Death by Panier!

Okay, in order to understand the title--you must first google "panier" and you will realize that it is a very complicated contraption worn beneath a very complicated dress. Then google "robe a la francaise" and you will have a good idea of what I'm building for my construction class homework. All of us are very sure that this stupid aparatus will be the death of all of us (which we are making out of PVC pipe instead of the boning we're supposed to be using bc we don't have any in the shop!). Have you ever tried making a dress out of 1/4" PVC pipe? We actually had the scene shop kids down in the shop with us today working on them because we can't get the stupid things figured out. Emma's is especially complicated, I don't envy her at all.
Well, it's finally cold here in AL. It was kinda wierd. It was hot (like 75 degrees) then it rained and now it's about 30 outside. What happened to fall? It was like BAM! winter. Oh well. I go home in a week for thanksgiving, then it'll really be winter.
Dad and Brett just got home from Colorado yesterday. Brett shot 7 elk while they were on their hunting trip. He gave 3 of them away bc it would have been illegal to keep them. But still, we have 4 elk in our freezers at home now. I love how I have such odd stories to tell my friends!
Reckless opens on tuesday. I'm quite excited. I'm very pleased with how the costumes turned out for the show. Very 80s--but not gross campy 80s. More like shoulder pads and knock off power suit kind of 80s.
I'm working on an African project for my costume design class-"Death and the King's Horseman"- we'll see what happens with that. I do get to design some masks so I'm going to totally use my new favorite Taymor book!
I best do homework and go to bed.
Love you all!