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Bruno Mars wearing the vintage Hawaiian Shirt I altered

Since I am never allowed to take photos back stage I have to wait for google images to appear. This very cool vintage Hawaiian shirt was one that I altered for Bruno Mars during his Moonlight Jungle Tour dates in Orlando and Tampa this past year. I had to fix the bottom and shortened it a bit. I still have the little scrap of fabric I cut off, in my collection of “celebrity scraps”, now I have a…

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How I cured my procrastination 30 minutes at a time!

WARNING This post includes curse words and concepts that may be considered offensive to some of you hyper sensitive types, but the story just wouldn’t be the same if I censored it, so you’ve been warned!! If you can bring yourself to skip the curse words you might even learn something from a Psycho!!

As a work from home artist and creative type person, keeping myself on track or ahead of…

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How to Costume Rig a Button Down Garment for Quick Change

This particular Quick Rig is used when a performer needs to quickly change in or out of a button down garment. It can be a shirt, dress, jacket or anything you would normally have to button or unbotton to change clothes.

You will need the following materials:

Garment to be rigged

Sewing Maching and/or hand sewing needle

garment matching thread

large snaps (dime to quarter wopper popper size) OR…

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Who Wants My Job?

Who Wants My Job?

A List Wardrobe Seamstress/Seamster Needed Immediately in the Central Florida area!

I’ve also been offered a job as the Head of Wardrobe for a Central Florida Theater I am trying to help fill.

If you are not from the Central Florida area, this work is as needed, but there is also a Costume Fabrication shop in Orlando who may be able to provide steady work in between the sporadic concert and…

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Bacchanal Carnival, a Rock Operetta in the Works

In January of 2013, I met with the friend of a friend, named Blu Fogarty.

Blu is a very talented performer at Universal Studios, who wanted to show me a Rock Operetta he had written entitled “Bacchanal Carnival”. The show is a very diverse Morality Play about a character called “Everyman”, he actually performed it for me, from beginning to end, playing and singing the parts for each of the…

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My Rock Star Studded 3 Festival Weekend

My Rock Star Studded 3 Festival Weekend

Doing what I do for a living, has it’s privileges. (I know I sound like a commercial for American Express, but its true!!) This weekend was no exception. Being able to treat my friends too, makes it even sweeter.

Day 1, My hook up this weekend has been the tour manager for Volbeat for about 3 years now. The first time Jeff G invited me to see them in 2011, I’d never even heard of them, now they…

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