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dragoncon ahoy
Ok now that Huntsville is behind us, it’s time to focus on Dragoncon and the costume progress I’ve made in the last week. So let’s get back to Rebels Leia… Got the sleeves on, and a neckline facing added. Pants time! Decided to do the same thing I did with Wanda last year and use the lower half of a…
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huntsville con report!
Hey look I actually titled a blog post what it’s actually about. Yeah a couple of days late with this. Wanted to gather up all the pics first including the ones from Chase’s camera. So Thursday I get off work and go to take a nap and as I lay down, I get an idea. And I have to go…
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Leia costume to-do list
Now having (or close to having) 2 new Leia costumes in my repertoire, it’s really galvanizing me get moving on the movie canon costumes I’m missing, plus some other EU outfits I want to do. But first let’s go through the “probably no” list… (I don’t say absolutely no anymore because I know better) 1. No Leia costumes from Kenobi…
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emotionally compromised
Yall Picard season 3 is SO DANG GOOD I don’t care if it’s fan service. It the perfect kind of reunion nostalgia we should have gotten with the Star Wars sequel movies and now we can never have because Carrie is gone 🙁 Anyway. last week I worked on the Nadja mock-up: I felt like the sleeve and upper bodice…
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weird dream
I meant to tell yall about the weird dream I had the other day in yesterday’s post, but I forgot. So it’s a rare second post within a week from me. I have convention dreams pretty often but they are usually about Dragoncon. This was a rare non-dragoncon convention dream. So, I dreamt I was at the Huntsville Con we…
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waffle house
So my white stretch suede for Rebels Leia came and I am… not enthused. It’s actually a really beautiful fabric with a nice drape. Just waaaay thinner than I thought it would be. Just sticking it in the stash for something else in the future. I’m being soo picky about Rebels Leia fabric because I really haven’t worn anything skintight…
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what are we doing
i just managed to spray myself in the face with an open coke can. Welcome to monday. How so? Well I didn’t realize my mouse cord was behind my coke can and when I went to pull out the lower portion of my desk to set my laptop on, the mouse cord got yanked and it propelled the coke can…
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new york, new york
We are BACK from vacation. Chase said today he didn’t feel like he usually does when we get home from disney, like he needs a “vacation from his vacation” but I sure do. I’m exhausted, my legs are sore, and my face is chapped from walking around in the cold. And I’m stressed but that’s a story for another day.…
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the bronx is up and the battery’s down
Let’s start with costume stuff for this week. Here’s my Star Trek dress as of a week ago, still had to put the collar on which I thought would be easy but… the pattern had very sparse directions for doing this. there was no pattern piece included, just “measure the neckline and cut a length of black fabric and sew…
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dusty af
Nothing like a slightly different angle of morning sun (like time change) to really show you how dusty your work desk is. Gotta get the swiffer up here. I spent last week working on my Star Trek skant. Got the panels put together It was overall way too big so spent one afternoon sitting in just the new bra getting…
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do you or do you not feel bonita
Let’s jump right in – my undergarments for my star trek dress came in Tuesday! Yay! Unfortunately did not fit. Boo. Ok so the cincher is just a little bit big and doesn’t seem to do anything, I think I should have sized down, but I’ll just take up the back seam, nbd. But the bra… ok so the bra…
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a change of scenery
I was not feeling my WFH office today so I’m camping under the dining room table. Change of pace. Not much sewing progress to share this week. But! My undergarments for my star trek uniform are arriving today! Here’s hoping I hear the delivery person so I can sign for it and I don’t have to wait another day. I…
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i feel stupid and contagious
Nothing like having an unusually busy day at work, feeling like my brain is being pulled into 15 directions, and our neighbors decide to fire up their 2 gas-powered leaf blowers. My brain feels like it’s going to explode. I just had to go find headphones and block out the noise so I don’t go mad. So anyway, the last…
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superb owl
oh hi there Leia is pretty much done. I sewed down the support ribbon in the center back, finished sewing on the swirls on the lower sleeves, and i finALLY tried it all on to mark off where I need to cut and attach the ribbon belt. I haven’t done the belt attachments yet – that will be tonight. But…
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eyes without a face
I’ve had Eyes Without a Face stuck in my head all morning and I have no idea why. Before I dive into sewing news let’s talk about the generic life stuff. Ice storm last week, again. Fun. Saturday things were cleared up and warmer so we went out to run some errands and also checked out some places we’ve never…
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kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Guess what! I actually come to you today with sewing updates. It’s not a LOT to show but I did get a good amount done and it’s making me feel good about at least having the dress done by next weekend. Note I said dress, not costume… lol I FINALLY got the back floral pieces cut. That’s kinda why I…
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photoshoot – round 2
Oh hey so yeah I totally didn’t post last week. Monday was crazy busy I was like, I’ll just do it tomorrow and then I forgot. Not like I really had much to post about anyway. Outside of the photoshoot I have basically done nothing except play Star Wars Lego. Let’s start with the interesting stuff – photoshoot results! Hild…
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adventures in old costumes – again
Hey if you saw my photoshoot post from Friday you might have seen me mention I wanted to do another photoshoot day while everything was still set up… Well we’re doing it this weekend. What am I shooting? First up – HILD! I’ve had Hild on my list to get shot for a looooong time because in the back of…
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photoshoot pics yay
Well it took me longer than I thought to get the rest of these cropped and uploaded but here they are at last. Started the shoot with Dapper Leia because I wanted my “real hair” costumes to go first. I forgot to do any pics with my sunglasses but not too upset about it because I really didn’t like the…
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no resolutions
I generally don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore, but I saw somebody say their resolution is to “pet more dogs” and that’s what I’m going to use from now on if anybody asks about my new year’s resolution. I didn’t post last week which was not great because now I have to try to remember everything that happened Christmas weekend.…
