Here’s my last post for this week’s birthday stuff! It’s my fav posts/moments/memories of 2013 through 2018. And some of my not so fav; but they were important anyway.
February 19, 2013 – WE ARE HOME ! DISNEY WORLD RECAP
We enjoyed our solo trip in 2012 so much we decided to do it again in 2013.
April 29, 2013 – HOME FROM C2E2
Since Chicago is halfway between Chase’s family and Memphis, we decided to meet up in Chicago, have a little vacation with them and go to C2E2! Kevin enjoyed the deep dish pizza.
June 11, 2013 – BLARGH.
What a horrible week. I drowned myself in sewing.
July 7, 2013 – CALVIN
Our cat Calvin passed away at nearly 20 years old. Miss this old man.
Can I just note here that one day I’m going to delete all these “30 Days of Dragon Con” posts? They are so repetitious and nobody cares! LOL Maybe in another year I’ll dump them.
August 9, 2013 – UPDATES & PICS
For some reason that summer I kept taking pics of Gollum “helping” me which culminated in a vine of Gollum getting ready for Dragon Con. And I actually won a Dragon Con contest with the silly thing, got a print and a lanyard clip-on!
October 1, 2013 – YES
Quit my job I’d been at since 2002. It had been a hell hole since late 2012 and I was constantly stressed. Started my new job right away. Such a relief, though I still miss the “good old days” at the old job.
October 29, 2013 – IT’S HALLOWEEN – TIME FOR SPOOKY STORIES
I love to retell these stories every Halloween. I literally do not know HOW many times I’ve retold these stories on my blog; I’ve edited it down to where it’s just this post, I think.
December 19, 2013 – CHRISTMAS CARDS
We rarely send Christmas Cards, but when looking for Disney Christmas stuff on ebay one day I came across these vintage Disney company christmas cards – I decided to redraw it as us. I was really happy with how they turned out.
March 17, 2014 – BACK FROM DISNEY WORLD
My parents, Chase and I went on an epic Disney trip. My parents hadn’t been since we went back in 2001. And we got to stay at Bay Lake Tower!!!
June 19, 2014 – WAH
High School memories. I don’t know WHAT made me think to post this but I do love this story. That teacher was an ass and I’m so glad I had that ace up my sleeve.
July 16, 2014 – FLICKR THOUGHTS
I hosted my photos on flickr since 2005 and over the years it got… uncomfortable. I finally left the site later in the year, switched to smugmug.
July 23, 2014 – I GOT NOTHING
My mom found an abandoned kitten. Couldn’t find a home for it. We took her on a “trial” basis, LOL.
October 6, 2014 – BACK FROM VEGAS
I had to go on a work trip for my job! But I got to see the Beatles Love show while I was there and it was amazing.
October 17, 2014 – FAQ FRIDAY: PRINCESS LEIA BUNS – METHOD 1
I did a whole bunch of Leia hair step-by-step guides to show how I used to do my Leia hair. I still get a ton of questions about these! And most of them at this point are pretty out-dated so I have plans to redo them in the near future.
December 30, 2014 – INDY
I lost a little piece of myself on 12/29/14.
In fact in the space of a year we lost several loved ones. It was a hard time. I did post about them at the time, but I’ve since hidden the posts since I try not to get too personal on my blog anymore… but Indy had been a part of all this from the beginning, so I couldn’t gloss over it.
February 11, 2015 – DIIIIISNEY WOOOOOOOOORLD
And our first time going to Harry Potter land at Universal, too! (Also the first time we drove. We rented a car since the bug wouldn’t have made it, and it was fun!)
May 29, 2015 – A FEW DECISIONS
Jury duty again?! But it goaded me into picking up my Donna Unicorn & the Wasp project again.
June 2, 105 – A NEW CAR! *CHEER*
I traded the bug in. The guy at the dealership said, “I saw your old car. You deserve a new one.” I got a Honda Fit. I do miss the bug tho! (but not the insane repair bills)
September 9, 2015 – DRAGONCON
The last “real” Dragon Con.
December 1, 2015 – #MOUSEEARSFORAYEAR
So Chase and I decided, for 2016, we would cut back on the cons/costumes and, as a Christmas present, buy WDW annual passes and do multiple trips. THE BEST!!
December 21, 2015 – TFA PICS
Here we are doing a Star Wars opening night together again! We even went to IHOP afterwards just like old times… and recreated a pic from the AOTC premiere.
March 28, 2016 – BACK FROM DISNEY
Our first trip as APs!
May 31, 2016 – DISNEY TRIP W/KEVIN – PART 1!!
The BEST Disney trip was when we did a combo Megacon/Disney trip… and surprised Kevin. He knew we were going to a convention but thought we weren’t doing Disney because it was too expensive. We surprised him as we drove under the sign and he got to open the box with the magic bands. It was so much fun.
August 22, 2016 – REN FAIRE, BOREDOM, AND PACKING
I FINALLY GOT TO GO TO A REN FAIRE AFTER A DECADE OF TRYING
September 13, 2016 – DISNEY WORLD TRIP REPORT/PHOTOS PART 1
The Disney and the Dragon Con. We were initially going to completely skip Dragon Con this year and do a week long Disney trip, but Cath said we could stay in her room on our way down to Orlando – so we did at day at Dcon. Best week ever? I think so.
October 6, 2016 – DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
I went through a ton of old back up discs and files. Found some weird stuff. Ended up reuploading stuff like the stupid LOTR comic after many years. And then…
October 19, 2016 – LIVING IN THE PAST
I spent pretty much the entire month of October time traveling – I reuploaded all my old blogger posts here. Dug up ALL of my old art I could find. Reuploaded all of SunDowner and everything. Making my site complete again for the first time since… 2010 when I switched to wordpress?
October 24, 2016 – A WHOLE LOT OF STUFF
And I wanted to see how different it would look if I drew SunDowner now, so…
November 7, 2016 – A GIGANTIC DUMP OF ARTWORK
And then to top it off, I went and dug all my old sketchbooks out of my parents’ attic and uploaded all THAT, too.
November 21, 2016 – A WEIRD WEEKEND
I lost my phone at MCFC 🙁 IT’S STILL A FRESH WOUND AND I’M INCLUDING IT HERE
November 28, 2016 – ONE MORE DISNEY TRIP REPORT
Our 6th trip of 2016 and our last as annual passholders!
January 13, 2017 – SHE’S A TOTAL BLAM BLAM
Finally got a decent start on Bespin Leia.
March 1, 2017 – VISIONCON
I got to be a guest at VisionCon and it was amaaaaaaaaazing.
April 5, 2017 – IT’S DONE!!
After trying since 2006, I finally finished Bespin Leia.
April 17, 2017 – HOME AGAIN
And after 12 years we finally got to go to another Star Wars celebration. Another combined Disney/Universal trip and we took Kevin again!
September 6, 2017 – DRAGONCON 2017
My first Dragoncon without Chase since 2005?! He stayed home and had the house to himself while Ash, Cath and I relived DragonCon 2003.
December 28, 2017 – SIMS PETS AND STAR WARS STUFF
Since I posted my very first Sims post from 2001 in the first birthday blog bash post on Tuesday — here’s the most recent one just to complete the circle.
December 29, 2017 – INDY
I still can’t write a full memorial post, but I did collect my fav pictures into one post and tried to put them in order; for the 3 year anniversary of her passing.
And I hate to end on a sad note but that’s pretty much the last notable post I have!!
Next week’s posts will be my favourite ART from over the years. Stay tuned!
I loved this trip down memory lane. I found you in about 2004 and watching your costume growth helped keep me going with my cosplay and sewing. Now I mostly do fashion sewing and knitting, but you have been my inspiration to keep going, no matter how many people try to tellme I need a better hobby.