These sleeves...

...will be the death of me! I've got 1.5 sleeves beaded so far! I just have the back half to go and then they are ready for buttons so I can hook them onto the gown. Have I stated how much I hate beading? Good. :)

Also, purchased a new pink Punkyfish hoodie tonight. Ugh how I love Punkyfish. Damnit. -_-;

Next weekend, I'm going to the hair salon to trim my hair and make the colour more Rose-esque. As in blonde. :)

Peacock Elizabethan - Beading details..

So I've finished beading one half of one of the sleeves for the gown and as promised, here are the pictures of the brown underskirt forepart I'm going to use instead of the ugly gold one.

Check out all of those real turquoise pretties! Along w/pearls and other beads.

The forepart itself w/the diamond cutouts - I made this a year or so ago to go with another gown that I need to redo. It's too pretty to NOT use on this one! 

Look! I finished pearling one HALF of one sleeve. *headdesk*

Pearling takes entirely too long....

Peacock (greenish) Elizabethan Gown!!! Update!

So this has been a labor of loathe for me. I bought a custom "Elizabethan" gown, which turned out to be all wrong and more of a rococo style, but with epaulet sleeves (which is the one part I liked). Luckily the bodice is correct and heavily boned, which means no corset needed! It also didn't come with closures, so I had to add those myself.

How the epaulets looked:

And basically how the skirts looked:

So basically, yeah...the skirt had to be redone. Also there was this TACKY cheap shiny gold lace trim on it, which was a friggin nightmare to remove! Word to the wise - Taffeta pulls SOOOOO easily!

I also redid the skirt. I took out the first 5 pleats to spread the straight part out until it met the trim that I added on the bodice.

All trim currently on the dress was hand sewn on by myself.

Here are pics of the work so far:

 The actual colors - It is NOT that shiny!

 The sleeves are freaking awesome! I'm going to pearl these.

Again, the actual colors...

The right side is bugging me, going to have to redo again. x_X;

How it's looking so far. Going to pearl the lighter trim also.

Seriously, it's really not that shiny! The hat is a cute little Elizabethan riding hat I had commissioned a year or so ago to go with all of my gowns!

Cuteness!

I've also made an underskirt forepart out of the brown fabric - and each flower is beaded with a real turquoise 5mm bead! I'm going for bling. It's actually the forepart I made for the green Elizabethan but I think it goes well with this teal!

There's still more work to go...more trim, the pearls, etc. It's going to be awesome and it's silk and lined in linen so I can breathe in it during May!

Edit - Took a lot of pics of the brown underskirt forepart but they didn't save to my camera. Weird. I'll take more tomorrow. I like how it looks MUCH BETTER than the gold. :)

Shenanigans!

This is the jacket:

=)