Fairytales are alive and living around us today.
Of course they are!
Dreamtime continues, from ancient times to present day, creating and recreating, continuously evolving.
Just as the python like roots of a Morton Bay Fig tree grow steadily before our eyes, ever lengthening and expanding, and we don’t even see it moving. The life force steady, yet slow, unrecognised by those who must carve their own names into it’s living stretching skin.
The creation story continues with every new breath.
Agent Costume is starting on a shoe string. Supported by people who contribute with varied resources.
We dream of the day when all our dreams may be lived in their fullest potential.
The jackets in our minds may one day come to life. One day, the original designs in our imaginings may be bought freely, the creative flow of our designers supported by people who know and love the free flowing nature of Agent Costume and Ube Love.
It’s easy to think “I’ll buy this fabric, and those labels, and spend this many hours and weeks sewing this many items, and go to market, and spend this much time, buying this much petrol, and thread, electricity, and…..etc”
but to do, without financial backing is another matter….
Meanwhile the cupboards overflow with unfinished projects. Fabrics acquired over years and donated by loving friends lay waiting half cut, half stitched, great potential gathering dust.
This is a turning point.
No more excuses.
No more fabric purchases until the cupboards are free to stock them!
Until each piece of collected fabric has been lovingly turned into something useful and marketable.
Each piece of fabric collected over the last few years will be turned into something new and original.
There will only ever be one. They will be recorded and put up for sale on these pages, in our etsy store!
May the contents of the cupboards be turned into loved and wearable pieces of art and sold at market for reasonable prices.
Just as Rumpelstiltskin spun straw into gold, the rags in the cupboards shall be turned into well valued items of clothing and accessories.
…pure transformation…
1st Dec 2008.
The first day of summer!
Today I felt oddly like a little elf, cutting and sewing several sets of fluffy ears and tails to end up as Christmas presents under the Christmas tree for lucky little boys and girls.
Each set is unique. The tails are all cut free hand, using bits and pieces of off cuts.
Always the beginnings of a project has the most love imbued at every step.
I really enjoy making funky little presents and feel hopeful that they will end up in the hands of someone who will enjoy wearing them as much as I did making them.
This Rumpelstitlskin project rocks! In that, one is forced to make good with what one has. To make good, we need to become a more innovative. The results are then something unique and other people recognise that!
Ears and tails, a versatile accessory