It’s Dragoncon week. I should have only been working today and tomorrow. I should’ve been heading to Atlanta Wednesday morning. But instead I’m stuck here at work, and I’ll probably be in my pajamas all week.
I posted on my instagram that usually, the night before we leave for Dragoncon, I have what I call my “Annual Wash and Wax Day” – which is an MST3k reference, but I basically spend all evening in the bathroom, washing my hair, curling it, painting my nails, shaving (or, in my superhero cosplaying days, Nair-ing my legs), etc. I actually kinda hate it LOL so I’m only missing it out of routine. So instead of doing all that I got some bath bombs this week and it’s going to be Bath Bomb Week. Yay 🙂
I don’t really have a lot to post today. Saturday we spent a good chunk of the day running errands, Sunday I ended up cleaning up and reorganizing my home work office (not sewing room). I had to set up the laptop dock they sent me and to do that I had to bring another table up from the garage to set it up on. And then it turned into a whole thing. Threw a lot of stuff away, found some more stuff to sell.
Speaking of selling, we do still have stuff on ebay with more stuff coming soon. From what we’ve sold, we were finally able to buy a bed frame for the guest bed here in my work office! Which means I’ll have room for underbed storage. Yay! I’m also going to move one of our storage chests from our bedroom up here and I’m hoping to totally clean it out – it’s full of blankets and linens and I’m hoping we can get rid of like half of it, or I can find room for that stuff elsewhere. I want the trunk to be oversized costume piece storage so I can remove that stuff from the closet in here.
Anyway my home work office feels nice now.
Sewing-wise – nothing to report except that my spoonflower chiffon DID show up last week and I got the sleeves cut:
Saturday I went to both Hobby Lobby and Michaels to find beads and… didn’t find much. I got one pack of clear beads that MIGHT work but they’re so small I may not have a needle small enough for them on hand. And neither place had sequins that would work, so I ordered those today.
I was going to start beading on it either saturday night or sunday, but sunday ended up being reorganizing day so that didn’t happen.
Saturday night I ended up recording this instead of working on anything:
I thought it would be cute to make a video of some of my fav/more recognizable costume shoes. The only reason I was able to do this (and keep the recording time to the length of the newest episode of Casefile) is that I already had all my bins out:
I pulled ALL the bins out of the crawl space in prep for my virtual Dragoncon events I’ll be doing on instagram this week. Also sorted through the stuff that was out in my closet that needed to be put away in the bins (ie, sometimes stuff gets left out of a bin and the bin gets put away and I dont’ feel like digging it out again, so I have 3 baskets in my closet where I put those things til I can put them away).
Speaking of my virtual Dragoncon, here is what I’m planning on doing – everything will be on my instagram story:
Friday day, photoshoot! Queen Amidala post-senate, Kate (B-52s), Tinkerbell, and Misato. (I should really find a Dragoncon-related costume to shoot instead of Misato… but I reeeeeeally need better pics of Misato.) I’ve got one thing to fix on my Amidala wig, Chase is fixing one thing on my Tink wings, and I need to refluff my Kate wig. So not a lot to get ready but a few things I need to do this week.
I may go live during this, depends on how I feel. Might do my Amidala makeup on live or something.
I’ll be watching some of the virtual Dragoncon costume contests and sharing cool stuff from those on my story. Just waiting to see a schedule so I can decide what I’ll be watching.
And for the rest of the weekend – Thurs night, Saturday day, and Sunday, I’ll be dragging out old Dragoncon costumes, telling stories, talking about the construction of each of them. I’ll be posting a Q&A sticker at the beginning of each day so if anybody has anything they’d like to specifically see or hear about, they can let me know!
So my to-do list for the rest of this week:
-Get hallway cleaned up of trash and stuff from cleaning out my work office
-get costumes repaired and set out for photoshoot
-set up backdrop
Ok well that was it, i thought the list would be longer. LOL.