Here's a preview of some more photos from Saturday: (edit: photo link was broken and I can't find this anywhere anymore, so I removed it!) I didn't get any besides that uploaded - I was home sick from work yesterday so I pretty much slept all day. Anyway, as I've been going through my old hard-drives I occasionally come across stuff I never uploaded, or I haven't had uploaded in ...
So Chase was supposed to have gone out of town this weekend, and I planned on a massive clean-up of my sewing room. My sewing room was a LITTLE messy after I got back from Dragoncon, but I dumped all my boxes and bins in there when we got home and it stayed like that. Then I had to dig stuff out for GMX and MCFC, and it made it ...
I'm tired of trying to give good advice, so here's the worst costuming advice I can think of. 1. Don't waste time doing research The best costumers just jump right in and make awesome stuff happen, like magic. 2. Don't have a sewing machine and a needle and thread takes too long? Try Elmer's Glue Don't waste time trying to hem or fray-check, either. The fraying edges give it a weathered, realistic ...
So I'm still working on old pictures, and I'm finally in to 2007. That means I'm halfway done! The whole point of this project has been to upload bigger, clearer versions of my old pictures. A lot of them were only 500px tall, which is tiny by today's standards, and were often fuzzy. Since I still have the full size versions of probably 95% of my photos, I figured why not go ...
Saturday pictures! I wore the TARDIS in the morning: The angels have the phone box! Then I have a ton of costume contest pics up in the set! Unfortunately Chase didn't manage to get every contestant, but there's a good number. Dramatic judging: More judging: I love how I look more like Donna Noble when I'm not wearing my Donna Noble costume. Winners! The whole set is here!
This weekend was a whirlwind! Friday I got into Johanna, since it's Mockingjay weekend, and we ran up to the con for a couple of hours. I only took my little camera that night, so my handful of pics aren't that great. Then we went and grabbed dinner and went home. Johanna was MUCH more comfortable in Memphis November weather than Atlanta August... LOL. Seriously I could have worn it ...
Well I made a list last week of things you shouldn't say to costumers... so let's do the flip side this week. 1. "You did a great job on your costume." It's a simple phrase. It's common, too. But it's always nice to hear. Always! You can never go wrong this! 2. "You look fantastic/amazing/wonderful." There's a lot of variations to this. Any pleasant adjective is acceptable. Plus it can ...
This started going around facebook yesterday, and I thought it would be fun to make one, too. (And even though isn't really an FAQ Friday, I'm using the FAQ Friday header.) I ended up not uploading it to facebook though - because there were so many thoughts and caveats I had about it that I thought I'd just make it a blog post instead. I had to pick fairly recent ...
I spent the weekend at my grandma's, avoiding coping, doing some retail therapy and working on some old photos. I've mentioned it before, but I've been working on this project for almost a year now - replacing all my old costume pictures with larger, better versions. It's a long project when you have as my costumes and costume photos as I do. I finally got to one costume I'd been ...
I know there was a fairly recent blog article similar to this a while back, and I don't mean to step on anyone's toes with it. But after a few weird encounters at a recent convention, I really wanted to throw my two cents into the ring. So, here are some things I've had said to me/said to friends, or seen said to other costumes. Most of these things ...