Still Playing Dress-up

School ended two weeks ago....... my joy and relief is scarcely to be described. As the turmoil and stress of finals subsided I was seized with a new energy. It was almost terrifying! The need to exercise my creativity, to make something, to sew, seemed to dominant all my thoughts. I found a pattern that I was saving for the far off day when I became an accomplished seamstress, four yards of fabric that just begged to be sewn, and started cutting at a feverish rate. Then, after I got home each day (from my one summer class) I would spend the afternoon sewing. It was a challenging pattern for someone who has only sewn simple skirts, but I learned a great deal, and I had the help of a dear and experienced friend, who I called every time the instructions on the pattern seemed like gibberish.

The result was a dream come true.

After years of reading and rereading everything by Jane Austen, or similar to Jane Austen, and watching all the historical and literature-based movies I could get my hands on, and enviously looking at pictures on sewing websites of stranger's regency dresses, I finally have my own regency dress.


I do feel rather silly about posting so many pictures of myself, but then, the dress is so pretty, and Matthew (my personal photographer!) did such a lovely job with the photo angles that I couldn't decide which ones to leave out.

Sarah is a magician with hair, and she kindly swept it up into a proper regency style...

It's a book of poetry, of course...

Finally, a sunset view of the mountain...such splendor..........

It is probably unnecessary to mention that I shall always love to play dress up...

I wonder what era shall come next...