Miss Tess

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!”

Wow, sorry no posts yesterday. Unless the ones i make at 4 am count. I finally finished a marathon of adding stuff to my website and after I finished that I turned into a pumpkin and slept for 12 hours. The good news is that I feel very well rested and able to finish the final details (and fricking launch my updated site) and write my article that’s due, uh, today. And even better? I’m up at 5 am and feeling perky (thank you adderral washed down with coffee) instead of staying up until 5 am.

So to commemorate, I will share this to do list that my husband shared with me.

Granted I am self employed, but there were points last year of complete boredom and nothing to do that in order to keep myself motivated I would list such juicy items as, “wake up”, “brush teeth”, and “eat breakfast”. Obviously, I was really a little bit desperate. Fortunately since then things have picked up and my list is something like, “photograph 100 things and add to shop, design new website, redesign another website, learn xml to help a friend with website, order 400 yards of tulle and cut into tutu’s” and the list goes on. The truth is that I’m probably netting about the same money (nothing) but it’s nice to feel busy, even though I think my husband sometimes thinks that my todo list is like th one above

Anyway, enough about me. If you are curious and want to check out my new vintage clothing shop that I’ve been pouring my sweat and blood into, pop on over to misstess.etsy.com and see the vintage yumminess!