At the end of my last post I mentioned that being in a small apartment made me want to simplify at home. After being in this house for 15 years and raising my kids, and homeschooling them here, I have accumulated more stuff than a girl can possibly need. Even after giving away a lot of the homeschool curriculum and such, I am still overwhelmed with stuff. Having the spare apartment in NYC makes that crystal clear when I come home.
So I have been home in Atlanta for just over two weeks and working on costuming a show. It opened this weekend, and I am finally coming up for air. Right before I started sewing, immediately after I got home, I cut the contents of my closet by 2/3. I kept 1/3 of the items in my closet. It was quite a feat, but I had to do it while I was still excited about it. Since then, I have not done laundry, but have had something quite decent to wear every day, and could probably squeeze out 2 or 3 more outfits before I had to wear winter clothes or something exceedingly fancy. So, I now know I did the right thing by paring down my closet!
I have spent all of last few weeks furiously sewing for Cabaret. I am so pleased that so many people are mentioning the costumes in their comments and reviews. We are so proud! The show is definitely rated age 16+, I'd probably say 18+. It is of course about a seedy night club and the happenings of people involved in it as Hitler came to power. Suggestiveness, scant costumes, and violence.... but it is more than anything else, historical, and a reminder that if we look away from atrocities happening to other people, we are also perpetrators... AND it is just a matter of time before those horrors are turned on us.
I haven't had the time to take photos of costumes and did not get permission from the actors, so I will be posting costume photos later.
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