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2 spooky m8
Last night I woke up at 12:30 in the morning and there was a light on in the hallway. It freaked me out, because we’d had people over that evening, and left the front door unlocked while people came and went. My paranoid mind immediately went to, “someone snuck into the house and hid” so I woke Chase up, but…
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Happy Thanksgiving
I had a very nice Thanksgiving break. Chase and I cooked ourselves a mini Thanksgiving dinner for just the two of us that night (after family lunch earlier in the day). It was really good and we still have leftovers after eating on them all weekend. The rest of the weekend was cleaning, errands, and our “Friends-giving” yesterday night which…
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FAQ Friday: Cleaning your costumes
Today’s question is… How do yo keep your costumes clean? I’m going to start this off with a story. Several years ago, I bought a used costume piece from someone. I figured it would make things easier and cheaper than buying it new/making it myself. Well, first it was like pulling teeth to get this person to mail it to…
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Random thoughts
So, pretty much all the time I’m wearing a costume dress or skirt, I’ve probably also got shorts or pants on underneath it. Or, sometimes, for whatever reason, wearing jeans or something over a superhero costume. Exhibit A, B, and C: And for whatever reason, guys tend to want to comment on this in a condescending, snarky way. (I haven’t…
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Batgirl Pics
I’m in love with the shots we took on the white back drop after MCFC! There were so many I liked I had trouble weeding them down to pick out which ones to post. But here’s a few. My favourites are up in my portfolio and the rest are over at my flickr account.
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Um, no
Several several years ago, our local newspaper posted an article about one of our local cons. I found it by happenstance, just from googling around afterwards looking for pics. Well, they had used an AP photo from San Diego Comic Con for the article. That was the only image for the whole article. And I’m like, as long as this…
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MCFC!
Been busy the past few days! But Saturday we headed over to MCFC for a few hours, and it was a lot of fun. I wore Batgirl. Although since I’d curled my hair AND it was warmer out than I’d thought it would be (thus I was quite toasty) I never wore the cowl at the con, just carried it.…
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Weirdness
Strange coincidence. Or maybe not? All I can guess is strange coincidence. Hotel for the convention I’m going to tomorrow calls me on my cell phone yesterday. I didn’t answer since I didn’t recognize the number, but googled it afterwards to see who it was. No voicemail left. That wouldn’t be all that unusual except I don’t have a room…
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The saga of my sunglasses
So I am really bad about sunglasses. I’ve never been into them that much – I’ll occasionally buy a pair, and then either decide I look silly in them and never wear them, or forget them, or lose them immediately. Never really mattered since I don’t care about sunglasses anyway. Well one day while swimming at my aunt’s pool, it…
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GMX 5 Photos!
Our photos from GMX are up! Event section and costumes are updated with new pics!
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GMX 2013
Well it’s a week later, I guess I should finally post about GMX, huh? We drove up after work on Friday! We got in later than we expected but we got into the room fast, and I threw on Trillian and we hung out downstairs, and went to the Favor panel! Kevin in the Falcon cockpit! Kevin was doing the…
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Halloween, part 2
Yesterday’s weather was awful. It rained and stormed all day, with high winds. Last year we didn’t have as many trick-or-treaters as before and the weather was fine, so I figured, this bad weather is going to chase the bulk of them off – I’ll be surprised if we get 5 trick-or-treaters. At least we had good candy that would…
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OMG
Something today made me think of The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West by Mary Stanton. I was OBSESSED with that book, and it’s sequel as a kid. I was digging around on deviantart today and there’s actually FANART. Not a lot, but it’s there. The 9 year old in me is overjoyed. I think I need to dig up…
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It’s Halloween – Time for Spooky Stories
So I was just going to link my ages old posts on spooky stuff I have here on my blog from my livejournal days – but they’re so old that they’re hidden, so I decided to just rewrite them and share them with a decades-later perspective. I grew up loving ghost stories – especially “true” ones, and admittedly had (have)…
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Halloween!! (Part 1)
Besides our Hocus Pocus photoshoot, we’ve already done a handful of Halloween-related events, so I thought I’d go ahead and post a few photos. Last week I actually won a contest on facebook, getting free tickets to go see a showing of Hocus Pocus on the big video screen at Redbirds Stadium. Kevin and I both wore our Hogwarts uniforms,…
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Adventures in House Hunting
My way home from my new job takes me right by a house we looked at when we were house hunting back in 2009, so yesterday in my head I was reminiscing about it and some of the other places we looked at. We looked at a lot of short sales/foreclosures, since we could possibly get a bigger house for…
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MORE Hocus Pocus
OMG. I am in love with pretty much every photo from this photoshoot and just want to post them all. Here’s a handful of favourites. The rest are here! Or, if you want to know more about how I made these costumes, visit my portfolio!
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Halloween is one week away…..
Do I have time to rush-make a complete costume for your Halloween party? You’ve waited til exactly a week before Halloween to ask, and you want it for 1/10 the price of what I would charge even IF I did commissions? Oh, so now you’re asking to borrow one of my costumes? So, overall, the answer is…
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Hocus Pocus preview
Sorry I’ve been so MIA lately, I didn’t have a Throwback Thursday queued to post today. Blah. Just been busy and such. So the only news of any import is that we did a Hocus Pocus photoshoot this past weekend. YAY! Haven’t gotten them all yet but here’s a preview. I’m really excited about the rest. We didn’t do them…
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Disney Excitement
I have developed a code system so I can relate to Chase how excited I am about our upcoming Disney trip. Code Purple: The moment when we agree we can start planning our next trip. Code Blue: The quiet moment of joy that comes when we’ve paid off our trip. Code Yellow: Those moments when you’re thinking about something else…