I know 2005-2012 seems like a HUGE chunk of time. But in this space there were times where I didn’t post much — blogger stopped working regularly, we got married, moved twice, so in some cases posts were sparse. But let’s get on with it — my fav posts/memories/moments of 2005-2012.
JANUARY 16, 2005 – MY NEW SERGER! AND QUI-GON UPDATES
I bought my serger!! And I still don’t completely know how to use it. Ha.
January 23, 2005 – WHEN IT WAS BAD
Our Hobbes was killed. I honestly still can’t even linger on thoughts about this for too long, it still hurts. He was the best cat.
February 12, 2005 – WHEN KEVIN FOUND HIS TRUE CALLING
Kevin the Vampire Slayer
April 3, 2005 – MIDSOUTHCON 2005 PICS!
Return to MidSouthCon and the one time I finished a costume so early I was able to wear it to an earlier convention?! Also the first time I met my now-husband but it didn’t register at the time.
May 2, 2005 – STAR WARS CELEBRATION 3 PICS!
Our trip to C3… the con itself was fun, but the waiting in line in the freezing rain for hours to get in was not. Dad made an awesome Qui-Gon tho.
May 5, 2005 – WHEN I WROTE A HAIKU
Another round of Review Committee. End of April-Early May was CRAZY. I was finishing costumes for Celebration, a new play poster, going to Celebration, finals the week I got back and then had review committee all in the space of 2 weeks.
May 22, 2005 – REVENGE OF THE SITH EVENT PICS! AND PLANS
Revenge of the Sith release week was full of events! And we camped in line for the midnight show and got on the news.
Ma 27, 2005 – WHEN I MADE MOM MAD
I got a tattoo.
July 22, 2005 – KESTREL
We got a puppy!
August 24, 2005 – WHEN I DIDN’T WATCH FIREFLY
Guess what? I still haven’t watched Firefly.
September 7, 2005 – DRAGONCON 2005 PICS!
Another year another Dragon Con, this one on the tails of Hurricane Katrina. Despite the stress over getting there this ended up being THE BEST CON EVER.
October 11, 2005 – A FEW HORRORFEST PICS
Went to Ho’Fest in Nashville. Went to see Serenity that night after the con… mostly just so I could hang out with Chase. And I bought 2 Star Wars costumes for Indy that CRACKED ME UP. I ended up having to take down the Leia one because people kept stealing it.
November 9, 2005 – MY BABIESSSS. PLUS HORRORFEST AND HALLOWEEN 2005 PICS
The dogs had a photoshoot. I went to Nashville again and Chase and I went on our first date though notice I don’t mention that part in my blog post. I was being suuuper cagey.
January 1, 2006 – WHEN RANDALL CALLED ME
WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHO RANDALL WAS
February 15, 2006 – WHEN KEV GAVE ME A VALENTINE’S DAY CARD
The best.
June 6, 2006 – WSMI AT COSI 2006 PICS!
Ash, Chase and I flew up to Columbus to do the opening weekend of the WSMI exhibit. I debuted my new Leia! This was so much fun.
July 16, 2006 – VADER SNEAK PEEK!
Chase’s almost done Vader costume. AKA the costume he asked me to help with before we were dating and I said yes because I liked him and then I was stuck sewing a Vader suit. LOL
By the way, 2006 was literally just nothing but one costume construction day, trooping event or con after another. I was in Nashville pretty much every other weekend working on stuff or doing a 501st event, then Chase would come down the next weekend for more of the same. There really wasn’t much else that went on this year.
July 24, 2006 – WELL KIDS
Our last San Diego Comic Con. The con itself had kinda grown long in the tooth, but the drama with the hotel and then getting stuck in Cincinnati on the way home was the final straw.
September 7, 2006 – DRAGONCON 2006 SUNDAY PICS!
Our first Dragon Con together! Also first time driving there so I was able to take WAY more costumes.
November 21, 2006 – WHEN CHASE MOVED
Chase moved to Memphis! No more back and forth to Nashville!
December 31, 2006 – IN OTHER NEWS
Chase proposed!
2007 was a mass of wedding posts, planning drama, and more cons and costumes of course.
March 20, 2007 – I HAVE A DRESS!!! 😀
Got my wedding dress. It was way too big LOL
April 1, 2007 – HEART OF AN EMPIRE PREMIERE
This was a weird weekend. Highlight was having Chase, fully dressed as Vader, sit in the open trunk of my Beetle while I drove him across a parking lot.
July 22, 2007 – OH, AND MY RING!
Finally got my engagement ring!
September 9, 2007 – SUNDAY @ DRAGONCON 2007
Another fab Dragon Con and I got to do my dream costume, Kingdom Come Wonder Woman.
September 28, 2007 – WEBSITE FINISHED!
I overhauled the site… to a design that stayed there for YEARS. But I’ll get to that on design day.
October 25, 2007 – SUNDAY PARTHENON SHOOT
Dream costume, dream shoot…
December 16, 2007 – WOW
The day the hot water heater busted at Nana’s. INSANITY.
December 25, 2007 – MORE HOGWARTS ROBES PICS
I made the girls Hogwarts Robes for Christmas!
March 30, 2008 – MIDSOUTHCON 2008 PICS
We had a little engagement party at MidSouthCon and our friend made us this amazing cake!
April 25, 2008 – GOING TO GET MARRIED, BRB
The day before the big day! We got married 4/26.
May 15, 2008 – HONEYMOON PICS!
We had a nice honeymoon in Mexico!
June 4, 2008 – WE ARE MOVED IN!
Our first apartment!
July 1, 2008 – OCD WONDERLAND (AKA MY COSTUME CLOSET)
The amazing walk-in closet I had dedicated to costumes at the apartment. Man I miss this.
October 9, 2008 – INDY THE WONDER DOG
I made this all out of scraps… and she hated it, LOL.
Annnnnnnd then hardly much of anything of note – or even many posts – from late 2008 through 2009. Early 2009 I had the whole anemia scare which derailed me quite a bit. But…
March 1, 2009 – HELLO FROM FLORIDA…
Our first Disney World trip together!!!
March 26, 2009 – BOX FULL OF GEEKERY.
I STILL HAVE WAY TOO MANY OF THESE
March 28, 2009 – MEGACON & PHOTOSHOOT PIC DUMP
In March 2009 we did our first ever white backdrop photoshoot – because I wanted to recreate the Sally Jupiter pin-up from Watchmen. Little did we know it would become a THING.
April 9, 2009 – INDIANA THE GENIUS DOG
I still talk about this. Of course she never did anything like this again.
June 8, 2009 – HOUSE HUNTING AGAIN
Our apartment lease was up in June, we were trying to house hunt and didn’t want to get locked into another year’s lease (they wouldn’t do any less, no month-to-month). Ended up moving in with family until we could close on our house, so summer ’09 was chaotic.
September 8, 2009 – BACK HOME! A FEW DCON 09 PICS
Dragon Con was great and I did my Anne Boleyn costume which was the first historical project for me.
November 29, 2009 – HOUSE
9/22 we closed on our house FINALLY. Spent a couple of months repainting, putting down new floors, and unpacking.
January 6, 2010 – PRINCESS A DAY
Towards the end of 2009 I started doing a little series of artwork of Disney Princesses. It had me posting a lot again for the first time in a year, so I decided to set a 365 Goal: to post a drawing a day (ostensibly a princess but didn’t have to be.)
February 2, 2010 – TESTING, 1, 2, 3
Blogger discontinued posting to outside websites, which is what I’d been using since 2001! So I switched over to my first wordpress.
March 24, 2010 – TODAY’S ART… AMIDALA BLACK SENATE GOWN
I ran out of Disney royalty and switched to Star Wars royalty. I did pretty good keeping up with this everyday for a while. It fell off once I got into Dragon Con mode in the summer.
April 8, 2010 – GRIZZLIES GAME TROOP PICS
This was one of the coolest events we’ve done… I got to shoot t-shirt cannon backstage (was gonna get to do it during a time out but it jammed, so I just threw t-shirts. I did get to keep the shirt I shot out of the cannon tho.)
April 19, 2010 – DISNEYLAND 2010 RECAP
Chase, Ash, Kevin, Scott and I all traveled to Anaheim for Anaheim Comic Con and Disneyland! And a little LA sight-seeing. We stayed at the same hotel we stayed at for Anime Expo back in 2003, too! It was a really fun trip.
May 2, 2010 – STUCK! AT MTAC 2010
Another flashback to 2003 at getting stuck at Katsucon because of weather – this time we got stuck at MTAC because of flooding. We had to stay an extra night and then take a funky long way home. This was also our last trip to MTAC – we realized we’d kinda outgrown it.
May 25, 2010 – THE COSTUME CLOSET IS FINISHED
Tackling the huge task of organizing my costume closet in the new house.
July 16, 2010 – OMG SHOES
My first Costume FAQ post!
August 4, 2010 – ALYSS RUFFLES, MIGRAINES, ETC
After 4 years of migraines I finally got prescribed something for it. And it worked!!!
March 6, 2011 – SEATTLE TRIP, ECCC
Chase and I went to Seattle for ECCC and some sight-seeing – since he used to live there!
March 28, 2011 – MIDSOUTHCON 2011 WRAP-UP!
I got to be a Guest of Honor at MidSouthCon! How cool!
July 15, 2011 – HARRY POTTER MIDNIGHT SHOW
The last HP midnight show 🙁
July 20, 2011 – I TRIED TO SEW WITH MY FEET AND IT DIDN’T WORK OUT SO WELL
I got half a sewing needle stuck in my foot. I had to have surgery to remove it.
August 13, 2011 – IM IN LOVE… MARIE ANTOINETTE FINISHED
This should really be saved for the costumes post in a couple of weeks…. but omg this costume. I was so in love.
September 13, 2011 – DRAGONCON 2011 COSTUME RECAP
This year was so fun.
January 20, 2012 – DISNEY WORLD 2012 RECAP!!
Our first Disney World trip just the 2 of us. We did WDW in 2009, then Disneyland in 2010, skipped 2011. We decided as a Christmas present we’d do a short weekend in January.
April 23, 2012 – EUREKA SPRINGS PICS
Even though I posted pretty regularly there was nothing of note between Disney and our anniversary months later LOL We went to Eureka Springs!
May 4, 2012 – AVENGERS MIDNIGHT SHOW!
This feels like one of the last big midnight shows we did. All the big premieres start at 7 now and there’s no real line or people dressing up, blah blah.
June 22, 2012 – PICTURES OF THINGS
Only including this one because it has absolutely my fav pic of Indy.
June 30, 2012 – A FAQ: HOW DO YOU WEAR SO MANY COSTUMES?
I made this so I could point people to it when they keep asking me this question. The answer: I actually really don’t do anything at cons EXCEPT wear costumes and I like it that way.
August 16, 2012 – DRAGONCON SCHEDULE
There’s really nothing of note in this post – I mostly just shared it to say I was INSANE that summer and made 4 Time Lord robes, 3 Sanderson Sisters, a brand new Belle ballgown, a complicated Batgirl suit and cape, Wasp, Fluttershy, and an updated Emma Frost. That was a freaking lot of work.
December 25, 2012 – CHRISTMAS 2012
We should have made the one of Indy and K9 our Christmas card.
Tomorrow will cover 2013 through today!