Dragoncon 2023 – the costume recap

Ok so to keep my Dragoncon recap free of long paragraphs about costume minutiae, I decided to just make a separate post. 1. 18th Century Barbie Like I said in the main recap post, it was really nice to get to bring this costume back after it had such a disastrous debut at Dragoncon 2015. Literally I nearly had a panic attack wearing it at dcon 2015 - it was too hot, it ...

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Dragoncon 2023 – the general recap

Well another Dragoncon has come and gone. It was a good year and somehow I didn't come home feeling like absolute crap? LIke my feet are still sore and my little toes are still slightly numb but otherwise I don't feel as exhausted as I usually do. Anyway let's recap it all.... I can't remember if I posted our badge ribbons we were handing out? I was giving out bun ...

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huntsville con report!

Hey look I actually titled a blog post what it's actually about. Yeah a couple of days late with this. Wanted to gather up all the pics first including the ones from Chase's camera. So Thursday I get off work and go to take a nap and as I lay down, I get an idea. And I have to go do the idea right then and there. I WAS going ...

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2021 Wrap-Up

omg hi I haven't posted this week. I was trying to wait til I had all the new photoshoot pics uploaded, and now that I've got them I'm like... augh I haven't done my wrap-up post for this year! So I'm doing this first instead of a regular post and I'll do a post about Christmas next. So at the end of 2020 here's what I wanted to accomplish in 2021: 1. Star ...

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what year is it??

I think I mentioned last week we'd been having internet issues? I can't remember. Was having issues UPLOADING mostly, downloading was fine but -- for instance on friday? It took TWO HOURS to upload a tiktok video. Geez. We'd have occasional internet blips too, wi-fi would stop working for a few seconds, maybe a minute, and then come back. We called our provider last week and they had a tech ...

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Dragoncon Part 2!

Ok I was hoping to have this post up last week, but Chase had a lot of trouble exporting the photos and I was only getting them in chunks. I think I've got all of them now, or at least, most of them. Might be a few more stragglers. Besides uploading pics, last week was absolutely crazy at work, and only going to get crazier... I spent most evenings laying ...

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back to fake life

I started to title this "back to real life" but I realized doing something normal like going to Dragon Con is real life. Going back to the day-to-day of the last year is the fake life. So -- Dragon Con was actually pretty great. I had my reservations, as you may have noticed in the last post. But the low crowds, the people, the volunteers... everything was great. Of course ...

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crying wont help you praying wont do you no good

oh hello. Can you even believe it's dragoncon week? I can't. My brain isn't registering it. Still not done with everything. Still chipping away. Well Padme is done. I got the 3d printed buttons glued onto bases, painted and attached. Here they are before any of that. And I finally finished up the wig. Although once I finished it, I put it on real quick and realized the whole bun/...

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im worst at what i do best

I love how I had an extra YEAR to work on these dragoncon costumes yet here I am finishing everything up last minute and half-assed. Literally all last week, if I wasn't at-work-working, eating, or sleeping I was working on these floral pieces for Padme. Last week I said it was about half scissors and half hot knife - well I slowly got better with the knife and was only ...

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thats me in the spotlight

T minus 2 weeks and 2 days til dragoncon. How did it sneak up on us so fast?? You know things are bad because I haven't packed "the old stuff" yet. Chase and I are trying to quasi-quarantine before the con, only going out when necessary. We've both still got hair appointments in the next week, and we'll have to do grocery/target a couple of times, but otherwise trying not to ...

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