Dear Constant Reader,
This past Saturday was our first Halloween show. I may write about it in more detail later — this is just to show you my new shiny bits.
Last year, after a planned act failed to come together, I swapped in “Moon Over Bourbon Street”, a rather pretentious fan dance, a few days before the show. At the last minute, I realized I could reinforce the vampire theme with a pair of bat pasties. They were literally made the night before and, while they were cute, I wasn’t happy with them. They were too big and the minimal rhinestoning didn’t pop at all.
This year I planned ahead and made new bat pasties, using a template from Manuge et Toi.
The rhinestones are mostly from Looking Glass Gems, with some black diamond Swarovskis Scratch had in his stash.
Next up, I needed a new g-string for “Satanic Panic” as the one I had been using was going to be appearing in “Bourbon Street”. I wanted it to be flame-themed to match the pasties* I had made for the act’s debut. I decided to challenge myself and make the g-string flame-shaped as well as colored.
That g-string is heavy! I’m not sure I’ve ever stoned a garment other than pasties that solidly before. Fortunately, it stays in place pretty securely. I’m pretty pleased with how it came out. The photo really doesn’t do the colors justice, especially the shifting shades of the phoenix rhinestones (the orange-ish stones).
As with the bats, the majority of the rhinestones are from Looking Glass Gems, except the citrine on the pasties which are Swarovski.
While I was working on the g-string, and really feeling on a roll, I went to visit my parents. I wanted to keep working, but my bottle of glue was too big to take on the plane. I grabbed one of my TSA-compliant toiletry containers and dumped in a hefty glop of Jewel Bond. Rhinestoning on a plane is a bit challenging, but at least I (and probably my seatmate) was entertained.
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*Although Manuge et Toi now has a flame pastie template, these pasties were made about a year before it was released. It would have made my life so much easier and my pastie design so much cleaner.
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