Long time, no post!

Well, I've been really busy lately, so no time for the blog, sadly. However, the show I'm costuming opens on Friday, so hopefully once all the costumes are made, I'll have more time on my hands.

In the meantime, for all you Wicked aficionados, remember Galinda's Wardrobe? Well, thanks to Andrea, it's back up at www.galindaswardrobe.com and it looks great! So feel free to go there for all your Wicked pix and resources, and remember what a great tool the forums are! =)

Possible Emerald City Dress fabric?

Cathy, who recently showed us her AWESOME Glinda's Emerald City recreation, sent us some pictures of a fabric she found at Joanns. I wasn't able to find it on the website (if anyone can, lemme know!), but it's sold in stores. Sadly, out of my price range. But those of you more monetarily fortunate seamstresses may want to take notice. =)

(And on a non-musical note, I think it would also be decent if anyone wanted to recreate Padme's yellow dress from Episode II.)

Glinda's Emerald City Dress: recreated by Cathy! =)

"It's Glinda, now!"

So the lovely Cathy (of the Crafty Corner acclaim) has made a beautiful recreation of the Emerald City Dress/One Short Day Dress (I really need to just pick one and stay consistent, don't I...). You can see more pictures and how she made it at this blogpost.  It looks very much like the original, and she made it very inexpensively. You should definitely all go check it out!

NessaRose's Party Gown

"What's in the punch?"

"Melons and lemons and pears."

"Oh my!"
--Ozdust Ballgown

This is the adorable party dress NessaRose wears to the ball with Boq. It's similar in many ways to Galinda's Popular dress, from the general shape of the bodice to the layered look of the skirt. And, you know, the colour. It's a peach strapless dress (she wears a filmy pink Bolero over it) worn over her jeweled shoes and accented with a pink headband.

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Wicked Costume Directory: NessaRose

Alone and loveless here, 

With just the girl in the mirror

Just her and me: the Wicked Witch of the East!

We deserve each other...

~Nessa Rose, "The Wicked Witch of the East"

NessaRose Thropp, Elphaba's little disabled sister, is kind of an interesting case. She of the "tragically beautiful" face starts out as a pretty unimportant figure, then gets shunted into place as one of the figures in the Galinda/Elphaba/Fiyero/Boq Love Dodecahedron. As her love for Boq is completely unrequited, she turns into a scary stalker chick, and by the time Elphaba comes back to check on her in Act 2, she's become the Wicked Witch of East.

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Elphaba's Act 2 Dress

"Let all Oz be agreed:

I'm wicked  through and through..."

Some updating has been done! Not as indepth as the Bubble entry, but there is hope! =D

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Poll Results: All time favourite Glinda costume?

Your question was "What's your all-time favourite G(a)linda costume?"

Results after the cut!

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Boq's Costume Directory

Okay, it's entirely possible I'm procrastinating. But in the meantime, you have all these lovely photos to browse through! Yay!Oh yes, there are spoilers relating to how Boq figures into the original story, so if you want to keep your innocence... Don't pass go. ^.^

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Poll Results: All time favourite Elphaba costume?

Wow, just keep getting more folks weighing in every time! This time we had a grand total of 32 voters! =D
Find out the results after the cut!

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Galinda's Wardrobe is closing!

Galinda's Wardrobe, the original Wicked costuming resource, is closing! I got a message the other day from the webmistresses:

Dear GW members

The news came to us that GeoCities is closing down  on October 26 and will delete all website that are hosted on their server which will mean that our main website wil be deleted as well.... (Forum will be kept online)

Now you may have noticed that the main page hasn't been  updated in ages due to lack of time from both Sapphire and me (Jeenyus) though we would feel horrible to watch our site, in which we've put hard work in disapear.

so if there are any website maker enthousiasts that would like to take over our website and move it to a diffrent server, please let us know, she's our baby!!!

all credit goes to you and you will be in full control of the website, in fact you'll co-own the site with us!!

Please help us!!
Lots of love
Jeenyus & Sapphirenight

 If any of you can help them out, that would be awesome! The GW forums have been such an incredible help to me (and many others) in the making of this blog. And if they are gone... I'm (as far as I know) the only Wicked costuming resource left. And I just don't think I can handle the responsibility. =/

Elphaba: Shiz Uniform (Blazer)

"No, I'm not seasick. Yes, I've always been green. 

No, I did not eat grass as a child!"

This is going to be a slow-moving entry, I just know it.

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Poll results: Next Character to Focus on

Well, it was an interesting run. At the beginning, Ariel got the very first vote. Then Christine got a few, and it looked like she was going to be the definite lead. A couple of days into the poll, Elphaba got her first vote--and then antoher--and well, she is the winner by a landslide of 12 votes. (The second place winner, Christine, only got 7.)

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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALP!!!!!!! (was "Work In Progress")

ETA: 7.10.09; 3.47 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGH.

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Hello, how's it going?

Well, the poll is closed. As I'm taking it down directly, here are the results.
We had 20 total voters. Thanks to everybody who participated!

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Glinda's Crown & Wand

As promised... this is mostly just a holding page until I have time to actually analyse the wand & crown. This is taken from my comment on Glinda's costuming directory.

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Wicked: Costume Directory (Fiyero)

"Genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow."

Fiyero Tiggelar (sp?) is a Winkie Prince that comes to Shiz University. He romances Galinda, but then ends up falling for the more serious Elphaba. In the book, he has blue skin and diamonds. (?) But in the musical, he's a much more normal, INSANELY HAWT young man.

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What's New, Pussycat? (WHOAH, WHOAH WHOAH)

Well, here's what's new... Dogs are winning in the poll by about 50%. I was basing my research off of myself (cat), Maggie (cat), and Koshka the Cat (you guess), but apparently I was mistaken.

In other news, I discovered the motherload... I don't know how I missed this, but check out Wicked In Pix on Tumblr. I don't even know what tumblr is, but there are like 80 million pix here. I just grabbed all the Glinda ones and some of the Fiyero and Elphaba ones (I'm SORRY! I'm just biased, okay?!)... Oh yeah, and a Fiyero costume directory is imminent.

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Sierra Boggess backstage

Youtube video with Sierra Boggess (the original Ariel) giving us a backstage tourof her dressing room, insider secrets, and more. This video was (I believe) included with the DVD release of Little Mermaid III: Ariel's Beginning or whatever it was called. I haven't seen it yet.

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The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Pink Gown

Oh! Just look! It's like I'm in a storybook!
Oh! It's bliss! I dreamed that it would be
Somewhat- But not like this!
~Ariel

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Legally Blonde: Elle's Graduation Robe

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of two thousand and--
--here's the part where she makes her big speech
We're all proud, but Elle's not one to preach
So she said we could play Where Are They Now!
Here we go!

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things I have done lately by corbyjane

So, welcome newcomers blahblahblah.
My traffic increased by about 500 people the day Maggie posted my link on her homepage. This probably means my personal blog (which was where costume posts were originally) will decrease in numbers, but it's okay.

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Alli Mauzey interview

I don't know how I missed this, but here's Alli Mauzey giving a backstage tour of her dressing room.

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Glinda inspired-by dress?

Julia cited this Dior dress as a very probable inspiration for the Bubble Dress.

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Welcome newcomers!

According to my stats, my blog has had 165 visits since Tuesday. I don't know how many of you are first time visitors or how many are returning, but welcome to all of you, and be sure to let me know if you have any questions or requests.
And as always, the "leave a comment" link is there for a reason. If you have something to offer or just need clarification, feel free! I do read and try to respond to each one.

Cheap Trick... more than just a band.

So, I happened across this on eBay. Available by the yard for $16.99, it's gold organza with self embroidery.

"You are bidding on one yard of a beautiful gold organza with self embroidery Fabric is 104 inches wide and is great for you, your dolls or any Holiday projects. I have used this for curtains, and Civil War Reproduction ball gowns.It is a beautiful fabric. There is more uncut yardage in my Ebay store, Memaw's Attic."

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