Ever After painting

Here's another painting my Mom did loosely based on the red velvet Ever After dress I made. 

Arwen Mourning Gown painting

Since I've been posting a bunch of the recent little costume watercolors my Mom has done, I thought I'd post some of the older ones.   The current ones have all been done in a little notebook - the ones she's done in the past are much larger.

Here's one she did based on a photo of me in my Arwen Mourning gown. I think she's so talented. But then, I'm biased!

American Duchess Pemberlies

The American Duchess Pemberlies are super comfortable (but ran 1/2 size bigger than the 18th century shoes, so I had to exchange my 8 for a 7.5) and fit great.

I really wanted to make these Sense & Sensibility shoes:

I bought champagne colored leather paint - it didn't go on quite as light as I would have liked - I think next time I will dilute whatever color I get with the neutral I also bought.  I also bought some silk grossgrain ribbon on etsy. As Lauren suggestion, I used glue to edge the shoes and the side seam. I used her clips and made some rosettes.  I also used two covered buttons (I happened to have blanks on hand).  They're not exact because they're a little darker in color, but they're close!

A Fortuny Gown

I came across these photos I took of a Fortuny gown on display at the Museum of American History in DC a few years ago. I thought they might be of interest!

Vintage pin

I found this picture (I should really take my own) on a pin I got on ebay four years ago.  I think I only paid 20-25 bucks for it and it's really heavy and nice quality.  Much prettier than the picture. :-)