Visioncon was awesome, I'm going to try to write everything down before I start forgetting stuff... though I'm sure I'll still forget something anyhow! Thursday I got home from work and finished packing... It was really like a Dragoncon trip. Had my Dcon bin, 7 garment bags with 2-3 things in each of them, 3 wig boxes, makeup case, our personal bags, a bin of stuff for the booth... wow. The car ...
So at this point I'm almost done with all of the yellow spires... I have to finish the upper center, and I'm probably going to redo the middle left upper spire too - it was the first one I did and it doesn't look great. The bottom section with the flowers is totally done. Once I finish the spires all I have left is the small flowers towards the top ...
I embroidered all weekend long. Like all day Friday non-stop while I had the day off. Found Unsolved Mysteries (the old Robert Stacks episodes!) on Amazon Prime and just dug in. All day Saturday, just stopped to run out to breakfast with my parents and a few errands (needed more embroidery floss). Sunday morning I took a break to start pulling out my costumes for Visioncon. That took a while. ...
I misspelled embroidery in the title and it was "broidery" which I think is the manly bro version of embroidery. So I finished a couple of other art things recently, in that Star Wars series I've been doing. First up is Luke I'm pretty happy with how he turned out. And then Han Pretty happy with this one, too. I think next week I'm going to revisit Leia - she ...
I've mentioned it before but here's my whole big post about it! I will be a guest at VisionCon in a few weeks, Feb 24th-26th! I'm super excited. I have never been to VisionCon and everything I've seen looks awesome and the con staff have been wonderful to work with already! I will have a booth in the exhibit hall all weekend and as long as I'm not at ...
Trying to think of another post title that's not "monday again" or something and I typed the first thing that came to mind. "I am a train." OK. (I'm pretty certain that's due to having Arlo Guthrie's "The City of New Orleans" stuck in my head the past couple of days thanks to it playing in the grocery store on Saturday.) So anyway what's been happening since my last post? ...
If you want to ask me any kind of costumey question, I'm doing a Q&A over at VisionCon's facebook page tonight! You can start asking questions at anytime - I'm going to start answering around 7. Here's the event page! This weekend I'm going to start pulling together costumes for the con - I've got a list of stuff I would LIKE to take, I just need to figure ...
I had a great 3 day weekend just chilling with my grandparents. Went up Thursday after work and we went to eat at Red Lobster... clam chowder yay! I got a decent amount of embroidery work done over the weekend. Still clocking behind where I want to be but I'm starting to feel more confident. Catty Bob was curious but didn't really bother me like Luna does. He sat and watched ...
So this morning I realized I did some of my Bespin Leia stuff in the wrong colour over the weekend. I dunno if I'll be able to fix it since the needle leaves holes in the fabric. I guess I can try to unpick the wrong part (some of the interior petals within the flowers) and put the needle back through the same holes with the right colour. This just ...
It's been a long week, I had a dentist appt that I thought would be short and easy and it wasn't, it totally wiped me out. Not from like, the actual work done, but from the anxiety over it, before and after. Ugh. But I've spent all week printing my costume photos in the evenings which has been a lot of fun, seeing it come together. Here's Luna checking it ...