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Flickr Sets
I just organized some flickr photos into their sets and got to wondering which of my albums have the most photos? Kevin – 1,422 SDCC 2006 – 937 Dragoncon 2008 – 880 Wedding – 858 In-Progress – 821 My Kevin album has the most because I try to collect ALL of my Kevin pics in one folder so I’m not…
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Recent updates
Monday I focused on getting the bottom half of the dress patterned out. Chase printed it for me Tuesday — but we had to go help with moving some stuff at my grandma’s that night, so by the time we got home i was too tired to do anything with it. So yesterday I got my quasi-light table set up…
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Rawr
Saw Jurassic World twice this weekend and now I am a velociraptor. Chase was out of town Friday and Saturday and I tried to get a lot done but I didn’t really. I started on the circles underneath the points. Not crazy about how the beaded ones looked so I stopped beading them and just focused on getting the basic…
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Dragoncon thoughts – again
It’s that time of the year, the time of the year when I can’t make up my mind about what costumes I want to take to Dragoncon with me. Currently… 1. Captain Marvel – For sure! I have all my fabric, just need to find a base pair of boots, buy a zipper and some buttons and I have everything…
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Crap
Crap, I had a long-ass post written out about crazy stuff last night and Donna progress and wordpress just had an error when I went to post and didn’t even save the draft. WTF :\ So, short version: 1. Bad migraine day yesterday 2. Cath came over and we made a bunch of capes for her summer camp 3. Chase…
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Stuff
Didn’t get to do a lot on the Donna stuff over the weekend, so finally got to jump in again last night. I started doing some of the light purple points. Got all but one done on one side – didn’t feel like rethreading because I wanted to go to bed LOL The interior of my new car gets HOT!…
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Queen Aelsa & Memphis Comic Expo pics!
This weekend was crazy… ! Saturday was not only Memphis Comic Expo – but moving day for my grandma. The plan was for myself, Chase and Kevin to head up to the convention and the movers/the rest of the family would do the moving. But we ended up heading over that way to help after a couple of hours. And…
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Just keep beading
More beading progress from last night: I got the base of the “spikes” on either side done, the rest of them I’ll do by hand. More general beading, too. Monkeyed around with the top line parts a little, too. FABRIC! My spandex order came! My Captain Marvel fabric! I’m actually doing it!!!!! I was going to do it 2 years…
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More Donna progress
Discovered rifftrax was on hulu last night so I got a good bit done. Unfortunately, those straight line stitches at the top I wanted to take out? Half-way through removing the first one I realized it was damaging the fabric. UGH! So I stopped and left what was there and just went over the top of it with my embroidery…
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Progress YAY
I never did come back with a picture of the wig because I forgot to take one. So I took one this morning. I need to brush the wig out really well. It has been manhandled a lot recently so I need to get it looking nice again. I’ll probably rebraid the front, too, and I’m going to find some…
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Costume Stuff
Breaking today’s post up into 2 posts because my car post got a little long. I got a decent amount of work done this weekend! First off, on Friday, I had the sudden realization that I had my dates for Memphis Comic Expo mixed up. I thought I had 2 weeks to finish my costume. Turns out it’s NEXT weekend.…
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A new car! *cheer*
I spent Saturday buying a car! I was hoping I still had my blog post here about buying the bug back in 2003, but apparently it was on my regular blogger site, which I don’t think I ported over to this (I still have them all… somewhere). The MX3 had died and I bought a brand new Beetle — apparently…
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A few decisions
So, with all of the craziness of this week (I had to go pick jury duty dates yesterday morning. SO LOVELY after having my grandfather’s funeral the day before. F jury duty.) I ended up making some decisions about my projects for this summer. I’m pretty sure both of the big projects are out the door. The Georgian dress is…
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Papa
My grandpa, Papa (“Pawpaw”) passed away early Sunday morning. Been keeping myself busy and the family has been together pretty much nonstop, so that’s been good. Back at work today, which is harder than I expected.
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More elf stuff
Since I’m done with Janet Snakehole, I went back to work on the Aelsa costume! I picked up some stretch satin last weekend and got my gloves made this week. I did some decorative embroidery stitch from one of the sewing machines along the front part, and some beading along the front edge. I just need to add the finger…
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One costume down!!
I finished the dress!! That’s one DragonCon costume down! Of course I STILL have not decided what all I’m making this year. I’m not totally feeling the two “big” costumes I was thinking of choosing between. Sigh. More on that later. I think my neck/collar ended up sitting a little lower than the real thing, but I think it’s cute…
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More progress
I forgot I had this pic – here’s my wig for Queen Aelsa: I’ve gotten the two wigs sewn together, now I need to style it and add the decorations. Last night, I got my hem top-stitched, put the zipper in, and got the sleeves made and attached: Tonight, I get to figure out the collar. I don’t think it…
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Dragoncon progress
I finally got started on a Dragoncon project!! Yes, the white elf dress I’m working on is also for Dragoncon – but I’m hoping to debut it at Memphis Comics Expo next month. So technically, it’s not a Dragoncon costume. I’m doing a Janet Snakehole/April Ludgate costume for fun. Easy comfy nighttime costume, and mostly made of stuff I already…
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Dress is finished
I finished my Queen Aelsa dress this weekend! Finished all the hemming, and I did a little beading along the shoulders and top edges of the sleeve openings. I also finished adding all of the extra wefts to my wig – now I need to braid it and it’s ready. Still got armor to make and horns + ears to…
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FAQ Friday: Body Paint, Part 2
So, I did a post on Body Paint a while back, but it was basically an overview of things I’d tried in the past, and what I do now. I thought for today’s FAQ Friday, I’d go into a little more detail about my process. 1. Ben Nye As I mentioned in the last post, I use Ben Nye Magicake…
