Looking for ways to hide your upper arms and back? Many dancers write to me and tell me that they want to hide their upper arms and back when they dress for their belly dance performances. But a lot of…
Every belly dancer has a hip scarf…. or two…. or 100 🙂 So I thought it would be really awesome if we can make more out of all these hip scarves we own! As I was brainstorming how a belly…
Over the last couple of posts, we’ve been discussing what it takes to create a beautiful, perfectly-fitting belly dance costume to wear at the next show. We saw that how a well-fitting, beautiful costume can turn a dancer into…
As belly dancers, costumes are very important for our performances, and most of us would love to have new, well-fitting costumes for our next show. We’ve seen that we CAN have new, well-fitting costumes for shows, and how it affects…
How many of us want a new, beautiful costume to wear for the next show…but when the next show comes, end up pulling out the same old costume that looks and feels just okay? …or worse, it feels awful but…
When I first visited a fabric store, I was at a loss. All I saw there were rows and rows of fabric bolts, labeled with foreign names, and I didn’t know what I was looking for. I didn’t even know…
Many years ago, I came up with this brilliant idea to make my own dance costume. I already loved dance costumes and I was excited. 😀 The only problem was, I knew nothing about costume making. I didn’t know what…
Do you get butterflies in your stomach before performance? 😨 I think most dancers do, even experienced people too. Some people may get a little nervous, but other people may get sweaty hands, shaky legs ….or even start to panic before…
In my last post, I showed you how to make easy fabric flower appliques that I used to decorate this costume 🙂 In this post, you’ll see how to make fabric rose appliques. These are also easy to make, and…