groundbreaking! I did nothing this weekend except sew. It was marvelous. First up, on the "Dark Lady" costume - my swatch came in and looked great! So I ordered a yard and it's shipped, should be here next week and then I can finish up that costume. So that's 2 down - onto #3? As I said last post I got started on my Multiverse of Madness Wanda FINALLY. I've had the ...
(EDITED TO ADD AFTER POSTING: I did not realize until I posted I used 2 Mr Bean headers in a row. Not mad at it.) Another productive week, though it took me longer to get some stuff done than I had planned. Here was my to-do list last week -- with updates: -finish bottom edge of bodice -pleat skirt to fit and attach to bodice (may have to shorten skirt at ...
HEY! I have some really good costume progress to show this week! ~*WOW*~ The finished picnic Padme disneybound. I still need to get some ribbons for my hair and I also thought about hanging some ribbons from the sides of the belt. We'll see. I'm so tempted to just buy one of those tie-on ponytails that I can precurl so I don't have to curl and then try to keep ...
Busy weekend! Lots to talk about. Let's do the weekend events first! Saturday we met Ash and Gabe for Midtowncon and lunch. I had been planning to wear my TOS uniform all week, I even decided on a new hairstyle (one of my fav things about that costume is the fun of getting to play with different hairstyles), made a new hairpiece, got the uniform steamed, everything ready to go. ...
First up, I got contacts!! Well, almost. Had my eye doctor appointment Saturday and asked if contacts were possible with my RX. He said yes, but -- they couldn't really do a lot for my up close reading, they'd have to prioritize my astigmatism over that, but it would be enough to give me a break from wearing the glasses, which is what I want. I get SO irritated with ...
Well I was really hoping to say Troi was finished in my post today - at least, the dress was finished - but alas. I'm CLOSE. Here she is as of Wednesday. I got the waistband on and the skirt attached. And yesterday afternoon. I spent most of Saturday morning getting the cuffs added to the sleeves, and the zippers installed. I had bought invisible zippers on Amazon (a pack ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...