crait leia
Below you'll find blog posts related to my Princess Leia Crait costume from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which I made for Dragoncon in 2018.
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who totally forgot to post yesterday
I remembered late last night. I was like, oh today was Monday and I forgot to post on my blog. My schedule is all flipped upside down between the holiday and still adjusting to working from home. I have a ton of stuff to post so I’m going to break it up into sections. 1. SEWING! So after last week’s…
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Dragoncon 2019 Wrap-Up
It’s my favourite post of the year! The post where I get to recap Dragoncon and post all my fav pics. So Wednesday I went into work early so I could leave early (2), which ended up not being necessary… I’d pretty much gotten everything packed Tuesday night and all I really had left was stuff like my toothbrush, medicine,…
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friiiiiiiday update
So first a Chase update. LIke I said in my last post, he ended up having to call an ambulance and go to the ER. My parents were thankfully able to sit with him until I got off work. They did another MRI and gave him a ton of pain meds and some muscle relaxers and by the time he…
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Dragoncon State of the Union: August Edition
I know I just kinda wrote out a to-do list in Monday’s post but my brain is screaming in anxiety today and it helps to write lists. So I’m going ahead with my August state of the union. 1. Dr Crusher is DONE! Finished her up last week, last few details like sewing in magnets for the communicators, styling the…
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weird & wacky
When you have so few pics for today’s post that you don’t even have a good one for a header… So what a freaking weird weekend it was. I don’t actually have a lot of photos to show today. Last week I focused on finishing up Crusher – I got the shoulder pads in, shortened the sleeves, got the magnets…
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MEH
So to conclude the saga of the artist who won’t send out the stuff I bought from him… doing a chargeback with our bank today. Disappointing to say the least. So let’s see, what have I done the past week? It took me a few days to recover from ABC so last week I didn’t get a ton done. Started…
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oh my
what a busy weekend. My whole body hurts and I don’t know why! So to back up. Didn’t get a whole lot of sewing stuff done last week, was still working on the house. But I did get my fabric for Hera on Monday…. Ummmm not an immediate love here. I set it out and decided to just think about…
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Art is… a rambo
I had sinus stuff all last week (with accompanying sinus headaches) which transitioned into a migraine on thursday and then I had a migraine all weekend, bad enough on Saturday that I laid on the couch nauseated and feeling awful a good portion of the day. Every once in a while my medicine would kick in and I’d be able…
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the saga continues
So my big plans for sewing all weekend and getting lots of stuff done were foiled by fabric! Namely by the fact I can’t buy/find the fabric I need locally anymore EVER (*cough*Joann*cough*) so I have to buy online and hope what comes is what I need – either that or pay, wait 2 weeks on a fabric swatch, go…
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our watch has ended
Well mine never started because I didn’t even watch last night’s GOT finale. I haven’t really watched much of GOT the last 2-3 seasons? And for this last season I got spoiled so didn’t feel like watching it. Well, I got partially spoiled, then dived on into full spoilers because why not. LOL. But I keep seeing people talk about…
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dragoncon blues
HI! I’m home, and officially dead from dragoncon. So let’s backtrack to Thursday morning! I got up at 5:30AM and Ash was there to pick me up before the sun was even fully up. We drove thru Silent Hill. The drive was pretty uneventful. We got into Atlanta around 2. Getting the car unloaded and into the room was painless!…
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the deadbeat club
It was a busy weekend. As is the the weekend before DragonCon EVERY year. SEE: 8/25/2002 8/23/2003 8/29/2004 8/28/2005 8/27/2006 8/26/2007 8/24/2008 8/31/2009 8/28/2010 8/28/2011 8/23/2012 8/26/2013 8/24/2014 8/24/2015 8/30/2016 8/29/2017 Haha. I got the robe finished late last week. I ended up taking the collar off the robe and sewing it onto a t-shirt that I’ll just wear underneath…
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Two posts in a row?!
I knowwwww I just posted yesterday and normally I try to put more space between posts BUT yesterday was a big day. And it IS DragonCon season which means I’m working on a lot of stuff and multiple posts in a week should be expected & allowed. Ok let’s get the bad out of the way. Well I’m not going…
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YAY it’s done!
Despite that title, I’m starting with art today just because I have a bunch to untangle from last week. Including a HOUSE INTRUDER, a LOT OF SEWING, some MOVIES, and DOG-SITTING! Since last post I’ve only focused on knocking out Clone Wars stuff. Here’s what I kept calling “Loyalist Committee Lite” I totally just used the skirt embellishment from my…
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well so much for that!
After my excitement about maybe going to Star Wars Celebration next year in my last post, today I have to let all of the air out of the room. Since then all the 5 day passes have sold out, as well as Saturday only. We were going to have to wait on tickets til we got Chase’s bonus at the…
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yard sale weekend
This weekend was busy. Friday night was more work on the house, I got a little sewing in, but mostly it was getting ready for Saturday morning’s yard sale. Saturday we were up at 6AM. Chase ran and put the signs out and got breakfast. We’d put on the ad that we were open at 7 but of course people…
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Solo
Hooray for 3 day weekends! Not so hooray for spending pretty much all 3 days packing and moving stuff D: Yeah I don’t have a ton to talk about today because this weekend was like 85% packing, cleaning, and moving stuff to the storage unit. We really focused on the garage and got a lot of it cleaned up and…
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FINALLY some sewing updates
First off, saw Deadpool 2 Friday night, it was funny, really enjoyed it. Saturday and Sunday were allllllllllllllll packing and moving stuff to the storage unit. Saturday in particular was up early and nonstop all day. (Sunday we had to take a break for a retirement party in the afternoon.) I am still sore. And our giant storage unit is…
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uuuuuuuugh
Soooooooo I know I’m late posting this week. I decided to wait til I had some updates on my Crait Leia. And they are not great updates unfortunately. I’m going to carve this post into sections, since I have multiple things to talk about. CRAIT LEIA Ok I’ll start with Leia since I’ve already said something about it. I had…
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10 years
Thursday last week was our 10th wedding anniversary!! It’s crazy to think it’s been 10 years! On Thursday I posted all my fav wedding pics to my instagram story…. I’ve had a few friends get married recently and seeing their day on social media made me sad I didn’t get to do that (since instagram didn’t exist when we got…
