The holiday craze has ended. Shows have closed, and snow has fallen, and I had just enough free time to do another crazy thing--or a few crazy things.

I had several shows close, and I am so excited that they were received well. Photos for all the holiday shows are either uploaded or will be as soon as I get them back. If you are interested in taking a look at the shows, click on the show name below:

• Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
• Commedia Christmas Carol
• Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Now, among shows closing, there is other exciting news to share! Award Nominations!

I was nominated for Best Costume Design Of A Play Or Musical (Professional) for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Washington, DC Awards! The nomination was for Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors! Though I did not win the award, I was so incredibly honored to have been nominated, and I was also excited that the play did win several other categories, including Best Play (Professional)!

I have also been nominated with a small group for Outstanding Special Effects for our work on Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins through the WATCH awards. Our group effort in bringing the various goblins to life was truly wonderful, and the nomination was unexpected but thrilling!

Surely that's everything...right? Nothing else could possibly be going on...right...RIGHT!!! Well, WRONG!

Over the last few weeks, I have started work on some incredible shows that I am so excited to share with you all. Treasure Island and Orlando, both with Traveling Players Ensemble. More information on them coming soon!

Well, last but not least, I did one more thing...I wrote a mini TTRPG. I wrote it with my students in mind and with the goal of them playing. I was so fortunate that an RPG editor found me and encouraged me to publish it beyond letting my students play it in the classroom. If this interests you, the game is called Misunderstood Minions, and it is 'Pay What You Want', so you can give it a go! If you are interested, I have some information below.

It's that time again! Summer is here!I don't know about you but I am excited for a little time off! This year I'm making some big changes, and I hope it leaves me with some more time to sew for myself for fun, and maybe a little less stress. I am hoping over the next couple of weeks to finish a new costume, as well as to try a few new thrifting transformations inspired by some of the Campaign 3 ladies of Critical Role.

I have also found a new photographer friend to help me share my costumes with you all! I am so excited for everything coming up. And for a few costumes that I finally was able to get some photos of, that will be showing up on here sometime soon!

If you haven't had a chance to take a look I have some new costumes and photos to share with you! I have two Swan Princess inspired costumes as well as a new Elsa look and photos of an older Elsa look! Click the images below to see more photos.

What a month! I have been slammed with work teaching, and also costuming for a show that is opening on SATURDAY! (5/8/21). I am really tired, but even though I am tired, I feel GREAT! I am crafting once a week with my kiddos, and teaching them new skills to take with them as they grow older. I am directing some new actors and actresses, and writing scripts for them so that they can tell their stories and shine!

Cosplay items have been a little on the slower end of things this month, but I have a historically inspired costume that I am, oh so very close to finishing, and some fabulous new ideas I am beginning to collect the materials for.

To check out my latest production, click here to be redirected to the site page, where you can see some pictures and a synopsis of the production.

If you are interested in checking out the subscription craft club I have made, click the tab "Crafty Kids Club!" you will be redirected to my education based site with all the information.

​I had a nice little break at the end of the year, culminating in finishing my original design Anna costume, adapting the colors from Anna's first coronation gown and the shape and design of Anna's intro gown in Frozen II during the song 'Some Things Never Change". This was a costume I started in March, but I lost steam due to interest in other designs. This costume started out the year 2021 with my first completed costume!!!

Upon reflection of all of the work I completed in 2020, I was really excited about all that I was able to do this year. With the world changing due to a pandemic, unemployment due to quarantine and shut downs, and such uncertainty with aspects in my own life, I am proud that I was able to create so many beautiful things. I know that many people want to move into 2021 and pretend as if 2020 never existed, but not me. I want to look back at 2020 with the knowledge that when things were bad, and looking bleak I was able to take time for myself and create. I plan on looking at 2020 as my year of inspiration and creation. Below I am going to share the photos of the 2020 costumes I created/photographed. 

Going back into the swing of work with a few winter workshops (a few of them Cosplay related). I have just been so excited to get back into my new and ever evolving routine of teaching people to create in whatever way that I can. 

​Would you like to see what I am teaching and WHERE I am teaching check out https://www.sewwhatlearning.com to see what classes are going on!

Would you like to have input on what I work on next or learn about Cosplay or Costume Design? Join my Patreon, to see all of this and more.  ( https://www.patreon.com/sewwhat ). Join me on my creative journey, and see some new concepts before anyone else.