dragoncon2008
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our seventh trip to Dragoncon in 2008. This includes planning, costume construction, photos and trip reports. For this year my new costumes were Ame-Comi Wonder Woman, Starfire, Black Canary, Zatanna, Selene, and "Beastly Belle", so construction posts for those costumes are included.
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Dragoncon 2008 Costume wrapup
1. Giselle I was really pleased with the updates to Giselle. An hour’s worth of work turned it from a costume I really didn’t care about to something I was really happy with. I actually wish I’d tossed it on on Monday at the con as well. I might wear it sometime at Halloween if it’s not too cold out.…
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Dragoncon 2008 – sunday!
Sunday we slept in, then I put on Poison Ivy (I wanted to rewear Zatanna, but my feet said “NO!”) and Chase and I went and had a little lunch. Then Chase remembered he was supposed to go to the clonetroopers.net lunch LOL. So he went to that, and I met up with Ash and we went shopping for a…
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Dragoncon 2008 – saturday!
Ok I’m going to stop talking so much about my costumes and what I want to change, since I’ll want to make a separate post about that later. But anyway – on to Saturday pics! Thank god for Ash! She came over to help us finish getting ready that morning – I was getting Starfire on for the very first…
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Dragoncon 2008 – thurs and friday!
Hey guys… sorry I haven’t posted in a few days!! Dragoncon was a blast, as always. I managed to come home with a nasty head cold so I’ve been kinda in-and-out of it since then. I finished uploading our photos today, though – had over 1000, almost filled up the memory card, LOL. I think I’ll break up my posts…
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Costume Updates!! and Ame-Comi WW preview
Sorry I haven’t posted much – we’ve been working pretty much non-stop, trying to finish everything. On friday we found out the guy was not going to finish my wonder woman stuff, either, so we had to swing into action and a figure out a half-decent way to do it outselves. It came out pretty well. The situation just sucks…
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To-Do list 8/24/08 and Starfire Updates
Three days left to work! Starfire: Paint collar Attach spheres to collar Put straps on back of gauntlets Attach brooch to suit Sew boots to bodysuit Add spheres to top of boots Here’s a sneak peek of it… put everything on to make sure it was going ok. Wonder Woman: Finish painting the tiara (needs another coat) attach star to…
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Frustration, and Starfire progress
So the situation I talked about last time has at least come to some kind of resolution. The guy said yesterday that he was pulling my pieces that night, and that he would send it out today. I sent him a fedex slip for sat. delivery, so if it doesn’t show up tomorrow that’s our clue to start working on…
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I think everything will get done
I am feeling ok about getting everything done in time. The only thing I’m not feeling ok about are the pieces of my Wonder Woman (my chestpiece and belt to be exact) and Chase’s Green Arrow that a friend of Chase’s was making for us – he still hasn’t sent them. It’s going to SUCK if they don’t come in…
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Wonder Woman progress pics
Making progress, feeling better about things. I got my new Starfire boots and made the new covers for them and finished them up last night. Chase airbrushed my bodysuit and I made my armband. There’s not a lot left to do on Starfire – Chase is finishing up my collar, and painting that and the gauntlets… I just need to…
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various costume updates
I haven’t posted in a few days, let me try to get caught up with where I’m at on stuff. Starfire – Chase got the chestpiece cut down, it looks so much better. Today we’ll be airbrushing the suit, and once that’s done I can finish hemming it. My new boots should be arriving tomorrow, and once they come I’ll…
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Starfire, Glinda, Ame-Comi WW Pics
I took a few pics of things before I went to work this morning. My Starfire suit, just pinned on the dressform since I can’t put it on there. Doesn’t look that great pinned on, oh well, you get the idea anyway. The only part on this piece that’s not finished is the front section – that will be attached…
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2 weeks til Dcon!
I need to take some progress pictures, just haven’t felt like it. I took apart Chase’s tunic today and replaced the front panel that I ripped. I used the ripped front as a lining for it, so in the end it was a good thing, I guess. I decided not to use the fabric I got for my WW bottom…
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Green Arrow, Starfire updates
I remade my starfire suit today, and got it mostly finished. I think I want to take up the side sections a little more, though – will do that, tomorrow. fixed up my gloves and wig for the new “special” belle, and I finished the bodice for it, yesterday. It’s basically done – I need to practice getting it on.…
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glinda progress
I finished the dress yesterday, outside of ironing it. it gave me some fits yesterday… my sewing machine did NOT like sewing through all of the layers of the top of the dress, plus it kept trying to eat the fabric. blargh. I hope to finish the wig tonight… Chase has been working on the crown, I don’t think there’s…
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Zatanna preview
Took yesterday off work – got all of our weekend errands done a day early. Also worked on Glinda, and still working on it this morning. Zatanna progress: see what i mean about my zatanna hat looking a little too small? I won’t have the replacement until right before dcon. I’m starting to freak out a little bit, dragoncon is…
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gah…various costume progress
I didn’t do ANYTHING last night – I poked around my WW bodice and the Starfire suit, but didn’t really DO anything. Watched Project Runway and got over my headache. I should be getting an integral part of Starfire – hopefully Saturday, if not, then on Monday. And then major parts of my WW costume middle of next week. Having…
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Green Arrow progress
Last night, I had a headache, so I didn’t get much done. I got the collar for the GA tunic finished and sewn in, and I took up the Starfire purple suit and started hemming it, but stopped when I realised it’s still not fitting right around my hips. I’m going to take it to my parents’ house tonight and…
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Ame-Comi WW & Progress
worked on WW bodice again. did some fit work on the secret costume. got chase’s GA tunic cut out and basically put together. Hanging on the dressform it kinda looks like I’m making a Legolas costume. tonights to-do: weather belle bodice stuff so i can finish sewing it on dye chiffon for belle bodice wrap get collar sewn on GA…
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Top Hat success
The local costume rental store will rent me a nice tophat for $20 for a week. sweet 🙂
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Wig Problems and Updates
Well let’s see. The wig that I got that was too short? The seller wouldn’t do anything about it, so last night I found some black hair extensions in my wig box and sewed them into the wig. It’s all I could do. Got the jacket taken up, and I ended up having to attach the bottoms/briefs to my white…
