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good luck babe
Well I don’t have as much progress to show today as I would’ve liked, but I did cross a big hurdle with my Padme build. But before I get into all that, let’s do a puppy pic dump. Friday my parents had to go up to help my granddad with some stuff, and Skye went to doggy daycare for the…
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you look like stevie nicks
Ok before I get into anything else… I’ve got puppy fever. My parents’ new baby, Walker! Of course her big sister is Skye, so together they are Skye Walker – and Walker came on on May the 4th 🙂 Skye is Walker’s aunt, I think they said. omg I get to babysit one day soon 😀 Stole Skye’s bed LOL…
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get it off my desk
So I had big plans of trying to do a start to finish mockup of Padme this weekend. I had 10 new yards of fabric, I was going to cut out all of my pattern pieces, assemble everything, make edits (hopefully small) and then be ready for my real fabric this week. Of course I knew that was shooting for…
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the tortured kevins department
Hello, I don’t even know why I’m posting today because I have nothing of importance to share. The only sewing update I have is that I got the pieces I’ve “finished” transferred to paper. I played around the lining layer and ended up adding an extra seam to help it fit better (since that layer won’t be seen anyway). I…
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Art of Disney Costume Exhibit
This is a continuation of my last post! We left Huntsville around 10 and drove to Birmingham instead of home – because we were going to the Art of Disney Costume exhibit at the Birmingham Museum of Art! I took a ton of photos and I’m not going to post everything here – HERE is the whole gallery! Disclaimer… I…
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HSV Expo Wrap-Up and What-nots
Before I jump into the weekend photos, I’ll cover the few things from the week before… I’m going to have to get more fabric to finish the mock-up for Padme. I do think I finally figured out the hood pieces — I transferred the hood and cape mockup pieces to paper. I still need to figure out fitted sleeves, the…
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it was maroon
Even though I said “no” to April Fool’s Day last week, I did make something for it: It cracks me up how well this went together for 5 seconds in photoshop LOL Monday I got my Padme lake dress cardigan from maxxmerch! I love it!! Plus it came with a pin, a print and a keychain!! I filmed an unboxing…
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just say no to april fools
I think I have finally decided what to take to Huntsville: 1. Honeymoon Leia 2. Packing Padme 3. Chip & Dale 4. Sailor Jupiter And I may also throw Seven in since she doesn’t take up a lot of room, so no big deal if I don’t get around to wearing her. Based on last year I don’t think I’ll…
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half way to dragoncon
We’re back from Atlanta! We went down to celebrate Chase’s birthday. But, as usual, let’s start at the beginning. Finished Honeymoon Leia FINALLY. Just got to put a closure on the belt and add the 3d printed pieces Chase is working on. And it needs steamed really bad because it’s been manhandled like crazy the last few weeks. Luna says…
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mistakes were made
I have got nothing to post this week really. Yes I could’ve finished my Leia dress. Did I? No, in fact I made it worse. I did get my belting and tried it on with the dress. I’m still not happy with how lumpy the waist-seam looks EVEN THOUGH it’s hidden. I think I said in a previous post I’d…
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make the friendship bracelets
I don’t have a lot to chat about this week EXCEPT costume stuff. I worked on Honeymoon Leia every night last week and almost all of that was me monkeying with the back zipper. It took me forever to get it installed without it pulling at the bottom weird. TBH I don’t know what I was thinking doing the zipper…
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oh my god its tuesday
I totally spaced on posting yesterday. I was just so excited to get back to work on the Padme project LOL It’s been a busy week. Last friday was my parents 50th anniversary!! Whoa! But let me just go through everything from the beginning. Or as close as I can get. Finished this little puzzle. Gonna glue it together. I…
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~the cruise report~
Yall I had over 1500 photos to go through when we got home. So it’s taken me a hot minute to get everything lightened (every iphone photo inside had to be lightened…), uploaded, culled, etc. So let’s dig in! Thursday 2/15 we got up bright and early and hit the road. I felt SO BAD the entire time leading up…
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the heart of 90s guilt
Vacation is imminent. Please ignore the black bits on the floor. Our green luggage is reaching the end of its lifespan and everytime I get it out, more plastic crumbles into dust. I haven’t used this wardrobe back since our honeymoon in 2008. Not a lot to talk about this last week, I did get the Star Wars dress hem…
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i can see clearly now
I’m not 100% done… still have one very important thing to finish and one thing i want to do if I have time… but I have finished the dress and the bags and the magnets and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. So of course I sewed alllll last week. I was honestly feeling a…
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watch out for snakes
Well I am back on track but really feeling the time crunch. My fabric and interfacing all finally came in and I dug into the bag project. These took longer than I thought; it took about an hour and half each purse just to sew them into the frames — mostly because I had so much trouble getting the needle…
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snowmageddon – the revenge
Well I didn’t expect last Monday’s snow to completely wreck my entire week of sewing, but it did. I was expecting 2 shipments of interfacing – 1 of a lighter weight for the bags and 1 of a medium weight for the Star Wars dress. And as I mentioned in last week’s post, I ordered a couple more yards of…
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snowmageddon
I just realized I didn’t post last week. I don’t think I had anything to say LOL Not much has been going on. The head cold I had over New Year’s came BACK with another round of stuffy nose and drainage. Bleh. It started snowing yesterday and hasn’t stopped! This morning: And the amazing part… no ice! I can’t remember…
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Mid-Century Leia Art Project
Finally posting these! So last fall I wanted a “reference” I could use for my Dapper Day Leia dresses (senatorial and bespin), so I decided I’d just draw them, starting with senatorial and using the vintage pattern illustration as inspiration. I did Senatorial and Bespin and then thought, I have all these other ideas for Dapper Leia looks that I…
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im not sick but im not well
Another weird week. Didn’t go out for New Year’s – that’s not new, we haven’t gone out in years – but we also still didn’t have Christmas because half the family is still covid positive. My mom finally tested negative this morning. Last week we had Cath & family staying with us for a couple of days. We really need…
