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A few more Jackson Generals pics
Chase gave me his pics! Man I love how my Amidala costume looks from the back. As I mentioned elsewhere I’m amazed at how this costume has stood the test of time. If I’d left the edges of the petals unfinished, closer to how the actual dress looks, it would have long since frayed into oblivion… the serged petals are…
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Craziness
Let’s start on Friday. Friday after work, we loaded up the car with costumes and Kevins and drove up to my grandparent’s house in Jackson. Had a quick dinner with them (which Kevin enjoyed because he got spaghetti) then back home for the evening. Saturday we got up, went and had breakfast, did a little running around. The bookstore up…
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A few things
1. Dress Progress! I got the underdress totally hemmed night before last. Last night I got the other sleeve put in, and started hemming the chiffon. Mom gave me the idea to do a very small, tight zig-zag along the edge. I tested it out on some scraps and liked it. I started at the very back where I had…
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Dress stuff
I had enough chiffon for the whole Aelsa dress!!!!!!!!!AHHHHHHH Thank goodness. First off I have to say, I think this is the sloppiest thing I’ve made in years. It did not help that I didn’t have enough fabric and had to kinda piece the whole under-dress together, and then I think lining it in a very stretchy thin fabric when…
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Finished floors!
Saturday morning, while Chase was off shooting stuff for a documentary he’s working on, I put the house back together and got everything cleaned up. It took forever! I didn’t take pictures until that evening when the sun was already heading down, so these pics aren’t the best, but… Before: After: Kitchen Before: After: Living Room before: After: I need…
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All floors, all costumes, all the time
Floors are done! He had to come back for a bit this morning to finish the transitions between the carpeted areas and the new floor. Now to spend the next couple of days putting everything back together. Here’s Luna playing in the hall last night. She is having a hard time getting adjusted to slippery floors LOL In sewing news,…
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Yay Floors!
The installer was at the house all day yesterday and got the hallway nearly done, the kitchen and living room nearly done! Here’s the hallway around noon yesterday. He still has to go back and do a small strip along the left side of the wall, the area in front of bedroom door and the entryway. Then the quarter round…
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Curating
I like putting things in order. I like organizing my DVDs but theme and then by colour. This isn’t like some people, “teehee I like things in order I’m so OCD” — I do have some obsessive-compulsive tendencies, which I won’t go into! I don’t consider organizing like this part of that – I call it “curating.” And that’s what…
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Busy weekend
So this weekend was crazy. As I mentioned last week, we were prepping the house for new floors! Yay! The flooring came in Friday and dad came over to help us get it in the house. It needed to sit inside our house for a couple of days to acclimate. We had already pulled up the carpet in the hallway,…
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Getting the house ready + sewing
This week through Sunday we are getting the house ready for the new floor! I started packing up stuff on shelves last night, and Chase started experimenting with pulling up the carpet in the hallway. I took some before pictures (even though I already took down a lot of knick-knacks): The flooring will be here on Thursday, and has to…
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More sewing
I did a bit of sewing on Queen Aelsa Saturday night. After cutting the bodice sections of white stretch knit, I realized the colours were going to look too different once I had the chiffon overlay on. So I managed to scrounge enough of the silver velvet to cut most of the bodice pieces out of it – couldn’t manage…
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a little mystery
I’m posting a lot today. I was digging through old hard-drives trying to find some missing pictures last night when I came across some pics of a project that did not get finished. I’m sharing it today with Chase’s permission. Back in 2012 when I was making my newer Belle ballgown, you can find mentions and photos of the new…
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Car, etc
I forgot to post about my lovely incident last week. So Tuesday I’m on my way home, Kevin is with me, we’re going down the interstate 70mph. When I hear a LOUD “blumph blumph blumph” – my front passenger side tire blew out. Luckily I was RIGHT at an exit and was able to throw my hazard lights on, roll…
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Making Mistakes
This isn’t really an FAQ Friday today, but just some fun memories & stories I wanted to share. So earlier this week, I read this really great article, “15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make“ by Jenbae. Go read it, it’s great. As I was reading it, I was checking off things in my mind where I’d made that mistake.…
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I made a thing
(Not the bra. That’s just there because my new dressform is shy.) I made a kinda hippie looking silver velvet skirt. Well I got it cut out and pinned together anyway. It’s actually a white velvet with some silver flecking on the top. It’s pretty in person. Not that it matters – this is only an under-dress. I only had…
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Pizza
Chase said he’s bringing home Memphis Pizza Cafe for dinner and I’m like And then waiting on him to get home like
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An Almost Functional Sewing Room
I finally buckled down, found some energy and attacked my sewing room. Part of the thing that helped is the fact I made room in our hall bathroom closet for a lot of my wigs & hair styling stuff that had previously just been sitting around my office. Having somewhere to put all the wigs and wigheads kinda got me…
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FAQ Friday: Amidala’s Parade Dress Hair
Today I have a tutorial to post! I’m planning on wearing my Queen Amidala parade dress soon, and it’s been YEARS since I wore it (late 2005 was the last time I wore it with long hair; 2010 with short hair), so I figured I needed to practice the hair since it’s been a while. Back in 2005, my hairstylist…
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Ms Marvel & Indy
I found this pic I’d never done anything with when going through Ms Marvel pics. She was in probably every photoshoot we ever did at the house. (because she was always nosy about what we were doing)
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MidSouthCon 2015
This weekend was MidSouthCon of course! (Warning: there is puke in the upcoming story.) It ended up being kind of a strange weekend. Our plans were to take Kevin and let him enjoy the convention while I was doing my panels and whatnot. We picked him up Thursday and he spent the night, then Friday I ran home at lunch…
