Finally

I got rid of my rug and love it

Why would someone prone to asthma attacks have a carpet? No idea! I got rid of mine and I am stupid with delight. It is so easy to keep the place clean. I don't need a vacuum; just a duster. Leon is pleased. 

it is chaos in here when I am working on a prop or costume, but I push everything into a closet, box, cupboard or drawer and put the rest in my office when I have to clean up, as I have done below, when guests are coming for dinner.

Message from the producer interested in our screenplay...

"Quick update on the script.  The entire team has now read it.  Good news is that everyone likes it - very complimentary in the writing overall.  There are some suggestions on changes that I am gathering and will give you.

Bad News is that the production side is concerned about the budget.  As it is a period piece and has a France component it is going to be more than I thought.  This doesn't mean we don't want to take it on but it does mean it will require a larger financing partner then I first thought.

So, let's talk this week about how to proceed.

Cheers,

BD"

My Current Project

Friends are coming for dinner on Saturday.

Parasol is done

The parasol is, of course, for Vivicean.  But Basil has no head so I put it on him.

Mecredi Matin

I have been working on Vivicean's parasol. Vivicean and Basil have two scenes. I hope their first entrance elicits gasps of horror/delight at their costumes. For their second scene, therefore, I want their appearance to change. She will have the parasol and he…. He will either have some red on him to indicate his having seen the naked musical Let My People Come, or he will have a cape and cane.

Sunday Summer

So so warm in February!

Look at that texture in the upper storey!

Nothing says Springtime like laundry.

Wow. Sunday here was superb. After ten days of sewing, and with a break in the relentless clouds and rain, I went for a walk and the ugly selfie is just to prove how lovely and warm it was. It was 16° yesterday! 16° in February and I walked home from Value Village (where I got three fabulous hats to use as wig bases) in a t-hirt.

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Saturday night I watched The Hundred Foot Journey because it was in the DVD kiosk in the 711 across the street. It's like I have ADHD when I try and watch a film or television; I get bored and am always getting up to do something—anything to move around. But the endless sewing involved with my paper costumes is fun to do whilst watching something and the film really moved me. How could it not? It has an astoundingly handsome Indian lead actor, Bangra music, Om Puri, Helen Mirren and it's set in France. Plus, the actress playing the ingenue was divine.

The film is about food and in some scenes, I wept at the reverence for food of genuine foodies—not the attention loving personality cooks that waste cathode rays. It is very effectively conveyed in this film and so, at the end, I was terribly happy to see that it was directed by Lasse Hallström. From the start, when Warren first proposed turning Knock Knock into a screenplay, he was my dream choice for a director were we making a feature film. He has such a gentle human feeling touch.

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Sunday, I watched Richard Linkletter's Boyhood. It is definitely a movie I will watch again. I absolutely loved it and I believe it will endure as a landmark film. It's magnificence is a tribute to the vision and patience of Mr. Linkletter and his cast. Ethan Hawke is so comfortably natural, as is Patricia Arquette, but it is the kids that really move me. Everyone and everything feels so natural and honest.