![]() The Two Kings of Muck Mountain on Elizabeth Avenue What Colour should your Concrete Driveway be? It’s our Victoria Day Long weekend, gotta run for some Baileys and coffee with our friends. Our landscaper is working on another project right now so I have to share him for a couple weeks. The boxwood hedges are going in next weekend. Here’s what the front yard will look like when it’s finished. ![]() My friend Tami arrived yesterday for a visit and she said, “It’s like walking in a storybook”. When my mom arrived to see it she said, “This pathway makes you want to skip and dance all the way to the front door.” I love the way she designed the path so that it doesn’t end exactly where the step does She liked the fact that it looks a little more informal this way. The column is still under construction as you can see. Here’s a sneak peak of the finished flagstone pathway. There are some elements of design that have to be done right or it kills the entire look. “I just keep saying the same thing in a different way until they get it.” “I know what you’re doing because I do it with my clients all the time.” I said. I called her laughing after I got yet another drawing with the portico extended. So then she drew an L so that it wrapped around that still created a spot for the column to sit. So then Mary Anne drew the treads so they went all the way around the portico to extend it.īut then we got the quote for that and I said, “I’m not doing it”. The reason I did not take out the portico is because this project is already so expensive, I had to stop somewhere. She lets me do almost everything else exactly the way I want so sometimes you have to compromise. I know, I know, you hate it, don’t bother to comment, I do too. With my screen door open, you can hardly see it? Haha. I can’t wait to see what it looks like when the danglers start to grow. And the leaves are so delicate too, I accidentally broke off so many of them. One of them had 3 green flowery looking ones in one pot but I broke two of them before I got them out of the pot! I had to take my gloves off in a hurry. Hey I design interiors people, outside is an entirely different situation, haha. I think Mary Anne has told me three times already what the difference is between an annual and a perennial. I did grow up on some acreage but my mom was mostly into vegetable gardening. You have to remember, I am basically a city girl. I seriously almost wept with joy I thought it was so beautiful. There were rows and rows of every kind of succulent you can imagine. They didn’t have the fat green ones or any coordinating purple succulents that were in the photo so the clerk took me to the greenhouse. Yesterday I ran right out to Minter Country Gardens to duplicate it. Then she posted this image (above) to my Pinterest board that she adds to continually. The new column will be similar to this one (above). We did move the downspout behind it, you can see in the first image, it’s in the front of the skinny post. Also, she recommended that it be replaced with one that actually looked like a column instead of a post. Mary Anne originally wanted me to have it taken out because she wanted it to be big enough so that the column could actually sit on the portico instead of dangling beside it. Saturday, my mason was here installing the extension to the portico. Then I had to call her to discuss pot placement. When I was standing at the register someone else walked up and said. For the 18 th century, you’re taught how to make a pair of stays, along with pocket hoops, panniers, and bum rolls.I emailed Mary Anne these pots I found at HomeSense. It shows the distinct changes that occur in fashion as time passes from the 1500s to the 1600s and the 1700s. It gives directions on how to drape your own costumes, but it also includes a great many patterns for your use.īeginning with the 16 th century, you’ll learn how to make Tudor and Elizabethan corsets and farthingales, along with dresses, ruffs, partlets and surcoats. It walks you through every step of designing and sewing a historic costume, from creating the right undergarments and getting the silhouette right, to fitting the mockup, to embellishing the gown appropriately. ![]() Also, the book is intended for expert dressmakers, so you might have difficulty assembling the patterns if you’re a novice. ![]() (The first book covers the Middle Ages-1500, and the third book covers 1800-1909.) It includes patterns and instructions for making costumes that appear to be historically accurate-however, it’s aimed at costumers for stage and screen, so modern sewing techniques are used. This is the second in a series of historical costuming books by Jean Hunnisett. Period Costume for Stage and Screen ~ Players Press, © 1991
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