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Donna Noble jacket + Sewing Room
I wasn’t happy with ANY of the fabric samples I got for fabric for my Donna Noble jacket. And I couldn’t afford leather. So – I found a vintage leather jacket on ebay and got it. It’s not bad. The colour isn’t 100% there, but it’s not NEARLY as orange as it looks in this pic. I think the tone…
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April Costumes
I’ve got 2 costumes I’m supposed to be tackling this month: Donna and Lady Blackhawk. I got a fabric sample for Donna that I’m mulling over, for the jacket. I can’t decide if I like it not. I have a pattern that should be easy enough to mod. Found shirt fabric I like. Hair is a work-in-progress 🙂 Should be…
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a few more MidSouthCon 2011 pics
Here’s some pics I found from friends from this past weekend. (pic by Glenn) my hair looked great friday. too bad it didn’t stay that way. I was really surprised by how many people knew who I was supposed to be – better than at Anaheim or Dragoncon, even. (At dcon people kept asking if I was a steampunk person.)…
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Hippolyta thoughts
Only got 3 pics of Hippolyta at the con and I look dead on my feet in everyone of them LOL But anyway – I’m really surprised it came together as well as it did, considering Chase didn’t finish the tiara, shoulder pieces, gauntlets and chestpiece until the night before, and we had to figure out the attachments in the…
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MidSouthCon 2011 wrap-up!
MidSouthCon kicked my butt! But it was a great weekend. Didn’t get a lot of pics. Most of the pics we took were Chase’s he took in his photo booth, so I can’t post those. But I’ll post what I have. Friday I’m glad I had the day off, because I ended up having a lot to finish up at…
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Hippolyta build
I fell in love with this costume back in October I think it was, and told Chase I wanted to do it for MidSouthCon. I started working on stuff back in January, and when I needed a break from Enchantress I’d go back to work on Hippolyta. I started out with a halter top made of the chiffon, and a…
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Hippolyta progress, Enchantress pic
First, work: Bodice: finished!! Made the belt and got it attached. Cape: finished!! Drape: not even. Waist wrap: finished!! Shoes: started on them, finishing tonight. Skirt: making progress. I hated the way I was doing the skirt detail and ripped it all off and had a bout of frustration last night, but then found an alternative and was happy with…
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Hippolyta panels
I spent pretty much all morning embroidering the front of this corset, then decided I didn’t like it, ripped it out, went and bought a grey pin and drew the design on. It’s not great but I think it’ll look better with some shadows added – the grey on silver is a little muddy, I think with a thin black…
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MidSouthCon Costume Thoughts
Last night – or rather, early this morning – Indy woke us up barking at 4AM. She never does that, and it freaked me out. It wasn’t her “Hey! Stranger!” bark, it was her “bored” bark, which was weird. All I can think is that she was dreaming. Ok, so I’m thinking about what to take to MidSouthCon with me.…
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Hippolyta Progress
I got the upper part of my bodice cut out of my leather and put together, and started doing sketches on it. I’m going to finalize the sketches today and draw them on tonight. I just barely had enough leather. Chase tried to tickle me while I was walking away from him in the kitchen last night. I jerked away…
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like a boss
I got my skirt panels patterned, cut and dyed tonight.
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ECCC 2011 pics!
Got our pics uploaded last night. Here’s a few favs. Undercover ms Marvel My Enchantress costume: I already wrote about it on my costume site, so I’ll just leave it at just pics here 🙂 Balloon Belle… and Mulder and Scully, excellent. Calvin about to get pounced by Hobbes, very cute… and Little Hellboy! There were a lot of cute…
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3 random thoughts
1. there was a guy on a our plane to Seattle. He was wearing old jeans that were short and tight at the ankles, plain white tennis shoes, and a white wife beater (with some faded beach scene on the front). To top it off, he was wearing a red velvet smoking jacket, with black collar and sash tie. YOU…
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Sketchblog: Marie Antoinette
Basic ideas for my Marie Antoinette costume. It’s not fully coloured in — it was just me working out what I wanted to do.
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MidSouthCon 2011 Plans
With Seattle behind me, I’m planning for MidSouthCon at the end of the month now. I’ve been steady working on my new costume for it – I feel like I’m right on track to get it done in time. I’m pretty excited about it. Chase is doing quite a bit of it for me, and I’m excited to see the…
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Seattle trip, ECCC
We’re home! We really had a great trip. I got to see where Chase lived and went to school when he was in Seattle, see his friends who still live there, and the con was a lot of fun. I don’t have any pics from the “real” camera yet, but I’ll post a few from my camera phone. We got…
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now and then
This past weekend I was home alone. Chase was in Reelfoot taking pics. I spent the weekend working on stuff, and I had a shower Saturday afternoon. I spent saturday night at my parent’s house, and helped mom with her costumes for her upcoming play. Sunday I wasn’t feeling good, I think I had a sinus thing going on, so…
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Art Post: Doctor Who
I have more to post but no time today; trying to finish up last minute things for our trip. But over the past week or so I scanned in the sketch I did for chase for valentine’s day, cleaned up and re-coloured it.
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dreams
last night i dreamt i was on a road trip with my grandparents. We were out in the country and spent the night at my old high school. I got up in the morning and went into the bathroom, and when I did I left my blanket in there. As we were packing up I went back to get it,…
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Enchantress mask
costume updates: last night I put the straps on the bodice. I wasn’t going to, but the cotton base of the whole thing ripped a bit at one of the grommets. I didn’t use my usual cotton, it was a much thinner cotton, and I think that was the problem. I reinforced it, but to keep from having to put…
