Sorry I haven't posted this week! It's been busy! This past weekend we did the symphony event -- which I'll talk about the next post -- and we'd originally planned to do this photoshoot before we left for the event Saturday night. But my tiara wasn't quite ready Saturday, and there was yardwork that needed to be done before the storms set in on Sunday. So we moved the photoshoot ...
Yesterday we did a little event at the Pink Palace! One of my fav places in the world. Since it was earlier in the day, Chase couldn't get off in time for it so mom drove us over. (After New Year's Eve I refuse to drive in costume unless I absolutely have to LOL) Since it was a Deep Space theme she wore her flight suit! (If you've ever wondered ...
So as I mentioned earlier I've been trying to put together a hairpiece for my Queen Amidala costume. This is something I've tried to do for ages -- finally attempted it in 2010 but gave up. So here we are again. Trying to make a hairpiece for a 12 year old costume. But if I can make this work it means I don't have to torture my hair when I wear this. ...
I made a to-do list friday, let's see what I accomplished... Amidala: 1. Clean the dress. 2. Redye the lower petals. 3. Remake or fix current tiara. 4. Make a new hairpiece. Bespin Leia: 1. Shorten the tunic! 2. Fix my pleating. I guess half isn't bad. Friday is when I got most of that done. I hand-washed the dress in cold water with a little laundry detergent and hung it up to dry. It got ...
I have a to-do list even though we're on the wrong side of the convention, haha. But I have a few things I need to get done over this weekend -- I'm doing an event in Amidala next weekend, so she needs some attention. And while I have it on we are going to do a white backdrop photoshoot, and also do Bespin Leia at the same time (and probably ...
So I wrote the whole trip report out yesterday but of course I only had iphone photos. Today I have our photopass and Chase's pics uploaded! So here's a few. Kevin hadn't met Mr and Mrs Easter Bunny, and we were able to pretty much walk right up and get a photo with them the first day. Honestly I probably would've skipped even uploading this photo except the guy behind ...
We're home! And I'm sick with a sinus infection AGAIN. I think I've come home with a sinus infection from at least 4 of our Orlando trips in the last year. This one is a real bear, it came on Friday night so all day Saturday and Sunday my face HURT. But I'll get to that later. Let's start at the beginning. As usual I only have my iphone pics for ...
Last night around 8pm I put the last touches on Bespin Leia. It is officially DONE. There's some stuff that's not perfect. My chiffon ended up stretching during the embroidery especially on the two front panels, so the front hemmed edges want to be a little wavy. One side is better than the other. I may add weights to the hem still but it doesn't HAVE to be done. Going ...
IT'S ALMOST DONE!!!! Ok so wow I haven't posted in a week. Let me play catch up. I got the lining reattached to the embroidered piece. I pleated and repleated and rerepleated and rerereplealted and rerererepleated it all onto the yoke about 500 times. I got the trim sewn on the tunic Wednesday night. Friday I had the day off! But... I had a hair appointment I was getting cold feet ...
So, I finished Yoke #3 and it's all right. It's not greeeeeat but it'll do. It's not like I could try again, there's no fabric left! After that photo I did take the collar off and inset it into the yoke so there's no ugly seam sticking out between them. This resulted in a kinda ugly stitch line where it's sewn on, but it's a trade-off. So since that was finally ...