Filed under: Costumes by me!, Pictures by Tess, businessy stuff | Tags: costume, crazy pants, d6, miss tess, misstess.com, photography
Busy working on stuff for my show, check out what I’ve been up to!
Click on the photo to see it up close! Here’s the descriptions of the garments left to right:
Circus Ballerina Dress: This is from my personal collection. Old prom dress reconstructed to be awesome. I added panties w/snaps on the crotch after a disastrous evening at a club…I had tights, a bathing suit, and underpants on and it was very difficult to go to the bathroom! John washed this so it’s a little wrinkled, since it’s dry clean only 
Hello Nurse Crinoline: I love crinolines, and love to wear them on their own! This can be worn as a skirt, the appliqué makes is saucy and the pocket makes it practical, or wear it underneath something!
Bunny Mutant Dress: Andy is a mutant alien bunny. His parents landed on earth and set up their burrow near a nuclear waste treatment facility. He had only 1 eye and 2 noses, but he’s happy and doesn’t mind.
Big Bow Dress: This is from my personal collection. I received this dress from a costume donation thing at burning man last year. I couldn’t exactly go selling it, that wouldn’t be cool! It was super stained and super unflattering. I gave it a big sparkley bow, a big pink bow on the waist, and pink rick rack on the bottom!
I heart Alice Crinoline: This reconstructed cutie reminds me of Alice in Wonderland! Wear it was a crinoline or a skirt, the hearts are pockets!!
Leopard Star: A reconstructed slip with black, green and white stars and leopard print ruffly trim!
I am a little bit nervous, it’s getting closer and closer to the show! I need to do so much and I’m beginning to feel a bit lightheaded thinking about it! And it doesn’t help that editing photos sucks up a ridiculous amount of time! Then I feel as if I have to TELL EVERYONE and show them since I put so much time into it…and here we are, at 1 am with a totally dirty house in need to cleaning since someone is coming over tomorrow, and 100 items to sew in 9 days. AHHHHHHH
Anyway, before I have a nervous breakdown thinking about it…here’s more pics!!
And the grande finale, my favorite! My circus ballerina dress! Made for D6 in boston, and promptly broken in by pouring my disgusting drink on it. Watermelon vodko+tang+a handful of limes. Yes, a handful. I don’t know what was going through my head. Oh yeah, i know what it was. “OMG there are so many lime! I want a handful!”
And this commerical proves it!
I laughed. And that’s all I have to say about that. I have a headache and I’m hungry. All I really want to do is eat a fetus cookie but I’m out of milk to make some, oh yah..and I don’t have a fetus cookie cutter Why is my life so horrible???
Hopefully I can get away from my crafty bastards booth and see them!!!
Filed under: international, music video, obsession, robots | Tags: david bowie, nz, robot band, robots are cooler than you, the trons
I saw this on Make and my head start spinning, my heart palpitating, and my robot love equivalent of beatle’s mania hit full force! It’s finally the future!!!!!! YAY!
New Zealand is totally setting things on fire lately. First the Flight of the Conchords, and now this? Pretty soon they’ll be the ones who FINALLY get me a hover car. And a bionic arm. Remember NZ, I asked first. This is me going on record.
Filed under: Costumes by me!, Pictures by Tess | Tags: miss tess costume, misstess.com
I’m working on stuff for my first craft fair with Miss Tess Costume, Crafty Bastards in DC!. Check it out, glitzy appliqued party dresses, some klown stuff, and an alien mutant monster bunny dress!!
A George Brownridge, you’re such a cad!
I wonder if he secretly took credit for pleasuring those women when he was talking to his pals in the locker room or something. I totally would.
It wasn’t a stork small, cute, impressionable child:
I’ve seen this a bunch of times and I can’t help but laugh and snort. Fortunately I work from home and my cat doesn’t give a shit how I behave so long as I provide a warm lap for her to sit on.
When life gives you butterflies, make lemonade. I mean, wear them on your head.
My long time friend Becca sent these to me unaware with my obsession. I’ve been dying for butterflies since seeing a ridiculous hat by Philip Treacy on the Alexander McQueen runway, more or less a helmet full of fake butterflies. Of course my town does not have such frivolous items as butterflies so I was left pining. But now, no more!
I’ll be back to posting on monday. I go heat exhaustion in Atlanta, then my internet was broken for 4 days. I nearly lost it.
Filed under: just silly, video | Tags: amazing jesus, bbc, magic, mr bean, rowan atkinson
Get ready to laugh!!
My favorite line, “And your name shall be Sharon, for that is a good name for an assistant.” I spent about 4 hours the other night watching these clips so I have a few more up my leave.
Posting will likely be light this week, I’m head to Atlanta for a big show so I’m spending the next 2 days busting my ass to make up for all the work I didn’t do for the past month.
