Today marks the beginning of an exciting project. Melissa has agreed to make a custom vest for a magician. Before he arrives I hunt online for male measurement charts and find the best ones. This is the first time Melissa is custom making something for a man so I she’ll be looking to me for some help since I have some experience with menswear. She let me help with the consultation (taking measurements and writing them down). Before he leaves, Spike (the magician) shows us some tricks. All of them are mind blowing of course and they allow us to see how he needs the vest to function. It will be quite an adventure and I look forward to working with Spike on this project. It really helps of course that he leaves his current vest with us for a guideline.
While brainstorming the plan of attack, I had two other duties for the day. One included reworking patterns for a custom jumpsuit. This is an important piece not only because a client asked for it specifically, but also because while at the trunk show last weekend another customer tried it on and orders one too!
The final task that takes up an hour or two is cleaning a table. At Melissa’s part time job, her boss was going to throw out a table that was covered in layers of paint (the materials they work with). Melissa volunteered to take the table knowing what it looked like before it was caked in paint. She and Daniela had started it off with different soaking stages. Then Melissa got some paint scraping tools and Daniela and I started to work. I think Melissa was amused by how badly we both wanted to clean it. Chalk it up to OCD or personality types, but Daniela and I were stoked. The paint came off in rainbow chunks that we saved (because Melissa knows a jewelry artist that works with dried, peeled paint). In those two hours we got all the paint off the table and scrubbed it clean. Underneath all that was a beautiful silvery, mirror table.
Melissa was ecstatic when she saw it (she had lost track of time in the business end of emails) and was surprised to see it done. We all had looked at the thickness of the paint and thought it would be a project we work on over a few days. The presoaking had worked better than we thought and with me and Daniela working on it, it took no time at all. The beautiful new table replaced the old one. It was a little shorter, but it provided some much needed room by the entrance of the studio.
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