Jane Austen Evening Tickets Now On Sale

Passing along the info for the Jane Austen Evening 2010.

:)

 

I've already bought my ticket (dance portion of the evening only)

-=-Becky

 

 

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From: Dance & History <laha@pacbell.net>
Date: Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Subject: Jane Austen Evening Tickets Now On Sale

The Jane Austen Evening

You are cordially inivited to the Jane Austen Evening, a civilized afternoon and evening of tea, entertainment, pleasant company and dancing. It will be held at the Pasadena Masonic Hall (200 S. Euclid) on Saturday, January 23rd 2009.

The high tea begins at 4 PM. The dancing at 7 PM. Tickets may be purchased to the tea and dance or for the dance alone.

Live music will be provided by the "Philadelphia Academy of Music". Our dance mistress will be Marsden Macrae.

Formal attire or military uniforms (any nation) of the time of Jane Austen is suggested. If you don't have period attire, please wear modern formal wear (tuxedo, coat and tie, long dress etc.). Formal wear of some description is a necessity in refined company.

Classes to teach the dances for the Jane Austen Evening will be held on the two Sundays preceding the dance on January 10th and 17th.

For more information, and to purchase tickets online or through the mail, go to the website at http://lahacal.org/austen/index.html.

Not-So-Pink Ballet Slippers

Ok, so one thing that has been my 'goal' to change for my Regency (Jane Austen Evening) outfit is the super obvious "ballet pink" slippers.

The ballet slippers are fine in and of themselves (especially with orthopedic inserts in them), but I just couldn't stand how the pink clashed horribly with my deep red dress.

And now, I've found the solution! Dye my shoes! They're leather, so they should take a dye, right?

Here's what I've come up with as a 'quick' fix...use red shoe polish. And based on the results so far (one shoe done), things are promising. I'm liking what I'm seeing. It's just enough different to be acceptable. Yay!
=)

Now, to do the other shoe and turn in (so I can get some sleep tonight).
=)

Regency Corset Progress

Current project: trying to finish up a Regency Corset that I promised to make for my sister.
Goal (finished date): this Saturday!!!

Yup, that's right, I'm mid-project and trying to finish something up so that it can be worn on Saturday at the Jane Austen Evening. (Only this time the item I'm hurriedly trying to finish won't be worn by me! =)

A week or so ago, I was held up cause the wooden busk I had made for this corset was too long, so I had to get a friend to shave off 1/2". (I was SO bummed that after my careful measuring of the length needed for the corset, I was off by 1/2"). At the same time, I discovered I needed a few more bones (especially 2 spiral steel bones in lengths I didn't have on hand), so I ended up placing an order through Hedgehog. (Fortunately, I got in on the super sale that they're having right now...and of course, Hedgehog is always great on customer service and shipping things out right away =).

Anyways, just when I get my wooden busk fixed and the newly ordered bones arrive...I got sick was out of it for a few days and then had a super busy weekend (last weekend). So, now, after getting back into a more normal routine, I'm back to focusing on FINISHING this project.
And I'm SO close, too! =)

Earlier this evening, I bound the two sides of the bottom of the section for the wooden busk (so that the busk is removable), made 4 hand sewn eyelets (2 on the fashion fabric side, and 2 on the coutil/lining side) so that I can tie the busk into place, made a casing out of some (100% natural cotton) batting, and inserted all the bones and the wooden busk. Whew!

(And that doesn't even count the fact that I took a little time away from this project to finish pinning my 2nd row of eyelet lace ruffle to my half-finished over-petticoat - for yet another project/'era' - and then sew down that ruffle...and of course iron my seam afterwards.)

So, right Now...I'm pinning the bias binding in place, and sewing that on. I probably will have to finish the pinning & sewing on the bias tomorrow, but seeing how much progress I made tonight, I'm actually hopeful I can finish this up in time. (And still have time to play with my hair tomorrow and figure out some kind of hairstyle for me to wear on Saturday =).

Later!
=)