A Source for the Bling
When designing the Queen Of Margonia costume, one thing was evident to me from the beginning: I want bling. This thing needs jewels and lots of them. Now obviously I can't afford to use the real thing, so I went shopping for rhinestones and glass jewels. As anyone who's ever shopped for them knows, they are not cheap, especially the largish stones I want to use. One source kept coming up in my searches: AliExpress.com. So I checked it out. According to Wikipedia, "AliExpress.com is an online retail service made up of small businesses in China and elsewhere offering products to international online buyers. It is owned by Alibaba. ...It facilitates small businesses to sell to customers all over the world, and, just like Amazon,...