the last 2 weeks i had 2 intensive back-to-back creative opportunities. the first turned out alright ... but i'm here to share the one that TOTALLY did it for me. my mission was to recreate the Katy Perry 'peppermint dress'. i know how to sew enough to complete a project, my way. so - figured this would not be that difficult and i just started running ideas through brain on how to complete it. i didn't have the exact materials on hand, nor was i going to pay a mint to purchase, so it was a matter of invention. now that i think about it, it is what i went through when first starting makeup. starting out (as i wrote in my blog description) i had no rules or preconceived ideas of what product to put where or the tool i would use to accomplish it. each step was a pure creation process racking my brain to figure out how get the end result. it really was exhilarating! and, apparently, tho i know it, i haven't actually realized that is what i am missing. like the moment that one of the cliches you use suddenly becomes real to you (saying 'i am going to turn into my mom' and then the day a sentence comes out of your mouth and you realize you are your mom!)
anyway - this project started with a trip to the Goodwill (thrift store). i found a dress that i figured i could 'recover' - like a sofa :) that was definitely the easy part - though not, of course, that easy it turned out. then there was the question of how to make the recovering muslin iridescent sparkly? peppermints ... i could draw one in my sleep ... BUT how would you go about making one ~ a peppermint that would attach to a dress.
i found happiness in all these discoveries. so, how to keep enough experience but remove my preconceived knowledge of 'how it should be'.
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