So I said I drew a few prom dresses for the Boutique, and here are the first two of them! I don’t think they’re particularly based on any real gowns, but it’s been a long time…

Johanna at 18th century fashion linked to a sort of museum social networking site, Creative Spaces which is a way to tag, collect and organize works from different museums that are participating. I love this, because one of my biggest issues is, say, looking for gowns from a specific year and going through this crazy avalanche of Google image searches and bookmarks and links to sites I’ve never seen before and links to sites I’ve used before and then forgetting where I saw what. I’m sure there’s some widget I could use to fit with my stream-of-consciousness research style, but in the meantime I like where this is going. If you join up, add me as a contact and then explore the Things Liana Likes notebook!

Here’s two more Boutique wedding dresses — I waited until too late to start drawing tonight. I’ll have something more interesting tomorrow, I bet.

If you haven’t seen it yet, RLC just started a paper doll blog, Paper Thin Personas with some great black-and-white outfits. So between this one, Annissa’s blog and 19th Century Paper Dolls that’s a pretty good collection of paper doll blogs, and even if I’m boring they’re not!

On the good side, I got a new pencil sharpener; its box promises an “extra heavy duty motor” and indicates that it is designed for “continuous” use. Which is good, because I subject my poor sharpeners to some sad conditions… Anyways, today I got started too late and wasn’t feeling inspired at all, so here are two fairy dresses from the old Boutique.

The poll continues:

This is one of the “birthday dresses” I did for the Boutique that I referred to earlier — even if it’s ten years old I like this one better than the one I did this year. Well, maybe I’ll just try again next January.

So, I have a lovely design for the dress I intended to do today, and then my pencil sharpener died. Poor thing, I probably did put it through its paces… Come back tomorrow for something pretty!

These are two dresses from the old Boutique holiday section. Since they’re so old, I can’t say for sure but I’m pretty sure they were intended for New Year’s parties, and although it is a little too late I thought I’d put them up. Not that I did much partying, but I did stay up until midnight at least, and made black-eyed pea curry with collard greens.

I think the poll is quite interesting so far, take it if you haven’t…

Today is our travel day, and the last day of Boutique posts, I should think. (Tomorrow is a repeat, too, but not from the Boutique…) So here I finish out the Greek section from the Historical category from the Boutique.

I’ve enjoyed my vacation very much, but I’m looking forwards to getting back to drawing every day again! I’ve got some holiday plans…

The poll ends tomorrow, so take it soon!

So we’re back at my mom and dad’s place now. I’m glad that I scheduled all those posts, because I was much more able to enjoy my time away from Internet access knowing that all those princess gowns were appearing day after day! Today, it sounds like there’s some shopping to do.

It’ll be a little time until I actually do more drawing, I think, so in the meantime here are two dresses from the Boutique, both Greek gowns from the Historical section of the page.

Poll’s quite interesting, I think…

And finally, a couple of medieval gowns from the Boutique. I say “finally” because this is my last scheduled post, I should be able to get back to real posting tomorrow!

Poll’s still up though…

I’ve had quite enough of fantasy princesses for now, since I scheduled all the posts over the last few days at once, and so let us proceed to the “historical” category. Here’s the lone entry I did for the Roman section of the Boutique, a stola and palla set. (The stola being the yellow tunic, and the palla being the blue fabric.)

The poll is still up, in case you haven’t voted yet…

Wow! I’ve finally reached the final gown in the fantasy princess category from the old Boutique! I really like this one, too. It really surprised me to find that the “slate grey” pencil makes a good base blue, I’ve used that in a lot of things since this gown. Anyways, don’t worry – there are many things yet in the “fantasy” category even if “fantasy => princess” has been exhausted…

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