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frustrated… Marie Antoinette Corset
I finished my Marie corset, only to be totally unhappy with the fit. It’s “ok” right now – a tad big. I already took it up a a ton and it’s still overlapping in spots. The tabs along the bottom are stretching out too far, and it’s not pulling tight around my waist – the only place it’s pulling tight…
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the pauper of the surf, the jester of Tortuga
Went to see Pirates last night – I liked it much more than the last two. The cool thing was almost everyone from work ended up there and in the same theater LOL Not a lot on the schedule for this weekend. I’m going to keep working on Marie, maybe scan some stuff.
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Marie Antoinette Corset star, and Prop Room
I got the corset put together last night. I had to take some of the boning out and trim some of them so I could take it up, because it was too big the first time. I just pinned it on the dressform to take a quick pic: Tonight I’ve got to put the lining in, finish the bottom and…
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IM AWAKE! Starting Marie Antoinette
So apparently taking a whole imitrex in the afternoon leaves me wired for the rest of the night. I feel like I’m on drugs or something. Taking a a partial one makes me feel a kind-of cool anticipation feeling in my chest… this is that x10. So. I started Marie Antoinette. I haven’t taken any pics yet. I’ll try to…
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dragoncon 2011 costume list
I’m posting this so I don’t forget. Ms Marvel – black suit Ms Marvel/Moonstone – red suit Lady Blackhawk Donna Noble Marie Antoinette Surprise #1 Surprise #2 Surprise #3 Surprise #4 (maybe) Enchantress Queen Hippolyta Shadowcat (my old one from dragoncon 2002. I thought it would be fun to wear it 10 years apart.)
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post weekend
I got started on Marie Antoinette. Got my corset started, and my panniers cut out. A long way to go but it’s a start. Otherwise didn’t do a lot this weekend. Helped my mum move stuff out of her classroom, watched Doctor Who, did yardwork, and Ash came over today and made a sockmonkey. Basketball season is over, which I’m…
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Art Post: Rose and Amy
I don’t know which I like better, my colourized black-and-white sketch better (left), or the more finished one (right). I’ve also got any Amy sketch, but I need more markers. I only had three to do this one with and my lightest one is totally dead. And, here’s the rough sketch of Martha:
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Ms Marvel Updates, Spamalot!
This weekend was busy! I had Friday off and worked on Ms Marvel/Moonstone off and on – I had a sinus headache thing going on so I slept when i wasn’t working. We went out with Ashley & Kevin friday night and saw Thor – it was great. Saturday Chase was at the Grizz game allll day, from around 12:30…
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Ms Marvel & Donna Noble Progress
My Donna Noble jacket is finished, except for finding buttons. Chase cut out the leather pieces of the belt for me, once he’s got those shaped right I’ve got to dye them and get them attached to the elastic and get the buckle put on. I’m really not happy with the tank top I got – it doesn’t even look…
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DUDE
called to find out what time my dr appt tomorrow was, because I couldn’t remember. they didn’t have an appt for me on the books at all. And I was like
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All Clear
I finished reading Connie Willis’ “All Clear” last night. It was SO GOOD. Seriously I know people who have read the first book, Blackout, but nobody else has read All Clear yet so I have no one to talk about it with!! I wanted to send the author a message saying how much I enjoyed it but she doesn’t appear…
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weird day
today was my dad’s birthday! 🙂 We got up and and met my parents for lunch, after giving dad his present (ipad). After lunch we headed back to their house for dessert where we got stuck by strong thunderstorms. Didn’t get home til around six. And now Chase is already in bed! He has a photoshoot at 3AM! Some party.…
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Donna Noble Jacket progress
Here’s my pics of the donna jacket, start to finish so far.
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our anniversary… zoo trip!
Yesterday was a lot of fun. We went to the zoo in the morning. Luckily the weather was nice in the morning and we had a good time. The bears were playing in the water right by the windows, we saw the sealion show and the zebras were actually running around. Chase got me a couple of penguins in the…
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whoo hoo! Lady Blackhawk nearly done
One week worth of work: It’s almost done! I’m actually on schedule to have 2 costumes done for dragoncon by the end of this month. I can’t believe it LOL Tomorrow I am OFF work and I’m going to the zoo with my awesome husband of THREE years (as of tomorrow!). I’ve been looking forward to this for months so…
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Lady Blackhawk updates, old pics
Like I said last post, I am powering through Lady Blackhawk – I actually think I’m pretty well on schedule to have both Donna and Lady Blackhawk done by the end of the month, which would mean TWO costumes down for Dragoncon already. Here’s Lady Blackhawk as of Sunday night: Tonight I’m putting the zipper in, and getting the waistband…
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shall i embarrass myself some more?
Digging through my old hard-drive for that Sailor Moon pic yesterday, I came across quite a few “lost” costume pics from a decade ago. I don’t have a date on this one, though I’m thinking it’s sometime in 2001 also, very early on in my costuming making. I bought this costume off ebay – Sailor Mars: I tossed on a…
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random memory
Here’s a random memory of a costume I never did. Back in the dark ages, I used to look around on ebay pretty often for costumes. This was way before the influx of chinese commissioners, and the search term “cosplay” would only bring up about a page or two of results, if that. I would go search just to see…
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puzzle puzzle + Donna updates
Have I ever mentioned how much I love uploading puzzle photos to flickr? I know probably about 70% of the people who follow me on flickr are creepers only following me for pics of girls in costume, so I love to be like, “HERE LOOK AT MY PUZZLES” I finally got some puzzle glue to glue Ophelia together – they…
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Sketchblog: Rogue and Emma
Costume sketches for my upcoming Rogue (Shi’ar suit) and Emma Frost (original dress) projects.
