I generally don't make New Year's resolutions anymore, but I saw somebody say their resolution is to "pet more dogs" and that's what I'm going to use from now on if anybody asks about my new year's resolution. I didn't post last week which was not great because now I have to try to remember everything that happened Christmas weekend. Work just ended up being super busy the day I ...
Not a lot to talk about this week. Last night I did officially finish all the hems on wedding Leia but it doesn't look any different than last time I posted it so I haven't taken a new picture. But it means tonight I can start working the ribbon trim on which I've been looking forward to. I also need to finish the closure on the waist cincher which I ...
Well I was gonna do a small post yesterday after posting my year-end review, but didn't get around to it, so here it is today. Not a lot to talk about but wanted to mostly give a wedding Leia update. Last week I got the sleeves hemmed and also cleaned up the inside of the sleeves. That took about 2 days of work - I was off Wed-Fri for my bereavement ...
I want to do my wrap-up today instead of a regular post. I may still do a mini update post later today. So as usual let's start out by seeing what I said I wanted to make in 2022 back in December 2021. 1. Finish Utena - YES! 2. Lady Jessica - YES! 3. Padme’s Packing Gown - YES! 4. New Leia Dapper Day Look - YES! 5. Endor Leia - nah 6. Jedi Training Leia - ...
Well here we are, I am now living in a world without my Mema. I just wrote a shit ton of paragraphs about how this weekend was and what it was like being in my sewing room absolutely surrounded by things that remind me of her and then I deleted it all. I think if you've been reading my blog for anytime at all you know how this weekend was ...
Five day weekends are rough. Having to get up for work this morning was criminal. It was not a great weekend. I haven't talked about it much, but my Mema has not been doing well, she has been on hospice (at home thankfully) for the last couple of weeks. And we were able to go up and spend Thanksgiving with her but she was mostly sleeping. Yesterday we were warned ...
Hey guess what another week with me having nothing new to report. Last week I learned that Kevin Lillard (A Fan's View) had passed away. Very sad to hear. He was so instrumental in the early cosplay community, such a great guy. So many of my old costume photos are from him. And then last night... LAST NIGHT! The Bob Iger announcement! I saw somebody mention it and was like ...
(Wakanda Forever spoilers in this post. Just skip this post until you've seen the movie if it's important to you!) Let's start off today with some sewing updates. Last week I finally got the lining and chiffon layers sewn together. It was giving Endora. Got the sleeve openings tacked together. And I also got the sleeve linings cut. Saturday I actually got a good amount of work done - I ...
Boy what a strange weekend. But let's rewind back to Halloween since I hadn't talked about Halloween night yet. I wore Wanda that night to hand out candy: But we had such a low trick or treater turn out :( We have this one group that gets driven around on a trailer, about 25-ish kids all come pouring off of it when they pull into the cove, so that was the ...
Happy Halloweeeen! So last week, Tuesday night, I got out all of of costumes for the weekend and did repairs/updates. That night I reglued my Wanda front piece back to the bodice (probably wearing it tonight but even if I don't it needed to be done) and fixed Kevin's jedi Luke boots -- last time he wore them, one of the zipper pulls just crumbled into nothing. (I mean, ...