birthday blog bash
In January 2018 my blog turned TWENTY! In celebration of my site's 20th birthday, I went back through all my old posts and put together several "best of" compilations. My favourite art, my favourite costumes, favourite life moments, favourite random stuff. I can't believe I've been doing this 20 years!
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Birthday Blog: The Weird Stuff
This post is an ode to the weird shit I’ve posted over the years… beyond the art, costumes, daily life updates and whatnot, the weird stuff has always been my fav. February 20, 1998 ART POST: VINCENT (FF7) “Vincent is mad because RedXII stole all his Pepperidge Farm goldfish.” February 21, 1999 – SKETCHBLOG: SMOKIN’ JOE February 5, 2000 –…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Site Designs
So it’s no secret that, early on, I LOVED to redesign my site. I’d do it every other month if I had time. It was really fun for me to come up with new stuff and figure out how to build it. In fact this post isn’t really about my “favourite” site designs. It’s about ALL my site designs, just…
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Birthday Blog: Disney!!
Ok so I did this post last, it’s just kind of an extra thing… but I thought I’d be remiss to not include our Disney adventures here, especially since it’s become such a big part of our life in the past couple of years. Buckle in, this is going to be a long post. My first trip to Disney World…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Costumes of 2014-2018
So I’ve come to the last post for my week of fav costumes blog posts/notable moments. This post will cover 2014 til now! January 17, 2014 – FAQ FRIDAY: RENTING COSTUMES 2014 starts off with a rant-y post. Like who thinks I am just going to give a random stranger one of my costumes?! January 23, 2014 – SEWING ROOM…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Costumes of 2010-2013
Today’s post covers my favourite posts/notable memories from my costumes category, starting in 2010 and going through 2013! January 15, 2010 – CLEANING MY OFFICE, COSTUME SCHEDULES I spent a good part of the late part of 2009/early 2010 getting my sewing room in order. And of course making some plans. February 8, 2010 – JANE AND BATGIRL UPDATES Boy…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Costumes of 2006-2009
Today’s post covers my favourite/notable costume blog posts from 2006-2009. These were some pretty busy years, sewing wise – but a lot of it was just more of the same, there’s not a lot that’s notable off the top of my head. So let’s see if this ends up being as long as 2003-2005 was… January 7, 2006 – ONE…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Costumes of 2003-2005
This post is dedicated to my fav/notable/memorable costume moments of 2003-2005! I did a lot of costumes in 2003. More than any other year to date. But that’s because a lot of them weren’t made – they were “piece mealed” together out of stuff I bought. (I don’t do a lot of that anymore.) 2004 was a transitional year. I…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Costumes of 1998-2002
This week the theme for my Birthday Blog posts is costumes! There’s a ton of posts to go through for this week, so let’s get to it. October 25, 1998 – WHEN I THOUGHT ABOUT HALLOWEEN COSTUMES In 1998 I kinda threw together a last minute costume for Halloween – I’ll get to that in a minute – but while…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Art of 2011-2017
So now we are entering the “modern” era of my artwork. And I’ve actually been producing quite a bit more the past few years than I did in 2005-2009… it just took a bit to get there. I produced absolutely no art whatsoever in 2014, only year for that to happen… February 28, 2011 – ART POST: DOCTOR WHO I…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Art of 2005-2010
So… yeah… my art output really dropped off through 2004 and then even worse into 2005. Let’s see what I can even find to post. February 11, 2005 – ART POST: JAMES AND LILY (HARRY POTTER) This was the last year I did something for the HP Valentine’s Project. April 18, 2005 – SUESSICAL POSTER This was one of my…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Art of 2002-2004
So we start 2002 off in a high note – I got my first wacom tablet for Christmas 2001!! No more mouse!! January 28, 2002 – GALADRIEL My first full piece done on the tablet – Galadriel! Of course Fellowship of the Ring had JUST come out so I was on a LOTR kick. February 1, 2002 – ART POST:…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Art of 2000-2001
So now we move onto my favourite art of 2000 and 2001 — this post covers the smallest amount of time I’ll be doing this week, because there was SO MUCH ART these two years. At this point I had 2 issues of SunDowner under my belt and finally felt like I was getting comfortable in my drawing style –…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Art of 1997-1999
This week for my Birthday Blog Bash, I’m going to be featuring some of my favourite art from over the years. Considering my site really got its start as my art portfolio (before moving into costuming), there’s a LOT to cover in the earlier years. So this post will cover the earliest — 1997 through 1999. Obviously I have no…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Posts of 2013-2018
Here’s my last post for this week’s birthday stuff! It’s my fav posts/moments/memories of 2013 through 2018. And some of my not so fav; but they were important anyway. February 19, 2013 – WE ARE HOME ! DISNEY WORLD RECAP We enjoyed our solo trip in 2012 so much we decided to do it again in 2013. April 29, 2013…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Posts of 2005-2012
I know 2005-2012 seems like a HUGE chunk of time. But in this space there were times where I didn’t post much — blogger stopped working regularly, we got married, moved twice, so in some cases posts were sparse. But let’s get on with it — my fav posts/memories/moments of 2005-2012. JANUARY 16, 2005 – MY NEW SERGER! AND QUI-GON…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Posts of 2002-2004
Onto my next installment of my favourite blog posts – this time covering 2002 through 2004! There was a lot of change in these years; I self-published SunDowner in 2002 but then kinda burnt out, art-wise and focused more on costuming going into 2004. January 14, 2002: WHEN THE PEE DIDN’T SOAK IN It’s an older story but it checks…
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Birthday Blog: My Fav Posts of 1998-2001
Today I’m going to share some of my favourite posts and memories from the earliest years of my blog. (This doesn’t strictly include or exclude art or costume posts – sometimes they interconnect, but posts specifically about art or costumes will be covered in the next 2 weeks.) As I mentioned in my first post about my blog’s 20th birthday,…
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Happy Birthday BLOG!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WEBSITE/BLOG!!!! So I don’t know the exact date I started my website — I first started a site in 1997 on aol sometime in 1997. (I have notes saying it was January 1997 but I’m not sure how accurate that is!) Sadly I don’t have any of those old files or screenshots of that first version…
