I’ve wanted to try couching on my Bernina 790+ and our theater recently (March 2024) produced Legally Blonde. That majorette jacket in the law school application scene was the perfect opportunity to give it a try! Our talented Elle is tiny but mighty, so the first step was getting a…
Yes! That really is the name of the character! It’s a long one! 🤣 After our team searched Amazon and the internet for a period appropriate yellow suit, they asked if we could make a custom suit for the show. Knowing this one will probably never be used again, we…
Chip’s roses were made similarly to Mrs. Potts. Since I made Chip’s after Mrs. Potts, I changed the process slightly. I grabbed a teacup and sketched out two roses measuring roughly 7-8 inches – a smaller scale to match our dainty little actress. After painting a base green, I added…
Continuation of Part 2Once I finished painting the flowers I moved on to the leaves. I added a few vines and branches to get the leaves farther out and fill up a bit of the white space. To paint the leaves I laid down a dark green layer of paint…
Continuation of Part 1After receiving feedback from MelRae and the director, I moved on to starting the actual apron! They wanted three different colored roses in a similar color palette. I chose to go with pink, purple, and reddish purple as my final color scheme. We wanted the apron to…
We are a part of a local theater group called CCT, Christian Community Theater, and we performed Beauty and the Beast over the summer of 2023. MelRae was the lead Costume Designer and she and the director, Bobby Tschoepe, worked hand-in-hand to design and create the costumes. One of the…
My theater company was showing a production of Newsies and needed several time-appropriate phones. We found one in the thrift stores, but we needed several so the Props Committee asked me to 3D print a few. To begin I found an .stl design on Thingiverse. Click here for the files…
Our Newsies Sets team asked us to create the Jacobi’s Delicatessen sign. I searched around on the good ‘ole internet to see what I liked, chatted with our director, then dove in. We started off in the garage, and propped the two 4’x8′ luan panels on white folding tables so…
When Medda Larkin wears a dressing gown, it must be as lavishly over-the-top as she is! In our costume stock, I found a sequin dance dress to be the base layer of this costume, and ordered a feather lingerie robe from Amazon. But… our Medda needed more. 😉 To enhance…
Even the most famous people have stay-home-and-work days, and Newsies! Medda Larkin is no exception. Director Bobby Tschoepe and I decided Medda’s work that day was at her desk, paying bills and working on paperwork, and that she still dressed for success, knowing her important customers could drop by. I…