When I made my Claire from Outlander (Season 1) costume last year, I didn’t include pockets in the skirt. Pockets make every outfit magical, from 18th century on. So rather than adding the pockets in the skirt I so desperately coveted, I decided to make a set of traditional 18th century pockets that could be […]
Outlander
Book Club of One: What I’m Reading
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Costuming Claire from Outlander: Season 1
My mother tried to get me to read Outlander by Diana Gabaldon for 20 years. So after it aired on Starz, I quit resisting my mother and read the first book. I was hooked! Hooked on the show and hooked on the novels (which took two years to read). I love the character of Claire […]
British Isles Cruise on Royal Princess (Part 3: Scotland and France)
Continued from British Isles Cruise on Royal Princess (Part 2: England, Ireland, Northern Ireland) Day 6: Glasgow (Greenock), Scotland & Excursion: Best of Scotland Highlands Oh Scotland, I love you. What a beautiful place! And not just the scenery, but the crisp air and the smell of earth and mist and green. We took a ferry […]