Starting Spring Break in the Garment District

So by the time you all read this, it will be a couple days later than I would have liked to have posted this, but I didn't have wireless internet access in my grandparents apartment.

I finally made a thorough trip to New York's famous garment district today! For me, it marks a couple milestones - first is that it was the first time I got to actually explore the garment district and go to all the stores I wanted to. A couple weeks before my trip, I followed the advice of a very informative garment district blog and made a google map of all the stores they suggested which I later followed in order to find some of the coolest stores. The second landmark is that I navigated the city of New York all by myself. Surprisingly, I have never had the guts to travel to the city and walk around it all by myself, so this was a very exciting trip for me. I managed to get myself on a train from my grandparents apartment and walk from Grand Central Terminal to 39th street at 7th ave with minimal interference (especially considering the streets were packed with too many St. Pattys day celebrators). Step one to adulthood is now in gear!

Anyway, I made this trip to the district because I was looking for fabric for a couple projects I've been considering for a while (a cinderella costume, a summer shirtwaist dress, a summery skirt, and a bathing suit). I only managed to purchase some fabric for my cinderella costume, even though I highly considered a blue polka dot spandex for a new swimsuit (and am still considering ordering when I arrive home). 

April Showers

Hey there bloggies, I realize it's been forever since my last post, but it's mainly because of how hectic this month has turned out to be. I've had lots of work and tests and just haven't had time to work. And now it's getting down to crunch time as I have a paper due on Thursday. Yikes. So I'm basically on to mention as many cool costume-y and crafty things as I can remember to avoid posting multiple posts.

Itinerary Time!

I can't remember if I mentioned this, but a couple weeks ago I was given the chance to take a trip to New York with the theater department to do Costume related things - and I just got the schedule an hour ago. We are going to see a couple exhibits at the Fashion Institute of Technology (one of the world famous schools for Fashion Design - that's where they sometimes film Project Runway), visit the Conde Nast building to meet with an alumna who works at a famous fashion magazine, stop at Parsons-Meares (where they build most of the costumes for Broadway productions), then have dinner on the way down to the theater where we will see Peter and the Starcatcher. A very busy day.

I looked into the show we will be seeing and it appears to be a play about what happened to Peter Pan before he met Wendy. Sounds really interesting. During my search, I also discovered that a couple of the cast members were important people - one actor was nominated for multiple awards while playing the original part of Emmett in Legally Blonde the Musical, another was in the original cast of Next to Normal and one actress originated the role of Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, so it should be a good show!

I'll post again once I get back with plenty of photos of my adventures! And hopefully by then my next set of embroidery stuff will have arrived!