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Saving Anna Valerious
This weekend is exciting because it’s a PHOTOSHOOT weekend!! Hooray! I’m shooting my Arwen Blood Red Dress, my original Arwen dress and Ozma of Oz – all because I got a new wig from Arda a couple months ago for these costumes in particular (the wig I used to use became Ame-Comi Wonder Woman’s ponytail back in 2008….). I’m also…
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Disgust photos!
Besides uploading all my Disney photos, I also got my Disgust photoshoot pictures up! Super happy with how these came out. Here’s a few favs… And I have my portfolio updated with the construction stuff!
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More Disney Photos!
Last night I got our Photopass pictures downloaded, as well as what was on our little digital camera. (Turns out there was only like, 6 photos on the digital camera and 4 of them were repeats of our photopass photos… LOL) Me & Jake: Yes, I stood in line by myself, a grown woman who has never even watched this…
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Back from Disney!
This trip was a whirlwind. The shortest trip we’ve ever done (yet) it was a big experiment for us. This was our first time only doing 3 (technically 2 1/2) days, our first time in a long time NOT doing the dining plan, and our first time driving straight through the first day. Let’s see how those experiments turned out……
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Two posts in one day??
I uploaded Kevin’s MidSouthCon pics from the digital camera already so I thought I’d go ahead and post them. HERE is the link to the whole gallery! I posted my Disgust/Wonder Woman snapchat but here’s Kevin’s matching Batman: This little Batman was the cutest EVER Full length: As I mentioned my petticoat is showing too much on the side; I’ll…
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The most random post ever
This weekend was CRAZY busy… Well let me start with Thursday. I started pulling out stuff for our trip this week, and decided our one stitch patch on our park bag looked lonely, so I dragged out my patch collection to see what I could do. After some fiddling around with placement and seeing what would fit, I ended up…
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BANG
I have no idea what happened at 6 AM this morning but it sounded like a shotgun right in our backyard. I was laying in bed half-awake (thanks, migraine) and immediately yelled for Chase, who was sitting in the living room on the couch. He apparently bolted off the couch and scared the cat and ran into the bedroom to…
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Just need a belt buckle…
Finished up the belt last night! I had a big enough scrap of leather in the leather bin to use as a base. I wish it’d been a LITTLE bit taller (like maybe 1/2 inch) but this was all we had to work with, and I didn’t want to go buy something new. I made a casing out of the…
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Disgust Updates
Yesterday was an interesting day, in terms of progress. I got home and immediately tackled the tights I’d bought for my arms and legs. And immediately regretted it! Even though I hemmed the openings I cut immediately, I was still getting runs and I just really wasn’t happy with the way it looked in general. It looked ok on my…
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Wearable!
I got the zipper put into Disgust last night and was finally able to try the whole thing on: Best of all, I discovered that if I tuck my Briar Rose petticoat up, it’s short enough to wear under this, so I don’t have to make a whole petticoat!!! Whew. That’s a time-saver. I still have to hem the skirt,…
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DISNEY!
Our trip has really sneaked up on us. I guess because I’ve been so busy. Just suddenly last week I realized we are 3 weeks out from our first trip of the year! We got our magic bands week before last… (Also, my Leia and Chewie tsumtsums!) We are trying to get some of the magic band colours we don’t…
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A collection of updates
First up… I worked on my Disgust wig last night! I bought two packs of a green metallic embroidery floss and just started threading it into the wig cap: It was nearly impossible to get a decent photo of, which doesn’t bode well for actually wearing it, but in person I think it looks great. I still have a little…
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Not much to report…
I’ve been working on Disgust pretty consistently over the past days since I last posted. I’m about halfway through with the skirt. It’s going to be tight getting this finished for MidSouthCon, since I have to pause and work on some theater costumes at some point this weekend. I’m really going to try to kick this thing into high gear…
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Disgust updates, etc
I finallllly got working on my Disgust costume again over the weekend. Well I worked on a little bit last week too, but that was mostly just finishing up the top, so it wasn’t really worth posting about. I started working on the dress designs: I ran to Michael’s saturday morning and grabbed some embroidery floss since as it turns…
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Finished!
Chase took some photos of my finished Belle dresses last night. We just set them up in the hallway (under the Belle portrait!) on the dressform. The blue dress: After I sent it in for a final try-on, I found out I was going to have to lose about 4 inches of length when I hemmed it. I tried to…
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Almost there…
I finished the ballgown over the weekend! Now where did I leave off.. First up, the real hoopskirt came in so I was able to switch out my stand-in for the real one…. it came just in time, they are shaped differently so that helped me gauge the gathering in the seams, and pinning the hem, Getting the two skirts…
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Ballgown skirt
I was supposed to work on the shoulder pieces last night but I didn’t. Instead I came home and sewed all the skirt panels together, gathered it (just as a test, I’ll probably have to re-gather it later), and then got all of the skirt poof panels cut and sewn together (well, mostly, I still have two more in the…
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Belle ballgown bodice progress!
Some more updates on the school play Belle costumes… I strugged with the bodice for the ballgown the past two nights – trying to get all 5 layers even and sized the same way was a nightmare. I also made the mistake of buying plastic boning for it – because obviously our stores here don’t sell the spiral steel I…
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Disgust, and other randomness
I have a whole ton of random pictures in my photo stream, and some personal costume updates that I decided to separate from the Belle post I just did! Kevin was with us for a whole week, so we had some fun: It’s amazing how much easier Leia buns are to do on somebody else’s head. On our way to…
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Belle Costumes
Yay new projects to talk about! I’m currently working on two Belle costumes for a production of Beauty and the Beast! My mom is doing the 3 dresses for Gaston’s silly girls, and I’m doing the Belle village dress and ballgown. Week before last, we went shopping… starting with a disappointing trip to Hancock Fabrics. 4 in the afternoon, lines…
