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Since I am never allowed to take photos back stage I have to wait for google images to appear. This very cool vintage Hawaiian shirt was one that I altered for Bruno Mars during his Moonlight Jungle Tour dates in Orlando and Tampa this past year. I had to fix the bottom and shortened it a bit. I still have the little scrap of fabric I cut off, in my collection of “celebrity scraps”, now I have a…

Private Sewing Lessons, Project Assistance and more…

Due to the temporary hiatus I’ve had to take from working Concert Tours as a Celebrity Seamstress and from my Theme Park job, as a Costume Fabrication Specialist, I am making myself available for private sewing lessons and project assistance remotely, from my design house studio (near Holy Land) or in your central Florida home.

All ages. All skill levels. Everything I know, is possible to…

“Can We Talk?” Rock Fashion Radio Show Coming Soon!!

As some of you may know, Joan Rivers was my first A List Client back in 2011.

  Working for Joan, rattled my soul, sealed the deal and launched my career as an A List Wardrobe Seamstress. If I can survive her, I can survive anything! She was the ultimate trial by fire client and I now choose to be inspired by and channel a woman who rocked the fashion world with her famous words “Can We Talk?”

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21 Things I’ve Learned From Assholes in My Life!

There are times in your life when it becomes appropriate to “judge” other people in order to preserve and protect your own well being. It’s called holding people accountable for their own behavior. I’ve found that some of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in life have come from some of the worst people I’ve ever met. I am grateful for what they taught me about life and would like to thank them for…

I learned “The Golden Rule” many years ago, “Do unto others as you would have done unto you!” That sounds like a good thing, right???

Then one day I heard one better. It’s called “The Platinum Rule” which says “treat others the way THEY want to be treated”. That struck an epiphany in me. Not every body wants to be treated the way YOU want to be treated! By taking the time to find out what THEY…

Before I was a seamstress, I worked in the travel industry and had a job at the airport working for a car rental company.

One day this really tall handsome guy walked up to the counter and he looked kind of familiar. When he handed me his drivers license, I immediately recognized his name. It was Larry Bird.

As my blonde, not a sports fan, mind began to assess the situation… I blurted out,…

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