joined on 04/03/07
last updated 04/03/07
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Pimento cheese and ham biscuts
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Raleigh Creative Costumes closes tomorrow. After 32 years in business it only took one person to close us down. I am angry. I will be honest. The shop has been a part of my family for 32 years. When I was talking to Doug Haas, the owner, on S...
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Dresses and taxes--shopping for vintage clothes at home and abroad
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Two things are inevitable in life for all people. For me, one of them is shopping in vintage and thrift stores. I am looking for clothes not just for me to wear, but to add to my stock of vintage items to use for shows and study. I look for vin...
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The process of creating a costume
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How a costume is created.
I am occasionally asked what goes into creating costumes for a production, be it an opera, straight play, etc…. I am always glad to educate people in the way of my world. I worked with one company that actually appea...
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The Thing.
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The Thing:
Please note that anything I say in this post are my opinions, my thoughts, my feelings and mine alone. They in no way represent the thoughts, etc… of anyone else involved in the production of “Strange Fruit” Memorial Hall at UNC, or...
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Load in at Memorial Hall.
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To quote a “Dilbert” cartoon: the employee of the week award goes to Alice for boldly trying the door knob.” Thank heavens for my friends and especially for my friend Stephanie. Without them I would be nothing.
I started the load in process ...
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Raleigh Creative Costumes closes tomorrow. After 32 years in business it only took one person to close us down. I am angry. I will be honest. The shop has been a part of my family for 32 years. When I was talking to Doug Haas, the owner, on Sunday; she said that lots of people had been calling or coming by and saying the same thing--that they are angry about this.
So we are having a party. A big party. A blow out. We are having food and drinks and food and drinks and food and drink...
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Two things are inevitable in life for all people. For me, one of them is shopping in vintage and thrift stores. I am looking for clothes not just for me to wear, but to add to my stock of vintage items to use for shows and study. I look for vintage items all over the place, and almost every trip I take I will combine the fun with some vintage store action. That, of course, makes the trip deductible on my taxes. You cannot blame me for thinking ahead.
This past weekend I took off for p...
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How a costume is created.
I am occasionally asked what goes into creating costumes for a production, be it an opera, straight play, etc…. I am always glad to educate people in the way of my world. I worked with one company that actually appeared to NOT want to know what I did and how I did it—and that was their loss. After all, goes my line of thinking: I am spending your group’s money. If you do not want to know how I do what I do that is fine with me, because for all you know I might...
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The Thing:
Please note that anything I say in this post are my opinions, my thoughts, my feelings and mine alone. They in no way represent the thoughts, etc… of anyone else involved in the production of “Strange Fruit” Memorial Hall at UNC, or Long Leaf Opera.
This is a bit of a ramble, but it is a very emotional topic.
I am sitting at my desk in my office still in a sleep deprived state and running on very faulty sugar levels and emotions. I spent a whole lot of time the last two ...
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To quote a “Dilbert” cartoon: the employee of the week award goes to Alice for boldly trying the door knob.” Thank heavens for my friends and especially for my friend Stephanie. Without them I would be nothing.
I started the load in process for “Strange Fruit” yesterday. The redone Memorial Hall is just posh. I remember it from my days as an undergraduate at UNC, and it was awful: no real dressing rooms, almost no back stage space, no fly system, no pit… the list of nos continues. N...
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