Things I sew – historical and modern
Every time I do a photoshoot I end up with a few darling, hilarious, and quite-unserious photos. It’s just impossible for my friends and models to be entirely straightfaced about the whole business of putting on mad period clothes and posing in public settings. Here are my favourite out-takes from the photoshoot with Theresa. They are mostly of Theresa: either I was being very serious that day, or she never aimed the camera at the moments when I was goofing off!
And in order to keep a happy marriage happy he allowed Sybil to bustle in, wearing, in fact, a bustle,* to adjust his shirt, tweak his collar, and make him fit for company. It’s no secret that one of my favourite living authors is Terry Pratchett. I’ve read every single one of his books, slip references to him into my writing, hum songs about hedgehogs to myself as I wash dishes (true story, I was 25 before I figured out what that word meant, and thus, why the song was naughty), and treat myself his newest work every time I have a plane flight longer than an hour. I love Terry Pratchett; he’s brought so much joy to my life, and is the only author I would line up to get a book signed by. I’ll never get the opportunity now. Terry Pratchett is dying. He has a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer’s, and so a man who has made his living by his wits is slowly loosing them. I cried when I heard …
Remember how I told you there are a LOT of of good photos from the photoshoot Theresa and I had at the old Dominion Museum? Yeah. I wasn’t kidding! This is one of my favourites from the whole shoot. There is something about her mouth and eyes that really reminds me of a Gainsborough: The whole series is pretty spectacular though, both standing in front of the windows, and sitting on the windowsill.
