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You poor October birthday people… I was really hoping to avoid orange, because orange is so overplayed for October, what with the changing fall colors and Halloween, but then it turns out your birthflower is the marigold. So I couldn’t avoid orange in the end, but I hope you like it anyways. Even if it’s immodest for me to say so, I really do! It’s simple, but it’s my favorite of all the month dresses I’ve done so far. Of course, since I haven’t covered all the months yet that’s not quite saying much, but in November I think my project will be to catch up…
Tomorrow starts day 1 of the Lord of the Rings Halloween costume series. I’m also going to be putting up a poll for what I should draw for week 2, so if you have any ideas, please post them in the comments and I’ll add them to the poll.
Tags: birthday, birthflower, birthstone, embroidery, fire opals, flowers, marigolds, october, opal, opals, orange, overskirt, ruffles, underskirt, white
fantasy, gowns, holidays, new doll, paperdolls | Liana October 3, 2009 | 
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Finally, another birthday dress! I want to fill in the months I never got around to this year as well, but for now I will start at the current date. September’s birth flower (one of them, at least) is the forget-me-not, and its birth stone (again, one of them) is sapphire, making it easy to pick the dress’ predominant color. Adding the necklace on top of it all was kind of gilding the lily, but oh well.
It is only September 4th, but I’m starting to think about October. Last year I did a month of Halloween costumes, and I had so much fun I’m thinking of doing another theme month. I could do another month of random costumes like I did last year, or I could do something more narrowly focused. For example, Brian suggested a month of famous witch costumes – the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch, Willow, the Grand High Witch, Minerva McGonagall and so on. If anyone else has any other ideas, leave a comment! I’ve got all month to think about it.
Tags: angel, birth flower, birth stone, birthstone, blue, dress, embroidery, forget-me-nots, garland, gown, light blue, necklace, overskirt, ruffles, sapphires, sash, scrolls, september, tunic, ultramarine, underskirt, yellow
fantasy, gowns, holidays, new doll, paperdolls | Liana September 4, 2009 | Comments (11)
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So one of the things I did with the Boutique was to draw dresses with the birthstone and flower associated with each month. Since that was fun, I’m going to give it a shot this year, too, so here is January with snowdrop embroidery and garnets. The design is intended to be vaguely angelic, but I don’t really like how it turned out… I guess I have 11 more tries this year.
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Tags: angel, belt, birth flower, birth stone, birthday, birthstone, dress, garnet, garnets, gown, january, pearls, red, snowdrop, snowdrops, white
fantasy, gowns, holidays, paperdolls | Liana January 1, 2009 | Comments (7)
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