Thank you so much- Sometimes I think I get so excited about all the things that costumes tell us, I get afraid that I am jumping all over them answering myself. I have been known to do charades to give them an answer... but I am always a little afaid I come off like Ben Stein on the Wonder Years, only about costumes.

like the idea of having a piece to look at, as well as a completed costume. My students aren't usually people who will go on and do theatre, and there is a limited amount of sewing skill you can teach in the short amount of time we have, so my goal is for them to be able to see and appreciate costumes when they go to the theatre and watch movies.

If my students don't participate I kill them.

With a bat.

Vampire or cricket?

I'm hoping fruit.

Aluminum baseball.

They sound the best.

Aluminum baseball.

Yeah, but the reverb's hell. Thirty-six oz. Louisville Slugger has a nice heft to it.

While I like to use a baseball bat, enjoying both the aluminum and the Louisville Slugger, I have learned that phone books don't leave marks. The solid 'thunk' when used properly is satisfying as well.

ita, I just saw your wounds. ACK! Poor you.

I'd say join me in applying scotch, but that'd probably sting. So something unstingy.

How is it that I get through a week of hell, and only now my back starts crawling? Annoying.

Sophia, I would bring in a bunch of photos--like of Jon Hamm in Mad Men, Captain Jack in Pirates, Cate Blanchett in LoTR, etc, and have the group describe what they can tell about that character from the way they are dressed. You might want to have a board to write down the adjectives. Once you get a list, you can go back and talk about what specific things in the costumes create those impressions.

Aluminum baseball.

Yeah, but the reverb's hell. Thirty-six oz. Louisville Slugger has a nice heft to it.

I dunno; as a spectator, there is nothing sweeter than the crack of a wooden bat, but as a batter (admittedly raised playing softball, where we weren't allowed to use wooden bats), that sweet sweet PING! when you nail it just right and send it deep into left field is one of the best sounds I have ever heard.