Why don't we share simple costume ideas made with items found in your house?
I'll start - The Invisible Man. I made this for my hubby one year out of items we had in the house:
Silk lounging jacket
Ascot
Black slacks
Gloves
Ace bandage wrapped around head
Vintage welding goggles
Red...
I find that rollers make my curly hair a mess. Hot rollers work best for me as well. My hair kind of goes into a natural messy fingerwave curls on its own. The hot rollers tend to neaten up the curls considerably. The trick for me is not to brush my hair too much afterwards because I have a...
I've listed some more large-sized vintage dress patterns on eBay, including:
2 1920s deadstock Butterick dress patterns, 38" B. One dress is a gown, the other is a dress with really interesting art deco detailing on it.
2 1950s deadstock Simplicity day dress patterns, sizes 18 & 18 1/2...
If it makes you feel any better, I tried this dress on at Old Navy a couple months ago (it came out with the summer clothing a while back) and it was very unflattering in cut. It was not cut well for a larger sized sized gal. The waist was also empire length, i think it would have been much...
I've added two more patterns to my auctions. A 1940s Hollywood day dress pattern (size 16) and a 1930s DuBarry Russian-inspired blouse pattern (size 18). The blouse pattern reminds me of Ninotchka.
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/bop-a-lena
These patterns will be all that I'm listing until...
I'm thinning out my vintage sewing pattern collection. I just listed some larger-sized, 1950s new look era Vogue Special Design patterns on eBay:
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/bop-a-lena
The Vogue Special Design dresses are size 20, the 40s pants set is a size 18, and one of the vogue...
We use little cheat sheets to remember all the rules in canasta. They're invaluable if you're just learning to play. Games.yahoo.com also has a good online version of canasta that you can play that really helps you to learn the rules.
I had heard that Fox pulled their funding from the movie about halfway through filming. I think it was because the movie was hitting too close to home, as you mention, swinggal. I think the anti-corporation message of the movie was deemed too inappropriate. If you watch the movie, it also...
We had the USA Channel's Groovy Movies hosted by Commander USA. I saw a lot of b-grade horror movies as a child thanks to Commander USA. It was on every Saturday at noon, followed by Kung Fu Theater at 2pm.
I had some friends over two weekends ago and we watched The Monster Club and The Green Slime. I couldn't stop singing Monsters Rule Okay in my head for two days after. As soon as I finally got the song out of my head, I got a phone call and my friends and they were singing Monsters Rule Okay...
Erie Brewing Company's Rail Bender Ale. A lovely mellow porter that'll knock your socks off if you aren't careful:
Great Lakes Brewing Company Edmund Fitzgerald Porter. A complex bittersweet porter:
Great Lakes Brewing company also has a stout beer that is aged in bourbon casks that...
I forgot about The Uninvited, what a great movie. I like a classic psychological ghost story.
Another early colorized horror movie that I like to watch is The Mystery of The Wax Museum with Fay Wray.
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