OLD WORLD COUTURE SKILL

Granted, I've been chronic ill and disability for more than 30 years. Despite this, but there is so much more to my world: Love and beauty grace my life, and it has always been this way. My family could revive the arts and crafts movement![1]

LaRee

My wife LaRee is a dressmaker dedicated to Old World couture skill and quality. She understands the dynamics of fabric, design and drafting, the subtleties of colour and draping, technique and theme, Her well equipped sewing room occupies half the basement in our house. Perhaps a more appropriate term is 'studio'. LaRee has taught sewing for years but her real love is imagining, doing, creating. 

We have been blessed with five grandchildren (soon to be six) for whom she can create garments with an exquisite "LaRee" flare! Our oldest grandson and  granddaughter have modelled for Sears and The Bay department stores' catalogues in Canada. 

Gabriela Aquarela
similar to LaRee's wotk

I came across the following video featuring the type of children's garments of the style LaRee loves making (often with matching doll outfit). I have seen her amazing creations with my own eyes! The video is intended to show accessories by Gabriela Aquarela. Look past the accessories and the opulent surroundings and see the garments the children are wearing. The opulence is far from most people's reality but the beauty that graces my world could inspire a new arts and crafts movement. (The only downside is I always have stray threads of my clothes). 

The wealth of my family is found in ideas and inspiration.

[Click on image below or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RusxiQEW41g&feature=youtu.be ]

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[1] The Collins American Dictionary defines the Arts and Crafts Movement as "a social and artistic movement of the second half of the 19th cent. emphasizing a return to handwork, skilled craftsmanship, and attention to design in the decorative arts, from the mechanization and mass production of the Industrial Revolution."