:.masquerade inspiration dump.:

Hello lovelies. 

I started a wander on Etsy due to procrastination, of course, and verified my wandering by searching for supplies for Anime Expo crap that I plan to make to sell. So I meandered to my favorites and then became distracted by old corset and costume favorites I had collected quite some time ago now and now I am feeling even more inspired for the upcoming ball that I am dramatically far too behind on. 

In fact, I have not made one thing yet. I actually haven't even pattern tested yet. I'm very likely fucked. But last Friday I showed three new pieces of art at a one night gallery show thingy. This was my first time showing pieces and I was pretty excited. I also poured all of my creative attention into those three pieces over the last two weeks. So I'm definitely behind on my masquerade ball creating and Anime Expo crap producing. Like holy shit.

I'm also starting to waiver a tad on whether I want to stick with the Marie Antoinette skirt or if I just want to bump it down to a full skirt with a hoop type setup thing still going on under it. I feel confused on how anyone is suppose to wear such a full skirt with a stay over it. Obviously it needs to be a stay or corset that does not cut low over your hips. 

I don't know. I'm feeling overwhelmed with how little time I have left and how much I need to do and it's making me not work even more. I get overwhelmed into a standby mode of not functioning. And I have so much shit to do. Fffffff. Okay. I'm done complaining like a loser. 

.......Plus I got completely sucked into the show "Skins" and all I want to do is watch more. It's eaten my soul.

Onto the inspiration fun!!~

And this time I have links to each piece with proper credit.

  

MiyuDecay 

MiyuDecay 

AurdaJean

 DesertOrchidCorsets

hersera

 balanced

 

 DeepWater

 

 

okapiknits 

 

 Rae

 

BubblesAndFrown 

 

 SpinningCastle

SpinningCastle 

These are actually the shells off of beetles.

MisfitLeather

holy crap!~

Holy fucking crap.

So I just had some stupid mini meltdown again about getting job and how it freaks me out emotionally because of my broken face and all that dandy shit. I wrote a massive entry the other night about it but decided not to post. Hurrrrr. Soooo I moped at my lovely canada boy then decided I NEED to do a pattern mock up of my skirt plans for the masquerade ball.

I have sooooooo much stuff I need to pull out of my ass by June. Ugh.

And then I decided to google "starry night fabric" because I have this lovely fabric dreamed up in my noggin that I would like to make my skirt out of but I'm sure that if I ever actually found this fabric it would cost out the ass and an arm and I would cry on the floor of the store. Fffffff. Plus I'm going to need a massive amount of yardage.

The fabric I'm dreaming of is a sheer but almost opaque black and blue with some fleckles of white to emulate a starry night sky kind of feel.

So I googled. And then I saw this thumbnail of this fabric.

 Here are more lovely fabrics.

Well, it's not exactly what I want. I definitely want it to be much darker than this. But this is in the right direction of feel. And as suspected, it costs out the ass.

Fat Eighth $15.00
Fat Quarter $30.00
Fat Half $60.00

Uuuuugggggh.

However, just as I stared at the page of these beautiful hand painted fabrics I thought, why can't I do that? And then I thought about all of those badass galaxy shirts, leggings, shoes, bags, every fucking thing and how I've been trying to find the functional project for me that I can do that on and this is it. Galaxy shirt how-to.

I can buy thin, kind of sheerish cotton for sooooo much less, for something that is actually affordable since I probably need some massive amount of yardage. And then it will make the skirt even more custom and one of a kind.

I am so fucking stoked.

Granted I totally still have a shit ton of work to do before I can get to the actuality of making my own galaxy Rococo skirt, I'm stoked nonetheless.

And I have some more lovely inspiration photos that keep making my mind swirl around what do I want to do exactly.

This whole first group is all Alexander McQueen goodies. For the most part, I'm inspired by something from one garment of each pairing of photos.

 ...I'm determined to make a dress that is similar to the one on the left to frolic in this summer. A bit less boob smoosh though. I'd like to breathe.

 All about that neckline on the left. Uuuugggh.

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 From ebay sale. It's simply a gorgeous gown and I would love to own it. 

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Best wishes to all the lovelies. I'm off to attempt a pattern mock up situation thing. Hurrrr. <3