life goes on man

First off I went ahead and added Arwen to my portfolio even though I don’t have pics of me actually in it yet.

I did take a video Friday:

I took a few days off sewing after finishing Arwen, and this weekend finally got back into stuff for Eliza. Started disassembling the curtains which was easier than I expected – I have 5 ready to go and 1 more to take apart.

I did another dye test – the loops on the back of the curtains for the rods to go through have been great for snipping off to throw into dye.

I had my fingers crossed that RIT’s Teal would work fine without needing mixing. I was doubtful when I first put the swatch in the dye, it looked like it was to blue – but once I rinsed it and dried it, I was really happy with it. Yay! I really didn’t feel like mixing dyes right now – especially since I’m going to be dying this outside in 50 degree weather. It’ll go faster without mixing. I’m hoping to get the last panel taken apart tonight and maybe dyeing it tomorrow? But it could wait til the weekend if I needed to. I still need to get the pattern out and some scrap fabric and experiment with the bodice modifications before I cut into the silk.

I also need to figure out what kind of skirt support I need. I don’t think either my split bum pads or pocket hoops will work, I think I need something new – I think the bum pillow from Simplicity 8162 might work? Might need some mods, may go ahead and make it and see what it looks like over another skirt and then make mods from there. Either way I have plenty to do before I HAVE to dye (that’s me telling myself to calm down, I don’t have to dye it today. But I do want to do it before it gets any colder.)

Anyway, here’s some more Arwen pics I took for the portfolio page:

I took Friday off. I still had 10 vacation days left for this year and if I don’t use them, they just get paid out in January. (I wish they’d roll over but alas) I decided to blow 5 of them this month – taking off every Friday plus 12/23 and 12/31.

I had no plans for Friday originally but then decided I wanted to record a tiktok of all my Leia costumes. I dunno why. My Star Wars stuff hasn’t done well lately – I mean TBH NONE of my stuff has done well lately (engagement has been shit since I joined/left the creator fund) but I won’t go into that rant again. But I wanted to make the video, it made me happy to do it and see the finished product and that’s really all that matters. I got everything ready Thursday night…


First time wearing my new ceremonial Leia necklace from Cassandra Emm! It’s so beautiful!


Also no shoes because all the videos were from about mid-thigh up.


I’ve got to remake this suit


I was real iffy on wearing this. It’s been 8 years, 15lbs and 2 cup sizes since I last wore this. But I managed to get a couple of decent clips.


Need to remake this before Hoth. I have stuff for the new shirt and new poncho. Need to find fabric for pants and vest.


Did this without the wig for the first time ever. Figured I only did the wig in 2015 because my hair was too red for all of my extensions, so since my hair is darker now might as well try it with extensions. Worked ok but I like that I can pull the wig down and make my fivehead look a little shorter.


This was hard to get on by myself.

I took a break after shooting these to eat lunch.. was only “gone” about 45 minutes and when I came back the light had totally changed and everything I filmed after lunch looked completely different than before. I monkeyed around with the settings for like an hour trying to get it back to what it looked like before lunch to no avail. I was so frustrated I ended up forgetting to take pics of everything I had left. So I missed taking pics of Jedi Leia, Boushh, and TFA, Crait and Raddus… kinda bummed me out I forgot.

But, here’s the video:

I did a second one that’s slightly longer to another song I’ll prob post later. Might as well get 2 videos out of all that work.

Also I posted this on reels last night just as an experiment. Haven’t really wanted to use reels. It immediately got taken down for the song. But I went in and just put the same song back in using instagram’s music and that was fine? So weird.

Saturday night we had plans… we picked up Kevin to go look at christmas lights! We’ve been wanting to do that anyway and to get kevin out of the house.

This house that had 7 inflatable unicorns was my fave:

About halfway through Kevin started groaning and I knew what was coming – he was getting motion sick. We’ve had so many issues with that at disney the past few years. We stopped at walgreens and got him some anti-nausea ginger gum which didn’t really seem to help. We cut it short and took him home. Warned his mom that he’d gotten a little motion sick. She texted about 5 minutes after we dropped him off and said he’d just thrown up. Welp… guess we won’t be doing that again.
If anybody has anti-nausea/motion sickness tips that don’t involve dramamine I’m all ears. The pressure-point wristbands worked pretty good at disney last trip, and I would’ve looked for them for this (I think they’re still in our park bag), but didn’t think an hour in the car would be enough to trigger it. Poor kid.

Sunday we did some yardwork, decorated the outside of the house for Christmas…


And Luna got mad at me again. Not as bad. But it seems like it’s happening every weekend weirdly? Saturday she yowled at me a couple of times after I stepped on a string of christmas lights, which hurt so I said “shit!” or something (assuming I’d broken the lights and had glass everywhere but I didn’t). Sehe didn’t like that but she calmed down quick.

Sunday we moved our old couch into the garage for our upcoming yard sale, and while we were maneuvering through the door, she came leaping out into the garage. Which freaked me out (because we had the whole garage door open) and I yelled at her to get back in the house. She hissed me and thankfully ran back inside. But she was fine after that, not mad at me. I think she was more freaked out by being “outside” than me.
It wasn’t til a few hours later that I was cleaning up the living room when I turned around and she’s right behind me, hissing at me. Literally didn’t do a thing to her, say anything, nothing. And she stayed like that the rest of the night, hissed at me anytime she saw me.

My theory right now is that my oversized hoodies I’ve been wearing a lot (and was wearing when she started hissing) are freaking her out? Like she thinks I’m puffed up? And I’ve been sniffly lately so is my sniffing sounding like hissing to her? I really don’t know. I don’t get it. She’s fine with me all week. She took a nap with me literally 20 minutes before the hissing started. Just have to be patient I guess.

Anyway, here’s the living room decorations;

That’s all for today. OMG Christmas is in 2 weeks. I need to start thinking about christmas presents I guess. I don’t feel very christmasy.