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I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that my wife is a seamstress, right? She's pretty good, too--she's always loved making dresses and costumes and whatnot for our girls, so after a while (like with my photography) she started offering some up for sale on eBay and Etsy and now through her own website. She hasn't been doing a whole lot of it lately because it becomes really time-consuming if she lets it, and she doesn't want to be so busy with it that she always feels like she has to be making something, or has no time to make the things she wants to make for the girls. So she just posts things on Etsy now and then, usually after she's made it, and then it's a low-stress thing that brings in a little extra cash when she wants to.

I built her website, and we leave it up because not many people come across it and so it doesn't generate much business on its own. But now and then someone will search for something specific and find themselves there, and drop her an e-mail to inquire about ordering something, and that's cool.

So a few days ago, she mentioned to me that she'd gotten such an inquiry, and it was pretty interesting--the lady was a costume designer and/or wardrobe person in Hollywood! She was looking for a Depression-era feedsack-style dress, of which she made a few based on the Depression-years American Girl doll and movie. The lady called her today to follow up, and now one of my wife's dresses (luckily she had one already made in the right size!) is winging its way to Hollywood where it may well end up in an episode of a television show.

And not just any show, my friends. It's a new show on TNT called Lost Angels, which is a noir-style crime drama about cops and mobsters in LA in the 1940s. And whose idea is this show, and who wrote and directed the pilot episode? None other than Frank Freaking Darabont, the man who directed my all-time favorite movie, The Shawshank Redemption (and The Green Mile, which is in my top 10 as well). And for its first season he also ran a little show you also may have heard of called The Walking Dead.

So I dunno--I recognize it is ultimately a small and tangential thing. But to think that I am suddenly one degree of separation away from Mr. Darabont, of whom I consider myself a fan, is pretty cool. And to think that I might be able to watch this show in a few months and see one of my wife's dresses on the screen is also pretty damn cool. :) I will be sure to post about it if that happens!