Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Whaa-La! and even ooh la la!






Today I began a creation that is flying on wings of French inspiration.
Soooooo  much fun!!!
The form is foil and apoxie sculpt and wire...no excitement there...
but the costume...!  
I am so excited to follow where this leads me.
The "petticoat" is made into ruffles using a hand written ledger ...from the 1880's!


Beautiful, beautiful writing!  
Somehow this feels more dear to me than all of the antique laces and fabrics that I am used to creating with.  Someone's hand capturing thoughts from their mind, put onto precious paper...and now.... so many many years later, 
it is becoming a petticoat.   Amazing the circles of life!

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