Girls Night Out

Tonight is the night! I will be at the Yard in Park City selling my wares for the “Girls Night Out” Shopping Bazaar for the Park City Day School.

Can’t wait!

-Tara

Good Eats Roast Turkey on the Food Network

Time for the Turkey Brine!

If you are tired the same old dry turkey on Thanksgiving, try this recipe from the "Good Eats Guy" Alton Brown.

Good Eats Roast Turkey on the Food Network

It is fantastic and so easy to prepare.

So I go now to the kitchen for the next two days working on creating a feast for my family. We have so much to be thankful for this year, especially being together. Today is also very exciting because my nephew returns home today from a 2 year church mission in Chile! We are so excited!!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

-Tara

Rapunzel Costume: The Bodice

All right this has to be quick because I need to get back to work, but I wanted to give you a sneak peek of the bodice…..

 

I have added embroidered lace, metallic trim, and decorative stitches to give the appearance of a corseted bodice. (big grin)

I am off again to my sewing room again. Thanks for stopping by!

-Tara

Happy Birthday T

Yep it was my birthday Monday and my sweet eldest daughter baked me this delicious pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting. Sooooo good! Click on the picture for the recipe. * note the applesauce substitution in the reviews.

 

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/pumpkin-cake-ii/detail.aspx

She was also so sweet to put ALL the candles on the cake. I’ll save you the trouble of counting, there are 36.

I feel very blessed to have a wonderful life with the best family, amazing friends and a faith that makes the realization of that possible.

Many thanks,

-Tara

Rapunzel Costume: The Fabrics

 

All projects begin with inspiration. When it comes to the Halloween costumes I make I try to immerse myself in the “art” of the character or concept the costume is based on. I’ll read the book or have the movie playing while I am sewing. I’ll search around for images. So right now on the wall in my sewing room you will find these…

and these too..

I also play all my other Halloween favorites, such as Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride (all time fav), any or all HP’s, Beetlejuice, Penelope (another all time fav) and of course the classic Sleepy Hollow (the Disney cartoon version). It’s fun stuff!

I always need one fabric that starts it all. Like a these, it is the one element that all elements relate back too. For this costume it was this beautiful silky two toned fabric. I chose it for the color! It changes from pink to purple to periwinkle and lilac. It’s amazing! Just really pretty and interesting. It is going to be used in the underskirt, sleeves, and the bodice insert.

 

Next is the bodice fabric. I am a huge fan of Dupioni Silk! I love its muted sheen and texture. This fabric is also two toned. The blend of fuchsia and teal woven together creates this vibrant purple.

This is the bodice fabric. YEA!

I am going to use the following fabric for the overskirt and for layering the upper sleeves. It is a sheer pink with pink ribbon design. This will add fullness and sparkle to the dress.  

Gold Lame’ will be used for piping in sleeve details.

 

There are the fabrics.

Now let’s talk trim. Trim is an often overlooked element, but I think it makes a huge impact like accessories do for an outfit. But I will warn you it is easy to spend in trims what you do in fabric, so have your coupons ready!

This pretty embroidered metallic lace will be on the cuffs of the upper sleeve and on the opening and hem of the over skirt.

The upper sleeves will have bands of pink satin piped in gold with a jeweled trim. Remember I said in the previous post this was Rapunzel’s dress…on steroids. : )

There are more fun trim elements that I will be adding such as flowers, ivory lace, and other gold trims so …….

stay tuned and wish me speed!

-Tara

Rapunzel Costume: The Sketch

Ok....I am embarking on Gigi's Halloween costume! Woohoo!

Today you get to see the sketch...

I know it’s more like the Rapunzel dress……on steroids. I really LOVE this movie (save two things). Her SHORT, BROWN hair at the end. Her hair was like another character in the movie and I was sad to see it go. Rapunzel looked like a completely different person. Why couldn’t Flynn Ryder cut her hair just a little bit longer instead of giving her that wispy bob that is sooooo 2002! Grr!

But I digress.

This sketch is based off of the Disney 1 of 2000 Deluxe Costume or as I would call it “What I would have like to see her wear at the end of the move” ;) 

Tomorrow, I'll show you fabric and trims! (squeal)

-Tara