belle village dress
Below you'll find all blog posts related to my multiple versions of Belle's blue village dress - a quick version in 2006, a more serious version in 2007, a remake in 2012, and a version I made for a stage production in 2016.
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Finished!
Chase took some photos of my finished Belle dresses last night. We just set them up in the hallway (under the Belle portrait!) on the dressform. The blue dress: After I sent it in for a final try-on, I found out I was going to have to lose about 4 inches of length when I hemmed it. I tried to…
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Belle Costumes
Yay new projects to talk about! I’m currently working on two Belle costumes for a production of Beauty and the Beast! My mom is doing the 3 dresses for Gaston’s silly girls, and I’m doing the Belle village dress and ballgown. Week before last, we went shopping… starting with a disappointing trip to Hancock Fabrics. 4 in the afternoon, lines…
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New Belle Photos
A couple of weeks ago, I had planned to do an outdoor location photoshoot with Chasing Photography of my new Belle ballgown. Well, we got rained out. So, to make up for it, we did a white backdrop shoot of four of my Belle costumes! I’ve updated each of my portfolio pages with some of my favourites 🙂
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New Photos!
I’ve been adding a lot of new photos over the past few weeks! I’ve got new pics for Batgirl, Ripley, Utena, and Belle’s blue dress! And I finally finished adding pics from Halloween to that set in the events section.
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2012 & 2013 Costumes!
So at the beginning of 2012, this is what I said I wanted to get done: Romana II – did it! Donna Noble Silence in the Library outfit – did it! remake Belle (maybe… had this one on my list several times and have never gotten to it) – did it! (finally!) Wasp (been suggested several times so I might…
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Halloween 2012
I hope everyone had a very fun & happy halloween this year! Ours was rather low-key. At work, my team decided to be Mad Scientists, so I threw together a last-minute Dr. Forrester costume. Kevin was our creature! He stayed in character all day, too. We stayed home last night to hand out candy, and sadly did not have near…
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Romana & Belle Sneak Peeks
So here’s some progress pics. Still need to: make hatband find white shirt (this one is my old Hermione one, it’s in bad shape) socks (the ones I bought aren’t working) tighten hat strap and sew in combs Still need to: fix a grommet on the back get a new wig!
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Romana & Belle Progress
This post is useless without pictures, but ah well. I finished Belle, finally, with the exception of the hairbow. I bought some ribbon that’s fairly close and I’m hoping to just make a bow and glue it to a barrette, instead of having to tie it on everytime like I’ve done in the past. Romana is almost done, too. I’ve…
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Belle Updates, Laundry Room, etc
I haven’t had anything to work on recently so I’ve been working on Belle again. I got the apron made and the sleeves done. All that’s left now is attaching the collar. I’ve also got to figure out a hairbow, since I threw away the scraps of the blue material when we moved from the apartment. But – who knows,…
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More Belle progress
Got the bodice rehemmed last night, and had to fix a seam on the back, but it’s done now. Got the other sleeve put in, and cut out a collar, too. I still need to hem the shirt, finish the sleeve edges, attach the collar and make the apron. This fabric is some of the worst wrinkling stuff I’ve ever…
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Belle Village Dress In-progress
I’ve been working on my Belle costume again – started the shirt last weekend, but then ran into a wall finishing up my bodice. The bodice is from 2009 — so there was a lot I didn’t remember about it and a few issues that I had forgotten about. (same problem I’m having with the padme nightgown from 2006.) After…
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boredom sets in
So I have nothing to work on – I finished my other puzzle, we can’t finish painting… so I pulled out a couple of old projects I never finished. First up was Belle, my 3rd version of the village dress. I thought this was in pieces, but when I got it out and looked it over, it was really close…
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Plans
I planned to work on stuff this weekend – haven’t gotten a thing done so far. I want to work on Belle, and I also need to make the little skirt-thingie for Chase’s clonetrooper. The clonetrooper thing will be first on the list once I make myself go to the work room – earlier this week I started putting together…
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Hogwarts Robes finished + photoshoot!
Secret project is FINISHED! I’ll try to post pics tomorrow before we leave. I took these pics a while back, when I bought a new backdrop – I want to try to put together a nice book of some of my costumes, eventually. (Sort-of, to use a portfolio – I’ve got a nice setup for my artwork, but nothing for…
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2007 in review
Well since I’m mostly done for the year – outside of my little secret project – I’m gonna go ahead and post this. I’ve had it done for a while actually LOL At the beginning of the year, this is what I wanted to accomplish… keeping in mind that when I wrote this, Chase hadn’t proposed yet and changed a…
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Horrorfest and Nashville Zoo Trooping Pics
This week has been very hectic at work, I just finally finished editing the photos from this weekend and got them uploaded today. So we drove up to Nashville Friday night, had an awesome dinner with friends. 🙂 Saturday we got up, and I put on Belle, and Chase and I headed over to the fairgrounds for the Nashville Comic/Horror…
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Belle progress pics
On the left, the dress as it was on monday. On the inside, every seam was pinned up, so it looked really lumpy LOL. Also no zipper yet, and I had just pinned up the hem once to give me an idea of where to cut the excess off. On the right, as of last night – almost done –…
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Belle updates and Halloween plans
The blue dress is finished, except ironing. Got it all taken up, hemmed, and the sleeves fixed. The white shirt still needs the cuffs on the sleeves and the collar. Other than that, it’s finished. I’m regretting my fabric choice on the shirt, though. Already! Geez. So, the upcoming Halloween-related events: Friday – leave for Nashville Saturday – Nashville Comic/Horror…
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getting nothing done, except some planning
Last night I dug around in the costume closet, found the 2006 blue Belle dress, and pulled the apron out. The apron was fine, it was with the dress I didn’t like, so yay – I have an apron. I can’t say I have an apron with NO work involved, because it was a pain in the butt to climb…
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Belle wig progress
Took a shot of the wig restyled into the ponytail. Excuse my wighead’s own hair sticking out from underneath it, LOL
