the show got hit in the head with a chair in a freak accident and had to go to the E.R.

She was okay in the end.  Minor concussion, and bruising with swelling.  But after a night off, she was back in the show.

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11/19 - 25

Christmas Decorating/Draping 2/Finish Detective Film/Thanksgiving

So this week began with the finishing of the Detective film I was in.

I also had a project to turn in.  Remember that awesome class I'm taking where I make custom clothes? Well this was project number two.

I chose this Edwardian era Queed Maud gown originally worn in 1913 (mainly because I'm obsessed with Downton Abbey and want to fantasize that I'm from the nineteen-teens).

Ugggghhhhh, I love this show.

Even if I am SO MAD AT IT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF THE SEASON THREE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL.

So right, the Queen Maud gown.

And here was my final mockup...

Fit for Lady Mary!

And this is me wearing my mock-up.

I could be on Downton!

And then it was

THANKSGIVING BREAK

I hopped on the plane to Minnesota!

I had my traditional T.G.I. Friday's at DFW

And luckily for me...

IT SNOWED!

Bob and Katie (Karen's brother and his wife) came over and we had a nice Thanksgiving dinner.

Airplane with the matchy-match twins.

Saturday Karen, Dad, the girls and I went to Target Arena and saw the Shriner Circus.

The Shriner Circus

So glad that they still do this.  So terrifying and entertaining.

After the circus, we headed to Karen's collegiate hang out spot, Glueck's, where I had a Berliner (or pot roast sandwhich with mushrooms and mozzarella) which was DELICIOUS as we watched the beginning of the Baylor game.

We hit Macy's Santaland and then made our way back to the house to finish the BU vs. TECH game which we WON!

Mac says "Go Bears!"

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Thanks for tuning in, loves,

The FeltWoman

Hey-Cuba!

Hello world!

Yesterday the boy and I arrived home, where I had Christmas a day late with my BC fam-o-ly.  It was a nice simple Christmas.  And I finally got a new straightener!  (score!)

Today I took advantage of that new straightener (as well as some desigual clothes from my Dad) and got all dolled up to go see my aunt and uncle with the boy and the fam-o-ly.

oooooooooh Desigual….

And with our luck, we blew a tire.  So after a long night, here's the November Chronicles…

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10/29 - 11/4

Homecoming/Skate-n-date

I must say this was the first year that I had any school spirit during Homecoming…

I woke up at an atrocious hour and got some donuts, then carpooled with the rest of the members of BUTSS for

HOMECOMING PARADE!

There were some great floats there this year, my favorite of which was KOT's.

KOT had the most epic London/Peter Pan/Neverland float ever.  That's Peter Pan's tree house on the left and the eye of London and Big Ben behind me.

AND THEN

They also had a MOVING Jolly Rogers up above it all…I mean it broke down in the parade, but it was AWESOME.

 I had a really fun time, despite how early I was awake, and how long we waited doing nothing with an obnoxious band surrounding us...

My Little and my Line Camp Leader

Hannah showing her dance moves to the middle school band...

Immediately after the parade, those of us who were costume workstudies had to book it to the theatre for a mandatory work call for Hecuba.  Woohoo!

And the next night was SKATE-N-DATE!  An 80's themed Roller Skate Take-a-date.

Ducky and McFly

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Okay, so this is my sorry excuse for…

CRAFT TIME

I once again offered to design the shirts for the Take-A-Date…

This was my concept design.

And this is what the lovely folks at Bear Cotton came up with!

YAY!!!  PERFECTION!

Everyone really enjoyed the shirts.  I mean, I know I did.  I have TWO!

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11/5 - 11/11

Hecuba Hair/Ty and Hannah's Wedding

So I was the Hair & Makeup designer for Baylor Theatre's Hecuba.  It was a lot of fun!  I don't think I'll be signing up for this again, just because I'll be a senior hoping to costume design a mainstage and also auditioning for shows while pursuing grad school…  But it was quite the adventure.

There was a lot of blood...

2 gallons...

Deceivingly pretty renderings…

And most importantly, corn rows…

That's right.  Three of my lovely actresses got corn rows (although due to rashes and such, only two were in for the show…but it didn't really make a difference).

The before pic

Kaycee, Alexis

Jaime

We spent a good three hours there.

There were some other awesome braids, too!  Like Rachel's cascading waterfall braid.

Thanks, pinterest!

Mind you, while all of this was happening, I was also making a skirt and a godforsaken corset of vinyl and leather.

Awful boning and the boy putting in grommets!

Oh, yeah!  Did I forget to mention that my boy was in?  His brother was getting married!

Despite the fact that I was working on finishing a show while it was all happening, it was a nice service and what I actually got to see of the reception, it was nice as well.

Showing off the boy's new RG3-famous Superman socks (his groomsmen gift)

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That's it lovelies.  I'm headed to the dentist and then Houston tomorrow.  Thanks for reading!

Until next time, 

The FeltWoman

Ctrl, Alt, Create

Hello!  Merry Christmas again!  Let's get to it...

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10/15 - 21

The third week of October I had a script reading for a short film I worked on called "Replaced."  I'll get back to that…later.

The weekend was a sad one.  I mentioned during the summer that I lost my Pawpaw in July.  He was in all senses of the word, the patriarch of the Gayle family.  And we were finally having his memorial service.  The family gathered at Beulah park to say goodbye.

But with all of that sadness, I witnessed a miracle.  As I was riding home, thinking about my Pawpaw I saw this.

My Pawpaw had tons of peacocks at his farm.  When I think of Pawpaw, I think of peacocks.  And as I was driving home to Waco, I saw this and I knew my Pawpaw was there.

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CRAFT TIME

So for Halloween this year, Nevada wanted to be America's first Avenger...

CAPTAIN AMERICA

Mom found him a costume at Wal*Mart, but the shields left were…pathetic.  Instead she bought this

All we really needed was the lid, but who doesn't need a metal trashcan lying about?

First we took the lid off and used pliers to bend the handle back on the inside, which allowed us to pull the handle clean off.

It wasn't off for long, though.  We inserted it back but on the inside.  And hammered it down.

Paint time!  I took some painter's tape and made a star on the center, letting the points of the stars hit 3 circles out from the edge.

Next we filled in a circle around the star in blue.

And circles of red, silver/white, and red.

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10/22 - 28

So as I may or may not have mentioned, I took this wonderful class this year called Advanced Costume Construction.  Throughout the first part of the semester we learned the basic tools and tricks of creating/reconstructing women's clothing.

I mean we could do men's clothing but that's so boring.  :P

Anyways, after learning the basics, we had three projects.  And this was my first.

  

And here is the final product!

I recently bought some periwinkle blue pinstripe fabric to make this into a reality in the coming semester.  I'll keep you posted.

Eliza and I wear our projects…it's a thing.

Saturday was the unofficial departmental Halloween Party.  My besties and I have a tradition of dressing in a group as you may remember.

Well, we lost a couple but this year, we did not fail to deliver.

Sunday while everyone else was sleeping off their drunken Halloween endeavors, I was in Castellaw Communications filming another short film, "The Surgeon and the Professional."  Again, I'll get back to that later.

Detective Thompson, reporting for duty.

Well, th-th-th-that's all folks!

Until next time,

The FeltWoman