Video from Market Faire

A Trip Back in time is a cute little video about Market Faire in Dover, DE a couple of weeks ago. I encourage you to check it out! Have fun, and I'll hopefully be updating more often.

18th Century Event

Instead of a bunch of news today, though I did go to a ball last week that I want to talk about eventually, I thought I should tell you about a fun event that I'm unable to attend this year.
If anyone is interested, my hometown is having an 18th century Market Fair today. I believe the festivities have already started, but no matter! There's a cute video about it too!

St. Michaels Part Two!

That was fast, I know, but I got more pictures and wanted to share! The couple in this post made a wonderful slideshow that I can show you the pictures of. How exciting!

St. Michael's, Girl's Weekend, and an Announcement

To kick off this post, I'll tell you about my Saturday at St. Michaels in Maryland. I was there to perform with the Dover English Country Dancers during the day of August 10th, which was the bicentennial celebration of the Battle of St. Michaels. Typically we go to Revolutionary War reenactments or festivals and the like, but it was like we were launched about forty years into the future. It was surreal to be in front of the public in a 1810's dress with a line of women dressed similarly and a line of men dressed in 1810's fashions (for the most part) in order to compliment that.
I certainly didn't get as many pictures as I wanted, but I had friends who made a point to get some fabulous ones. Consider this Part 1 of my story of St. Michaels, which will be continued as soon as I get my hands on more pictures (and motivated to post them)! Bunches of pictures under the cut!

Hello and Welcome!

Greetings, salutations, and other forms of hello! Welcome to my blog. I'm eighteen years old and trying to navigate my way through life and through different eras of time. I intend to accomplish the latter by sewing outfits inspired by, or accurate to, certain periods of time.

I'm currently preparing for a Great Gasby-themed graduation/birthday party. I'm so excited! I think I bought perfect fabric and everything, I just need to adjust a pattern and figure out the skirting, then I'm golden.

At the moment, I'm in love with fashions from the end of the eighteenth century (about 1765-1799), the beginning of the nineteenth century (1800-1825-ish), the middle of the nineteenth century (1850-1869) \, the beginning of the twentieth century (1900-1919), the 1920's and the 1950's. I hope to be able to recreate or approximate fashion from all those time periods before I go to college at the end of the summer. In addition, I will also endeavor to create clothing that is wearable in my day-to-day life.

I'm planning for this to not only be a journal of my journey as a seamstress but also a journal of my journey as I grow as a person. Thank you for reading this far, and I hope you continue to.

Now, please enjoy a picspam of my and my dancing group at our last two events: Dover Days and the Chestertown Tea Party in Maryland.

I'm the one in the red petticoat and blue and white jacket on the
far left on the pictures above and below. At Dover Days

At Dover Days.

Certainly not my finest picture, but it was the end of
the day and I was exhausted. After Dover Days.

After Dover Days.

In this shot, I'm in the middle, with the same outfit both times.
Chestertown Tea Party.

Chestertown Tea Party.