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i dress to kill my time
One week and a day to go. Let’s start with updating the to-do list from Wednesday: It’s 2 weeks to go (well, 13 days) so here’s an update with no pics to make it fast. Wanda: -Finish shirt thumb loop -Rig up the Scarlet Witch pieces -closure on tiara Belle: -Attach chiffon shoulder piece -iron on HTV designs -sew swags…
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to-do list updated
It’s 2 weeks to go (well, 13 days) so here’s an update with no pics to make it fast. Wanda: -Finish shirt thumb loop -Rig up the Scarlet Witch pieces -Look at wig, style if needed? (tried it on, just need to trim lace) -closure on tiara Belle: -Close up Belle swags -Attach chiffon shoulder piece -iron on HTV designs…
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im starting with the man in the mirror
Well hi, sorry I didn’t update last week. I was in the TRENCHES friends. Still am, but I’m stopping to post today, otherwise I won’t remember everything I need to cover. It’s already going to be dice-y here. First and foremost – my site is breaking again, this time it’s my blog headers. I have a separate plug-in I use…
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its clobberin time
Saw Fantastic Four this weekend. Really loved it. I wanna live in that world. First up let’s go back to my Padme Lover bodysuit project. I got the new outer layer/lining layers cut, assembled and dyed. Got them sewn together and sewn onto the interior bodice. Got the zipper in, hand-tacked down, got the outer layer sewn in place along…
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im only doing this for debbie
Well. That weekend was a disaster. Let’s start with fun stuff first though – I ordered my ribbons for Dragoncon! So last week I said I wanted to be done with costume #5’s base so I could start rhinestoning by the end of the week. I was only a couple of days behind. I did drop the idea of having…
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i’m a punkrocker
Well, not a great weekend for getting stuff done unfortunately. I did finish getting the chiffon swags all sewn together, hemmed, basted onto the skirt, and my zipper basted in. And I got my bodice finished. Things I clocked during the try-on: 1. The point of the bodice kept trying to flip up. I skipped putting boning in the center…
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emile thanks you
Well here we are after the 3 day weekend. I had big plans to have Belle totally done minus the wig, lower embroidered swags and shoulder drape. I didn’t even get CLOSE. But I did post up my “secret” costume on instagram so I can now post about it openly here – more below. Let’s go through the state of…
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what the hellyonce
For as much work as I’ve done on stuff for the last week it feels criminal that I have so few photos to show for it. I got the swatches for my last bit of fabric I need for Belle. I got 10 swatches to look at and the other 8 were too brown, but these 2 were closest to…
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can i kick it
First things first – part of my site broke recently. The front page scrolling banner was just stuck on “loading”. When I go into the wordpress theme options to that area, sometimes it loads (but I can’t click on anything) but most of the time it’s just blank with a constant loading gif at the top. I think it’s an…
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nothing beats a jet2 holiday
I got a lot done this weekend and I am sore AF. But first let’s talk about the happy things! My besties got married Friday! Chase and I took the day off work and went downtown to the courthouse with them. It was really cool and very sweet and then we ran around downtown taking some more pics around the…
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eeeugggghhh
Fully back to real life now, ew. I don’t know that I want to post anymore Lorne progress pics right now. I feel like if you watched the source material, you will recognize it at this point. (As of 7/7 I’ve now posted the finished costume, so I’m going back and updating my old posts to make them make sense.)…
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help i’m still at the restaurant
Ew my wordpress updated and the layout is all ugly! Well here is another Disney trip report. Surprise! We went back to Disney this past weekend. The January trip weather was SO BAD that about halfway through the week, we basically stopped spending money and set it aside to come back another time. We booked a bounceback deal as soon…
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florals? for spring?
groundbreaking! I did nothing this weekend except sew. It was marvelous. First up, on my Lorne costume – my swatch came in and looked great! So I ordered a yard and it’s shipped, should be here next week and then I can finish up that costume. So that’s 2 down – onto #3? As I said last post I got…
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all the world is waiting for you
(EDITED TO ADD AFTER POSTING: I did not realize until I posted I used 2 Mr Bean headers in a row. Not mad at it.) Another productive week, though it took me longer to get some stuff done than I had planned. Here was my to-do list last week — with updates: -finish bottom edge of Lorne bodice -pleat skirt…
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the old soft shoe
HEY! I have some really good costume progress to show this week! ~*WOW*~ The finished picnic Padme disneybound. I still need to get some ribbons for my hair and I also thought about hanging some ribbons from the sides of the belt. We’ll see. I’m so tempted to just buy one of those tie-on ponytails that I can precurl so…
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islands in the stream
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…
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does this impact the lore?
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,…
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gear, fab
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…
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no soup for you
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…
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reach for the skyyyy
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…
