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V258: Small Biz Betties - Your Ready-Made Focus Group

V258: Small Biz Betties - Your Ready-Made Focus Group

Hi All! It's been awhile since I've done any Small Biz Betties posts, but I'm back, and ready to share more business tips and tricks with you. Today I want...
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V256: My First Shoe

V256: My First Shoe

No, this isn't about baby shoes, but the first shoe I ever designed and made (with my own bare hands!), back in 2001, in my first university art class, Art...
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V254: Fitting Mom's JP Ryan Jacket(s)

V254: Fitting Mom's JP Ryan Jacket(s)

JP Ryan Jacket in progress Today my lovely Lady Mother came over for help fitting sleevils into two of her Colonial Williamsburg pieces - both swallow-tailed jackets, in different materials,...
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V255: The Festive Attyre 18th Century Curtain-Along

V255: The Festive Attyre 18th Century Curtain-Along

I was so tickled to see that the wonderful Jen, of Festive Attyre, has started an international sewing "curtain-along," for everyone who is making an 18th century something-or-other from any...
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V253: 1940s "Bomber Girl" Photoshoot with Stephanie

V253: 1940s "Bomber Girl" Photoshoot with Stephanie

Today my buddy Stephanie and I got together to take her submission photos for a local "Bomber Girls" 1940s pageant coming up in October. I did Steph's hair and lent...
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V252: Midnight Vintage Shoe Finds on Etsy

Nothing teaches one the construction and detailing of a vintage or antique shoes as, well, an actual vintage or antique shoe. I was thrilled to find quite a few shoes...
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V251: Starting the Indienne Gown, 1780s

V251: Starting the Indienne Gown, 1780s

With only about a month left until we leave for Williamsburg, I have rather a lot of sewing to do! I was giddy when I found this Indienne print cotton...
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V250: Finished 1770s Parisian Chapeau

V250: Finished 1770s Parisian Chapeau

Awhile ago I posted a little page of sketches for a late 1770s hat to go with my striped "Parisian Gown." I went out and bought all the materials for...
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V249: Georgian Beauty Myths BUSTED!, by Elisa of Isis' Wardrobe

V249: Georgian Beauty Myths BUSTED!, by Elisa of Isis' Wardrobe

Glenn Close in "Dangerous Liaisons" Hi all! Today I'd like to turn the floor over to the wonderful Elisa of Madame Isis' Toilette, and Isis' Wardrobe, who has been studying...
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V248: 1772 Colonial Spice Tea by Litttle Bits Clothing Company

V248: 1772 Colonial Spice Tea by Litttle Bits Clothing Company

This morning, with the power out and no internet to eat my soul, I had a chance to slow down and enjoy a fine cuppa new tea I got from...
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V247: Making a 1790s Gainsborough Hat

V247: Making a 1790s Gainsborough Hat

Yesterday I made a Gainsborough hat to go with the new purple 1790s "Robe Royaliste". I researched many a fine fashion plate from Dames a la Mode, and raided the...
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V246: My Regency Papillote Curls

V246: My Regency Papillote Curls

After seeing this wonderful little video on how to use your flatiron and tissue paper to make 18th century and Regency "papillote" curls, I was itching to give it a...
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