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.