So I’ve come to the last post for my week of fav costumes blog posts/notable moments. This post will cover 2014 til now!
January 17, 2014 – FAQ FRIDAY: RENTING COSTUMES
2014 starts off with a rant-y post. Like who thinks I am just going to give a random stranger one of my costumes?!
January 23, 2014 – SEWING ROOM – FINISHED!
5 years into having my own sewing room… I finally got it to its “finished” state.
February 4, 2014 – JOHANNA PROGRESS
Getting an early start on Dragon Con! Though I didn’t get very far and this got stuck in a basket for a few months.
March 24, 2014 – MIDSOUTHCON!
A quick Saturday afternoon at MidSouthcon squeezed between other events… but finally got to wear my ceremonial Leia with Kevin’s ceremonial Luke.
April 25, 2014 – FAQ FRIDAY: 120 COSPLAY TIPS
So for the few months in 2013 when I was still stuck at my old job and it was a bad enviroment, before I got my current job… I would spend my downtime writing FAQs to post to my blog. Since I couldn’t get online or anything. I just opened up word and wrote an article on anything anybody has ever asked me. Then I just slowly parsed them out once a week, and I had enough to last quite a while.
This one wasn’t really so much an FAQ as just… 120 things I’ve learned since I’ve started doing this hobby. It was fun to write.
April 28, 2014 – BELLE PHOTOSHOOT
It’d been a longtime since I’d done a location photoshoot… and I wanted to do one with Belle. So I got into costume, we started driving and the bottom dropped out. Huge storm and it rained all day. So we went home and set up the backdrop and shot all 4 of my Belles on the backdrop instead.
May 27, 2014 – MOMOCON PICS – ROUND 1
We took Kevin down to Atlanta for Momocon! For Kevin it was to let him experience “Dragon Con Lite” LOL. I debuted my new Meg.
June 16, 2014 – SO MUCH WORK I CAN’T EVEN REMEMBER IT ALL
I pushed myself to get Peggy MOSTLY done in time for Father’s Day – I wanted to show it to my grandpa, since I’d used his WWII jacket as inspiration for the construction of my Peggy jacket.
June 26, 2014 – UGH
I can’t find an actual post about it (it may not be in my costume category…) but I had to come to terms with the fact that there was no way I was going to have time to finish my Donna Unicorn & the Wasp dress. I put it aside and made a quick Fires of Pompeii dress instead.
August 4, 2014 – JOHANNA, ETC
Busy summer. I got a kitten. I tried to pick up on Johanna where I’d left off earlier in the year while still trying to finish Anne Boleyn and other stuff, and had a rare non-Star Wars trooping event…
September 2, 2014 – LUCKY NUMBER 13
This was the first year Ash didn’t go, so it was weird. A sloppy drunk kicked K9. It was SO HOT. Bought a mini-fridge just to take with us. Hung out with Cat. New costumes were Anne Boleyn, Donna Fires of Pompeii, Johanna, Rogue as Ms Marvel and Peggy. Took a bunch of other costumes too. Did an awesome photoshoot in Johanna with Chase before the con started.
Wore Anne in the Vintage Vogue Fashion Show:
Wore Dr Forrester and got a bunch of MST3K autographs on Tom Servo. Brought my Shadowcat from 2002 back to the con for an awesome classic X-Men group. Sweated to death in Peggy.
Wore my updated TARDIS Marie Antoinette – I’d done updates to wear it in the parade, then decided not to do the parade for the first year since 2003.
October 10, 2014 – FAQ FRIDAY: PRINCESS LEIA HAIR BUNS – METHOD #2
I kept getting asked so I put together some guides on how I do different Leia hairstyles including multiple ways for the buns. I need to update these!
October 27, 2014 – GMX 2014 – PART 1
Took Kevin up to GMX again. This was the last year for us. Only new costume was Kevin’s “Aliens” costume. I also stuck him in Chase’s Time Lord.
November 25, 2014 – MCFC – PART 2
I helped judge the costume contest this year, wore TARDIS Marie Antoinette and Peggy. And even went up to con on Friday and wore Johanna!
December 18, 2014 – DRESSFORM PICS
Did a shoot of a bunch of my costumes on the dressform, on the backdrop. They didn’t turn out quite like I hoped, it took ALL day and I was supposed to be cleaning as I went and got no cleaning done. But I actually still like and use these photos regularly.
2014 COSTUME TALLY: 6 new for me, 1 updated. 1 for Kevin.
March 2, 2015 – ANNE PICTURES!
Another white backdrop shoot, this one produced one of my fav costume pics.
March 23, 2015 – MIDSOUTHCON 2015
I did a couple of panels this year – wore some old stuff. Kevin was supposed to go with us but got sick!
April 10, 2015 – A LITTLE MYSTERY
So when I did my new Belle ballgown in 2012 – Chase was supposed to do a new Beast. He got it pretty far along but there were problems and it never got finished.
May 18, 2015 – ONE COSTUME DOWN!!
Look at me, already having one costume totally done for Dcon.
May 29, 2015 – A FEW DECISIONS
I got called up for jury duty (in the wake of my grandpa’s funeral, no less), and decided I NEEDED to have something small I could take with me to work on while I sat in the jury pool room. (Like how I did SunDowner 6 for the entire week last time I had jury duty…) I decided to get started on my Donna Unicorn & the Wasp again. Pulled it out, decided to start afresh, cut a new front panel, tweaked my guides, got them transferred over, started work, and then found out I couldn’t take scissors into the jury pool room. Well I’m in too deep now.
June 8, 2015 – QUEEN AELSA & MEMPHIS COMIC EXPO PICS!
Sooooo I was finishing Aelsa for MCX but I had the dates mixed up and it ended up being a week earlier than I thought. I mean, we didn’t miss it, I managed to finish Aelsa in time, but we were only able to go up for a short time in between helping my grandma move.
Also, why did I make something so obscure for a hometown con? LOL
July 8, 2015 – IT’S DOOOOOONE
Finished all the beading on the front of the Donna dress. Still had the cape to-do, and the whole thing to put together, but… YAY! Honestly this is the project that gave me the boost of confidence that I could handle Bespin Leia.
September 9, 2015 – DRAGON CON
Our last “normal” Dragon Con (at least for now.) Wore Donna in the vintage vogue fashion show!
Wore Bert Macklin and Janet Snakehole a whole lot. Had a panic attack in the pink georgian gown because I was just too hot and there were too many people.
Lived in Captain Marvel because it was comfy. New Leia costume was too hot to wear long. Took Johanna and Alyss and didn’t wear either of them, it was too hot and crowded. Notice how much I said hot and crowded? Yeah, by the end of the weekend I was pretty much done with it.
November 3, 2015 – HALLOWEEN YAY!
Finally got to wear my Anne Boleyn with the new french hood I’d made – I’d intended it for Dcon but forgot my underskirt at home 🙁 Went to visit my grandma in costume, we all went in costuem to see Harry Potter at the imax, fun.
November 23, 2015 – MCFC!
So I was given a bolt of green fabric, decided to make a Merida to sell, ended up keeping it. Typical! Wore it to MCFC for an afternoon.
November 30, 2015 – THANKSGIVING AND PHOTOSHOOT!
HUGE photoshoot day! We shot 12 costumes on the backdrop!
December 15, 2015 – MEMPHIS GRIZZ PICS
Another Memphis Grizz troop! This time around I had my new buns on that finally match my roots LOL
December 21, 2015 – TFA PICS!
Back in the era of having Star Wars openings again!! We did not get invited to troop, so I just wore my costume by myself.
2015 COSTUME TALLY: 7 for me, 1 for Chase.
January 19, 2016 – BESPIN LEIA PROGRESS
It’s finally time to dig in and DO this thing I’ve been saying I’m going to do for a decade! Got new fabric, tweaked my design… and then didn’t do anything else on it for another year.
February 1, 2016 – SOUTHERN FRIED PICS
New little con in Jackson, went up and stayed with my grandparents, took Kevin, made him a poncho to go over his ANH Luke.
February 8, 2016 – BELLE COSTUMES
While I generally do a couple of theater projects a year, I usually don’t post much about them, but in this case I felt it was relevant – made a Belle village dress and ballgown for a production of Beauty & the Beast Jr! I tried to document as much as possible to help anybody else making one. (And finished!)
March 10, 2016 – DISGUST UPDATES
I let myself get derailed on Bespin Leia by deciding to do my Disgust dress designs by hand.
March 21, 2016 – TWO POSTS IN ONE DAY??
This ended up being a crazy day and we had to just kinda squeeze MidSouthCon in at the beginning; we both had hair appointments in the afternoon and Chase’s birthday dinner that night. But I wore Disgust and loved how it came out. We did a white backdrop shoot with it before the con so I wouldn’t have to paint myself again just for a shoot.
May 13, 2016 – I GIVE UP
I was making an Edith costume for myself, a Disneybound Leia, and a new tunic for Kevin’s Luke… and at the last minute I messed up the dyeing of my Edith costume and had to quickly buy more fabric and remake the whole dress part D:
June 2, 2016 – LAST ROUND OF PHOTOS!
This was our 2nd WDW trip of our year as Annual Passholders, and we took Kevin (it was a surprise, he had no idea!), and we went to Megacon again for the first time since 2009 and I wore my new Edith.
June 27, 2016 – EDITH PHOTOSHOOT
Location shoot with Edith! I love these!
August 8, 2016 – MONDAYS
After the previous year’s Dragon Con, we decided to take a break for a year. We decided to go to Disney World for a week instead (Trip #4 of our year of being APs!). But since we had to drive through Atlanta anyway….. we ended up staying with Cat in her room and doing a day of Dragon Con our way down. I only made one new costume – my Tightrope Walker.
August 22, 2016 – REN FAIRE, BOREDOM, AND PACKING
Took Kevin up to the Ren Faire on a particularly rainy, humid day. My Merida curls started off perfect, within an hour I looked like a drowned rat.
September 14, 2016 – DRAGONCON PICS PART 2, TIGHTROPE WALKER UPDATES
I took 2 costumes to Dragon Con – we got in around noon on Saturday, I wore the Tightrope Walker all afternoon, switched to Edith at night, had a late dinner at Sear, went to bed at 10, up super early the next morning to drive on to Disney.
October 24, 2016 – A WHOLE LOT OF STUFF
MCX was in October this year and I decided to scrap together a “new” costume, made up of different parts of old costumes – a Galadriel costume!
November 4, 2016 – MORE DISNEY PHOTOS, AND EDITH SLEEVES
Went went back to Disney (Trip #5 of 6) over Halloween weekend and FINALLY got to go to MNNSHP. I wore my updated Tightrope Walker (new wig and parasol), and updated Kevin’s Link. Chase was the Maelstrom guy!
November 30, 2016 – MCFC PHOTOS
I lost my phone at MCFC 🙁 But I did win best Master in the costume contest – my first time entering a contest since 2009? Not bad.
December 16, 2016 – ROGUE ONE
Mom and I tag-teamed a simplified version of Galinda’s Popular dress from Wicked for a theater project. I finally dug into Bespin Leia again. Went to see Rogue One!
2016 COSTUME TALLY: 5 new for me. 3 theater dresses. 1 for Kevin, 1 for Chase.
January 3, 2017 – HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I let myself get a little distracted from Bespin by putting together a quick Dolores costume.
January 30, 2017 – SOUTHERN FRIED PICS! (AND DOLORES)
Went up to Southern Fried Comic Con again and debuted my Dolores costume.
February 14, 2017 – MY LIFE IS NOTHING BUT EMBROIDERY
Getting ready for Visioncon, and spending pretty much every waking moment embroidering at this point. I’d changed schedules at work so I could come home an hour earlier and embroider til Chase got home, eat dinner, back to embroidery until bed. Weekends were nothing but. Didn’t go anywhere, or do anything, but embroider.
March 1, 2017 – VISIONCON!!
I was invited to be a guest at Visioncon! It was so much fun!! While I wasn’t able to make anything new, I did try to bring everything I was most proud of, and I tried to switch out costumes at often as possible. Did a panel, judged the costume contest, sold prints at my table! It was quite an experience and not one I’m likely to have again.
And I was working on Bespin Leia while at my table, haha.
March 17, 2017 – IT’S DOOOOOOONE
I will always remember St Patrick’s Day 2017 as the day I put the last stitch of embroidery on Bespin Leia. Of course then I still had to make everything else…
April 18, 2017 – TRIP PHOTOS – ROUND 2
In April we FINALLLLLLLY, after 12 years, got to go back to a Star Wars celebration. And since it was in Orlando (and Kevin’s AP was still good!) we did a few days at Disney World and one day at Celebration. I realized afterward we should have done it the other way around, we were exhausted by the day the con rolled around. And we should have done 2 con days instead of 1.
But I finally got to wear it <3
May 3, 2017 – JOHN WILLIAMS TRIBUTE!
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra did a John Williams tribute, and invited the 501st/RL out to participate. I needed to get Amidala wearable, so there was no rest after getting back from Celebration – cleaned up the cape and made a new hairpiece and tiara!
I got to cross the stage during Duel of the Fates. And Kevin got to walk across as Luke at the end with everybody else!
May 10, 2017 – OMG
I won the Custom Wig Company’s May the 4th contest!!!!!!
June 5, 2017 – YEAH, GO TO JACKSON, GO COMB YOUR HAIR
Another Star Wars night at the Jackson Generals, and this time I got to debut my new Leia buns – changed up the method after doing the same thing for so many years, and so much happier with it!
July 25, 2017 – IN WHICH I THINK ABOUT DRAGONCON
Dragon Con was a bit different last year – Chase didn’t go, it was just me, Ash and Cath. I made 4 new costumes.
September 6, 2017 – DRAGONCON 2017
We did Friday-Monday at Dcon. Got in around noon Friday and left super early monday. I still took too many costumes. Wore my TFA Leia with my amazing Custom Wig Company wig.
Also wore my new Medieval Leia and Mon Mothma. Pranced around in Bespin Leia. Got super drunk in Trillian. Got to be part of a huge Star Wars group in my old Funeral Padme. Met Billie Piper and Alton Brown.
Wore my new Lucy and fell down a lot. (on purpose)
Tried to take a gazillion selfies with people to send to chase to make him jealous, went home already planning next year…
September 22, 2017 – 8 MILES OUTTA MEMPHIS AND I GOT NO SPARE
Asked to do a white backdrop shoot for my birthday so I could get better photos of my new Dcon costumes (since all I had was iphone pics).
November 8, 2017 – ANNE PICS!!
Made my own fun for Halloween. Went and did a location shoot with Anne, did a white backdrop shoot with a bunch of old Halloween-related costumes.
November 20, 2017 – MCFC, ‘TIS THE SEASON, A LOST ID, LOST POWER, AND LOST MY MIND
Took Kevin up to MCFC for a few hours Saturday, I wore Bespin Leia, Kevin wore Harry Potter. He lost his ID, but thankfully it was found and turned in!
December 15, 2017 – THE LAST JEDI
One more outing for my 2006 Princess Leia – she was officially retired after that. But I’m working on a new one now!
2017 COSTUME TALLY: 6 new for me, 1 swimsuit for me, 1 commission.
January 2, 2018 – HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Starting the year out with a new TFA Leia underdress and a new ANH Leia dress.
Currently working on a Tinkerbell and Peter Pan for MidSouthCon, a new Amidala, and some other stuff… stay tuned to see what’s next.