Etsy progress

Things are going pretty well.

My jewelry is coming together finally, which was partly delayed because resin requires a lot of little details and fixing. And anyone who knows me knows I can be very focused on making everything up to standards.

I've also been working on some purses. Probably my second or third time working with zippers and it went much better than planned. Plus I have a bunch of beautiful fabrics that really need to be made into clutches and the kicker--they're textile samples for $1 each sheet (and we're not talking tiny fabric squares either)!

Hopefully I'll get everything up in my Etsy this week. No...not hopefully. I plan to open my shop this week.

A new steampunk costume

So for an upcoming photoshoot, I began working on my military maven costume. Here's the original sketch the costume is based on:


And here's the costume at it's currently completed state:

The costume currently consists of a garrison cap, holster, blouse, underbust, gloves, skirt and spats. Details include gold braiding and brass buttons.

The spats and gloves can be seen in detail below:



So all in all, the costume's coming along quite nicely. I've even got a set of guns to go with it, but I'll post about those another time. Still it's not quite complete. The next things I plan to work on are:
1. Shrug/Bolero
2. Bustle skirt
3. Patches and pins

I'll post more as I make progress.