Where have you BEEN?

You may be wondering that. Maybe you don't even check my blog anymore. Maybe you've given up on the fascinating life of the Diva Mommy.

I wouldn't blame you. Maybe I kinda have too. Thing is, I've done all these great things lately but I never took any photos. Probably because I always hate how I look in candids with my decent but still cheap camera. I keep thinking "if I had a fancy camera, maybe I'd be happier" but in reality, it takes at least 75 frames for me to get just one photo I like.

Anyway, here's a list of the fascinating things I've done and what I've worn - which I have been very proud of, just haven't taken any photos. Which stinks. So use your imagination.

1. Sang at a fancy fundraiser at a club so fancy they only had valet...imagine my chagrin at pulling up in my beat up jalopy old van. But I found an amazing Calvin Klein Gown at Ross for like $30 and fantastic nude Madden Girl stillettos - also at Ross. Add a gorgeous crystal bracelet - from Walgreens of all places, red lipstick and 40's glamour girl hair, and I was rockin' it. I tried to take a video of my performance, but you can't see a thing! It was too dark. :( Too bad I have no spare time to re-enact the outfit.

2. Finished my Clown Costume...it's super cute, just haven't had time for photos.

3. Started a new "Sleeping Beauty" dress and abandoned it. Really wasn't working for that princess. It's gorgeous and will be completed as something entirely different. Someday soon...ish

4. Did 4 showgirl costumes for Singin' in the Rain. Took some pretty ugly black evening gowns of the wrong period and did them up right! Will also have photos...

5. Made a super cool burlesque costume...the Sound of Music in 5 minutes...several tear away costumes from a nun's habit to an oversized uniform to Boulders, a Stream and a light up rainbow headpiece. Yeah.

6. Gonna make a wedding dress..

7. Gonna go to Fashion Week....maybe...

8. Performed in an amazing concert of original music that has only been performed once before...off broadway. Got to work with the composer/lyricist...it was really cool. Wore my awesome floral print maxi dress w/mustard sweater that I re-constructed to be modest. Beach waves, very dressy casual and oh so comfy!

9. Making a new Rapunzel bodice tonight to replace the one I sold. Re-doing the wig, also.

Ok, that's about all. I promise photos someday. There's a huge part of me that wants to be a fashion blogger but I don't quite have the confidence. SO - we'll see.

Let down your HAIR!

So, amidst the insanity of getting a show out this week, I carved out time to whip up my Rapunzel costume!

I bought the pretty sparkly fabric I used on the skirt inset in January when we took our unexpected trip to Southern California. I got it at my favorite fabric store - which happens to be in Anaheim.

It's taken me the last month to find all of the other fabrics - the bodice came from JoAnn, the skirt from Hancock. I already had the wide trim for the sleeves and the purple trim on the bodice was a last minute addition - also from JoAnn's. The border of  flowers on the skirt was created by cutting out the flowers from the leftover fabric from the insert and some really cool gold fabric I bought for my holiday princess I haven't gotten around to making...yet. Oh - the undersleeves - I bought a lace shirt from a thrift store and dyed it pink and added the white lace. This will be nice because it's washable and it isn't easy to launder my costumes.

 I really like how it all turned out. It wasn't easy finding the perfect purples and lavenders!

The wig was a huge pain! It's 3 wigs sewn together. And it's HEAVY. I have to figure out some way to attach the braid to the costume. My neck had a huge kink by the time I was done with that party!

While shopping for my other project this week, I made an impulse purchase...which will hopefully result in a new Sleeping Beauty costume soon. 

5 Things!

I'm super busy...but I wanted to share 5 things in my life right now that I happen to love!

1. My Camelback water bottle

2. The Hunger Games series...I read it this weekend. Yes, the whole series. On Kindle for Android.

3. My husbands amazing staging and photoshop work for an upcoming production of Singin' in the Rain! Photos shot by shereeflickphotography, starring my good friend, the handsome and talented Evan Litt.

4. Trenta Shaken Iced Tea - Passion

5. Coupons

I'm working like crazy on INTO THE WOODS - a rental that goes out this weekend. But I'm also working on a new princess... so I bet you'll be sooo excited to see that. 

New Princess...but not me!

Today I finished some costumes and did a photo shoot for my princess company!

This is Princess Brittani!

Sometimes...I'm just cool.

(this post is also doubling as What's on the DIVAMOMMY's phone. Because I took all of these pic'shurs and videyos with my phone.)

Sooo......

I made this.

Which does this.

And looks like this with the lights on.

In this amazing studio:

Yeah. Sometimes I'm just cool.

(Shooting for projection images for my super cool summer dance show. The handsome fella in the above photograph is the choreographer.)

Totally forgot to take a picture in my awesome Sunday clothes yesterday. I usually just want to get home from church and take a nap. And I'm always late, so before church is out of the question.

Work much?

Today was a long day. It's actually not over. I still have to clean the kitchen (in which nearly every dish I own is in need of washing) and work out. Kenpo tonight - my favorite! (really, I actually like that one)

I had one 2 things I planned on doing, but instead - I did about a million. So, I complained on Facebook that I have too many jobs.

Here's a list:

THINGS I GET PAID TO DO (in order of glamorousness...kinda):

Performer

Princess Parties - Business Owner

Princess Parties - Independent Contractor

Theatrical Costume Rentals/Builds  - THE DRAMA CLOSET (our business)

Rental Representative - Signature Productions

(don't you just love how I put my own picture on the rentals button? Tee hee!!)

Custom Costumes

Web Designer/Web Master - Signature Productions

Wardrobe Supervisor - Stage AND Film

(The gentleman on the left is famous author Terry Goodkind!)

ALSO: Musical Theatre Class teacher, Demo Singer (only once, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat!), Alterations...

JOBS I DO NOT GET PAID FOR, well, in money.

Wife (sorry....love the DramaDad, but being married is WORK!!!)

Mom (the hardest job by far. But most rewarding. Or at least it will be someday, right?)

Performing (It goes both ways....)

Housekeeper & Chef (definitely my most hated job)

ALSO: Husband's personal secretary, taxi driver, computer tech support, music editor, nurse, toy-put-er-together-er, Santa's special assistant, ditto for the toothfairy, easterbunny...etc., accountant, tax representative, BLOGGER...etc.

SORRY some of the pics are out of alignment...blogger's a little bi-polar tonight.

So yeah. I keep a lot of balls in the air. I look forward to the day when one or two avenues outshine all the rest and I can cut back, focus a little more on fewer things. I definitely can have focus issues when I'm trying to put together a new website for my rental business but I have to answer a million emails for my rental rep job and really have to get my girls to clean their bedroom. And do laundry. And dinner. And the dishes.

Oh well, I really am grateful for everything I have and get to do! I'm the busiest I've ever been, but I'm also the happiest I've ever been.

And once again I've blogged when I should be doing something else. Oh well. It's like therapy. Free therapy.

Put On Your Sunday Clothes!

CONFESSION: I have a hard time with Sundays. Especially now that our church service time has moved to 9am.  Honestly, I'm not usually up for the day until 11am...occasionally later. Don't go thinking I get tons of sleep or anything, I don't usually get to bed until 3am and then get up for about for about 45 minutes to get the girls ready for school, then go back to sleep. I know, but it works for me. For us.

(Yes, Lollies and BuddyBoy stay up late, too. Don't judge, it works for us)

So, having to get up to be at church at 9am is really tough - not just on me, but on everyone. Sleepy kids, sleepy husband...you get the picture.

It's really easy and tempting to ditch, I'll be honest.

Lately, I've stumbled onto something that's good motivation to get me going.

Ready? Ok.  Getting dressed up.

I know, that probably sounds shallow....I should want to go to church for the spiritual reasons. And I do. And I want my kids to be there. But it's really easy for the tired part of me to override that. You know...I'll go next week, one week off won't hurt, I could really use some rest....blah, blah, BLAH!

But I've found that the motivation I need to get me out of bed is to have a really rockin' outfit to wear.

Sooo...maybe I'll try to blog about my Sunday Clothes. Bought myself something new for tomorrow. We'll see how it goes. :)