• Dreams
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    Dreams

    Over the weekend, I had a weird mash-up dream where we were at Disney World and then at Dragon Con but neither place was the ACTUAL place. (Most of my Dragon Con dreams take place in places that are not the Dragon Con hotels. But in my head it’s Dragon Con. It’s often strange hotels/convention centers/mall mash-ups I’ve never been…

  • Heeeey
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    Heeeey

    Sorry I haven’t posted in a few days. Last week was crazy. My grandfather had surgery to remove the cancer in his neck on Tuesday. He’s been fighting this stuff for a year. The surgery went longer than planned because they found more than anticipated – it ended up being a 7 hour surgery. I went up and sat with…

  • MidSouthCon Schedule!
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    MidSouthCon Schedule!

    It’s been too long, I’m ready to go to a con!!!! I’ll be at MidSouthCon March 20-22! Here’s my panel schedule: Friday 9pm: Wigs & Make-up Saturday 9am: Costuming Showcase and Q&A Saturday 1pm: Competition Costuming I’m sooo pleased with this schedule. Friday late night panel gives me plenty of time to leave work, eat, get in costume and get…

  • ANNE PICTURES!
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    ANNE PICTURES!

    I finally got my Anne Boleyn pictures uploaded! I have a ton that I love so narrowing them down to only 4 to post isn’t going to cut it. Last night I dreamt that Ash and I went to Anime Expo. We’re heading into this really cool convention center (not where it actually is, or was) and the weather is…

  • Anne stuff
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    Anne stuff

    So I still don’t have my Anne pics uploaded just yet. Normally when we do a photoshoot, I go through the photos, remove any jumble from the background, lighten it, and I’m done. But I’m having trouble with the Anne pics. Not because it’s a white dress on a white background – though that doesn’t really help – but because…

  • New pics!
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    New pics!

    I’ve actually already got these uploaded on their individual portfolio pages, but I was waiting til I had the Anne pics uploaded for making a blog post… but I want to post them now and it’s my blog so I do what I want. Megara: It’s not like I didn’t already have nice pics of this costume (I love the…

  • Luna & stuff
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    Luna & stuff

    Luna is almost all grown up. And while she’s calmed down pretty significantly, it still feels like we just have this random wild animal living in our house sometimes. Haha. For Valentine’s Day, we bought her a big present – a big kitty jungle gym. We’ve been wanting to get her one, because she loves being high up. We had…

  • Blog,  costumes

    Costume-y Thoughts

    I’m really itching to get started working on stuff. Here’s some thoughts on things. 1. Donna Noble – Unicorn & the Wasp I was supposed to pick this up again after Dragoncon and of course I have not. I do still plan on finishing it, it’s all sitting in a box waiting on me to come back to it. 2.…

  • Dragon
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    Dragon

    I haven’t posted in a few days – sorry! Since getting back from Disney World, we’ve been rushing to finish up the Dragon project we’ve been working on. We’ve been making a Dragon costume for a middle school production of Shrek! We finally finished it up last night. I don’t have very good photos of it, because it’s meant for…

  • FAQ Friday: Mustafar Padme Hair
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    FAQ Friday: Mustafar Padme Hair

    Sorry I don’t have any pictures for this like I do for my Leia hair breakdowns; I’m kinda doing this one on the fly! So here’s my best reference for the Mustafar hairstyle; this is from padawan’s guide: And here is an other screencap. To be perfectly honest, my Mustafar costume was a quick, very non-serious costume I did just…

  • Diiiiisney Wooooooooorld
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    Diiiiisney Wooooooooorld

    We are home from vacation! Unfortunately I came home with a nasty little cold. I stayed home from work yesterday and, though I came in this morning, I’m probably going home at lunch. Honestly I don’t think I’ve had a cold like this in years! I was worried this morning I had pinkeye but now pretty sure it’s not, just…

  • FAQ Friday: Snow White Collar Attachment
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    FAQ Friday: Snow White Collar Attachment

    This is a question I’ve gotten a handful of times, and I took some photos of my collar/bodice attachment over the weekend, so I figured this would make a good entry for FAQ Friday – especially appropriate this week as I’ll be at Disney World when this posts 🙂 So anyway, my Snow White costume has a lace-up back with…

  • Random Annoyances
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    Random Annoyances

    When I see someone post a costume photo and it’s labeled/titled/described as nothing more than “cosplay girl.” (bonus if there’s absolutely no costumer/photographer credit, either.) It’s not just one person or website doing this. I’ve seen it for years, multiple places. In some cases it may be a case of not knowing who the character is. But generally, no. Instead…

  • Diiiiisney Wooooooooorld
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    All kinds of fun

    All kinds of fun stuff in my inbox today. 1. I got my MidSouthCon schedule! You can see me at 3 panels over the weekend. I’ll post it up here closer to then. 2. Signed & sent back the release to Marvel for their call for Agent Carter cosplayers. Yay! 3. Disney Movie Club finally got me. After years of…

  • Sorry
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    Sorry

    Sorry to anybody digging through my blog lately. For one thing, I know it’s a mess because I haven’t kept up with tags. Secondly, I must seem like a crazy person with my crazy happy Disney posts followed by my crazy sad Indy posts. That’s just my life right now. I’ve gone through and hidden a lot of my sad…

  • Peggy photoshoot
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    Peggy photoshoot

    First off, apologies for having a half-finished FAQ Friday post up here Friday/Saturday! I had scheduled it to post Friday but never got around to finishing it, and forgot to move it. I’ll try to finish it up for this Friday! Friday evening Chase & I did a quick photoshoot of my Peggy costume. We started out with the standard…

  • New old pictures
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    New old pictures

    So I’m still doing my little project of going back through old pictures and uploading new versions. I thought I’d share some of the more interesting ones, including some I’ve never had uploaded in the first place. Here’s my fourth lake dress that I made in 2008 – I’ve only ever had 3 pictures of this costume uploaded, though we…

  • Diiiiisney Wooooooooorld
    Blog,  travel

    Hat Watch

    Mickey’s hand and more of the Sorcerer’s Hat gone today at Disney’s Hollywood Studios pic.twitter.com/wAtrYbBBX5 — WDW News Today (@WDWNT) January 22, 2015 I’m hoping there’s a clear view of the theater by the time we get there…. fingers crossed. I check everyday for updates on the demolition!

  • Diiiiisney Wooooooooorld
    Blog,  travel

    Am I excited about my Disney trip?

    Leaving work like Picking up the rental car like Getting to our hotel like Riding the monorail like Seeing the castle like Walking down Main Street like Getting a Dole Whip like Watchin the parade like Walking into EPCOT like Eating at Rose and Crown with Chase like Snacking around the world at EPCOT like Seeing Fantasmic like Eating so…