hoth leia
Below you'll find posts about my Princess Leia Hoth Uniform I made for Nashville Comic Fest in 2006.
-
walking in a winter horrorland
Hey look… I’m posting on a Wednesday, only 2 days after I last posted… what is this, 2001?! Well a lot has happened since I posted on Monday. The “snowpcalypse” was no joke. This is the most snow I’ve seen here in… possibly decades? Remember that pic of our cove on Sunday that I had in the last post? This…
-
More new photos
When UPS says your package will arrive 4/14, hands off to USPS on 4/13 and they scan it twice but it never shows up USPS THIS IS WHY NOBODY LIKES YOU Anyway, I got a couple more sets of the new photos uploaded… Bespin Escape Leia! Nice to mark this one off the list – now I just have one…
-
Battlefront 3 Midnight Release
So last night we trooped the midnight release of Battlefront 3 at Best Buy! Chase had play practice so I thought I was on my own… until Kevin ended up staying with us last night. Yay! I was going to put him in Luke, but he arrived at my house with a big fuzzy beard. So I pulled the jedi…
-
Weekend stuff!
I got Merida mostly finished! I got the eyelets set into the neck with Chase’s help though I cut one opening too big and after a freak out spiral I ended up having to go back and wrap each eyelet in embroidery floss to fix it, but in the end it looks good and there’s no visible metal eyelets, so…
-
FAQ Friday: Princess Leia Hairstyles – the Hoth Braid
Once again I’m posting 2 Leia hair tutorials today – again since these are similar I figure I’d post them together! Today I’m doing the Rebel/Endor hairstyle and the Hoth hairstyle – this post is for the Hoth braids 🙂 My notes for all of these Leia tutorials: -It’s been a long time since I actively studied these hairstyles –…
-
FAQ Friday: Princess Leia Hairstyles – Bespin Leia Bun
Today I’m posting 3 separate FAQ Fridays – the ceremonial Leia hairstyle, slave Leia hairstyle, and Bespin Leia hairstyle! These 3 are all share a similar base, so I decided to post them all together. My notes for all of these Leia tutorials: -It’s been a long time since I actively studied these hairstyles – most of my Leia costumes…
-
Random Leia pic & Insanity
I finally found one pic of Hoth Leia from Friday night at MidSouthCon, from laspector: Goodness my hair was everywhere. But anyway, today was day 4 of insanity. Cardio Recovery. The stretches were hard and I have trouble with balancing but the recovery is so much easier. Can’t wait til tomorrow! 🙂
-
Sunday @ Dragoncon 2007
Sunday morning we got to sleep in a little. We had a 10am photoshoot with Eurobeat King, so we got up at 9 to get ready. Cath had moved to the girls’ room the day before, once Ash and Melissa had gotten up and settled – they were on the 36th floor!! LOL Ewok Leia is really fast & easy…
-
Adventurecon 2007 Pics!
I’ll start with Friday 🙂 Indy wanted to go! We loaded up (again, after getting permission to borrow my aunt’s car!) and set off. We made pretty good time, got in around 9:30, I think? Checked in, found everybody, then unloaded the car and hit the sack, because we were really tired after the drive! Saturday morning we got up…
-
2006 in review
At the beginning of the year I said I wanted to do: 1. Hoth Leia 2. Darth Vader 3. Padme’s Lake dress 4. Bespin Leia 5. Finish Yuuko 6. Padme’s Funeral Dress 7. Wonder Woman 8. The Bride 9. White Witch 10. Dorothy 11. ANH Leia 12. Team Zissou outfit So what did I finish? Hoth Leia? Yes, plus Bespin…
-
New Vibro-Ax! Leia Photoshoot, and Christmas Parade Pics!
First off, my new toy came today! oh heck yes… New Leia pics we took a while back– I want to do the Rebel Legion trading cards this time around, so I needed better pics of some of my costumes. Next up – padme lake dress — stormtrooper — imperial officer — maybe the parade dress Although, speaking of that,…
-
Horrorfest 2006 pics and Whatnot
Friday we went and saw The Prestige. I left my phone at the restaurant and we had to go back for it. Geez. Saturday morning I woke up with a horrible headache and eyeache. I took some advil and it went away, but I was left with a lingering feeling of slight ickiness the rest of the day. I got…
-
Hoth Leia pics!
Here’s some better pics of my finished Hoth Leia… still going to make the arm thing pretty soon, but for now it’s done. It was pretty comfortable but I still want to redo the back of the jumpsuit. I can’t sit in it without undoing the neck as it is now. It was also nice and warm… however on saturday…
-
Hoth Leia preview
12:30 at night doesn’t make for the best pictures, particulary with our horrid lighting in the kitchen, but I wanted to show that it’s basically finished. Still got my rank badge, and arm thing (arm thing won’t be ready for this weekend, but rank badge will). Tonight I’ve got a couple of things I want to do: belt loops on…
-
Hoth Leia, Padme Nightgown and Dorothy updates
This weekend is Horrorfest; I’m trying to get Hoth Leia finished for it. I worked a little bit last night, but the sewing machine was being horrid to me so I quit (I swear, the needle came unthreaded three times in the space of, like, 5 minutes. The last time I just quit. I had been up since 5:45 yesterday,…
-
Padme Nightgown and Hoth Leia progress
Making a quick post of my progress from work, because I realised I won’t be home to do this until at least tomorrow night! (Going to my grandmother’s tonight 🙂 The vest as it was yesterday evening: Just pinned together, and inside out. The vest as it is right now: Still need to turn the front, the sleeves, make the…
-
Padme Nightgown, Dorothy, etc
I worked for a while tonight, and got some good stuff done! Padme’s Nightgown – Got the basic thing put together. I really don’t like this McCall’s pattern – it’s strange. I used it for the basic pieces, made it larger to take out the fitted aspect of the bodice, and completely eliminated the bonig. The way they had the…
-
Fabric Finds
fabric finds this weekend: My grey/slightly purple satin for Lois that I found a couple of months ago.. they still had it, and I got it for 50% off, yay. Material for the inner dress for Padme’s funeral dress… most expensive thing I got today, but well worth it, I love it. Dorothy fabric The rest of the stuff I…
-
Shopping List
In other news, I’m in Nashville and will hopefully be in fabric heaven this weekend – with the Columbus Day sales, I’m hoping to pick up at least a few key fabrics I need. I’ve got a 50% off one item at Joann’s and a $50 gift certificate to Hancock’s… and I’m going to fancy fabric store (I don’t know…
-
Upcoming Costume Schedules
There are five or six projects I want to work on over the winter months. Dorothy, which might hit the backburner. I was going to make it for halloween – still might – but now I’m not going to be in Memphis to do the group with everybody that weekend so it kinda makes it pointless. However, I might go…
