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= Hi, All, = Welcome to this year's e-portfolio. It's obviously different than last year's, but I've tried to make it accessible for any interested readers. It's been a busy year, but I've made it work (Tim Gunn has a great philosophy)!

Enjoy!

Gretchen

. . .and Tim Gunn, our friend from //Project Runway?// Tim would be positively giddy had he witnessed the transformation in these costumes. They were once plain, dusty-rose-colored dance costumes. They were transformed by the magic of sequins, a sewing machine, and good ol' needle and thread: bedazzling and blingification courtesy of Gretchen. My daughter is in the front row, first from the left; she is an 8th grader and her classmates are 8th and 9th graders at Academy of Dance in Yankton. This is their character/folk costume. I also lost any recognizable fingerprints courtesy of the glue gun used to make those groovy floral hairpieces. . .just had to share after being up to my elbows in sequins and spandex for a few weeks--weeks that coincided with me trying to finish everything for our workshop.