orsinimedici1951

I am a 50 something award winning apparel/costume/millinery designer, and teacher. My work has been recognised by the RI State Council on the Arts and Humanities (2002). I have been sewing professionally for over 35 years, and 20 of those years have been periodically spent in the theater. I have owned a womens clothing boutique, and have done my share of custom work and wedding gowns. I spent 5 years working with the elderly as an Activities Director, and am Alzhiemers and Dementia certified. This became a mission as a result of losing my dear Mother to eggregious neglect in a nrsing home, after a devasting stroke. I promise to write the book from behind the scenes!!
A trip to Scotland in 1995 to attend a watercolor workshop, inspired the name of my ETSY shop, Thistle Cottage Studio. I discovered my love of millinery in 1998, while designing and and patterning the costumes for 3 shows at the Shakespearean Theater of Maine at Monmouth, when I designed the costumes for the play, for The Heiress. While designing for the original opera, Michelangelo, by our local composer/genius, Enrico Garzilli, I also discovered my family connection to the Medici of Renaissance Italy!!

craft interests: crochet, embroidery, fashion, home decorating, jewelry making, knitting, paper crafts, quilting, sewing, hatmaking,painting on silk,Nuno felting

my etsy page:
http://www.orsinimedici1951.etsy.com

Member Since: 05/24/2010