Broadway!

EEEEEK!! It's been forever since we posted anything. We must be pretty busy.

So I work at a broadway costume shop...right? This may sound glamorous but most days its just the same ol' same ol'. My technical job title is "assistant". I'm a draper's assistant. The next step up would be a draper, which is pretty much as far as I could go unless I tried to own the shop...which I definitely don't want to do. I would love to be a draper some day just not any time soon. I'm still learning too much every day. My day starts at 6:30 every day when I wake up. I spend the morning alone usually because Jason doesn't have to be up as early. I leave the house by 7:40 to walk to the train (sometimes I can catch a bus down to the train station but most mornings I just walk). I get off the train station at times square and walk down to work and I'm usually there by 8:25. Just enough time to prepare a cup of tea and get myself settled in for the day. Then, depending on whats happening in the shop at that time of the year, I get started with my projects. Lately I've been doing a lot of different stuff.

This is a dress I worked on recently for a touring show in China. Its for Disney...yes its the Cinderella ball gown. I worked on this project for about 3 weeks. I know you can't tell but there's a very sheer layer of light blue net that is the outside layer of the skirt. There are small glued on jewels all around this piece of net. I put each one on individually. It took me 4 days. Heres a more detailed picture.

I also work on The Little Mermaid. Again, I put a lot of heat set jewels on the wedding dress for the end of the show. These are just process shots. I actually have to ask permission because its Disney. So this post could disappear. We'll see.

I also work on Wicked and Mamma Mia alot. I've been doing some work on some dance pieces too for the Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn. I actually got to go to Brooklyn for the fittings. This was a very big deal for me.

There are actually a lot of people we know up here. Friends from both schools we've attended live and work here. So this is our friend Betsy Jilka. We went to school with her in Arkansas and she now lives here with her husband Milan. We met up with a bunch of old friends from Arkansas about a week ago just to catch up. This is at a bar in Little Korea on the top of the LaQuinta Inn. Of course it is. Leave it to the Arkies to find the bar in a hotel to hang out in. It was actually very nice. The Empire State building was right next to us.

Jason at Marymount

Jason has recently started working with the Marymount Girl's Highschool on the upper east side with their production of Les Miserables (school edition). He's been having a great time and has been really great with the kids. I got to go to the school today and take a few pictures with him and the kids. They really love him...its kind of amazing.

The students sang the finale of the show today and they sounded great!! Jason worked with them for about 15 minutes and they sounded ready for broadway! Incredible.

Then we all had to drink about it. This is our dear friend Ryan. Jason made margaritas and fajitas and we all had to partake.

I had my 1st ritzy New York City salon experience yesterday. I went to Devachan Hair Salon. Thanks mom!! Its a salon that specializes in curly hair. Of course it is. I paid a ridiculous amount of money for a guy to basically tell me how to do my own hair. It was amazing though. I finally know how to make my hair curly all over and not frizzy. Yay!!

So it might not look a lot different to everybody but I'm kind of obsessed with it.

I've NEVER been able to make my hair curl this evenly all around. Its amazing to me. I know I must sound NUTS!

"new" apartment

So I know we've technically lived in this space since January, but I figured it was new to all of you so I thought I'd put up some pictures to show our lovely hovel. We really love it. We're slowly working on acquiring things like lamps and bookshelves and things. Its enough for us that we have our HUGE king size bed.

Jason had to tell our cat, Gypsy (lovingly referred to as "the Devil") to stay quiet in the new apartment so that noone would know she was living here.

So this is our bedroom. Please disregard the mess. This is the night after we moved all of our stuff in. So thats why there are bins and things all over the floor.

The apartment is a "railroad" style apartment. So its really long. This is the living room, which is connected to the bedroom. The front door is on the right. Again, pardon the bins...and tiny TV. You can see into the next room which is...

KITCHEN!! This is the view from the other side of the kitchen into the living room. Again...mess.

So this is what we're calling "the red room". Its like an office and will eventually have some form of a piano in it. This picture is taken from the kitchen.

This is the final room of the place. Its the spare bedroom/costume studio/closet/office, etc. So when all of you come to see us, this is where you'll stay. One more time...pardon the bins.

And of course, the bathroom. This is the only picture I could find of our bathroom. Just imagine more blue and tiny, tiny, tiny. But isn't SHE cute?!