Inspiration for an Angel

The angel outfit for Pink Laryssa is coming along nicely. The customer asked for a white 
dress with pink accents. Fancy, please!  So when I went to Fabricland back in November 
this beautiful embroidered gauze caught my attention, so I bought some.....

I've been having issues trying to come up with a design. I hauled out many bolts of lace , and 
all my white fabrics, and started playing with them. I thought the pink flowers on the gauze 
might be a bit too bright for the main part of the dress, so decided to semi-hide them under 
a soft semi-sheer cotton & silk blend. No matter what lace and fabric combinations I tried, 
I'd always come back to this basic design....

Still not sure about what direction to go, especially with the bodice, I decided to just start and 
see what happens.  Sometimes an outfit will "make itself". I'm sure many other artists have experienced this same phenomena themselves, when an outfit has a mind of it's own, and the inspiration and direction seems to come out of nowhere, and I'm just the person putting it physically together. Well, that's exactly what's happening with this angel outfit - it's designing 
itself as if guided by some unseen force, and I'm just the hands putting it together ......

The skirts are ready to be sewn onto the bodice, and I've started the wings. Again, it's a case of the various fabrics jumping out at me - "Use Me!" - and then having to figure out how to work with them. The wings want to be made of lace enclosed between two layers of sheer white fabric. I've never made wings like that before, but I'm sure they will turn out to be perfect.

 I'm very curious to see how this outfit turns out.