Good morning, or afternoon, or spring, or fall... :) It is all relative I suppose.
It is early on a rainy and foggy Sunday morning here. I'm waking up and pondering on what I'm going to do today. I've been working in my sewing room, getting various projects caught up and cleared out. A fair bit of mending and repurposing. We raise sheep, so I've been working on ideas for using wool. One project I've got in my head is to make wool duvets. That is on the list... also, I've been commissioned to create a gown for the Yarmouth County Museum's fundraising Gala this October, the theme this year is James Bond, so I need to get the sewing room geared up to start on that! I really don't enjoy going out a lot, I am quite contentedly a homebody, but I've heard from past years that the Museum Gala is always a big, fun evening.
The Yarmouth County Museum is a really wonderful museum. It really is an institution of Yarmouth Town. The collection is really very large and I know for one example, the costume collection is I think one of the largest in the province. This isn't any official pronouncement, but I've been in and out of a lot of museums in this province looking at their costume collections, and I really do think that theirs is right up there. Beautiful artifacts, mainly dating to the Victorian era, but I believe they have costume examples going back to the early 1800s and textile pieces going to the 1700s. There are some beautiful embroidery samplers too.
Nadine Gates is the Director/Curator and she has really brought the museum displays up to date, and regularly brings in new traveling displays and shows. She has also managed to broaden the scope of the museum to include more history from the County and surrounding area too. The museum would actually be a nice place for a visit on this rainy Sunday. :) And I happen to know, they have a growing collection of reproduction costumes that may be available for people to try on or look at more closely, go have a look!
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