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Principles of Epic Costuming: Chapter 8
I have a personal rule for my own costumes that ALWAYS makes me happy when I follow it. This is the rule. When I am trying to pick out what to wear, if I have a SINGLE bit of hesitation about whether...
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Principles of Epic Costuming:Chapter 9
Do you know who has the Epic Costuming nailed?? The Monster High Dolls. Say what you will about "teaching little girls negative body image" and so on and so forth. Anyone can criticize. And do you...
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STAY PUT! Makeup Tools and Tricks
I already adore Heidi Klum, but SERIOUSLY, look how committed this lady is to her Halloween Costumes! What in the...what??? So, Halloween Makeup. If corsets and body image for women is my main...
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Sexy Bald Eagle
I am just so proud of this drawing that I need to make sure that I immortalize it in my blog forever. Now, if the REAL costume can only look this cute..... By the way, making patterns is hard....
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Grab Bag Sale & Rules for 2014
I am not always right. But, I am always right about not always being right. Also, I'm an emotional, passionate woman. Sometimes, I'm at a fabric store, looking at completely random fabric and just...
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The Bridge
I had a serious internal war in my brain today. Okay, I'm most likely still having it, which is why I'm hiding out down in my basement madly pounding away at the keyboard and looking at...
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But, if I don't, WHO WILL?????
I intend to start REALLY diving in and dissecting some of the long-held beliefs and stories that have been running constantly in the background of my mind for years. Today, I'm attacking a really...
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With Integrity
This is my brother-in-law, Barrett, and his little daughter, Naomi. My sister called yesterday to give me some ideas on what to give to her husband for Christmas. He is the most...
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Hibernation
I need to connect more with nature. I have been looking at the changing world around me, and it's been making me a little bit panicky, because I've not been making peace in my heart with the...
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The Bearded Lady, Fudge, and "Putting Yourself Out There"
Making and selling my own things. How did I get here? Answers and insights below. Recently, I was reading through a GORGEOUS magazine called "Where Women Create" and not only was every page...
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Catty
*I've learned two important precepts this year that I wanted to share here in hopes that they can help other women and also help me, myself, and I, as I go into 2015.First: When someone criticizes...
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Loving the Body
I feel like I need to start out with a slight disclaimer on this one before I get right into the nitty-gritty sheety-meaty of this blog. I want all of you to know that I write blogs as a...
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Smashing the A.N.T.S.!
I heard something recently that absolutely delighted me! I was listening to a podcast, and the guy was giving advice about how to change your life, and he said that you had to great REALLY good...
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Hypocrite
Yesterday, I was justifying to my friend why I didn't want to buy myself new clothing. These were my very reasonable sounding reasons:-"You shouldn't buy more clothing until you lose more weight?...
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Vision Board
This is a little screen shot from the pinterest board that I'm tying to create for my "Vision Board". If you've never heard of them, this is a motivational tool to help you to reach your...
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How Life is sort of like Sauerkraut.
Yes, that's what I was thinking about this morning as I ate freaking sauerkraut. It REALLY is sort of like life. Stay with me here. Not that life is all cabbage-y and fermenty, BUT it can seem...
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Work It
When I cut new, un-tested patterns, they usually get cut out of ugly fabric, but I was taking a risk here. If you have an artist's brain, or happen to know someone who is plagued with this...
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Feeding the Beast?
Holy night. I've had a hard time in my brain lately. I'm in some kind of crazy-pants self-punishment loop where I will first start off trying to MAKE myself feel awesome about myself, but then...
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Wearing Leggings, Inception, and Other Assorted Observations
I am going to get up on my soap box here real quick. I promise it won't take long...I just need to get this off of my chest. Okay, so the other day, I saw someone repost this absolutely wretched little...
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Q and A...with....myself
For me, personally, I LOVE behind-the-scenes info on how businesses run, how people get through adversity, and how entrepreneurship gets a beating heart. However, when people ask me about my own...
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