Re-making

Yesterday was spent re-making too big stuff. First a 1940s skirt for everyday use and then, while watching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries I remade a 1920s one hour dress that I made for a theme party that my sister gave some years ago (that I didn't go to in the end, since my arthritis flared up).

The fabric is a synthetic devoré velvet, so it's not high quality in any way, but I think it looks very much late 1920s. The art deco shoes are from Miss L'fire.



More photos over here.

Curly Elizabeth, and another side of my new painted chest

All the other girls have a couple of curls at the ears, but Snow White aka Elizabeth didn't and I couldn't help but thinking that she just didn't look right in her regency clothign without curls.

So I rolled up her hair on drinking straws and hed her hair in boiling water for about a minute. Now she has very pretty curls.



She's standing on one of the sides of my second painted chest, a side that I finished today. Now I only have one of the narrower side panels, plus the lid left to paint.




However, tomorrow is a work day, and I have laundry to take care of, so that side will have to wait. It's not like I need it before May, when I go camping.