Beaded rose

My daughters and I made a beaded rose last night.

 

You can see from the below to the left photo a doodle of the idea of what we wanted to do with the leaves for the flower.   Wish i had taken a picture of the flower before my child gave it away so you could see the size of the rose.

Major Barbara

Another play that I have worked on as of late  as a stitcher was Major Barbara.  Mainly just worked on the Salvation Army uniforms for the play along with a few other people.  My co workers worked on the other items for the play  I mainly made 4 skirts and worked on the jackets.  There was also a straw boat hat I had to rebuild when an actor fell and it had to be put back together.

 

Ren fairs and my family

Watching the joust from the royal box

My family loves Ren-fairs and all that type of stuff.  We belong to a local guild of fairies where we go to different ren-fairs and entertain the small children. This is a service we do not get paid to do it.  It is a charity type thing we do.  My daughters and I all go together.  This last one my middle daughter was is so she was not there.  

just a couple that I like their costumes

We go in the costumes I made from A Mid Summer Nights Dream a few years back we just take turns as to who wears which costume.  I also love watching the lion dancers, fire eaters and the jousting this fair had all of the above.This is the lion dancers I video taped them.  I enjoy watching these types of things.  I have watched Lion dancers since I was a little girl going to China Alley in the neighboring town where I grew up.



Watching Fire eaters is also fun.  My middle daughter has a friend from Microneisa that does fire dancing and is a fire-eater as well.  So I was interested in what this one used since each person seems to use something different.

 This is the liquid he uses to spit fire.

Lastly we watched the jousts.  This was an interesting Joust.  One of the competitors was a woman that does not happen to often.

Meet William Shakespeare and the merry people from A Mid summer Nights Dream.  Mustard seed Cobweb and Puck

Me and two of my girls

Since my daughter was home ill we all went with out food for the day so we could bring her home a gift from the fair meet sting.  Me and all my daughters agreed to this.  Things are tight so if we want something extra something has to give so no food to eat but daughter feels loved and  not left out.

An Ideal Husband stitcher

I work as a stitcher in a costume shop.  which means I sew and create all day at work between classes.  Most times I am just doing bits of this and that.  Meaning I might make a skirt and someone else embellish it or some one else makes a skirt and I embellish it.  We as stitcher's do not usually get to make the entire item it is a group effort to get things done by deadlines.  Since it is a costume shop on a collage campus all the more reason as we are going to and from class so people pick up and leave off on projects all the time.

I made some sashes for the men to wear in the play in the opening ballroom scene.

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer dress designed by Mandee  Shaffer Executed by Carla Summers Sash designed and made by me Wendy Harbaugh

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Sash and boutonnière designed and made by me Wendy Harbaugh

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Sash designed and made by me Wendy Harbaugh Mask designed and made by Maddie

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Boutonnières designed and made by me Wendy Harbaugh

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Dress designed by Mandee Shaffer and created by Carla Summers Feather Hair piece designed and made by me Wendy Harbaugh

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Dress designed by Mandee Shaffer and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh  Embellishments on dress by Caroline Urban

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Dress rented from either the Utah Opera or Weber state Modification on them done by several people I was one of those Masks designed and executed by Maddie Feather hair pieces designed and executed by Wendy Harbaugh

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Blue dress designed by Mandee Shaffer Executd by Carla Summers Orange dress rented from either the Utah Opera or Weber State I did alterations on this dress and repair work.  The orange mask is from my collection and the feather hair pieces I both designed and executed

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer dress designed by Mandee Shaffer  Mandee also made the top part of the ensemble I sewed the skirt The hat was made by Clarissa Knotts Mask by Maddie

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Maskes on loan from my collection I added embellishments to this dress which we rented from either weber state or the Utah Opera.

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Mandee Shaffer both designed and executed this dress The Mask was made by Maddie the feather ahir piece was designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Dress Designed by Mandee Shaffer and executed by Carla Summers.. Silver Skull mask from my collection and the Pink mask was designed and made by Maddie

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Dress rented from Utah Opera or Weber State The Mask designed and made by Maddie The Feather headpiece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer Green dress rental from eitehr Utah Opera or Weber state Blue dress Designed by Mandee Shafer and executed by Carla Summers The feather hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh

photo curtsy of Mandee Shaffer dress designed by Mandee Shaffer executed by Carla Summers  Head piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh

 These photos below here are taken by my friend Clarissa Knots and she was the Hair and makeup artist for the show she also designed and made the hats for the females in the show but not the feather hair pieces I did those.

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Dress Designed and executed by Mandee Shaffer Feather Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh mask designed and created By Maddie

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Feather Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh mask designed and created By Maddie

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions D Feather Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh mask designed and created By Maddie

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Dresses rented from either the Utah Opera or Weber state Feather Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh mask designed and created By Maddie

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Sash designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Blue Dress Designed by Mandee Shaffer Executed by Carla Summers Feather Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh Blue mask designed and created By Maddie Orange Mask from the colection of Wendy Harbaugh me

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Dress rented from either weber State or Utah Opera Feather Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh mask from the collection of Wendy Harbaugh

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Dress Rented from either Utah Opera or Weber State  Feather Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Dress Rented from Weber State or the Utah Opera Beaded Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh mask designed and created By Maddie

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Blue Dress Designed by Mandee Shaffer Executed by Carla Summer Feather Hair pieces designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh mask designed and created By Maddie Burgundy dress Rental from either Weber State or The Utah Opera

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Dress Designed  by Mandee Shaffer Executed by Anna Marie with ribbon embellishment by Me Wendy Harbaugh Boutonnière designed and executed by me Wendy Harbauh

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Dress rented from either Weber State or the Utah Opera Designed Feather Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh mask from my collection

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Sash and boutonnière Designed and executed by  me Wendy Harbaugh

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Blue Dress Designed  by Mandee Shaffer Feather  executed by Carla Summers Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh mask designed and created By Maddie

Photo by Clarissa Knots of Claissa Lavon Productions Feather Hair piece designed and executed by me Wendy Harbaugh mask  from my collection

There is a show that finished its run Saturday (today) called "An Ideal Husband".  The show was amazingly beautiful but set and costumes and the actors did so well.  It was a pleasure to watch.  One of my bosses the assistant boss to be exact did the renderings for this show she designed the clothes that the shop made and decided which items we would pull from stock, and from the opera, and from her personal items.  I loaned some masks for the play to use some others a friend of mine Maddie made.  I made boutonnières  ( since I use to be a florist) and feather head dresses, sashes for the ball scene and bits and pieces of many other costumes.  Mandee has an amazing eye for detail and beauty and does jewel tones a lot which is my fav.  I got to do some bead work repair and embellishments I made some skirts and things of this sort.  It is fun to be part of a group.  I do not have a good camera anymore so the photos in this post are Mandee's and Clarissa Knotts the make-up / hair artist for the show.  Please enjoy.