More updates on the website...

...minor tweaking, mostly, although I did update the Elizabethan diary with pics of my corset and farthingale.

At about 3 AM, I posted a long rambling bunch of sleep-deprived nonsense about how Boe kept me awake all night (swiping the covers and fidgeting does that to me), but LJ ate my post. Ah well -- it was a bunch of negativity anyway.

The bruises are spectacularly indigo, BTW.

And I finally got brave enough to email the amazing Jen Thompson about my website, so we'll see if she adds a link to it onto her website. She's such an incredible costumer -- when I first got into the garb thing, one of the first websites I came across was hers, and it totally blew me away! I remember thinking, "Wow! I wanna be able to do *that*!" I still use it as a reference all the time.

There's a fair amount of trepidation going on, too, because I know my stuff is *nowhere* nearly as good as most of the other costumers I've seen-- it's an insecurity thing. I expect perfection from myself right out of the gate, and while I *know* that I'll improve, I still want to be *perfect*. Now. And I'm not. And that sometimes is a little hard to deal with.

Stoopid people piss me off.

Specifically, stoopid people who swipe other costumers' work and try (badly) to pass it off as their own.

Jen Thompson and other amazing costumers have had this happen, and the offal hit the oscillator tonight.

If you're a Garb Person, please go and check out your favorite sites, including Jen's Festive Attyre at http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/ , Lynn McMasters' site at http://lynnmcmasters.com/ , and any other major costumer you can think of.

Then go to the Designs of the Past site at http://www.designsofthepast.com/ .

Do some of these images look familiar? They should. Look for photo credits, research acknowledgements, or any other "thank you for the great idea" stuff on the Designs website. Yeah, didn't think you'd find any.

Or if you don't want to go through all that work, please look here: http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/photos/ven.jpg Look closely at the pose, the wrinkles of the left chemise sleeve, and the curve of the front bodice opening. See how they look the same? It's *not* a coincidence.

Raaaaaaarrr!