Costuming the little theatre's holiday show has taken on a life of its own (might as well take a cot up there) -- period piece (Dickens-ish) so each character has loads of items -- hats, gloves, muffs, scarfs, etc. etc. -- plus a cast of thousands (well, 30 -- but to a small community theatre costumer that equates to a cast of thousands -- plus many hard-to-fit sizes and little details like sprigs of holly to attach to hats and muffs (the kinds of things I'd like to take a hat glue gun to but can't cause we're so small we have to reuse everything, velcro for check changes, etc.
Oops, -- sorry, TMI, I know, I do go on ... and on