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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.
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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…
