dragoncon2017
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our 16th trip to Dragoncon in 2017. This includes planning, costume construction, photos and trip reports. For this year my new costumes were Leia's Blue dress from TFA, Mon Mothma, medieval-inspired Leia, and Lucy Ricardo.
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dragoncon 2017
Uggggggggh I’m back at work today and feel like a zombie. Came back to a TON of stuff too so double Uggggggggh. BUT! It’s time for this year’s Dragon Con recap. So Chase had originally planned to be doing a scooter trip that weekend, so we were both going to be out of town – but Hurricane Harvey put a…
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i wanna go
Where’s my Joey “I Wanna Go” gif? There it is. The past two years when we haven’t been doing a “full” Dragon Con I’ve been totally fine with it up until it’s upon me. I’ve been totally fine with not being there today. Up until today. Now I’m not ok! Especially since I’m sitting at work. 1.5 hours down, 6.5…
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it’s almost time
It’s dcon time. Well almost. Uuuuugh I still have to get through a day and a half of work. I just wanna GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO seeing everybody already on the road or already there is driving me crazy. I’ve got everything packed and ready to go, except the headdress since I’m still hand-sewing on it… I’ve got a space left for it…
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we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
Finished up a few things last night. Got it all packed up. Still working on Lucy’s headdress — but I think that’s about it at this point. I’ve got to finish the handsewing on that and it’s taking forever and making my fingers ache. Everything is packed except for that lower part of the headdress (that I’m still sewing on),…
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blah
LOL I have apparently already had 10 other posts named “Blah.” This is “blah 11.” I am almost done with everything. Should be finished up this weekend… in fact everything is looking good enough that I’m switching my days off around. I’d originally put down I’d be off next Thursday and Friday (even though we aren’t leaving til Friday). I’d…
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Dragon Con Thoughts
So as I’ve mentioned I won’t be there Thursday – we aren’t coming in until Friday morning, we’ll probably get into town around 1 and after getting to the room, getting our badges – probably won’t be “done” and ready to actually do stuff til like 3 probably. At the moment, here’s what I’m definitely bringing: The Pink Thing Mon…
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shiny sequence gown
I’ve spent the past few days working on the sequin applique for the bodice. I made a pattern, then cut that out of my leftover pink satin and the sequin fabric, folded the sequin fabric over the satin and stitched it down, pressed it, and then hand-sewed it into place. Then I went around the edges with my sequin trim.…
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in which I think about dragoncon
Didn’t get a whole lot done last night. Well maybe kinda. Finished painting my shoes, got the lowest ruffle sewn on. Got the sequins sewn onto the straps and got the first line of sequins sewn across the top of the bodice. Had to handsew those so it took a little longer – I have to do one more line…
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Dragoncon Thoughts
So yes, I’m doing DragonCon this year. A little more than last year but still not going up to the full week we used to do. Planning on driving in Friday morning and home Sunday night, staying in Cat’s room. Ash is probably going with me, Chase is staying home. So at the moment I’m thinking of taking: Bespin Leia…
