We left early Saturday morning and headed out to Drumheller, AB to visit the Tyrrell Museum. A museum dedicated to dinosaurs, fossils and prehistoric life. The whole town of Drumheller has adopted the theme, and there are dinosaur sculptures on every corner. The museum was wonderful and very informative. The day before we left, SassyBoyfriend had read an article denouncing the Triceratops (which was proven wrong about 2 days later, oh geeze!), so we had an excellent time photographing triceratops fossils and other ceratopsians. We also went to Reptile World, where they have all sorts of reptiles from itty bitty frogs to a 13 foot alligator named Fred.
Tyrell Museum
Fancy Fossil Photography attempt
SassyBoyfriend finds a Triceratops
Miss World and the crazy eye Stegosaurus
Drumheller Museum Street Art
The next day we headed to Vulcan, AB. A town who was named Vulcan, long before Star Trek used the name for their planet of logical humanoids, but they have used the name to bring in the Trekkies (or Trekkers or whatever is PC nowadays). They have a large Enterprise sculpture, as well as a collection of Trek memorabilia and the newly opened Trekcetera Museum. Both SassyBoyfriend and I enjoy the Star Trek immensely (though I am an Original Series kinda gal and he favours the Next Generation). I was most excited to see the Trekcetera Museum, where I was told they have a wonderful collection of costumes and props from Star Trek, as well as a few other movie/television props (Christopher Reeves' Superman Cape, and some marionettes from the Thunderbirds). I was really excited to study the Trek costumes, as I have always wanted to make one for myself. Up close they are certainly different than they appear on screen. You can see all the seams, details, elastics and little pockets and places to attach your phaser and tricorder. The most interesting thing was the underpinnings worn by Jeri Ryan under her form fitting Seven of Nine costume. Most of the items there were from the Voyager series, not my favourite, but still very neat! It has inspired me to purchase a pattern from www.roddenberry.com, so I can make my own TOS dress.
Star Trek film costume
Seven of Nine's Underpinnings
Uniforms worn by the Doctor (DS9 and Voyager)
Janeway
Isolinear Chips Prop
This is a costume from Voyager, I can't remember what exactly, but the textile used was beautiful
Miss World and the Enterprise
SassyBoyfriend reading some Klingon
I also was able to pay a visit to my favourite Calgary fabric store while we were in southern Alberta and purchase some interesting notions and beautiful wool for an autumn coat. Which I will post about soon! And we also went to the Calgary Zoo. Many of their habitats are closed to the public as they are still recovering from a terrible flood that occurred this summer. We did get to see the penguins though!
Baby penguin
When we returned home I got to making a blouse that I have had sitting on my dress form half finished for over a month. I purchased some beautiful silk cotton blend floral, perfect for a summer blouse (and summer is over, so it was time to get it done)! I decided to use double fold bias tape tucked in-between the facing and front of the garment as I was sewing to create a piping effect along the front and collar. I also used it on the shirt hem as well as the sleeves to complete the look. It turned out lovely and I can't wait to wear it!
Collar detail
Look how nicely I matched up the pattern in the front
New Look pattern 6407, with a few Miss World tweaks!
I have also been working on a new mini-monster project. It is almost complete and I will post photos of it this week. It feels great to be back writing and making, I don't believe I will be taking this long a break from the blogging world again any time soon!
Thanks soo much for reading!
~Miss World
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