• Thanksgiving and Photoshoot!
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    Thanksgiving and Photoshoot!

    So Tuesday last week I had a sore throat, Wednesday I had no voice. Thursday day I felt OK just tired and I had started coughing. Now it’s turned into a little cold and I’ve been hacking up a lung for the past couple of days. But beyond that, Thanksgiving was nice. We had the family lunch and then went…

  • MCFC!
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    MCFC!

    We went up and checked out MCFC Saturday! We had a leisurely morning and did a quick white backdrop shoot with Merida while my hair was fresh out of the curlers. It ended up being a yucky, cold and rainy day. I added my black cape to my costume and had to layer up a bit underneath the dress. And…

  • Battlefront 3 Midnight Release
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    Battlefront 3 Midnight Release

    So last night we trooped the midnight release of Battlefront 3 at Best Buy! Chase had play practice so I thought I was on my own… until Kevin ended up staying with us last night. Yay! I was going to put him in Luke, but he arrived at my house with a big fuzzy beard. So I pulled the jedi…

  • Weekend stuff!
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    Weekend stuff!

    I got Merida mostly finished! I got the eyelets set into the neck with Chase’s help though I cut one opening too big and after a freak out spiral I ended up having to go back and wrap each eyelet in embroidery floss to fix it, but in the end it looks good and there’s no visible metal eyelets, so…

  • More Merida – I made a belt!
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    More Merida – I made a belt!

    So last night I had to wait until Chase got home and we were done with dinner so he could help me get the box of leather scraps – they were on the top shelf with a bunch of stuff in front of it. But once he did I was so happy to find not one but two scraps of…

  • More Merida Progress
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    More Merida Progress

    This is becoming much more involved than I had intended it to be… but only because I’m so pleased with it. So the other day I realized I had a great blue/green scarf that would look really nice as part of the sash. I hate to sacrifice it to the costume gods (I bought it on our 2012 Disney trip……

  • Merida progress
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    Merida progress

    I worked on getting Merida mostly finished this weekend. Here she was on Friday: I had to get the other sleeve made and finished – I had all the pieces cut, so I figured it would be fairly easy, but it wasn’t. I had a hard time getting them to look the same and be even – I need to…

  • The Pitstains
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    The Pitstains

    So, I’m trying to play Sims 4 again. I’ve had it for a while, and I just have not been able to get into it at all. I play for like, 10 minutes and then turn it off. (I feel like I ought to just uninstall it and put Sims 3 back on my computer.) But I really felt like…

  • Halloween & sewing room
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    Halloween & sewing room

    Chase gave me the pics he took on Saturday when I was in Anne! Showing my grandma pics on my phone… Kevin chilling out (his wig was making a backwards escape off his head…) The three of us I really need to learn that it doesn’t matter how good and balanced it feels on my head in the 10 seconds…

  • More office work
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    More office work

    Last night after dinner we ran out to Hobby Lobby so I could get a couple more glass jars for beads (so I could free up our tupperware to return to the kitchen….) and Home Depot for some command hooks. It didn’t leave me a lot of time to work last night but I did make a dent. Over in…

  • The Deep Clean
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    The Deep Clean

    I decided last night it was time to clean my sewing room top to bottom… as usual throughout the summer working on Dragoncon costumes things just get stuffed in places and things get disorganized, so it was time to redo! At first I was just going to clean up the two fabric bins I keep in my office for “current…

  • Halloween yay!
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    Halloween yay!

    Halloween was fun! So, Friday, I “dressed up” for work. Basically I wore my Janet Snakehole wig and my April Ludgate work ID. Even thought it was just me and my boss in the office so I don’t know why I bothered! LOL And then Kevin tried on my wig… We thought about going out Friday night since there were…

  • Sleeves!!
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    Sleeves!!

    So yesterday morning I had a little migraine and I took my medicine and ate my breakfast and usually after that, everything is cool. Well the medicine didn’t do anything and all morning it kept getting worse and worse. I hadn’t brought any more medicine with me because usually one dose is enough to at least last me through lunch.…

  • “Little” Merida
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    “Little” Merida

    Some more progress on the “little” Merida dress. I keep calling it that in my head, it’s not really little… just, it’s not serious. So it becomes little Merida. The bottom hem was rolling up and exposing the crushed velvet right side. I thought that looked kinda neat. So I pinned the hem on the outside. I like it! I…

  • Random Stuff
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    Random Stuff

    Hey! I’m behind on posting. Here’s what’s been going on lately. Last week I made a dress for a friend for Halloween! It’s not a great picture of it. The main part of the dress is a really neat, heavy matte knit that I really liked working with. My only issue was that I didn’t have the best needle for…

  • More art
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    More art

    Here’s ewok village Leia… And metal bikini Leia… I’ve been working on a Halloween costume for a friend and finished it up last night! It’s not the best pic of it but it’s all I’ve got.

  • Fixing stuff
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    Fixing stuff

    Oh hi again! I haven’t updated lately… not much to update with, really. Been working on fixing broken images on my blog – so far I’ve gotten everything fixed back through 2008. Besides that, I did some art.

  • Oh hi blog
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    Oh hi blog

    Sorry I haven’t posted in a while! Been busy… my birthday and then Las Vegas! Let me go back through my phone photos and see what I’ve missed. I got some very important fabric and a very important pattern (no clue what I’m doing with any of this, I just got it all for the stash.) And then I had…

  • Comments
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    Comments

    This is something I hate to do but I’ve decided it’s best for my sanity. I have turned off comments for the time being. They will be turned on again on November 1st. Over the past few days I have gotten multiple comments regarding selling my costumes/commissions for Halloween. Most of them I have deleted, as I have text above…