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OMG, it’s my birthday today! After a challenging day at Satin Stitches, I had to stop at the Post Office to drop off some eBay packages before I could go home, change, and go out with my husband, to my favorite Minneapolis restaurant for dinner. The restaurant is called Erte`, named after one of my [...]

  It’s the Semi-Finals on Dancing With the Stars this week.  When you look at dancing skills, you know that we are missing one of the best couples with Lil’ Kim and Derek being voted off.  But by now, we know that Reality television shows are popularity contests, after all.

I was especially excited to see this week’s show, as part of the fun, was to see what the Stars designed-with Randall, for their dance partners and themselves. Last week we got to see Randall with funny bits alluding to what was to come for the costumes. He seemed to be shaking his head a [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. As I mentioned in my blog about last week’s costuming, this week, the costumes are not as dramatic and sophisticated. The All-American Jive stirs images of the 1940’s and 1950’s, which were not the most romantic of historic periods. Women were put to work in factories, replacing their men [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. Last week was glitzier and more sophisticated than what I’m seeing this week. My biggest remembrance from Week 5 was that the costuming was generally really beautiful and sophisticated. Probably, because showcased dancers, are beautiful and sophisticated. This week, with the All-American Jive and the Sensual Rumba, I’m not [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. Dancing for Week 4 was both fabulous and disappointing. The score of 10 was awarded-the first one given this season-to Lil’ Kim and then, a perfect score of 30 was the judge’s score for Gilles and Cheryl.

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. I received an email this last week, from a Randall Designs big-time fan! She chastised me for seemingly not knowing who designed all the luscious costumes. She felt I was not giving enough credit to the costume designer for ‘Dancing With the Stars’. She hadn’t read my very first [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. So is the reason that Edyta wears such extremely sexy dance costumes because that is her style, or is it because the costume designers create this style for her?

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. Season 8 of Dancing With the Stars is underway.  Many dancers, and many of us wannabe dancers are loving it!  We love the drama, the costumes, the dancing, and did I say-the COSTUMES?  Well, most of them, anyway.