oh hello. Can you even believe it's dragoncon week? I can't. My brain isn't registering it. Still not done with everything. Still chipping away. Well Padme is done. I got the 3d printed buttons glued onto bases, painted and attached. Here they are before any of that. And I finally finished up the wig. Although once I finished it, I put it on real quick and realized the whole bun/...
I blatantly stole this from the dcon fb group. The BIG news is that I finished this effing skirt. It's all sewn down. I really pushed myself to finish this ASAP, in fact, I'm SORE today from the weird contortions I had to make while sewing on the upper level. So the timeline of the physical making-of the floral skirt (not counting the months of testing and failing and starting ...
I love how I had an extra YEAR to work on these dragoncon costumes yet here I am finishing everything up last minute and half-assed. Literally all last week, if I wasn't at-work-working, eating, or sleeping I was working on these floral pieces for Padme. Last week I said it was about half scissors and half hot knife - well I slowly got better with the knife and was only ...
T minus 2 weeks and 2 days til dragoncon. How did it sneak up on us so fast?? You know things are bad because I haven't packed "the old stuff" yet. Chase and I are trying to quasi-quarantine before the con, only going out when necessary. We've both still got hair appointments in the next week, and we'll have to do grocery/target a couple of times, but otherwise trying not to ...
I recently cleaned out my folder where I keep all my photos for my blog posts, there are some in there that have been there for ages. Among them I found this one: My sweet girl Speaking of cozy puppies, Skye stayed with me for a day while my parents went on a day trip. First up today I have some NEIGHBOR NEWS. The house behind us with the BEACON ...
I am right back in the deep hole of sadness and anger I was in back in like April 2020. Mostly because of the CDC mask announcement last week. I am so tired of all this. Also because my boss let us know last week he is leaving the company and I'm completely bummed over it. And dragoncon announced their guidelines and it's what was expected but it's still got me ...
Here we are beginning the last week of July. It's not a great Monday as it is, I have a migraine and 2 conference calls today which means my brain is basically saying "no" to any other work. I swear a call may only be an hour long but my brain is like, we have to build in an hour before the call to prepare and then an hour after the ...
Oh my god we're in the second half of July now. I am feeling the PANIC set in, mostly about Padme. My fabric for the gathered sections came in on tuesday and I've spent every day since then working on getting that done. Finished them up Saturday and then Sunday focused on finishing EVERYTHING else. I think the real one is all one piece, that goes through a small opening ...
I know I just posted yesterday, it's dragoncon season, I'll post as much as I want. I came up with what I think is my finalized line-up. So let's go through 'em, because I was finally able to order a ton of stuff yesterday and I have a better trajectory than I did in yesterday's post. 1. Wanda Got my HTV ordered and it'll be here thursday. I also bought boots! ...
Well here we are, it's monday again. And it's been another week of panicked flailing around for something to do to work on while dragoncon stares me down in the horizon. I spent pretty much all of last week doing little repairs on older costumes and what not. I fixed my broken Arwen necklace, finished sequining my Dorothy shoes (I started on that in 2006 then stopped halfway around a heel. ...