Showing posts with label inventory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inventory. Show all posts

Thursday, May 9, 2013

A Very Brittany Birthday

Today is my birthday, and we in the Studio are celebrating with delicious homemade cookies (per Meghan!) and a photo montage of me doing what I do best... which is apparently dressing up in Studio costumes and acting a fool.  
Note: all costume pieces featured are available for rent from the Closet :)
Inventorying: "I kind of want to journey back
 to 2000 and give this to my  8th grade self"

At a 1920s themed New Years party

24 hours to make a custom Tinkerbell!
Effie Trinket and Haymitch Abernathy on Halloween
As Maleficent for a themed murder mystery,  which we will be detailing  in a post soon!

Testing out a custom rental for Theatre J's production of "Apples from the Desert"
The perfect bowtie to go with my Loose Seal costume for my Arrested Development themed birthday party

Monday, March 25, 2013

Inventorying is FUN


If you've been following our Twitter (which if you haven't... well I don't know what you're waiting for) you've noticed we've been doing a LOT of inventorying lately. It's all part of our ambitious goal to get the lion's share of our Closet online and into the 21st century by fall of this year.  We reached our 1000th item last week (hooray!) and we're not even close to done (whaaat!).

It is so exciting, though, to intimately get to know our Closet, item by item.  So often we girls turn to Marilyn incredulously, saying things like "We have a SHARK costume??" and Marilyn calmly responds, "Why of course, and it has a hood."  So we take its picture, and move on.  It is amazing the kinds of brilliant gems that are hiding in our stacks; I have been working here almost three years, and every day holds some surprise.

It is a wonderful thing in this world, to love what you do, and we hope you love our work as much as we do.  I recently had a friend come by to check out our stacks with a themed party in mind, and her excitement was infectious; it revitalized us after a long day of dressing and re-dressing Susie Q, and filling out rows and rows and rows of our inventory spreadsheet (we're up to the Y column... only time will tell whether we'll expand into the double letters.)

That said, we encourage you to keep stopping by, keep checking the website.  New things are happening around here every day, even when sometimes those new things are old things we didn't know we had.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

#WhatsUpToday February


February has been a short month, but a productive one! We finished our kimono sets, sent away several alterations and creations for Carnival celebrations in Trinidad and Italy, created a fit muslin for a wedding dress, created costumes for the Annapolis Film Festival Red Carpet Oscar Viewing Party, and dove into the stacks for inventorying purposes. We are slowly but surely adding each section of our Costume Closet to the website, so make sure you check back regularly, keeping in mind any themed parties you may be having in the future!  So you will see an emerging theme in our February #whatsuptoday... and that is... all our STUFF.