Counting the days

I have exactly one week, six classes, one test, one composition, one showcase performance, and two essays left until I can go home. It will be so good to be home.

Here we go again!

Yep, school has started back up again, which means lots of work and little time to blog. I currently have no recent costuming or sewing news as I don't have any projects with me (or I can't find them). I swear I packed my embroidery kit (complete with strands and strands of colorful floss and my pink scissors), but have yet to find it. I am currently working on a couple bibs for my little cousins, but I can't do that because I don't think I packed my kit. Hopefully I can get it soon and then my hankering to sew something will stop.

In other news, Reefer Madness auditions are next Thursday and next weekend. I'm definitely excited about the show, but need to get through auditions first (and figure out something to sing!). I'm not really going for any specific part. I'd love to be Mary Lane, but 1) I'm an alto and 2) I don't know if I would be comfortable with her crazy bondage scene at the end. I think if I actually acted and put all my insecurities out of the way, I could handle it.

I'm also taking a bunch of cool but difficult classes - Advertising and Visual Culture, Intermediate Spanish, Methods in American Studies, West African Dance and Intro to Theater History. Sadly non are costuming related, but we will get to watch Mad Men in my Visual Culture class!! I am thrilled beyond belief.

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!