no soup for you

Hello and welcome back to my blog Look I'm kinda ticked off that I spent a LONG TIME working on my Troi costume this past week and I have one photo to show for it. One. UGH I spent most of last week working on the neckband. It was a comedy of errors. First I had to wait on that interfacing to arrive. Got the interfacing cut and went to ...

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reach for the skyyyy

Hey I've got real costume progress to show yall today! First, I decided early last week I wanted to dye my Troi fabric. It was just too bright. Thankfully I had a bottle of graphite. I came up with a formula and did some tests. Bottom fabric is the original undyed. I had to do it in batches because it was too much fabric for my pot to do all ...

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The Sims: Freddie the Influencer

Ok so on my new laptop Sims is actually blazing fast! So I've been playing again. It's been a while since we had a sims story on the blog, so I thought I'd share this one. I've been seeing people on Tiktok do this 1x1 room challenge where you start a sim in just a plain 1x1 square room and they have to take and sell photos of themself to ...

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start walking

Well hi. I do actually have costume updates this week. But first let's get everything else out of the way. 4.5 weeks post-surgery -- I feel like 99.9% normal. Remember just a week ago I said crawling around on my sewing room floor to work on costumes left me sore so I needed to take it slower? Well I did take it slower, but I spent a good bit of time crawling ...

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i want auroras and sad prose

Guess what? I'm coming at yall live from my new laptop! Chase did try to fix my computer, ordered a new battery, etc. But the writing had already been on the wall for that laptop; it was buggy and super slow, and photoshop did not like it at all, I'd regularly have weird things happening in photoshop because the graphics processor couldn't keep up. We'd been shopping for a new ...

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i fell asleep amid the flowers

Well today I am coming at you from Chase's computer because... my laptop is dead! It was fine all last week, it was fine Friday, I unplugged it Friday night since we had storms coming through. Saturday morning it wouldn't turn on at all. Chase tried a few things to fix it but nothing worked, so he's got a new battery ordered to see if that's it. I doubt that's ...

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t-minus shut up

Week 2 of post-surgery life continues much like last week. On Friday I felt like I'd be well enough to go back up to my WFH office and sit at my desk like normal but then I felt kinda icky all weekend so I'm back down on the couch again. Post-op was thursday and she said all looked good. She asked if I'd seen my lab reports - I saw that ...

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hello world

I am back, minus a uterus. It all went well! We were up at 4am Wednesday morning and off to the hospital, only to find the door locked. Went into the ER and asked the nurses there and they told us they dont open til 5:30. My arrival time was 5. Went back home and got my paperwork with the number to call and they said they would be open at 5 but ...

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i got nothing

I really don't have much of anything at all to share this week, I almost was like, nah no reason to post this week, I'll save the handful of things I have for next week's post. But I figured I ought to check in before the surgery later this week. I'm SO excited. Not for like surgery but just for the end result. And less anxious than I normally am ...

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hoa hoa hoa

I'm sorry yall, I still have nothing to post about this week LOL. But I am trying to get back into the habit of my Monday morning postings. A few costume-y notes - got another set of swatches for Troi. One I like ok, I think it looks fairly close to how the dress looks on screen, but it doesn't really look like the auction photos. The Auction photos are ...

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