oof what a weekend. So fun fact, when the previous owners of our house decided to put it on the market, they had the entire house repainted. Everything, (and unfortunately not well but that's a story for another day) I wish they'd saved the money and built it into the sale as a bonus towards the new owners painting, but I get it, you want the house to look good ...
I'm back from vacay and feeling...tired and anxious LOL So let's start with the sewing update since there's not a lot to that (since I wasn't sewing this weekend obv) Like I said previously I'm making this Leia dress in 2 pieces - dress and cincher. I just think it will look best. Last week I got the basic interior pieces of the cincher cut (sized down from an underbust ...
hello hi I actually have content today. I got to be Merida at a medieval feast! And also brought green Anne to display on the dressform. On the way home stopped at lambert's for dinner: I have not been here since the 90s? We used to stop on our family St Louis vacations, and it was always so much fun, it's the place where they throw the giant rolls to ...
I guess this means I'm entering year 25 of blogging. I started when I was 18, before the word "blogging" was even around. i called it "free talk" at the beginning. Anyway not much to post this week - again - except birthday stuff. Didn't do much on my birthday. Chase had his dates off and thought my birthday wasn't til the weekend so I just waited to see how long he ...
Ok so you know those mcdonald's halloween pails? The ones that they are saying might be back this year? I just saw a news story about the rumor and reminded me of this. A few years ago, my mom was cleaning out the entry way closet - they don't really use the front door/entry way so that closet tends to be a black hole. So she was cleaning out ...
This is just a stream of conscious thoughts I've been having the last couple of weeks. With this year being my 20th dragoncon I've been thinking a lot about how convention culture has changed - namely how cosplay culture has changed. I mean a lot of the change is obvious, it's so much bigger, more socially accepted, easier to get materials, etc. But my main thought has been about how ...
Ok let's get this thing over with! Wednesday morning we were up before the sun, headed over to Ash's house to pick her up. This was absolutely the tightest packing job we've ever had... That's my purple duffel bag shoved in sideways in the front, which resulted in my (somewhat pricey) makeup remover spilling everywhere. Thankfully I keep all spillables in a bag but i had to wash everything else ...
This morning was the first time my feet HAVEN'T hurt going up and down the stairs in our house, and I've regained feeling in the little toe on my left foot. Unexplained bruise, scrape on my ankle, and spots of eyeliner i still can't get off are still hanging around, along with a non-stop migraine I've had since before dragoncon. Anyway, this will not be my recap post -- I'll ...
T minus 2 days and... we are done. Chase was going to do one more little detail thing to his Leto armor but decided not to. We are at that point. I had one more little beaded chain thing I should have added to Jessica (the part that goes around the fingers on the sleeves) but I was like eh fuck it. I want to be done LOL This last consisted ...
Here we are again, another Monday of Dragoncon progress and nothing else to talk about. Seriously we're in con crunch mode now so neither of us have done anything but eat, sleep and work on dragoncon stuff. I was mostly churning out the Jessica headpiece. Here's what I started with. It's built around a headband with kobracast and worbla parts. (I started with kobracast, it was too flimsy, switched to ...