It's that time of the year again... time to see what I accomplished this year, what I didn't get to, and what I did instead of doing the things I said I was going to do. So last year I said my goals for 2017 were: 1. Georgian Belle – as I said above, finish it up for Visioncon. Did I?! Not really. I redid the wig, twice - once for Visioncon, and ...
I have more photoshoot pictures!! Unfortunately some of them did not turn out. TFA Leia's pics not turning out is my fault - because of the wrinkles I didn't think to iron out. So we are going to reshoot that one. Then, the lights on medieval Leia were weird and made the whole thing look super weird, so while we're redoing TFA Leia we're going to redo medieval Leia, too. ...
So my high school reunion is coming up. Am I going? Anyway lots to talk about from this weekend!! Friday night Chase & I had tickets to go see Young Frankenstein at Elmwood Cemetery. Coolers were welcome so we packed up sandwiches and soup and camp chairs and headed down there. I thought it might be chilly at night by the time this rolled around by temps are still high ...
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 stop to his trip, so he stayed home all weekend. ...
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), and my regular clothes: I've got everything in this one ...
Ok so I promised today I'd post more about the pink thing. So this thing has a massive, giant head-dress. It's a showgirl costume basically. Comically large head-dress, if that gives you a hint. So I wanted to find something to use as a base to build it off of. I found this massive crown on amazon: And on me: I stripped all the decoration off and made a framework ...
I'm not off work today unlike my entire family so I'll be watching the eclipse from the parking lot at work. And I don't have any glasses or anything so I won't actually see the eclipse. I do have some welding glass but according to what I've read it's not dark enough. And I also forgot to get new breakfast stuff to bring to work with me so no breakfast ...
So this weekend was...strange. Thursday I had a hair appointment after work -- to get my Mon Mothma wig trimmed! This was the before. I didn't think to take an after. He cut a lot off to thin it out! Looks much better! And also my ribbon for the white medieval dress came in: So pretty! I got some more done on the dress that night, too, but it ...
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. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I still ...
Guess what finally showed up today?!?! My fabric samples from 2 months ago. The envelope was obviously chomped up on one end so looks like it probably got pulled under a piece of machinery and probably got stuck. I've built the entire costume in the time it took USPS to find these and get them to me. I can finally put the denouement on my Swatch Watch 2017 post. Oh and guess ...