a whole lotta nothing

I don't have much of anything to post this week. Spent most of the last week trying to get the HTV for the Seven yoke to work. Basically everytime we'd do a test it'd come out backwards. Chase was definitely sending it mirrored - backwards. Then not mirrored - backwards. We'd finally get a test square that was right, go to print a full page of that - backwards. We ...

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Bespin Leia cost breakdown

So I posted a silly video on my tiktok yesterday about why I don't do commissions and I used Bespin Leia as an example of an incredibly in-depth costume project that I'd NEVER EVER do on commission - I mean, I'm not gonna do anything on commission but in particular THAT ONE - mostly because 95% of people who ask about something like that don't understand how much it would cost ...

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hurricane elvis round 2

We had a big storm move through last night. It didn't last all that long but was pretty intense. Power dimmed a few times but we never lost it completely. So we didn't think it was that bad. Waking up this morning to most of the city still without power (and the power company saying it's gonna be a few days to get everyone restored), tons of damage - Chase ...

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the final frontier

So I know it probably doesn't look like I got a ton done this past week based on how few pics I have to post this week... but I did! It just wasn't on the exact things I wanted to work on LOL I ended up getting stuck on the Breha vinyl pretty much the whole week. Didn't start legitimately printing them until late Saturday. So in the meantime I ...

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its boots day

Last part of my Nadja costume arrives today - my boots! Yay! I could finish Nadja in a couple of hours at this point - 1. Finish and sew on sash 2. Sew on hook and eye at back 3. Sew hat onto the headband But I'm now knees-deep in Breha construction so it'll wait. My goal is to have Breha done in the next 2 weeks - and then spend the last week ...

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happy june

It's June which means we are now FULLY into Dragoncon mode. But first Kevin's room. I talked about the trim colour last week but I took this pic with the swatch of the colour and I SWEAR how are these the same? They do look closer to each other in non-direct light, but here in direct light in the window they are completely different. But I'm not freaking redoing it ...

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card declined

I love having to get a new debit card because of the "potential" it could've been leaked and having to go through and update my card everywhere. You never guess every single place it needs to be updated. Woke up this morning to a message that my card had been declined on a subscription I'm currently on, never even thought of that. I just went in and canceled it because ...

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oh hai mark

I don't think I mentioned it in my last blog post, but my great-uncle passed away last weekend. He was 102! I didn't post yesterday because we had his funeral. It was a long day. But we'll get to that later. I got as much done on Nadja as possible while awaiting my next fabric shipment. The upper skirt is assembled except the one back panel I'm missing. I also got ...

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its the most wonderful time of the year

I had an instagram story memory pop up yesterday that this time last year I said "dragoncon season is officially starting for me today." That made me feel really good because I have a huge head start this year compared to last. Rebels Leia is nearly done, and I've got a good chunk of Nadja done now too! So yeah I had a very fruitful sewing weekend. Chase was gone ...

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Wedding Leia photoshoot!

Ok here it is! I didn't put these in my weekly post earlier today because it was already really long and I felt like these deserved their own dedicated post. Took these Sunday before last at my parents' house. Same place we shot Ewok Leia back in 2007 -- but for Ewok Leia we actually went into the woods and wasn't going to do that this time. The front yard's trees ...

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