Monday 9th - bought dresses for a woman named Aisha for her role in Big Otis - a show that William is is costuming doing at the Lenox Lounge in Harlem NYC. It was great! I got to shop for dresses in cream, champagne, navy, silver, gold, black..champagne/ cream was more preferable. Well the fitting is Tuesday at 12:00 - yikes.. I was told to go max out the card.. no more then 1,000 dollars, and to spend no more then 500 on a dress... My grandmothers teaching kicked into high gear! I was told she was an 18 and to look at Macy's and Lord and Taylor's.. I got 5 dresses.. We needed MORE! so i came back to the studio and they sent me to Syms- an interesting cheap store. found 3 items.. still not that happy.. so I told Donald- my boss that they dept stores told me to come back 1st thing in the morning and they might have more shipments in and more selection..
Tuesday 10th - I started the day out at Lord and Taylor's, waiting for it to open..sure enough I came back with 7 dresses from lord and Taylor's and Macy's and we were golden. She walked in about 12:45.. and she was in aww of the dresses.. she told me I should be a personal shopper, and her personal shopper, because I captured her with out meeting her. lol.. so it was nice. We took pictures of her in all the dresses. When the fitting was over we had a good idea of dresses we liked, but ultimately it was up to William who returned late Wednesday afternoon.. we cleaned the studio in preparation for William.. I went shopping for men's dress shirts.
Wednesday 11th - we did some Leap of Faith errands.. I went to buy more dress shirts and tux shirts.. let e tell you I could NOT find a 15 1/2 neck size tux shirt that was not $200 dollars.. so Donald was not happy.. I had checked the Uptown syms- no luck so when I returned to the studio I asked to check the downtown syms- I found 2.. so I gt both and let Donald decide.. he chose the cheap one. While I was out William arrived and they were briefing him on everything about what had happned, going to happen etc.. everyone left and I stayed to finish up and ship a package and William was so happy with the dresses I had chosen, Donald told him it was I who did the work and William was very impressed with me. made me happy!! Sent the package and went home.
Thursday 12th - I didn't say anything but the reason for the dresses and shirts were for the BIG OTIS show obviously, but today is the EBONY photo shoot of what a fitting is like... everyone arrives at 5 pm sharp. So we are setting the area up for the shoot, laying out jewelry, organizing pocket squares, ties, hats, gloves, watches, etc.. everything to make the actors feel like royalty.
My assignment at 4:00 is to drop off something at Jennifer Loves stdio and to escort her back to William Studio.. and to be back by 5.. i get to Jennifer Loves studio and she thinks we don't leave her studio till 5:00.. so i say lets leave at 4:40.. it will give us time.. esp if we take the express. so we take the express and get to the studio at 5:08 and i have 3 calls from Donald asking where we are.. so I blame it on subway traffic.. we did stop in the middle of our trip for subway traffic ahead. Photo shoot went off with out a hitch.. opened safety pins for the fitting and had my picture taken while doing so so if I end up in Ebony Magazine.. that would be cool! we were done a 7:45
Friday 13 - William and Donald have an early morning meeting with producers for Dreamgirls from Sweden! Then they hit the road at 10 am for fittings with a Bride and bridesmaids.. for a Saturday wedding, on Martha's vineyard. I did some cleaning, packing accessories for the show up, buying fabric and shipping boots, buying shoes and tux pins.. small errands.
Saturday 14- went to the Noguchi museum in Long Island City. it was so ZEN wonderful and quiet. I wish there were massage tables there! then we got on the Q69 and headed to Astoria to get Greek food. We had a HUGE awesome lunch at 3:40 ish and it was dinner too.. we have great leftovers.. but it was our priority to get Greek pastries! YUMMY we got a chocolate mouse which made me happy!.. on our way home we stopped and went to a beer garden to meet a friends friends.. the bouncer asked for id and he asked for my parents id.. they are 59 and 60.. are you kidding me! oh and I forgot to mention that they asked us to get rid of our food and I told them.. no one and nothing comes between me and my food.. not even beer! So we didnt go in! got back on teh train and had beer at home.
Sunday 15- woke up..don't feel well.. so spent the day in pj's and laying down.. hopefully feel better soon!
tomorrow is a new day..
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