Yesterday was amazing. After weeks of just futzing around being stuck in one place I finally found my mojo again and got back into the studio. In fact I finished one project for someone else's book, booked my flights to Australia (yay, only one stop in L A) and my daughter/friend Shellie came over and wrapped me in duct tape to make a dress form.
John shot these mercifully blurry photos of the procedure. There are many, many videos showing how it's done; we plunged in with me wearing a shirt of silk underwear, sleeves cut off, and a wrap of saran wrap around my hips and neckline. First Shellie wrapped me in the black tape.
My goal was 3 layers of duct tape for rigidity but after 2 layers and a mounting feeling of claustrophobia, we stopped. I didn't have the silver tape so I used a bunch of colored tape I had instead.
If you decide to do this, don't do it 2 days before Christmas after a month of eating pumpkin pie unless you want the water retention version of your body. ha ha. There is a lot of laughter and personal humiliation involved.
Here she is, stuffed with a pillow and lots of packing bubbles. Mounted on a big Christmas tree stand with a paper tube pushed through a layer of cardboard at the bottom. The whole thing came together in around 2 hours but I already had the stuff together before I started. Now I'm set to make amazing clothes like those divas on Project Runway.
Two more journal layouts. In the first one I am floating, dreaming, sleeping in that lull before the holidays. Full of pie and sugar plums.
I'm attending Mac classes and learning learning learning my new computer. Things will probably look a little wonky for awhile. Thanks for coming back here even when my posts have been sparse. Things will pick up for sure. xo
Yesterday was amazing. After weeks of just futzing around being stuck in one place I finally found my mojo again and got back into the studio. In fact I finished one project for someone else's book, booked my flights to Australia (yay, only one stop in L A) and my daughter/friend Shellie came over and wrapped me in duct tape to make a dress form.
John shot these mercifully blurry photos of the procedure. There are many, many videos showing how it's done; we plunged in with me wearing a shirt of silk underwear, sleeves cut off, and a wrap of saran wrap around my hips and neckline. First Shellie wrapped me in the black tape.
My goal was 3 layers of duct tape for rigidity but after 2 layers and a mounting feeling of claustrophobia, we stopped. I didn't have the silver tape so I used a bunch of colored tape I had instead.
If you decide to do this, don't do it 2 days before Christmas after a month of eating pumpkin pie unless you want the water retention version of your body. ha ha. There is a lot of laughter and personal humiliation involved.
Here she is, stuffed with a pillow and lots of packing bubbles. Mounted on a big Christmas tree stand with a paper tube pushed through a layer of cardboard at the bottom. The whole thing came together in around 2 hours but I already had the stuff together before I started. Now I'm set to make amazing clothes like those divas on Project Runway.
Two more journal layouts. In the first one I am floating, dreaming, sleeping in that lull before the holidays. Full of pie and sugar plums.
I'm attending Mac classes and learning learning learning my new computer. Things will probably look a little wonky for awhile. Thanks for coming back here even when my posts have been sparse. Things will pick up for sure. xo
