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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I'm just going to start at the beginning of my photos from the last week and work my way through them. First up - my Nadja swatch arrived and looked good finally! I think I finally got the stripe sizing good. So I got my yardage ordered and hooray it was on sale - it was $50 cheaper than I had budgeted for. It's arriving tomorrow so fingers crossed it looks ...
It's dad's bday today! We went out for dinner Saturday night to a new korean bbq place. It was ok. Not like the one we had in NYC. I don't have a lot of costume progress to show this week. I'll chat about it at the end. New pin for the collection! A friend gave us some irises back in 2021 - this is the first year one has bloomed! Hooray! ...