Dragoncon 2013!

Well I've been home from Dragoncon for a few days but haven't posted a thing here - sorry! It was a good year. Even though I felt like i was a day ahead the whole time (Thursday felt like Friday, Friday felt like Saturday) by the end of it, it felt like it had rushed by way too fast. I was so bummed on Monday because I didn't want it ...

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More from yesterday

SO I already posted about yesterday a bit, but here's some more. I was up really early yesterday thanks to a migraine, so I got up and ran out and bought a garment rack. It's been driving me crazy and holding up my packing progress to not be able to bring my costumes I need to hang up into the living room where I'm packing. Here's what I got: I ...

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GMX 2012 Recap

GMX was a lot of fun this year! We took Kevin, who wore his Harry Potter and Doctor Who costumes, and I took Wasp, Ms Marvel, Donna Noble, Marie Antoinette, and Anne Boleyn. We mostly hung out, shopped, Kevin played video games and Chase took photos. It was a nice lowkey weekend :) Here's some of my fav pics. Kevin's Harry Potter I brought just because he hasn't had a chance ...

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Dragoncon 2011: found flickr pics

is it too late to be posting random flickr pics from dragoncon? I'm squinty in this pic but I really like it. This one doesn't have sharing enabled, but I love this shot of me as Donna with Rose. And just a nice shot of my Marie...

2011 Costume Wrap-up

It's that time of the year! Beginning of this year these were my plans: Enchantress - done! Alternate Wonder Woman - aka Hippolyta - done! Lady Blackhawk - done! Rogue - done! Marie Antoinette - done! Charlotte (Princess & the Frog) - no :( Ms Marvel red suit/Moonstone - done! Disney character - no :( TV character - no :( That's probably the best I've ever done actually doing what I said ...

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BBC America Contest, and Wonder Woman Progress

I'm sad and tired and don't know what else to do but keep myself busy with everything else. So.. I'm one of the finalists in the BBC America costume contest... there are a lot of really great entries, I'm really stoked to be among them. If you want to vote, click the link :) Here's some of the pics we took the other day. And some progress... Making my boot covers ...

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Making my DCNU Wonder Woman Costume

I started on my GMX costume, DCnU Wonder Woman, this weekend. Here's my fabric: Red canvas & cotton for the interior of the bodice, red matte satin for the outside. Navy blue spandex for the bottoms. I also bought a pair of navy blue leggings to do the pants version also - I don't know if I'll have time to do the stitching on them, but I wanted the option ...

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Finished Costume: Marie Antoinette

I've finished my Marie Antoinette costume and have added it to my portfolio! Also the TARDIS version!

Dragoncon 2011 Costume Recap

First up, Supergirl. My plan was to wear Supergirl all Thursday night; I ended up wearing it for about 20 minutes because I wanted to put on Donna. So now that Supergirl was out of the way (LOL) I wore Donna the rest of the night - there were so many Doctor Who people around and with K9 out, it was really fun. Friday morning I got to wear Marie Antoinette, ...

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Marie, K-9 and Flat Ryan

That particular outing, K-9 had a video camera behind his eyes instead of his regular "eyeballs" - I was showing Ryan to K-9 so he would be on his video.