Lush Cocktail post (on-going)

Marie Antoinette
1 Sakura
1/2 Ceridwin's Cauldron
1/2 Amandopondo or Flowering Tea or Milky Bath (optional)
(Inspired by the baths the ill-fated queen took)

Butterbeer
1 Yog Nog
1/2 Yuzu and Cocoa Bubbleroon
1/2 Gold Fun
(Water will likely be yellow.)

Morning Woods (teehee)
1 Guardian of the Forest Bath Bomb
1/2 Avobath Bath Bomb
1/2 Sunnyside Bubble Bar
1/4 Green Bubbleroon
Shot of Beautiful Shower Gel

Midsummer Dreamin'
1 Golden Wonder
1 Secret Garden
1/4-1/2 Floating Island (I still have the old style here)
1/2 Rose Jam Bubbleroon

Rose Gold
1/2-1 Softy Bath bomb
1/2 Sparkler or Golden Egg bath bomb
1/2 Sunnyside bubble bar
1/2 Rose Jam Bubbleroon

For other ideas for funtime bathing check out this site: All Things Lush UK

So I got bored and I did a thing (Warning: Language)

(EDIT: This is an example of a bertha)

As I've said multiple times, I have a hate/love relationship with the 2015 Cinderella gown but this has not stopped me from wanting to make two versions of the dress. I know I'm totally cray cray, I blame my Asperger's. 

Anyways, I bought some very fine sheer polyester at JoAnn's and, well, one of the dresses has gone up on my list. I did a Photoshop test to get a general idea on how it would look like and here's the result (bonus before pic included):

Ongoing List of costumes I hope to make plus any applicable goal dates

Making test muslin phase:

Sarah Sanderson of Hocus Pocus (Halloween 2016)

Design/Research phase:
Re-doing Cinderella's ball gown. Love baby dress between the 1950's dress , the 1998 "Breathe" dress, and the 2015's gown (TBA 2016-2017)

Steampunk Mileena

Powell-Goes-Worth. Basically a love baby dress between two different Butterfly Gowns

Two of Danielle's six gowns "Breathe" and "Ruin" (2018)

For Consideration:

Worth's "Electric Light" Costume Dress but have it light up and reference Tesla instead.

Floofy White Gown

Steampunk Kitana

Avatar Kyoshi

Ming Hua

Erron Black

Ariel, because I am her
The entirety of Danelle's wardrobe from "Ever After" (6 in total)

The more I try to research the fashion of Renaissance France...

...the more I understand why "Ever After"s costume designer used the look of Italian Renaissance.

There's almost jack out there on French fashion during that time and the Italian fashion is more familiar than French, which to an untrained eye looks like it could've been from England.

More on the Cinderella dress

So this article popped up on my Facebook feed, which does go into some good detail about the blue dress that I love/hate so much.

It also has a picture of the dress BEFORE the butterflies were put on and the dress looks so much better. It reminds me of Clouds on a full moon night.

On the skirt: I think I figured out how the color changing is by using layers.
Top is a blue sheer fabric; this' most likely silk crepeline.
Second is a lavender, also sheer, not sure if it's the same fabric as the first layer
Third is a sheer iridescent turquoise fabric, most likely organza but could be that fancy shmancy polyester stuff
Forth is just an opaque white fabric

Under all of that is the Petticoat Of Doom.

My thoughts on the Cinderella dress (2015 movie)

Disclaimer: This post is NOT an attack on Sandy Powell, the costume designer. I love the costumes in this and feel that most would get the House of Worth Seal of Approval. I just feel there's just too much going on and and not enough at the same time with the iconic blue gown.
Also: I am not a costume expert/historian (nor do I play one on tv) so there's bound to be a lot mistakes.

The dress looks mis-matched, as if the bodice of the gown came off of one dress from the late 1890's to early 1900's (from the floof around the neck and the cut of the body, but, like I've said before, I'm not a costume expert) while the skirt is an 1860's elliptical skirt and it just looks weird. Powell says she drew inspiration from  the 1950's and I did find a Vogue pattern that resemble the dress but I keep thinking "Scarlet O'Hara wants to know what did you do to her dress".

Then there's the color: it's definitely uses similar fabric as Arwen's Arch dress from a Lord of the Rings cutscene, but it looks like it goes from ZOMGITSBLUE blue to a "...meh" blue on film and most other exhibit photos.

Going back to the bodice again: the butterflies. I know they have a special meaning in the story but on the gown, they look so out-of-place and -like I said earlier- belong on a different dress. I did a Google search on ball gowns and came across some that had the butterflies on it, including this gem from House of Worth, where the fabric is designed so that the butterflies look like they're flying off of the gown; if there was something like this in the gown's skirt, it would've been perfect.

Okay, I've gone over what I felt there was too much of, I'll finally go over what there wasn't enough of... and that was sparkle. It sounds incredibly stupid I know, but for me sparkle is very important and since the dress 10,000 Swarovski crystal, I expected some f**king sparkle dammit! And why just on the skirt? Just cover the damn thing in sparkle and it'll at least be closer to the original.

This rant went nowhere but I'm done. I'm not going to talk about the controversy about Cinderella's small waist, as Lily James has already addressed a number of times.

I confess I liked how the skirt floated.

What I thought about the new Cinderella moive

• I heavily agree these reviewers for the most part. 
• Ella is a lot like Bella from “Twilight” and Pollyanna. Couldn't connect with her and felt that she really didn't do anything to deserve her happy ending. (The script writer was also behind “Eclipse” so not really surprised there.) 
• I still am totally crushing on Lily James though. <3
• Cate Blanchett is really the best performer here as her body language does a lot of speaking for the character.
• The script is horrible. The dialogue could be muted and you would have gorgeous silent film.
• There were a lot of moments where the movie was trying to be “Ever After”.
• Not a whole lot of character development, save for Kit and his father.
• Not enough risks were taken in the story as a whole.
• I really love Helena Bonham Carter's Fairy Godmother and she’s tied with Leonardo Da Vinci for Favorite Fairy Godmother on my list; I wish she was in the movie more.
• There’s also seems to be a habit of introducing random characters then dismissing them.
• And people say Belle had Stokholm Syndrome.
• Aside from the scenes where Ella is with her parents and Kit is with his father, the ball scene was one of my favorites.
• The blue gown’s skirt is to die for by the way it moves, still don’t like it as a whole but that’s a rant for another blogpost.
•  Ella’s lack wardrobe also bugged me. Danelle has six to eight costume changes while the animated Cinderella has five. Ella only has four.
• Her main dress never got dirty or show signs of wear.
• The message of the story seems to be “Have courage, be kind, and you shall rewarded in the end with PTSD.” Why not "Home isn’t always a place, but in fact person” so when Ella’s father tells her to take care of their home, he’s saying take care of yourself.

Overall, I’d give it a 2.5/5. It’s okay but very much your average Disney movie and will always go for “EverAfter”
Save your money and wait for it to come out to the cheaper/smaller theaters -preferably one that has a pub- or on DVD. Has the makings for a fun drinking game.

Well Yesterday was so very not fun.

Between the traffic, how crowded the mall was, spending WAY too much money on things I really don't need, and then forgetting some things... yeah; I almost broke down crying when I got home it was really bad. Today, I might try my hand at mold making again and see if I can get more than one good one or make cookies.

(On the upside, both my LUSH stash and my tea stash is bigger.)

Waiting for coffee to kick in

So for some reason, I was up at Too Early O'Clock today (between 4 and 6 am). On any other given day, I'd end up falling asleep at 6 and then wake up again at around 10, but I might try to catch a nap before going to run my errands and trying again at melt and pour soap. Bleh.

ETA: Still at home. I'm waiting for a really important call so I made embeds for soaping (though out of the three I made only one came out fine.)

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