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Busy weekend
So this weekend was crazy. As I mentioned last week, we were prepping the house for new floors! Yay! The flooring came in Friday and dad came over to help us get it in the house. It needed to sit inside our house for a couple of days to acclimate. We had already pulled up the carpet in the hallway,…
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Getting the house ready + sewing
This week through Sunday we are getting the house ready for the new floor! I started packing up stuff on shelves last night, and Chase started experimenting with pulling up the carpet in the hallway. I took some before pictures (even though I already took down a lot of knick-knacks): The flooring will be here on Thursday, and has to…
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More sewing
I did a bit of sewing on Queen Aelsa Saturday night. After cutting the bodice sections of white stretch knit, I realized the colours were going to look too different once I had the chiffon overlay on. So I managed to scrounge enough of the silver velvet to cut most of the bodice pieces out of it – couldn’t manage…
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a little mystery
I’m posting a lot today. I was digging through old hard-drives trying to find some missing pictures last night when I came across some pics of a project that did not get finished. I’m sharing it today with Chase’s permission. Back in 2012 when I was making my newer Belle ballgown, you can find mentions and photos of the new…
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Car, etc
I forgot to post about my lovely incident last week. So Tuesday I’m on my way home, Kevin is with me, we’re going down the interstate 70mph. When I hear a LOUD “blumph blumph blumph” – my front passenger side tire blew out. Luckily I was RIGHT at an exit and was able to throw my hazard lights on, roll…
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Making Mistakes
This isn’t really an FAQ Friday today, but just some fun memories & stories I wanted to share. So earlier this week, I read this really great article, “15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make“ by Jenbae. Go read it, it’s great. As I was reading it, I was checking off things in my mind where I’d made that mistake.…
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I made a thing
(Not the bra. That’s just there because my new dressform is shy.) I made a kinda hippie looking silver velvet skirt. Well I got it cut out and pinned together anyway. It’s actually a white velvet with some silver flecking on the top. It’s pretty in person. Not that it matters – this is only an under-dress. I only had…
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Pizza
Chase said he’s bringing home Memphis Pizza Cafe for dinner and I’m like And then waiting on him to get home like
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An Almost Functional Sewing Room
I finally buckled down, found some energy and attacked my sewing room. Part of the thing that helped is the fact I made room in our hall bathroom closet for a lot of my wigs & hair styling stuff that had previously just been sitting around my office. Having somewhere to put all the wigs and wigheads kinda got me…
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FAQ Friday: Amidala’s Parade Dress Hair
Today I have a tutorial to post! I’m planning on wearing my Queen Amidala parade dress soon, and it’s been YEARS since I wore it (late 2005 was the last time I wore it with long hair; 2010 with short hair), so I figured I needed to practice the hair since it’s been a while. Back in 2005, my hairstylist…
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Ms Marvel & Indy
I found this pic I’d never done anything with when going through Ms Marvel pics. She was in probably every photoshoot we ever did at the house. (because she was always nosy about what we were doing)
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MidSouthCon 2015
This weekend was MidSouthCon of course! (Warning: there is puke in the upcoming story.) It ended up being kind of a strange weekend. Our plans were to take Kevin and let him enjoy the convention while I was doing my panels and whatnot. We picked him up Thursday and he spent the night, then Friday I ran home at lunch…
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Dreams
Over the weekend, I had a weird mash-up dream where we were at Disney World and then at Dragon Con but neither place was the ACTUAL place. (Most of my Dragon Con dreams take place in places that are not the Dragon Con hotels. But in my head it’s Dragon Con. It’s often strange hotels/convention centers/mall mash-ups I’ve never been…
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Heeeey
Sorry I haven’t posted in a few days. Last week was crazy. My grandfather had surgery to remove the cancer in his neck on Tuesday. He’s been fighting this stuff for a year. The surgery went longer than planned because they found more than anticipated – it ended up being a 7 hour surgery. I went up and sat with…
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MidSouthCon Schedule!
It’s been too long, I’m ready to go to a con!!!! I’ll be at MidSouthCon March 20-22! Here’s my panel schedule: Friday 9pm: Wigs & Make-up Saturday 9am: Costuming Showcase and Q&A Saturday 1pm: Competition Costuming I’m sooo pleased with this schedule. Friday late night panel gives me plenty of time to leave work, eat, get in costume and get…
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ANNE PICTURES!
I finally got my Anne Boleyn pictures uploaded! I have a ton that I love so narrowing them down to only 4 to post isn’t going to cut it. Last night I dreamt that Ash and I went to Anime Expo. We’re heading into this really cool convention center (not where it actually is, or was) and the weather is…
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Anne stuff
So I still don’t have my Anne pics uploaded just yet. Normally when we do a photoshoot, I go through the photos, remove any jumble from the background, lighten it, and I’m done. But I’m having trouble with the Anne pics. Not because it’s a white dress on a white background – though that doesn’t really help – but because…
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New pics!
I’ve actually already got these uploaded on their individual portfolio pages, but I was waiting til I had the Anne pics uploaded for making a blog post… but I want to post them now and it’s my blog so I do what I want. Megara: It’s not like I didn’t already have nice pics of this costume (I love the…
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Luna & stuff
Luna is almost all grown up. And while she’s calmed down pretty significantly, it still feels like we just have this random wild animal living in our house sometimes. Haha. For Valentine’s Day, we bought her a big present – a big kitty jungle gym. We’ve been wanting to get her one, because she loves being high up. We had…
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Costume-y Thoughts
I’m really itching to get started working on stuff. Here’s some thoughts on things. 1. Donna Noble – Unicorn & the Wasp I was supposed to pick this up again after Dragoncon and of course I have not. I do still plan on finishing it, it’s all sitting in a box waiting on me to come back to it. 2.…
