Ahoy!

I’ve decided to make the front page of my website a blog now, since I’ve wanted to start a legit blog that wasn’t on livejournal for quite some time, and I wanted a blog on my website, so here we go. It’s a blog.

Back in 2008, I blogged a lot on that livejournal, mainly because I felt I had a purpose. I was giving people information. I mean, it wasn’t very important information, but it was information that hadn’t yet existed in that format, directed at that audience. The faeries. I’m trying to bring more faerie elements into my performance. The purple hair helped a lot with that, but now that I’m blonde, I’m not as inherently fae.

My new costume, however, does have some perfectly fae details, which I thoroughly enjoy. Iridescent violet/magenta dupioni silk, Swarovski crystals… It’s gorgeous. I want to strip out of it as much as possible. I am truly in love. I have it on my dress form in my living room so I can just look at it. I’ve been costume crazy lately. Doing a lot of pattern drafting- I should put up some scans of my sketchbook just so you can see all the numbers and details and sketches. I’m always interested to see things like that from artist, maybe you will be, too?

I recently designed this coat that I can not wait to dive into. I’m not as experienced with tailoring, and I haven’t done anything really “heavy” in quite some time. I’m interested to work with the drape of a denser fabric- I’ve been working with so much chiffon and silk lately I’ve forgotten what it’s like to sew through 3 layers of tapestry on a regular basis. Ah, Ren Faire costuming, you’re such a fabulous education in things that can go horribly wrong.

I also need to set up my Etsy with all these extra things I’m making so I can pay for my burlesque habit.

I haven’t blogged in quite some time, so I think I’m going to end this before it gets awkward for all of us.

Love always,
Hayley Jane

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