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2023 Costume Wrap-Up
All rightie it’s that time of the year when we compare last year’s to-do list and see what I got done. At the end of 2022, here’s what I said I wanted to accomplish in 2023… 1. Finish Wedding Leia — YES! I did finish wedding Leia! 2. Rebels Leia — YES! I have been saying I was going to…
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let’s have a covid christmas
As I mentioned in last week’s posts, I had a stomach bug or something last week after getting back from NYC. Even after getting past the pukey-ness and stomach cramps, I still was exhausted and had no appetite. Saturday we had to run a few errands and that was the end of that day for me. We were supposed to…
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The not NY Post
So like I said, I didn’t post last week, just didn’t have much to say and we were busy getting ready for the trip. Not a lot happened out side of trip preparation, so I’ll just touch the few highlights. First off I got sick as soon as we got home from NY Tuesday night. I was up all night…
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The New York Post
Get it? The New York Post? Haha Sorry I didn’t post last week; didn’t have much to say and we were busy getting ready to leave — but I will make a separate post of updates after this one, just to have the vacation content separate from everything else. So let’s start with Wednesday! We went out to my parents’…
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i’ve dabbled in being a bitch
I actually don’t have much to talk about this week EXCEPT a little bit of progress on honeymoon Leia. I can finally see it coming together! Sleeves! So last week I mentioned I gave up on lining the skirt and just did french seams. I planned to finish the edges with white bias tape – machine sewn on the edge…
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dont lose your head
Well. What a week. Last Monday was HVAC install day. Our front yard with all the old stuff was a disaster area. They were here for nearly 12 hours that day. The new ductwork takes up SO MUCH more attic space 🙁 I could just barely fit everything back in. I had just cleaned this space and our closet spaces…
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the horrors persist, but so do i
Whelp. Remember how last week I talked about my dressform breaking? Well, it broke AGAIN. I was readjusting the waist measurements and the entire interior waist components popped off. Ugh. Guess a new form is what I’m spending my christmas money on — though apparently they dont make the burgundy one anymore? I’m going to have to get the beige…
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shake it off
What a weird couple of days. Monday we went to the Tiger game. Fun times. I spent the last week slowly getting christmas set up. I told Chase I’m doing “Maximalist” christmas this year. Basically I have never put up ALL of our christmas stuff. I decided this year i was putting EVERYTHING out. Everything ended up being less than…
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let’s circle back after the holidays
Halloween now feels like a month ago. But it was just a week ago! Since it was cold out I wore Leia so I could layer under it, and it’s comfortable to sit in while waiting on trick or treaters. I ended up being home alone most of the night. Chase had to go over and help my aunt and…
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spooky spectacular
Hey hi boy have the last few days been busy! Earlier last week I did finish up Stevie: But more on that later. Wednesday had dinner with the girls! Thursday a mysterious box showed up. Well, mysterious to Luna, not to me. Tiktok Shop finally got me, I said I’d never buy anything from there but… I did. This cat…
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Fall For Costume – The One Costume Edition
1. Introductions Every year in October I do the Fall for Costume challenge, which always has a lot of fun prompts for posting different costume pictures. This year it wasn’t vibing with me and I gave up on it last week, the prompts just weren’t doing it for me. I’m still checking the prompts each day to see if it’s…
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what a weird week
No, i don’t have the christmas trees out yet – I probably mentioned it in the last post, but we got a new hot water heater last monday! YAY! Our old one hadn’t gone out yet, but it had gotten very inconsistent, like one time the water would be piping hot and then the next 5 days lukewarm. It’s nice…
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its finally fall!
It finally got a little chilly here. Went outside yesterday morning to get some catgrass for Luna and it was COLD! I’m normally a summer girlie but I’m ready to wear my hoodies. (I’ll be ready for summer again by december LOL) Let’s start with sewing updates — I started on my Stevie top. I thought I’d get this in…
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spooky scary skeletons
It’s finally FALL YALL I finished getting the inside mostly decorated. I still have a few more lights to put up and I plan to put one of my dressforms in the front window in a spooky costume again. Thinking about using my Edith costume with my Donna Noble runaway bride veil for a spooky bride look? Gonna wrap the…
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meet agent dale cooper
Saturday I said goodbye to my old Honda Fit… And said “HELLO!” to my brand new mini cooper! OH MY GOD it’s so cute I can’t stand it. I’m currently sitting with naming it Agent Dale Cooper and calling it “Coop.” I did also test drive the larger countryman version, and it drove pretty much the same, but at the…
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im great at doing stuff
Sorry I’m a day late! Chase just sent me the pics he took of my Valkyrie costume Saturday last night so I wanted to wait til i had those to post. But before i get to Valkyrie let’s rewind to last week! First up look at all this fabric I donated! I was able to give all of this to…
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could it be those irrepressible thoughts of death?
It’s not just any monday it’s the monday before my ~~**BIRTHDAY**~~ I kinda forgot about it honestly because it’s just not been on my brain. I’ve been kinda stressed out. Sewing room clean up continues. Finished putting the closet back together. Got a new bin to fit the homeless costumes in and reorganized everything that was hanging up. Now we’re…
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it’s virgo season
Virgo Season is in FULL EFFECT. And i’ve decided i’m just gonna stay in virgo season for the rest of my life. It’s a state of mind. Since i posted so late last week I don’t have much to post about this week. This is one of the few things i bought at Dcon. I was thinking it was the…
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Dragoncon 2023 – the costume recap
Ok so to keep my Dragoncon recap free of long paragraphs about costume minutiae, I decided to just make a separate post. 1. 18th Century Barbie Like I said in the main recap post, it was really nice to get to bring this costume back after it had such a disastrous debut at Dragoncon 2015. Literally I nearly had a…
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Dragoncon 2023 – the general recap
Well another Dragoncon has come and gone. It was a good year and somehow I didn’t come home feeling like absolute crap? LIke my feet are still sore and my little toes are still slightly numb but otherwise I don’t feel as exhausted as I usually do. Anyway let’s recap it all…. I can’t remember if I posted our badge…
