Busy weekend! Lots to talk about. Let's do the weekend events first! Saturday we met Ash and Gabe for Midtowncon and lunch. I had been planning to wear my TOS uniform all week, I even decided on a new hairstyle (one of my fav things about that costume is the fun of getting to play with different hairstyles), made a new hairpiece, got the uniform steamed, everything ready to go. ...
First up, I got contacts!! Well, almost. Had my eye doctor appointment Saturday and asked if contacts were possible with my RX. He said yes, but -- they couldn't really do a lot for my up close reading, they'd have to prioritize my astigmatism over that, but it would be enough to give me a break from wearing the glasses, which is what I want. I get SO irritated with ...
Well I was really hoping to say Troi was finished in my post today - at least, the dress was finished - but alas. I'm CLOSE. Here she is as of Wednesday. I got the waistband on and the skirt attached. And yesterday afternoon. I spent most of Saturday morning getting the cuffs added to the sleeves, and the zippers installed. I had bought invisible zippers on Amazon (a pack ...
Hello and welcome back to my blog Look I'm kinda ticked off that I spent a LONG TIME working on my Troi costume this past week and I have one photo to show for it. One. UGH I spent most of last week working on the neckband. It was a comedy of errors. First I had to wait on that interfacing to arrive. Got the interfacing cut and went to ...
Hey I've got real costume progress to show yall today! First, I decided early last week I wanted to dye my Troi fabric. It was just too bright. Thankfully I had a bottle of graphite. I came up with a formula and did some tests. Bottom fabric is the original undyed. I had to do it in batches because it was too much fabric for my pot to do all ...
Ok so on my new laptop Sims is actually blazing fast! So I've been playing again. It's been a while since we had a sims story on the blog, so I thought I'd share this one. I've been seeing people on Tiktok do this 1x1 room challenge where you start a sim in just a plain 1x1 square room and they have to take and sell photos of themself to ...
Well hi. I do actually have costume updates this week. But first let's get everything else out of the way. 4.5 weeks post-surgery -- I feel like 99.9% normal. Remember just a week ago I said crawling around on my sewing room floor to work on costumes left me sore so I needed to take it slower? Well I did take it slower, but I spent a good bit of time crawling ...
Guess what? I'm coming at yall live from my new laptop! Chase did try to fix my computer, ordered a new battery, etc. But the writing had already been on the wall for that laptop; it was buggy and super slow, and photoshop did not like it at all, I'd regularly have weird things happening in photoshop because the graphics processor couldn't keep up. We'd been shopping for a new ...
Well today I am coming at you from Chase's computer because... my laptop is dead! It was fine all last week, it was fine Friday, I unplugged it Friday night since we had storms coming through. Saturday morning it wouldn't turn on at all. Chase tried a few things to fix it but nothing worked, so he's got a new battery ordered to see if that's it. I doubt that's ...
Week 2 of post-surgery life continues much like last week. On Friday I felt like I'd be well enough to go back up to my WFH office and sit at my desk like normal but then I felt kinda icky all weekend so I'm back down on the couch again. Post-op was thursday and she said all looked good. She asked if I'd seen my lab reports - I saw that ...