Earlier this year some of the ladies from church and I were planning an historical birthday celebration of the Relief Society, our church's women's organization. For the event we wanted to take pictures of the women in one of those cut-out thingies of women dressed in 1840s clothing. Someone suggested that Pamela might be willing to whip one up for us, that she was good at drawing and stuff. I didn't know much about her at the time. I was hoping that these women knew what they were talking about. Doh!
We asked Pamela to paint 2-3 life-sized women using for inspiration the book Fashions and Costumes from Godey's Lady's Book. I sacrificed the cardboard in our garage that contained our unused screen door and delivered it to Pamela - after I had dusted off the cobwebs. Can you imagine it - warped, spider webby cardboard!? What was I thinking? I didn't know any better. I promise. I had no idea what Pamela was capable of and would never have allowed her to do all this work on cardboard had I known better. Here's what she painted.
Do these ringlets look familiar?
